New Newsletter

Posted by Jason on Monday, January 30, 2012   |   Link to this post


The Winter 2012 edition of our newsletter, The Extra End, is available for download now. You won’t find it on newsstands, so you’d better just click the picture.

2012 Continental Cup

Posted by Jason on Friday, January 13, 2012   |   Link to this post

Continental Cup 2012

Over the weekend, be sure to check out some of the rare opportunities for us Stateside folks to view some live curling. The Continental Cup is underway — it’s kind of like the Davis Cup in golf — in Langley, British Columbia, and the World Curling Federation is helping to bring TSN’s coverage of the event to an audience outside of Canada. Teams from North America are squaring off against teams comprised of players from the rest of the world.

One event that you may want to keep an eye on is the Mixed Doubles curling. In this event teams of two square off against one another in an event that is quite interesting — once you get past the oddities. Two stones are placed in play prior to the start of each end. The teams then throw 5 stones, with one player throwing the first and last stone of an end, and the other player throwing stones 2, 3 and 4. Each player then sweeps their own stones… it’s something to behold.

The World team is making some news off the ice as well. They have banned their players from indulging in alcohol until the last stone of the cup has been thrown. One reporter from Winnipeg has let it be known that the event in the past has been the “most beer-soaked and philandering curling event” that he’s covered. The Godfather of Kalamazoo curling, and host of The Curling Show, Dean Gemmell, Tweeted about the controversy: “I’m not saying an in-comp booze ban is wrong. But a weird event for it. And I don’t like the inference that curlers always overdo it.” He goes on: “I mean, hockey players?Basketball players? Or skiers? I’m pretty sure those men and women leave a mark on some scenic Alpine villages.”

What do you think? Let us know on our Facebook page.

Learn to Curl & Winter League

Posted by Jason on Monday, January 9, 2012   |   Link to this post

Join us from 7 to 9 p.m. on January 20th for on-ice instruction in the wonderful sport of curling. All you need is $10 per person, clean athletic shoes, warm & comfortable clothing (avoid jeans), and the willingness to try something new! It won’t hurt you to bring a friend to share the experience with! Show up by 6:30 for some informal, off-ice instruction and background information. That extra time will help to get you familiar with some of the concepts and terminology BEFORE you get on the ice. If the demand is high enough, the time may be split into two one hour sessions.

If you know for sure that you’d like to join a league, NOW is the time. Our Friday night Winter league will get underway on January 27, but the deadline for signing up is January 13. There is still time for newcomers to SIGN UP this week, get some instruction next week, and enjoy 8 weeks of league play into March. To sign up, click here.

2012 Winter League and more…

Posted by Jason on Monday, December 26, 2011   |   Link to this post

Can you believe that we are already coming up on our WINTER FRIDAY NIGHT CURLING LEAGUE? The Fall session has been going great, and we have 10 teams playing right now. We wanted to get a message out to everyone so that you have plenty of time to get your teams signed up for the winter league. The information is as follows:

LEAGUE START DATE: January 27th
The cost for the 8 nights of curling is $185 for members, and $245 for non members. To sign up, please email our league coordinators Eric and Michelle Nitz or Marcus Gleaton. You can also sign up on our website. If you are looking to get your own team, have 3 people and need another, or just want to jump on someone’s team, we’ll get you taken care of. Just let us know.

SIGN UP DEADLINE FOR THE LEAGUE IS JANUARY 13th.
If you sign up after that date, the cost of the league is $205 for members, and $265 for non-members.

Some other information for everyone to think about:

  • We have an open sheet on Monday nights that is not being used for our league. We are renting it out to groups for $125 for 2 hours. If you know of anyone that is interested in renting it, have them contact Marcus Gleaton, and he will schedule it for them. It is also available for club members free of charge, and to individual non-club members for $20 per person. The individual curling is only available on nights we don’t have it pre-rented. If the sheet is already rented to a group, there won’t be any availability.
  • The publication date for the winter issue of the KCC newsletter, The Extra End, is scheduled for Friday, January 27, 2012. If you have pictures, articles, or other items to submit for the newsletter, please send them to Jason Hall. The submission deadline is Friday, January 13, 2012.
  • Look for some updates on our next Trivia FUNdraiser to be held at Bell’s Brewery again. We are looking at a couple dates in January and February.
  • We have an OPEN CURLING / LEARN TO CURL event scheduled for January 20th. This is meant to be for newer curlers looking to try the sport and possibly get them to join our league that starts the following Friday. Try to think of someone who has said that they want to try curling and try and get them out there for our learn to curl.

Newsletter Submissions

Posted by Jason on Thursday, December 22, 2011   |   Link to this post

The publication date for the winter issue of the KCC newsletter, The Extra End, is scheduled for Friday, January 27, 2012. If you have pictures, articles, or other items to submit for the newsletter, please send them to jason@curlthezoo.org. The submission deadline is Friday, January 13, 2012.

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