Previous Stories 2025 Archives - Page 3 of 11

My Lifetime Curling Love Affair

See attached Word Document.

Let’s play one more end

After over 40 years of curling I have a lot of interesting and comical stories to tell. Like the story of Eugene at our curling club who would take several minutes to figure out a shot, and then go into the hack and miss the broom by several feet ,...

Our Curling Journey

Our love for curling began when my son, Jesse, joined the local youth curling club in Grand Falls-Windsor, NL in 2008. As we cheered him on, we were “swept” up in the excitement of the sport. The team spirit, close knit community, and overall fun of the game is what...

3o year drought

I am a Winnipeg born kid who worked a 30 year career with the Calgary Fire Department. After retirement i moved back to my home town and birth place. I was happy to move back closer to family but i knew i was leaving behind my curling community in Calgary...

Cottage Curling Classic Comes To Life

Curling and the cottage. My dad's two favourite things. Over 15 years ago, in a tiny cottage on a tiny lake, dad and his curling crew from Dixie Curling Club got together and made something magical. What started as one fun day out on a small section of ice has...

The Improbable Eight-Ender

The Improbable Eight Ender I looked at Carole setting up in the hack: “don’t be short” was all I could muster - “we have backing”. The four newbies, Carole (skip), Chuck (vice), Joahnne (second) and Doug (lead) clamoured onto sheet B for an evening of mixed curling at the vibrant...

Two Nuns drinking the Brier Holy Water at the 2014 Kamloops Brier

Our “Readers Digest” condensed version of one of the best Tim Hortons Briers we attended! It all began in March 2013 while Laurie and May were attending the Tim Hortons Brier in Edmonton. It was announced the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier would be held in Kamloops, B.C. During the two...

SPONGE GIRLS

You could say Curling 🥌 is in our blood. We have a group of women that get together and travel to many curling events. We cheer on our favorite teams while enjoying all the good food, entertainment and drinks! 🍹 Like a sponge, we take it all in! We dress...

The Prescott Curling Club and Fulford Academy

This is a story of the Prescott Curling Club (PCC), providing an opportunity for International students (grade 9-12) to experience curling. It was the fall of 2022, after the pandemic, and a coeducational private school (Fulford Academy) was looking for curling ice time. As part of their curriculum, all students...

Revival of the Gress Cup

My story is in my file upload Revival of the Gress Cup

Just another inch would do,guys.

Wow, it was 2017 in St. John’s Newfoundland. The home town atmosphere was overwhelming to the curlers, organizations and the FANS. The last game and shot was unbelievable. I was afraid to look, my hands over my eyes as the rock got closer I was peeking through my fingers. When...

The Curlyssey

Uploaded below

Ladies Bonspiel Circuit

In the ‘80’s and ‘90’s., there were many curling rinks in south east Saskatchewan. Each club would schedule their ladies bonspiel for the same weekend every year in order to get as many teams entered as possible. Unfortunately there were weekends where there were two and then one had to...

The Start of the Passion

At the age of 11, I had the opportunity to go to a curling camp for the day at a local curling club, the Fort Rouge Curling Club, in Winnipeg. To my surprise, the instructor was none other than Connie Laliberte!! She was engaging, fun, amazing and I was absolutely...

50 Year Reunion

The Scotties Tournament of Hearts is coming to Thunder Bay and the excitement is mounting. For 10 days the best female curlers in Canada will be entertaining fans from across the country, all setting their hearts on winning the coveted trophy. But something pretty special will also be happening this...

Brier 2022 Memories

Best Brier Ever…. I was fortunate enough to attend the 2922 brier in Lethbridge AB. My friend, Lola Murphy win the trip with Curl Canada and took me as one of her guests. It was a rough time getting to AB between flight delays, trips to the ER in Toronto...

Joining a community

I was teaching in Germany and new to Lahr and the base. I hadn’t made friends yet, and I was feeling a bit sorry for myself. There was a Gordon Lightfoot concert on, and it was being held at the curling club. As I sat there, in Germany, it seemed...

East Hants Curling Association, Lantz, Nova Scotia

Hello, this is a story that is 25 years old and has 7 (seven) years of operations for the East Hants Curling Association which is a member of Nova Scotia Curling Association. The organization converts rink ice to curling ice from Wednesday night to Thursday morning and have 20 teams,...

the blue bloods curling family (from the Tom Sellect tv show)

Hi, I would like to submit my favorite curling story about Carolyn Morris and family. I call them the Blue Bloods curling family (from the Tom Selleck TV show).. Carolyn Kidd was born in Rosemere, Quebec, where her parents introduced her to the sport of curling. She met her husband,...

Regina Montanas Brier

I went to Regina Montana’s brier last year. I had great experience to get team autographs and team pictures. I had autograph from Daniel Marsh being on tv . went to patch to hang out to see team players signing autographs. I was cheering on team Saskatchewan. I bought some...

Greatest Curling Fan

My mom, Laura Goss was a diehard curling and proud mom of the Silver Foxher son Glenn Goss, who skipped in 3 briers, coached the Gushue team following their Olympic gold and now coaches Team Perry. She and her best friend of 70 years bought tickets to the 2017 Brier...

Schmirler the Curler

Sandra Schmirler (Schmirler the curler)....She is our favourite curling story. 1998....four years after our family emigrated to this glorious country, we proudly watched the Winter Olympic games held in Nagano for our first time. Coming from a country with a warm climate (We've only seen a snippet of snow, once,...

Fire Engine rushes The Wrench Wrink to the Victoria Memorial Arena Rink

Greater Victoria Firefighters Curling Association Hosted The Wenerich Team at the Brier , then the next year in Victoria for The Canadian Firefighters ! Both Teams were awesome Ambassador's for the sport of Curling ! They packed both Venues! All of them Hall of Fame calibre People! Sorry , but...

Watching My Grandson from 4,826 km Away

While I have many curling stories to tell from provincials to Scotties to Briers to Worlds, this most recent one has got to be my favourite in a long time. My grandson, Smith (age 9), was in a bonspiel in Leduc, Alberta while I am in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. My...

Chicken and Wine Spiel

Back in the early 70's, our small town curling rink with natural ice, hosted many bonspiels. I was only 10 years old then, when our parents were curling in the Chicken and Wine Bonspiel. We hung out at the rink, just waiting for that delivery of KFC from the neighbouring...