Welcome :: 2010 - 2011 Curling Season

On behalf of the Board of Directors I would like to welcome you to the 2010-2011 season of the Simcoe Curling Club.  Thanks to your ongoing support, we are on solid financial footing and can continue to reinvest back into our club.  While we are blessed with a group of dedicated hardworking volunteers, we could always use more.  And as everyone knows, volunteering at the Simcoe Curling Club is too much fun to be called work.

Our season kicks off with Registration-Orientation Night on Friday, October 15th at 7:00pm.  This is a great chance to catch up with old friends, welcome new members to the Club and get yourself in the right frame of mind for the upcoming season.

The ice is going in the week of October 18th.  Please contact our Ice Chair Paul MacNeal at 519-426-1743 if you?d like to help.  Club events this first week include Registration for our Junior Curlers at 2:00 on Sunday the 17th, the Evening Ladies Social on Tuesday the 19th at 7:00 pm and the Day Ladies Opening Luncheon on Thursday the 21st.

The first opportunity to don your curling apparel will be on Sunday, October 24th from 1 to 3 at our in-house Curling Clinic.  This event is free but requires pre-registration.  Spaces are limited so please contact our Curling Skills/Ontario Curling Association Chair Mary Reid at 519-583-3038 to register.

Our Senior Men?s group will be throwing the first rocks of the season on the morning of the 25th followed by the Day Ladies, the Monday Night Choose Your Own league, the Tuesday Evening Ladies, the Wednesday Afternoon Mixed, Wednesday Evening  Mixed Competitive League, the Thursday Men?s League, Friday Night Mixed and our Sunday afternoon Juniors.

Everyone will be happy to hear that Linda Ball has once again agreed to host our Friday Night dinners with the first event scheduled for Friday October 29th.  Please sign up in advance to secure a fabulous meal.

More and more of our members are using a stick as a way to extend their curling careers.  If you are one of these folks or considering making the switch, you might want to sign up for the OCA's Stick Clinic scheduled for the weekend of October 30th.  We will also be hosting the ever popular OCA Skills Analysis Clinic that same weekend.  Further details will follow.

If you are interested in helping new and old curlers improve their techniques the Club is hosting an OCA Club Coaching Clinic on Saturday November 6 and 7th. Please contact Mary Reid or register at the Ontario Curling Association?s website (www.ontcurl.ca). Who knows, you might even learn a trick or two to help your own game.

And finally if you have friends who are interested in trying curling but haven?t taken the plunge yet, you need to tell them about our world famous Learn to Curl Program which begins on Tuesday, October 26th.  In addition to the three weeks of instruction, participants will play in a LTC league for an additional 3 weeks. At the end of this process they will be ready to join a regular league in time for the second draw. Register for this program by contacting Mary Reid or sign up at Registration Night.

Until next time...

Good Curling,
Mike Redden
President SCC