Things are moving forward with the curling rink’s expansion/renovation construction. The attached photo indicates the new main entrance to the photo’s left with the secondary exit door in the former furnace room to your right. The former furnace room will be used as a holding area for the compost bin, garbage and the bar’s empties, as they await their removal.

The small window that was in the lounge is now in the entrance area to your left. The donated window in the photo’s centre has been placed where the main doorway was located .

The single rectangular cut-out window space to your left by the work bench is for one of the two accessible washrooms. Insulation still covers the second washroom’s window as it awaits the delivery of the expansion’s windows.

The roof trusses are to arrive this week for the roof’s installation.

The windows and doors will be arriving shortly. The exterior entrance door for the dehumidifier room is located off camera behind the expansion.

Thank you to Scott and Mike for their efforts and skills to get this project finished. Thank you also to Maurice for overseeing the project as the Chair of the Expansion/Renovation Committee.

If you are in the rink’s neighbourhood, stop by to inspect and to admire. 🙂

Ray

On behalf of the Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society, my sincere thank you to Mr. Rodger Cuzner, M.P., Cape Breton – Canso, for his ongoing support for the Chedabucto Curling rink’s annual MacLeod Lorway Ladies Valentine Funspiel.

For the past five years M.P. Rodger has treated the winning team of the Chedabucto CC’s MacLeod Lorway Ladies Valentine Funspiel to a dinner at the DeBarres Manor, Guysborough, with this year’s victory celebration being on August 30th.

The attached photo shows first-place Team Mary E.A. Connolly. (Left to right) Betty Bates, Cathy Wyatt, Emily Perry, Mary Connolly and M.P. Rodger Cuzner.

Ladies, if you want to start planning for the next ladies valentine funspiel, it is only 5 months until the 2018 MacLeod Lorway Ladies Valentines Funspiel. 🙂

My best regards to all,

Ray

Barry,

Thank you for your emails regarding the Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society’s acknowledgements of the MODG’s appreciated contributions towards the curling rink’s expansion/renovation project.

We are waiting for substantial bills to arrive that deal with work already completed regarding the excavation, the foundation’s installation, the carpentry work  and the construction materials. Up until now we have been dealing with lesser capital-related amounts being paid out on behalf of the curling rink while we were waiting for the larger jobs to be commenced and completed.

I assure you that when those bills are paid and we receive the rebate assistance back from the MODG, information regarding the MODG’s contribution(s) will be acknowledged within the expansion/renovation’s financial updates.

On behalf of all members and the many others who use the curling facility I thank you and through you my gratitude also goes to the MODG for their valued and very much appreciated assistance.

Ray

The curling season approaches with the expansion of our rink underway — with the bills are arriving for their payments.

As of today, we have raised only the grand total $60,000 towards our $210,000.00 goal with many personalized appeal letters having been sent and gov’t departments contacted. (We really hope that the low financial-assistance response it is due to it still being summer and not reflection of a lack of support for our curling rink’s improvement needs.)

My request today is for you to make a personal contact with wherever you purchased your vehicle (and do your household’s business). My rationalization is basic: You buying your vehicle / spending your dollars gave that business the means to assist with their survival. Conversely, we need businesses’ assistance to enable the Chedabucto CC to complete our expansion/renovation challenge.

Contacts were made and then personalized letters have been sent/delivered to the appropriate recipients at Keltic Motors, Antigonish; Canso Ford, Port Hawkesbury; and Central Nova Subaru, New Glasgow, for their consideration to assist the Chedabucto CC’s financial-support appeal. (As of yesterday’s mail delivery, there have been no responses from those three dealerships. A verbal request from you if you bought your vehicle(s) at one of those three would be appreciated.)

The procedure was for a contact to have been made by someone who purchased a vehicle(s) from a dealerships regarding to whom would our appeal be sent and then that request with the accompanying information was mailed/delivered.  Considering the fact that many of us have given ten of thousands of dollars to dealerships, it would be to the curling rink’s assistance for some dollars to be returned back to Chedabucto CC as donations/advertisement expenses or whatever categories that can be used by businesses to justify their output of finances.

Your assistance is definitely required.

Thank you

Ray

(Updates:  http://www.chedabuctocc.ca/renovation-update )

As of Aug. 22 the walls of the new renovation piece on the club are up. Waiting on windows and roofing material now. Here are some pics from today.