Eligibility:

• 27 years of age of younger
• a student of TRU for the 2013 winter semester, taking a minimum of 3 courses

Anyone interested should contact Brenda Nordin at ten.suletnull@1nidron by June 15, 2012.

Hosting a Curl BC Championship has many benefits for facilities and their members. Some of the benefits are:

• Added revenue brought into the centre
• Community awareness of the sport and facility
• Relationship building with local businesses and politicians
• Entertainment from the best curlers in the province
• Opportunity for member development and certification through officiating & statistician courses
• Opportunity for members to earn credit for practical officiating & statistician hours to become eligible for work at future national and international events
• A stepping stone for the facility to host future national and international events
• Opportunity to build team spirit amongst your membership and encourage future member involvement in your facility

Click here to find bid forms on our hosting page. Please submit your bid to host or expression of interest to ac.cblrucnull@yttaebh.

WHAT: The Kraft Celebration Tour

WHY: Because you could be one of 10 lucky Canadian communities this year to receive $25,000 from Kraft Canada to help renovate a recreation facility in your neighbourhood AND have TSN shine the national spotlight on your community with a live broadcast of SPORTSCENTRE right in your hometown. The Kraft Celebration Tour takes place this summer from August 17-26 and each of the 10 winners will be a stop on the cross-country tour.

HOW: To nominate your community, it takes 5 minutes and 3 easy steps –

1) Visit www.KraftCelebrationTour.ca 

2) Submit an essay of 500 words or less demonstrating your community spirit and how you would use $25,000 to fix up a recreation facility – plus up to 5 photos of your community

3) Hit send and tell all your family and friends to do the same – the nomination period closes on Sunday, June 10, 2012

Recipients will receive their awards at the Curl BC Annual General Meeting at the Richmond Curling Club at 1:00pm on Saturday, June 9, 2012. Media representatives are invited to attend these presentations. Lunch will be provided at 12:00pm.

Curling Centre of the Year: Nanaimo Curling Centre

Junior Female Athlete of the Year: Kalia Van Osch, Nanaimo Curling Centre

Junior Male Athlete of the Year: Tyler Tardi, Langley Curling Club

Female Athlete of the Year: Kelly Scott, Kelowna Curling Club

Male Athlete of the Year: Not awarded

Athlete with a Disability: Corinne Jensen, Nanaimo Curling Centre

Master Team of the Year: Rick Pughe, John Zwarych, Jack Finnbogason, Bob Byrne, Royal City Curling Club

Sponsor of the Year: Investors Group & Tim Hortons

Anita Cochrane Coach of the Year: Jim Newlands, Nanaimo Curling Centre

Team of the Year: Tyler Tardi, Jordan Tardi, Nicholas Meister, Zachary Umbach, Paul Tardi, Langley Curling Club

Club Volunteer of the Year: Dale Dodge, Oliver Curling Centre

Official of the Year (Wally M’Lot Award): Mark Hoffman, Parksville Curling Club

Long Service Volunteer (Pat Kennedy Award): Soren Jensen, Abbotsford Curling Club

Builder (Janette Robbins Award and Sport BC President’s Award): Kathy Arnold, McArthur Island Curling Club

Youth & Junior Curling Volunteer (Elsie McKenzie Award): Bob Fatkin, Abbotsford Curling Club

Friendship Award: Admirals Walk Pet Clinic, Victoria

The Coaching Mentor/ Apprenticeship Program (for female apprentices) is a partnership between ProMOTION Plus, Coaches BC and the BC Games Society. The program was developed to assist and support female coaches in their pursuit of higher levels of coaching certification. This program is designed to assist and support them as they enhance and develop their coaching skills.

Goals:

• The program will pair experienced coaches with female apprentices (a maximum of 10 mentor and 10 female apprentice coaches will be selected to attend the 2012 BC Summer Games in Surrey).
• To increase the number of qualified coaches starting at the club and provincial level and moving toward the national and international level.
• To increase opportunities for women to have coaching experiences.
• Support female coaches in improving their coaching skills, attaining higher level coaching opportunities and careers in coaching.

Additional program benefits:

• Funding is available up to $200 per person for each mentor and apprentice pair of coaches.
• Travel, accommodation and meals at the 2012 BC Summer Games in Surrey will be provided through the BC Games Society.
• Accreditation as team staff (in addition to the team staff limit for each sport) at the 2012 BC Summer Games in Surrey.
• Premier Membership provided by Coaches BC.

For program details, application eligibility and application forms, please click here or visit www.promotionplus.org

Members will have access to a free personal chequing account including:

• No monthly fee and no transaction fees
• Monthly electronic paperless statement with cheque images
• Personalized cheques
• Free CWBdirect Internet Banking or In-Touch Telephone Banking

Members will also have access to investments, including rate specials over posted rates on WestEarner® RRSP, RRIF and TFSA GICs, plus mortgage specials.

Online banking services are available for individuals without a Canadian Western Bank branch in their area. Through Canadian Direct Financial, customers will have monthly electronic statements with cheque images and personalized cheques, with no monthly or transaction fees. They also receive rate specials over posted rates on KeyReturn® GICs and KeyReach® RRSP and TFSA GICs.

Curl BC members who would like to learn more about these services can visit www.cwbank.com/CurlBC or www.canadiandirectfinancial.com/CurlBC or contact Heather Rayment at moc.knabwcnull@tnemyaR.rehtaeH

Individual responses are kept confidential and the overall results of the survey will be covered at the Annual General Meeting on June 9th.

(Please forward the survey link to your fellow curlers, but keep responses to one per individual.)

Click here to visit post on our surveys page.

Men: Peace Arch – Richard Brower, Berry Breton, Larry Macdonald, Deryk Brower
Women: Comox Valley – Deb Goodwin, Lonnie Schopp, Kim Jonsson, Lori Ross

Brower & Goodwin now advance to the The Dominion Canadian Curling Club Championships in in Scarborough, Ontario from November 19-24, 2012.

All three world championships will take place at the new Grant-Harvey Centre, April 13-20, 2013. Approximately 30 teams are expected to compete for global honours in Mixed Doubles while almost 40 teams will seek to capture Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s world titles.

The $29.5 million Grant-Harvey Centre, scheduled to open in June, has two ice surfaces which will be utilized during the week…one Olympic-size (500 seats) and one National Hockey League-size (1,500 seats). The host committee executive director is 2000 Brier runner-up Wayne Tallon, with both the Fredericton Curling Club and Capital Winter Club acting as co-chairs and host clubs.

World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness said, “We are delighted to be returning to New Brunswick for two events which will run side by side in 2013 – the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and the World Senior Curling Championships.

“Following on from the success of the 2009 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship in Moncton, the World Curling Federation is looking forward to being able to showcase the discipline of Mixed Doubles Curling in Canada and, at the same time, offer a world class Senior Curling Championship event for curling fans to enjoy.”

It marks the first time that Canada will host the World Mixed Doubles, which began in 2008 in Vierumäki, Finland. However, Canada has previously staged the World Seniors in 2003 in Winnipeg and 2007 in Edmonton, since the championships officially began in 2002 in Bismarck, North Dakota.

“We are pleased to be able to partner with the World Curling Federation and the City of Fredericton on hosting these major world curling championships,” explained Greg Stremlaw, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Curling Association.

“Canada has played host to many major curling events, and it will be a wonderful opportunity to further expose these unique world properties, in addition to the Ford World Men’s Curling Championship (in Victoria), all being staged in Canada in 2013.

“Of particular note is the World Mixed Doubles, which we hope this hosting in Fredericton will serve as an exceptional showcase to the International Olympic Committee for this discipline being a potential great addition to the Olympic platform in the future.”

“I am pleased that Fredericton will be the host city for these world curling championships in 2013. We can’t wait to showcase the newly built Grant-Harvey Centre, which will be the venue for the games,” said Mayor Brad Woodside. “Our community embraces events like this, and I am sure that the athletes, the Canadian Curling Association and the World Curling Federation will be treated to some of the finest hospitality our hotels, restaurants, attractions, and residents have to offer.”

Fredericton has hosted a number of curling championships over the years – the 1975 Brier, 1988 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, 1965 Canadian junior men’s, 1985 Canadian Junior women’s, 2005 Canadian Juniors (men and women) and the 1980 Canadian senior women’s.

This year’s renewal of the World Seniors concluded in Kastrup, Denmark on the weekend. Canada was represented by New Brunswick’s Heidi Hanlon and Manitoba’s Kelly Robertson. Hanlon won a gold medal, defeating Scotland in the final to finish undefeated, while Robertson earned a silver medal, losing in an extra end to Ireland.

Canada has enjoyed tremendous success at the World Seniors, winning seven men’s and eight women’s (including the last five) titles since 2002. Canada’s representatives at the World Seniors have been the Canadian Senior champions from the previous year.

For the 2013 World Seniors, Canada’s colours will be worn by Alberta’s Cathy King of Edmonton and Rob Armitage of Red Deer, winners of the Canadian Seniors in Abbotsford, British Columbia in March.

The 2012 World Mixed Doubles got underway today in Erzurum, Turkey. Canada is being represented by Saskatchewan’s Dean Hicke and Chantelle Eberle.

Since the World Mixed Doubles began in 2008, Canada’s best finish has been a bronze medal by Manitoba’s Sean Grassie and Alli Nimik in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 2009. Canada’s representatives for the World Mixed Doubles have been two members of the winning team from the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship. However, it has not yet been decided how Canada’s representatives for the 2013 World Mixed Doubles will be selected. Switzerland has won three of the four World Mixed Doubles Championships, with Russia winning in 2010.

Both the World Seniors and Mixed Doubles are played over eight ends instead of 10 ends. While the World Seniors competition follow the rules of traditional team curling, the Mixed Doubles format brings together one male and one female curler. Teams have only six stones each (instead of eight) and one of those stones, from each team, is prepositioned on the centre line before each end of play. Player one delivers the first and last stones and player two plays the second, third and fourth stones. If they choose to, the two players may swap positions from one end to the next. Both team members are also allowed to sweep.

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