Midland Curling Club

The Daycurlers’ Christmas Bonspiel was a huge success this year with eighty curlers participating and well over one hundred curlers and their supporters at the club for a festive lunch.

The winning team included:  Bob Richardson, Al Black, Ken Languay, Elizabeth Broughton, Doug Hook, Marthe Scott, Shari Edwards and Helen French.  The door prizes were won by two of our elderly but much loved members:  Stan Gown won the bottle of Bailey’s and Mary Lauzon won the poinsettia.  Both of these prizes were donated by members of the league Andy Zuidema and Lynne Morton.  Alastair Milligan won the lucky draw which was a gift certificate for Meatland for the purchase of a fresh turkey.

After the fabulous lunch catered by E.L.M., our musicians, Noel McCartney, John McCallum and Paul Mallany lead us in a round of Christmas Carols.  Thanks go out to Lana and Gerard Lyons for organizing this bonspiel and to all of those individuals who pitched in to help with registration, table set up, music and clean up.

On a separate note, thanks to Stan Gowan for once again spearheading the Salvation Army food drive which raised over $2500 this year.

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The Monday Night Men’s League Session 2 schedule and standings for the first week has been posted. Thank you to the second session sponsor: Midland TIM-BR Mart.

Thanks to all the curlers who came out and enjoyed a fabulous day of curling at the Bourgeois Bonspiel hosted this year by the Midland Day Curling League.  A special word of thanks to all the volunteers who worked hard to decorate the facility, provide the great food, purchase the prizes, organize the draw and trivia contest and clean up afterwards.  It was a great day.

The Day Curlers are having their Christmas Bonspiel and Luncheon on December 15^th.  This is a fun bonspiel with 8 person teams and lots of time for festivities.  Lana and Gerard Lyons are organizing this bonspiel and have a lucky draw for a turkey, a poinsettia door prize and some Christmas carol singing planned.  A full slate of 80 curlers have signed up, so it should be a fun day at Midland Curling Club.  Curling starts at 10:00 am and lunch around 1:00.

Upcoming events include two experienced curler clinics being run by Sherry Middaugh on Monday January 9, 2012.  Thanks to Wayne Hayball for organizing these clinics.  Our January bonspiel is the Bayfield/Villa Bonspiel on Tuesday January 17^th, 2012 . This year we are also running an Interclub Spiel hosting teams from Coldwater, Orillia, Elmvale and Penetanguishene.  This new spiel is on Wednesday January 25^th.  John McCallum is organizing, advertising and running this Interclub Spiel.

Day curlers please take note that we will be cutting back to two draws on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting December 20 and will continue this way into the new year as the snowbirds fly south. There will be no curling on December 27^th and 29^th as the club is closed that week.  We will resume our curling on the first Tuesday of the new year with a 10:00 morning draw and a 1:00 afternoon draw.  There will be no midday draw.

Have a Great Christmas!

Thanks goes out once again to Bourgeois Motors for sponsoring the opening bonspiel for the Midland Curling Club.  Bourgeois Motors has been sponsoring this event for the last 25 plus years.  This year we had one draw with five full ices.  Every team played two eight end games.  The competition was tough but fun was had by all the curlers.  The Trivia contest was won by Team Barley and the $100 Lucky Draw prize for Explorer’s Restaurant was won by Bob Richardson.  The winning team was Team McCallum, followed closely by Team Richardson and Team Gordon.  The food was great, the club was decorated to the hilt and everyone went home with a prize.

Thanks go out to all of the volunteers who helped organize this bonspiel, who helped set up for the event, buy the gifts, decorate the facility, prepare the food, and clean up afterwards.  It was a job well done!

Winning Team:  Karen Mallany, John McCallum, Barb McCallum, Wayne Hayball, Noel McCartney

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Susan LeClair the owner and operator of the LeClair Cremation Centre sponsored our opening Day Curler bonspiel this season.  Susan’s business is located at 357 King Street right here in Midland.

The LeClair bonspiel was a popular event this year with three draws and 112 curlers.  We had curlers from Elmvale, Penetanguishene, Orillia, Coldwater and of course from our club.  E.L.M. Caterers provided a wonderful lunch, once again.

Thanks to all our curlers for supporting this event and to all the helpers for making it run so smoothly.

The winning teams were:

1^st Draw:  Susan LeClair, Peggy Dundas, Ian Bender, Andy Robertson, Judy Wypich
2^nd Draw:  Karen Mallany Brian Walser, Carol Jeffries, Lloyd Farquhar, Susan LeClair, Anita Fegarty was absent
3^rd Draw:  Karen Mallany,  Greg Rothwell, Shari Edwards, Elmer McFadden, Susan LeClair, John McCallum

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