The ED will be responsible for the overall management and leadership in implementing Board policy in a manner consistent with the mission and goals of the organization

The ED will have:

• Understanding and appreciation of the game/sport of curling.
• Proven administrative, financial and human resource management skills.
• Demonstrate good judgment and decision making skills.
• Ability to work with the public in an effective and courteous manner.
• Experience in initiating, planning, implementing and evaluating programs, services and events.
• Experience in managing a community based non-profit and working with a Board of Directors and committees.
• Experience in event planning and coordination.

A University or College degree in Recreation, Sport or Event Management as well as relevant work experience is preferred. Valid Driver’s License is required.

Salary commensurate with qualifications. Pension and a shared benefits plan are available. Relocation expenses are not available.

All interested individuals are encouraged to apply however only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter detailing your experience and knowledge to president@curlmanitoba.org no later than 4:30pm CDT on Monday, June 3rd.

For more information or a complete job description visit curlmanitoba.org

The St. John’s Curling club has six sheets of curling ice, a year-round banquet facility, and a series of regular off-season ice shed rentals.

The Club has a membership of approximately 350 curlers. We host several full weekend bonspiels and/or events; as well as at least one provincial championship throughout each season.

Manager
The manager will be responsible for conducting and maintaining the business affairs of the club including:
- recruitment, hiring, staffing, and supervision of all required personnel at the club
- promotion of the ReMax Centre as an events centre, negotiation of rental events with clients, and coordination of the Centre’s catering contract to maximize profitability of the Association
- daily processing of all sales, payment of invoices, tracking receivables and reporting to the Club’s treasurer and/or bookkeeper
- communication with members of the curling club and clients of the banquet facility
- work cooperatively and in conjunction with the Board of Directors

Ice Technician
The ice technician will be responsible for the installation and maintenance of the curling ice and the ice shed facility including:
- Ice Installation and removal of ice at season end
- Daily ice maintenance and resurfacing when required
- Dealing with curlers concerns
- Maintain facility cleanliness
- Schedule, train, and supervise ice assistants
- Keep maintenance records
- Facility set up for special events and banquets

Both position are full-time and will commence on or before August 1, 2013. Traditionally, the club operates with two, separate full-time positions; however, we will entertain proposals for a single applicant to handle both positions with additional part-time support. Level 2 Ice Tech is preferred, but training can be provided to the successful candidate (s).

Applications and/or proposals should include a current C.V., contact information for three referees, and salary expectations.

Please submit proposals and/or applications to timjones@nl.rogers.com by June 19, 2013.

Job Function:
To carry out the ice making and ice maintenance operations of this full-service curling facility to provide excellent ice conditions each and every day as well as completing the preventative maintenance program for the physical plant and building.

Job Duties:

• Install ice for early October opening.
• Maintain the ice daily (scraping, pebbling, cleaning etc.) to provide excellent curling conditions each and every day of the season. A typical week includes 18-20 draws.
• Maintain member amenities on ice surface (drinking water, tissues, cleaning brushes)
• Ensure catwalks are clean and tidy and ice equipment is stored and hung in proper place.
• Prepare the ice for any special curling events such as bonspiels or special events.
• Maintain daily log maintenance on building, equipment and ice conditions.
• Meet weekly with the Chief Operating Officer and Curling Coordinator.
• In conjunction with the Chief Operating Officer and Curling Chair, devise communications strategies to communicate with the membership about ice conditions.
• Perform minor building maintenance repairs and preventative maintenance procedures as required.
• Shutdown the ice plant and clean rink area after season concludes making the curling rink ready for various golf equipment storage. The shutdown typically occurs between the 15th and 22nd of April.
• Attend Curling Advisory Committee Meetings and provide updates to committee members on ice conditions and daily log.

Job Qualifications:
The successful candidate will be an experienced Ice Technician, preferably level 3, with a proven record of successful ice making. The Ice Technician will be skilled in membership communication and have a passion for the sport of curling and for providing excellent membership service. Ideally the candidate will have a minimum of a level 3

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

The Cataraqui Golf and Country Club:
The Cataraqui Golf and Country Club is a Private Members facility located in the City of Kingston. Cataraqui Golf and Country Club opened for golf in 1917 and curling in 1961. Cataraqui is a six-sheet club that has daytime and evening draws Monday through Friday. Our junior program is active and plays on Sunday afternoon.

We are very proud of our curling program and continue to reinvest in our facility to make the club a world-class facility. Our most recent enhancements include a new cement floor and associated equipment plus a new ammonia chiller in 2009.

Deadline For Applications:
Written tenders/proposals must be received by May 30, 2013. The tender/proposal must include:

• A paragraph on your concept of member service.
• A paragraph on your concept of communicating with members concerning ice conditions.
• A suggestion of your remuneration expectations.

Applications in confidence will be accepted in person, by post or email at:

Cataraqui Golf and Country Club
Attention: Jay Gazeley / Chief Operating Officer
P.O. Box 67
961 King Street West,
Kingston, ON K7L 4V6

jgazeley@cataraqui.com

The Lacombe Curling Association is one of the recipients of grants through the Canadian Curling Association’s Curling Assistance Program. (Photo, courtesy Lacombe Curling Association)

The CAP is intended to help grow the sport of curling through programs at the community level, as well as contribute to capital projects at curling clubs to keep them operating at a high level.

The grants are awarded in two categories: Business Development and Bricks & Mortar.

“This is always one of the most rewarding announcements of the year,” said Canadian Curling Association Chief Executive Officer Greg Stremlaw. “The Curling Assistance Program is about building the sport at the grassroots level with our member facilities across the country. That’s where our world champions and Olympians come from, and keeping those facilities healthy is a priority.”

In addition to the 24 clubs, two Member Associations received grants to fund programs aimed at building the sport in their respective jurisdictions.

Some quick facts about this year’s grants:

• The CCA received 78 applications requesting $946,611 in funding.

• Of those 78 applications, there were seven applications for Business Development Grants requesting $66,643 and there were 71 applications for Bricks & Mortar Grants requesting $879,968.

• The CCA granted five Business Development Grants totalling $26,800 and 21 Bricks & Mortar Grants totalling $228,400 for a total of $255,200.

• Applications were received from facilities and associations in 12 of the CCA’s 14 Member Associations, and grants were awarded to facilities in nine of those Member Associations.

Click here for the list of successful applicants.

Le Curling Association Lacombe est l’un des bénéficiaires de subventions par l’entremise du Programme d’aide au curling de l’Association canadienne de curling. (Photo, courtoisie Lacombe Curling Association)

Le PAC a pour objectif d’aider à développer le sport de curling grâce à des programmes au niveau communautaire, ainsi que de contribuer aux projets d’immobilisations des clubs de curling afin d’assurer leur fonctionnement à un haut niveau.

Ces subventions sont accordées à deux catégories : le développement des affaires et l’immobilier.

“C’est toujours un des messages les plus gratifiants de l’année,” a déclaré Greg Stremlaw, Chef de la direction de l’Association canadienne de curling. “Le Programme d’aide au curling est un moyen de faire croître le sport à la base avec les installations de nos membres à travers le pays. C’est de là que viennent nos champions du monde et nos Olympiens. Préserver ces installations en bon état est primordial.”

Outre les 24 clubs, deux Associations membres ont reçu des subventions pour financer des programmes visant à croître le sport dans leurs champs d’application respectifs.

Quelques propos sur les bourses de cette année:

• L’ACC a reçu 78 demandes requérant 946 611 $ en financement.

• De ces 78, il y avait sept demandes de subventions de développement d’affaires pour la somme de 66 643 $ et il y avait 71 demandes de subventions d’immobilier pour la somme de 879 968 $.

• L’ACC a accordé cinq subventions pour le développement d’affaires totalisant 26 800$ et 21 pour l’immobilier totalisant 228 400 $ pour un total de 255 200 $.

• Les demandes proviennent des centres de curling et des associations de 12 des 14 Associations de membres de l’ACC, et les subventions ont été accordées à des centres de curling dans neuf de ces Associations membres.

Cliquez ici pour la liste des candidats retenus.

The Navan Curling Club is a four sheet Curling Club with close to 600 members. The Club began in 1984 and has been located in Navan since 1991.

Interested parties are asked to send a letter requesting the RFP before May 24.

Please contact the Vice President of the Navan Curling Club Scott Craven at scraven@Colonnade.ca

I’ve been asked a lot of questions in the five months since I took on my new role as Director, Communication & Media Relations for the Canadian Curling Association, but that one has been the most common.

(Photo, CCA/Michael Burns)

Now that the 2012-13 season has wrapped up, I think I’m in a fair position to give an answer.

Heck, yeah.

What’s NOT to like about being involved in a sport has been a passion for my entire life, since running around the Kamloops Curling Club while either my mom or dad was out on the ice?

The bonus now is that in some small way, I have a role to play in building our sport in this country.

It wasn’t a secret during my 26 years as a sportswriter that curling was my favourite sport to cover. I liked the sport. I liked the camaraderie. I liked the people.

Nothing has changed in my new role, only now that I’ve been able to see things from this side of the fence, my admiration for the people involved in curling, both on the ice and behind the scenes with the CCA, has only grown.

Most of you only see the finished product on TSN’s broadcasts of our Season of Champions events. They go off without a hitch, as a rule, and that’s due to the professionalism of the curlers and the staff behind the scenes, who put in countless hours making sure the events are ready to go before a single TV light is turned on.

There was a telling moment for me during the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Fort McMurray, Alta., in January.

As the arena was being set up, in wandered Steve Howard, son of Olympic gold-medallist Russ, and a two-time New Brunswick men’s champ (and five-time Brier participant, including three as an alternate). He had moved to Fort Mac to pursue job opportunities in the oil patch, meaning his curling career was going (temporarily, we hope) on the backburner, but he couldn’t resist the lure of a national curling championship.

He started chatting with chief ice technician Jamie Sage, and it wasn’t long before Howard became a volunteer member of Sage’s ice crew for the event.

That meant Howard was at the rink hours before a rock was thrown to help Sage get the ice in game shape. He monitored ice temperatures. He scraped ice. He did all of the unappreciated stuff that makes a curling event a success.

Midway through the week, I was talking with Howard, and he told me that he’d gained an entirely new appreciation for the work that goes in behind the scenes. As a curler, he told me, he and his teammates would show up for a game, play, and then leave. Yes, they appreciated the great ice conditions, but until that week in Fort Mac, he’d barely given a thought to what went into producing those ice conditions. Now, he said, he understood.

The same can be said for me, I believe, and that’s been, I think, the most rewarding aspect of this new job. I worked with pros during my work in the newspaper industry, and I’m fortunate that I continue to do the same in my new job with the CCA.

It’s going to be an interesting summer. In some ways, the 2013-14 season has already begun. This past weekend, our national women’s coach Elaine Dagg-Jackson held a training camp in Winnipeg with teams that have qualified for the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials. This coming weekend, players from Trials teams will be in Vancouver for the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Olympic Excellence Summit, where they’ll be briefed on preparations for the Sochi Olympics and interviewed by the media for background research leading up to the Games.

As the summer goes on, check this space for periodic updates and observations from a reformed curling hack.

Brad Jacobs. (Photo, ACC/Michael Burns)

Douze équipes de chaque sexe s’affronteront pour tenter de décrocher les deux laissez-passer pour participer aux Essais canadiens Hortons Roar of the Rings, présentés par Monsanto, du 1er au 8 décembre au MTS Centre de Winnipeg. Les Essais permettront de choisir les équipes canadiennes qui seront en compétition pour la médaille d’or olympique de Sotchi.

Les équipes qualifiées pour les Esssais Road to the Roar en se basant sur le système de classement des équipes canadiennes de l’Association canadienne de curling sont les suivantes, et l’ordre dans lequel ils ont qualifiés

Hommes
Brad Jacobs, Sault Ste.  Marie, Ont.
Brad Gushue, St. John’s, Terre-Neuve
Mark Kean, Toronto
Jim Cotter, Kelowna, C.-B.
Steve Laycock, Saskatoon
Joe Frans, Bradford, Ont.
Jean-Michel Ménard, St-Romuald, Québec
Greg Balsdon, Toronto
Rob Fowler, Brandon, Man.
Bryan Cochrane, Ottawa
Jake Higgs, Harriston, Ont.
Rob Rumfeldt, Guelph, Ont.

Femmes
Shannon Kleibrink, Calgary
Laura Crocker, Edmonton
Renee Sonnenberg, Grande Prairie, Alta.
Cheryl Bernard, Calgary
Crystal Webster, Calgary
Amber Holland, Regina
Val Sweeting, Edmonton
Kelly Scott, Kelowna, C.-B.
Cathy Auld, Mississauga, Ont.
Tracy Horgan, Sudbury, Ont.
Barb Spencer, Winnipeg
Krista McCarville, Thunder Bay, Ont.

En plus d’être officiellement nommé une équipe en compétition dans le Road to the Roar, l’équipe de Cotter a également annoncé mercredi qu’elle a ajouté des Jeux olympiques de 2010 médaillé d’or John Morris à sa gamme pour la saison 2013-14.

La formule utilisée et modifiée pour les pré-essais sera la triple élimination menant à des éliminatoires à quatre équipes. Une équipe se qualifiera dans l’épreuve A, une dans l’épreuve B et deux dans l’épreuve C. Les équipes qualifiées dans A et B s’affronteront dans un match éliminatoire et le vainqueur accédera aux Essais Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings.

Les deux équipes qualifiées dans le C se rencontreront dans un match éliminatoire et le vainqueur se mesurera à l’équipe perdante du match entre A et B. L’équipe gagnante remportera l’autre laissez-passer pour les Essais Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings.

Pour plus d’informations sur les pré-essais Capital One Road to the Roar 2013, allez à: www.curling.ca/roadtotheroar/.

Pour vous procurer des billets, allez à : www.curling.ca/tickets/.