Volunteering and #Curlingfamily adds almost 20,000km to my truck in one season. I have been accused of being a fearless (???) road warrior and I certainly proved it the season of 2022/23. My travelling partner and beloved passed in 2020 and there were places I still hadn’t seen, NWT being...
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In the heart of the Beaufort Delta, our family’s indigenous roots run deep. My father, Fred Koe, took his first steps onto the curling ice at just 8 years old, back when the rink was nothing more than a two-sheet wonder with lamps hanging from the ceiling and a cozy...
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My Curling Story by Luba Tasevski How it all began: One Saturday morning when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I wake up and made my way to the living room where my older brother was watching tv. I didn’t know what he was watching so I just...
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Every year my family rents the hockey rink ice at Christmas and we have a large family getting about 25 skaters out. This year I rented the curling rink and we had 25 immediate family members curling. It was a blast and we all curled. We have always been mainly...
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A few years ago myself (Len) and 3 friends (Richard, Pat and Richard) were playing a game in the annual Manitoba Curling Association bonspiel. We were once-a-week average curlers. It was the 5th end, of an 8-end game, and we were down by 4. We had the hammer. When I...
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I started into curling in my late teens first by watching and than volunteering with different events. When I was younger I didn’t have many friends in school and was very shy. I started curling of and on in my home community in parts of junior and high school in...
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Our story goes back to 2002. I started my curling journey in 1998 at Sydenham Community Curling Club in Wallaceburg ON. I felt an immediate sense of community and instantly fell in love with the game. The club is well known for The Crazy Legs bonspiel. It has drawn attention...
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New curler in the house. My parents were avid curlers. There wasn't much else to do in Baie Comeau on the wintery north shore of the St. Lawrence in the 1960s. Copper bas-relief plaques of curlers delivering rocks decorated our house, evidence of their participation in regional bonspiels. Their occasional...
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In the mid 1970's, 3 club curlers asked me to skip their team in the Manitoba Curling Association Bonspiel. Although we curled well, we did not make the playoffs, But, most memorably, in a game against one of the top-ranked curlers in the country at the time, I was called...
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A good friend and former skip of mine once told me, "You'll always find good people at the curling club." I never truly appreciated the meaning behind those words until I needed those 'good people' the most. Three years ago, I relocated from Calgary to the Lower Mainland to start...
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Over 23 years ago I tried curling by joining a league through work. I loved ice skating and thought sweeping and sliding would be lots of fun. I quickly learned (with packing tape on one sole) that it was much harder than I though. Nevertheless, I loved curling and went...
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In November 2018, I had the privilege of joining 21 other curling Rotarians from across Ontario in a month-long curling tour of Scotland. We played 19 games in 13 different ice rinks ranging from 8 sheets in a shopping mall, arenas shared with ice hockey and skating, a converted potato...
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Our children had just started their curling careers, they were ‘light rocks’ and still working to get the junior sized rocks to the far end of the sheet. The Women’s Worlds were held in Saint John, NB in March of 2014 and we took our young curlers to cheer on...
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In October 2022, our club had a real treat. Team Mouat came to visit, and we were really excited to meet them. They were charming and friendly to all the club members who came, and we all go to chat, see the Olympic medals etc. I remember thinking that the...
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Some of our love of curling started with one of the greatest curling parties ever. We attended the homecoming celebration of Al Hackner ,and the team from winning the World Championship in Garmisch Partenkirchen West Germany in 1982. Our outdoor curling adventures began almost 40 years ago with javex jugs...
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Welcome To My House Did you know that 90% of the world’s ice curlers are from Canada? And here's another incredible fact: there are close to 1000 curling rinks spread across the country! It's truly amazing to think that some of the world’s greatest curlers have emerged from these very...
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It was a hot summer in 2018 in Moncton, NB. While people were outside enjoying the sunshine, I was inside a refreshingly cold curling rink and having a great time! I was at a 5 day long adult curling camp and was extremely excited to meet the guest coaches from...
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Every year in the late Winter, four good buddies gathered their curling gear, some cash, some sets of cards, some snacks, and some drinks to travel from the Sault to Manitoulin Island to participate in the Manitowaning Open at the Assiginack Curling Club. We arrived at the Wayside Motel Manitoulin...
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When I was younger, I saw curling for the first time on television during the Winter Olympics 2018. When I was eight years old, I decided to try it out. Since then I have developed a strong passion for the sport. I started curling with the little rocks at the...
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My grandfather was the manager at the Dartmouth Curling Club and got me involved in Curling at the age of 5. It was the first year they launched the little rocks program and I have been Curling ever since. ( 30 years later) When my husband and I meet, I...
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14 years ago one teacher changed my life by introducing the sport of curling to me, the day when I first stepped on the ice I knew I was in love. I used to live in a small town called sayward valley and the closest rink was in Campbell River...
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Every Friday after work during the curling season, I was a teacher, our curling club, the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, PEI hosted a teachers curling league among the various schools in our area. I noticed a new member of another school, a good curler who I...
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Years ago when our Canadian teams were playing , in Regina, to see who would represent Canada in the Olympic Games in Salt Lake USA . My husband asked me why l was watching this curling and l told him . I had always watched curling as long as l...
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In 2014 my Mom was diagnosed with Cancer and her doctors didn't think she would get to 2015. Well, here we are in 2024 and my Mom still loves watching curling every day / night it is on. In 2023, I decided to buy tickets to the final weekend at...
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