Club News

This is a reminder of a special meeting on Thursday April 26^th at 6:30pm at the Charlottetown Curling Club to discuss the CCA’s proposed operational changes next season including the format of national events.  The results of this discussion will be relayed to the PEICA and the CCA.  Proposed changes include:

1.  Mixed – winners to pay own way, format change and eligibility for playdowns

2. Details of CCA competitor fee

3. Seniors – winners to pay for own hotel rooms

4.  Changes to the Brier/Scotties format

5.  Relegation format for national events

Documentation from the CCA related to this discussion is attached to this notice.  Further documentation will be available for viewing at the meeting.  Please come out and voice your opinion on these proposals.

NCC Notice for Consideration

The curling season is rapidly drawing to a close, so now is the time to look back and celebrate the season and the contributions and achievements of our fellow club members.  With that in mind, the Charlottetown Curling Club closing banquet will take place on Friday, April 27.

The evening’s festivities will start at 6:00 with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner at 7:00 and a dance at 9:00.  The dinner menu is available here.  During the dinner, we will celebrate the achievements of our club and provincial champions, and recognize the contributions of our dedicated pool of volunteers.  Also, one lucky guest will win a full membership for the 2012-2013 curling season.

Tickets are available now at the club, and are priced at a very reasonable $20/person or $35/couple.  Only 120 tickets are available and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.  The ticket purchase deadline is April 13, but we encourage you to purchase your tickets early to avoid disappointment.  We also ask that you confirm your dinner selection(s) by the April 13 deadline.

For those wishing to join us only for the dance, tickets will be available for $5 at the door. We look forward to seeing you there!

To accomodate the various teams who have had to travel to national events over the last few weeks, we have revised the schedule for the Coors Light Competitive League playoffs.  It is available at the following link, or under the Leagues section of our webpage.

Coors Competitive Playoffs 2012

The remaining schedule of Monday night games has now been posted to the club website.  It is available under the Leagues/Schedule section, or at this link:

Schedule (Jan-Apr)

Monday night play will conclude on April 9.

The playoff schedule for the Coors Light Competitive League has been posted.  It is available at this link:

Schedule Feb-end of season

Or from our leagues page.

As previously noted, the Charlabel mixed bonspiel will take place on February 24 and 25.

Bonspiel details are available here:  Charlabel_2012 Poster

The entry form is available here: CharLaBel 2012 entry form

Don’t have a full team to sign up with?  No problem!  The Char-la-bel will be glad to take single entries and join you up with a team.  The entry fee is $40/player, which includes dinner & dance on Friday night, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, trivia, 2 complimentary beer tickets, a chance to win a car…oh, and of course curling! At that price, can you really afford to stay home?

We look forward to seeing you there.

Due to the withdrawal of one team, we have posted an updated schedule for the Dominion Championship.  It is available at the link below

Updated Dominion Round Robin Schedule

DOMINION CLUB PLAYDOWNS RULES 2012(AMENDED Feb 1)

The competitive season on PEI is in full swing.  Last week, our own Kim Dolan, along with Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Sinead Dolan, Nancy Cameron, and Michala Robison won the PEI Scotties Tournament of Hearts and will represent PEI in the national Scotties in Red Deer, Alberta.  They defeated Meaghan Hughes (Stefanie Clark, Jackie Reid, Tricia Affleck) in the final.  Sarah Fullerton’s team (with Hillary Thompson, Sara MacRae, and Michelle McQuaid) put up a very strong showing in the tournament, bowing out to Dolan in the semi-final.  We wish Sarah’s team the best of luck as they travel to Napanee, Ontario, as PEI’s junior women’s representatives.

Also last week, Shirley Berry’s team, which also includes Sandy Hope, Arleen Harris, and Evelyn Rogerson, won the PEI Masters women’s championship.  The Silver Fox’s Mel Bernard took the men’s title with his team of Ted MacFadyen, Lou Nowlan, and Earle Proude.

Today, the Men’s Tankard starts at the Cornwall Curling Club.  Nine of the twelve teams competing curl out of our club.  Draws are scheduled at 1:30 and 6:30 pm today through Monday.  Friday and Saturday will feature a 9:00 am draw in addition to the 1:30 and 6:30 games.  Admission in Cornwall is only $2.00 per draw, or $20 for the full event.  We encourage our members to head over to support our teams, and to check out the newly renovated clubhouse in Cornwall.

The 26th annual Char-la-bel fun mixed skins bonspiel will take place on February 24 and 25, with one draw on Friday evening, and two draws on Saturday. Friday night’s events will include a chicken dinner and entertainment, while Saturday includes a pancake breakfast, soup and sandwich buffet, trivia, and a prize auction at which you can spend your skins winnings.  Your $160 entry fee also includes two complimentary beer tickets per player, and of course 3 six-end games in skins format.

The entry form is available here: CharLaBel 2012 entry form

Further information is available here: Charlabel_2012 Poster

Come join us on the Islander day long weekend. We look forward to hosting you.

The Charlottetown Curling Club has the honour of hosting this year’s provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts, at which PEI’s representative for the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts will be decided.  As a result of recent changes to the schedule for the Scotties, there will be some changes to our regular league schedules for this week.

All Thursday leagues scheduled to run on January 19 will run as scheduled.  This includes the junior program, the Getting Started for Adults league, and the curl for steaks open sign-up league.

The Monday junior program and Monday night Anything Goes league will be cancelled on January 23.  Games originally scheduled for January 23 will be added to the end of the schedule.  The remainder of the schedule is unchanged.