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Previous stories 2023

Live, Love, Play

Our curling story. Curling Story from Patricia Lafreniere – member of Pembroke Curling Centre – Pembroke, Ontario My husband Dennis and I have been members at our local curling club for over 33 years. We began curling to enjoy a night out together of exercise and socializing. We had 3 young children at the time and made this our couple…

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Keeping Things In Perspective

Many years ago I attended a curling fantasy camp. In one of the educational sessions just prior to lunch, Glenn Howard gave a lecture on motivating your team through the zones, regionals, provincials, nationals and world championships. At lunch I happened to be in line next to both Glenn and Richard Hart. I congratulated Glenn on his inspiring talk, but…

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8 Ender

I was curling in our Sr. League and our team had a substantial lead. I was about to throw my last rock and decided to throw it away so as not to run up the score on our opponents any worse than it was. One of my teammates said I should not do that as we had a chance for…

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Cold Curling

Friday, February 3rd, 2023, the City of Ottawa is in a deep freeze. There is a weather advisory since it is minus 25C, high winds and snow squalls. By 7 pm, my team, Auclair, has played 2 games at 2 different clubs and are now celebrating at the Crystal Heart Gala with a few hundred women. The fundraising event is…

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MCC Pink Lady Champs

My name is Joy Thimer, I didn’t grow up curling however my late Grandfather and my Mother Brenda are super cheer leader lovers for the sport. I just turned 47 this year and I took up curling back in probably the late 90’s, when I curled on a team in my hometown of Thorhild, AB. Then a few years later…

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Curling Hero

I took my son (age 7) to the PointsBet International tournament in Fredericton last fall. My son has been curling in the local Little Rock’s since he was two. We had the honour of meeting a lot of the curlers there, but the highlight was when Colton Flasch was done curling the first match we watched he beckoned for my…

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Meeting Russ Howard

I have watched curling since I was a teenager, over 40 yrs, with my dad, who has since passed for over 20 years now. My dad loved Russ Howard and I began to love curling because of Russ. I had the opportunity of meeting Russ when he played on Team NB with James Gratton, who is a friend of my…

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Family Fun

When our kids were about 6 and 8, they had a “Rocks and Rings” program come to their elementary school to teach them to curl in the gymnasium. They all came home asking to curl…. We signed them up, and they LOVED it. They joined Annandale’s kids curling program, and after many years of fun, unfortunately the club closed. Then…

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