Grand Forks gets a taste of curling in Turkey Spiel
The public was invited to give curling a try with causal mixed games in the Grand Forks Turkey Spiel. It was also a fundraiser for the club’s Junior League.
The public was invited to give curling a try with causal mixed games in the Grand Forks Turkey Spiel. It was also a fundraiser for the club’s Junior League.
The Norwood Curling Club held its annual Invitational Senior Men’s Turkey Bonspiel, which has been going on for more than 30 years.

Everybody loves a feel-good comeback story. In curling, it’s hard to find one more satisfying than what’s happened at the Crapaud Curling Club in Prince Edward Island.

“I thought this game was so fun. The social aspect is great. Why aren’t there more Black and brown people in the sport? That brought me full circle to ‘all right, maybe I’ll entertain this in my PhD.'”
In the last six years, the club added pick-up leagues, upgraded its bar to keep craft beer on tap, and opened on weekends. Membership doubled, a new demographic signed up to play, and local businesses became sponsors.
City council has decided to move the Roseland Curling Club into south Windsor’s Capri Pizzeria Recreation Complex.
CurlManitoba has enjoyed a busy first three months of the curling season. Executive director Craig Baker interviews on ‘This Week in Curling’.

Although Canada has become one of the most multi-cultural countries on Earth, there are few people from diverse backgrounds taking up the sport.

The Strategic Planning Program is a service Curling Canada’s Member Associations offer to clubs looking for a roadmap to a successful future.

In simple terms, Richard’s goals are to look at all levels of curling and help create functional strategies to bring about constructive and impactful changes to curling at the community level, developing connections and generating action to bring curling forward towards its goals of inclusion.

Earlier this month, a set of curling stones made a 1,500-kilometre journey from Montreal to Chisasibi, an indigenous community in Northern Quebec. For the first time, the remote town on the coast of James Bay would experience curling, with help from a famous teacher.
“What is going on at Roseland? When is it going to be demolished? What’s going to replace it and above all is — where is curling going?” wondered Terry Fink, member of the Future of Curling Committee.

Al admits to thinking of himself as “simply a curler first”; it wasn’t until later, as he got older and saw more of the impact of his role as a prominent Indigenous figure within curling that he began to realize the importance of being an “Indigenous curler” as well.
The purpose of the clinic was to not only teach the basics, but to introduce people to the sport. The two-hour event that saw 24 people, including two junior players, attend.

This new organization will be dedicated to the training and development of club and teaching professionals, and represents an important investment in the growth of curling at the grassroots level.
Longtime members of the organization gathered for a few quick games and to look back on the more than a century history of the club.
As parents start to think about what to do for their children once school is done each day, the Hay River Curling Club has provided an option.
Clair Sweet, president of West Prince Curling Club board, in front of the new curling club being built at Mill River Resort. The facility should be completed by mid-December, with a January start date for curling. The hope is the new curling club will renew interest in the wintertime sport in West Prince.
A number of bonspiels and other tournaments are planned for the building this year, and there will be plenty of league play happening each week as well.
See how the Shamrock Curling Club is hurrying hard to attract new members and grow the sport.

The Medicine Hat Curling Club hasn’t been operating for two seasons now, including this one. Hope that the club will be open by January is quickly fading. Nevertheless, club members are actively engaged in planning, trying to raise much-needed funds to reopen their doors.
Curling rates in Sundre increasing slightly for 2023-24, but group introduces new option to pay for only part of the season.
Michael Mantha congratulates Blind River Curling Club on what has been achieved thanks to two Ontario Trillium Foundation grants.
More than 3,000 people are expected to walk through the Kelowna Curling Club this weekend, for the 9th annual Okanagan Tattoo Show.
The Swift Current Curling Club is renewing its agreement with the City of Swift Current so that they can keep sending stones down the sheets at the InnovationPlex.

Triples curling is all the rage in Saskatchewan; just ask the La Ronge Wolves!
A new six year lease for the Oliver Curling Club building and proposed addition have been approved by Oliver town council.
Laura Derry may have saved more than just a legion and curling club. She says she poured so much into saving this institution because it means so much to her family, and to the community of about 8,600.
Mount Forest Lions Club presented the Mount Forest Curling Club with a donation of $5,000 towards its capital project.
The idea is to embark on a multi-year, multi-stage fundraising program to help replace the club’s outdated ice making equipment and concrete pad.
The ice is now gone from Vernon Curling Club, and the skatepark is officially open.

The For the Love of Curling (FTLOC) scholarship program provides 11 junior curlers from across the country with $2,500 to help support them as they progress in both curling and scholastic efforts.

In all, the three-day symposium provided attendees with a wealth of information, guidance, and food for thought. Perhaps just as importantly, it connected, in-person, curling professionals from across the province, making connection and friendships which can only serve to strengthen the sport of curling.
The Orillia Lawn Bowling Club hosted the Orillia Curling Club for an afternoon introduction to the fun and social sport of lawn bowling.
The Martensville Curling Club was turned into a Corgi-sized racetrack and over 40 fast and not-so-fast competed for the glory, the prizes, the honour or the snacks.
The Rossland Curling Society has locked down a 5-year agreement with the city for stewardship of the curling facility as it celebrates its 125th season.

Day two of Curl BC’s 2023 Business of Curling symposium hit the ground running with a blockbuster presentation by Curling Canada’s manager of club development.
The club’s president, said it’s one of the only outdoor curling bonspiels in the area. The club drew about 100 participants in 24 teams at last year’s Great Canadian Pondspiel.

Behind every success story is a champion with a vision and a village to make it happen. That could not be more true of the inspired resurgence of the Otterburn Legion Memorial Curling Club in Otterburn Park, Que.

Curling Canada, in a joint venture with its provincial and territorial Member Associations, will put on a cross-country tour of symposiums focused on the future of curling at the community level.

“Forming a team with other racialized individuals can help create a sense of comfort and community, both of which are important when beginning your curling journey in new, unfamiliar, and perhaps unwelcoming environments.”
Ten years ago, when Joanne Warawa started curling at the rink in Elk Point, AB, she says it was kind of a dump. The walls were 1980’s blue, the carpet was years past it’s expiration date, it wasn’t as clean as you would expect a public building to be and many things were in need of repair or replacement.
Every four years, when the winter Olympics come around, the world is exposed to a sport that not many people see very often. Its uniqueness has drawn the curiosity of many and often sparks an interest in a desire to try the sport. And the health benefits are good for the whole body.
