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Super Spare Laine Peters (centre) poses with teammates Greg Smyth

Sparing for charity at The Glencoe Club

December 22, 20140Comments

Calgary’s Glencoe Club and National Training Centre (NTC) know how to get into the holiday spirit: the Super Spare Silent Auction, now in its fourth year, raises money to support a local shelter for homeless and runaway youth. How? By auctioning off the services of high-performance curlers to The Glencoe’s curling members.

Team Brown (Photo Karen Mosure)|Winners of the Junior Women’s event

Vernon junior spiel gives young curlers a competitive edge

December 18, 20140Comments

Jim Cotter is well known in Canadian curling circles for his precision shot-making on the ice. But a few weeks ago, he was wearing another curling hat: junior team coach and part of the organizing committee for the 14th Annual Prestige Hotels Rick Cotter Memorial Junior Classic in Vernon, B.C.

|Wade Scoffin was part of team Yukon at the 2015 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at North Bay

Inside Junior Curling: Unsung heroes

December 17, 20140Comments

Sometimes in sports we look at our most successful athletes as the true heroes. We say that the athletes standing atop the Olympic podium will go down in sporting history, and it’s true, they will. We too often forget about that team behind the scenes. We forget that the most crucial part of a team doesn’t get to stand atop the Olympic podium.

|John Morris works with the Grade 2 students at Elbow Valley Elementary School

Giving back to the sport of curling

December 16, 20140Comments

If John Morris needed a reminder of why he plays the great game of curling, he’s been receiving it this week at Elbow Valley Elementary School, just west of Calgary.

|Brad Gushue's team from St. John's claimed the men's title at the Grand Slam Canadian Open in Yorkton

Team Sweeting takes over top spot on CTRS

December 15, 20140Comments

While Scotland’s Eve Muirhead was beat Ottawa’s Rachel Homan in the final of the Grand Slam of Curling’s Canadian Open in Yorkton, Sask., it was another team that took the biggest stride forward over the weekend.

|Skip Mike McEwen

Team McEwen isn’t slowing down

December 11, 20140Comments

Just when you thought Mike McEwen’s season was approaching inhuman levels, he goes and wins the Home Hardware Canada Cup in Camrose, Alta., over six of the best teams in the country.

Team Morris keeps focus positive after Canada Cup

December 11, 20140Comments

Curling at this level is really hard and sometimes you get kicked in the guts.

Rocks & Rings instructor Cathlia Ward works with a young students from Summerhill School at the Gage Golf & Country Club in Oromocto

Rocks & Rings gets kids onto the ice in Oromocto

December 10, 20140Comments

Dr. Brian Dalrymple has been sponsoring the Rocks & Rings program in Oromocto, N.B., for the past three years. Each fall, he “adopts” local schools in order to bring curling awareness to local elementary students. The Gage Golf & Country Club is using the Rocks & Rings program as a marketing tool for their curling club and especially for their Little Rocks program: they’ve taken the kids from the gym to the curling rink.

||Revolution Place in Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie to host two major curling events

December 9, 20140Comments

Canada’s elite curling teams will converge on Revolution Place in Grande Prairie, Alta., for two major championships during the 2015-16 season, it was announced today by the Canadian Curling Association.

McEwen team wins Home Hardware Canada Cup

December 8, 20140Comments

Their red and orange outfits may be gaudy but it apparently is having no effect on Mike McEwen’s red-hot Winnipeg team.

2014 Home Hardware Canada Cup

December 8, 20140Comments

Help Wanted: Curling Club Manager, Ellerslie Curling Club

December 8, 20140Comments

The Ellerslie Curling Club at 530 – 71 Street SW, Edmonton, Alberta is a six sheet curling facility with approximately 700 members. Currently we have an opening for the CURLING CLUB MANAGER for the 2015 -16 curling season.