Congratulations to Evelyn Grant, Antigonish/Guysborough Road , for being the January 17 winner of CAS’s 50/50 draw. Evelyn’s winning ticket was worth $124.00.  (Thanks to all who purchased  — and to those involved in the selling of the 50/50 tickets.)

If you wish to purchase or to sell tickets: contact a club member, come to the club, or buy tickets at Cutting Loose Hair Design & Tanning, Cook’s Gas Bar & Robin’s, Days Gone By Bakery & Restaurant, Gerard Hart’s Grocery Store, Guysborough Discount & Gifts or Guysborough Pharmacy. CAS sincerely thanks the before-mentioned businesses for their continued support. (The businesses’ sold-tickets are collected on Fridays.)

With the wish to have larger winnings, CAS will be doing the ticket selections at the usual 8:00 PM on Fridays but will be occasionally doing the draws after a couple weeks of selling. We plan to have our next draw at the Edgar Sceles Memorial Spiel on January 31.

Please refer to CAS’s website for updates on draws and the names of winners. www.chedabuctocc.ca

Check out the poster link below on the 2014 Stick Curling Championship.

2014 Stick Poster

The next 50/50 draw will happen on Friday, the 17th, at 8:00 PM. The plan is to have the draw in conjunction with sociable stick-delivery curling matches provided we can gather the necessary teams.

With the 50/50 ticket sales — the Club needs all the support it can get since the tickets have evolved into a major fund-raiser. If you are able to sell tickets or know of someone who will move some for you, there are tickets available at the Club’s bar. (The bigger the prizes the more all will smile.)

The tickets, like the Club’s dues, bonspiels, bottle sales, bar profits, ducky race, etc. are only providing a portion of the revenue to cover the yearly expenses for the Club.  What is making our Club succeed are the numerous avenues that we take to raise funds. There are some endeavours that people jump on board to assist and then there are those where some are hesitant.  As long as we all do something to pitch in, at the end of the day, the bills are paid and the facility is maintained.

To give you a quick overview of what it costs to run the Club for 12 months I share the following:

2013/2014 Expenses (Anticipated)                                                      

Nova Scotia Power                   $15,000.00

Heating fuel                                 3,000.00

Insurance                                    4,500.00

Property taxes                                800.00

Telephone                                   1,000.00

Snow plowing                                 800.00

Jet Ice (ice’s water cleansing)      1,500.00

Canada Post (box and postage)       150.00

Repairs                                          500.00

Miscellaneous                                 500.00

$27,750.00

Since the Chedabucto CC’s Associate (Social) Membership category is becoming very popular and growing steadily in numbers, the recommendation was made at the January 6, 2014, Chedabucto CC Executive meeting that this email be sent to all.
Past members, their spouses and non-past members can enjoy the Club’s many activities by becoming an Associate (Social) Member thus having all the rights and privileges that is applicable to that category of membership.
The Associates will be able to freely attend all Club functions, to purchase from the bar without the NS Liquor Commission’s requirement of being signed in by a Club member, to socialize with great individuals and to enjoy all the darn good curling matches via the two overhead cameras/monitors that the Club now has thanks to the late Jim Drysdale’s donation prior to his untimely death. Former members (and their spouses) can also continue to assist the Club as do all of our current members.
Should you be interested or know of others who might consider joining under the Associate (Social) membership classification, please invite all to apply. The dues for Social membership is only $25.00 (tax included) per year.

Best regards,
Ray

Associate (Social) members are described within the following excerpt from our Club’s by-laws: Clause 2 – Membership (B)     6.   Associate (Social)  Members shall be persons 19 years of age or older subject to regular approval provisions who may attend the Club activities.  Associate (Social) members shall not have voting or curling privileges.