Although attendance was down slightly for the Sundre Curling Club’s annual open bonspiel, the two dozen teams that participated still represented a pretty good turnout, said the club’s president.
“It was a really good weekend,” said Steve Brigden about the recent season windup event that concluded on Sunday, March 25 after several days of draws.
“Sounds like everyone had a lot of fun — the place was busy all weekend.”
The A event winners were Kevin Humphrey, Terry Jones, Wanda Humphrey and Bev Konshuh. Winning the B event were Lonny Mackenzie, Chad Comfort, Kristin Mackenzie and Kim Comfort. In the C event, Nels Brian, Colby Brian, Berkley Steffler and Tyler Cordell came out on top, while Dale Phillips, Sandi Cummings, Sue Comfort and Roy Cummings won the D event.
Brigden said the 2017-18 season was a great one with many curlers involved in the league as well as most of the bonspiels. He said sponsors, volunteers and members of the executive all contributed significantly towards making possible the past year’s success.
Already looking forward to another successful year, Brigden spoke favourably about running again for the club’s presidency. The organization’s annual general meeting will be held on April 11 at the curling rink.
“We’ll be voting in the positions at that time.”
Now that spring has arrived, the club looks forward to ensuring the facility gets used during the coming months.
“We are one of the host facilities for the big archery shoot coming through at the end of April. We’re excited about that,” he said, adding the club also looks forward to the return of the Sundre Farmers’ Market later this spring.
Before the start of the next curling season, the club also plans to recondition its collection of curling rocks, he said. That could represent an expense upwards of $12,000 to $15,000.
“We send them away to be ground down and refaced and refinished,” he said, adding this is an overdue maintenance issue.
The club was informed the last time the rocks were refurbished that the club would get about 10-15 years of use out of them before needing it done again. However, it’s been almost 20 years, he said.
“We’ve put it off as long as we can,” he said, adding the club plans to prioritize the expense and get it taken care of over the summer provided sufficient funds can be raised.
