My curling story starts in 1976 at the Canadian Junior Men’s Curling Championships in Kapuskasing, Ontario. My husband, let’s call him Mr. C, was the second on team Ontario. Well, the team didn’t make it to the playoffs but a good time was had by all! Apparently the ‘parties’ were...
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Like many teenagers, I had a complicated relationship with my parents- especially my Dad. However, when he encouraged me to learn to curl in Grade 7, I took to the game quite readily. In retrospect, I might have inherited not only Dad’s love for the game, but even a little...
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Hello! My name is Dan from Vernon BC, a city of about 40 000 given surrounding areas. Our city holds a winter carnival every February where the town comes together for fun events, A recent addition to the carnival is a 'beer first' curling tournament. I showed up just to...
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For more than 80 years multi-generations of my family and friends have come together on the curling ice. We have shared many exceptional experiences! I have chosen to tell the story about "THE PICKELL SILVER BRUSH". In order that the reader can understand the story, it is necessary that I...
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Love on the ice It was 2009 and I had spared for friends of mine in the Sunday night mixed double league at the Remax Curling Rink in St John’s. I enjoyed it so I gave my name to the president in case a team might be looking for a...
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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 ,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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My story is in my file upload Revival of the Gress Cup
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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My family has never curled. We have attended many curling events as we love to watch the sport, but we have never actually curled. Apparently, my father curled in the 60's in Kitchener Waterloo, but that was before I was born. My children and I watched on television as Team...
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I have curled since I was 16 years old. I started in Regina but now live in Delta, BC. That's been 56 years curling now! In 1993 I started dating my wife Cindy. She was not a curler but loved coming to watch me. It was obvious that she had...
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On this cold January evening I am staying warm indoors. While the music is playing in the background, I am relaxing in my lazy boy chair, with my senior dog close by to keep me company. As I look down at my right knee, elevated and wrapped in a hot...
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Looking back to our families participation in a Curling Day in Canada event 2019 at the Kakabeka Falls Curling Club just outside Thunder Bay, Ontario, we really had no idea how big of a role curling would play in our lives going forward. Our family of four attended the Curling...
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I grew up in a curling family. Both my mother and father, and my oldest brother curled. There was also a family rumour (spread by my father!) that I was conceived after a few too many rum and cokes after a curling bonspiel weekend. And since all of my parent’s...
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CURLING IS IN HIS BLOOD! Our grandson, Gavin Rathgaber, has been part of the curling scene since he was 3 months old. His Uncle Brett was one of the entertainers when Balgonie, Sask. hosted the Provincial Scotties in 2013. Gavin sat perched on his uncle’s knee as he rocked it...
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