August 2015 - Curling Canada

FACILITIES
MICHAEL BAIN... pg 2
SEPTEMBER
OFFICE HOURS... pg 3
PROFILE
VANTAGE SAFETY... pg 3
PROFILE
ROCK 97.7... pg 4
MENS TEAMS
TEAM McEWEN... pg 5
VOLUNTEERNEWS
SUMMER
EDITION
08 09
100th Anniversary
Awesome 100th anniversary
celebration @GrPrChamber Aug.
28th! Good food, drinks & company.
Loved seeing all the historical
photos of #GPAB!
Stilts & curling?
#Curling is for everyone, short
and TALL, human or canine?! @
CurlingCanada #CanCup #Scotties
@CurlingCanada
#CanCup #Scotties
Curling hits the streets
Summer was busy and fall
events are well under way in
Grande Prairie. There is no
time like the present to get
people talking about curling!
Volunteers and event sponsors
are spreading the word about
the Home Hardware Canada
Cup presented by Meridian
Manufacturing and the Scotties
Tournament of Hearts.
2DayFM celebrated their oneyear anniversary on July 14th
with a block party. They had a
BBQ, photobooth, giant Jenga
and street curling on hand in
celebration. The street curling
debut was a hit and even saw
Curling Canada staff go head
to head with 2DayFM staff.
Battle of the media: @Q99liveFM vs @BigCountry931. Taylor wins 2-1! #curling
#CanCup #Scotties #GPAB. Follow us on twitter for live events @CurlingCanada.
– Mallory Donahue photo
Later that week, we brought street curling to the
Grande Prairie Street Performers Festival. Young
and old alike enjoyed trying their hand at curling.
The booth was well attended all weekend, and
we saw a battle of the media partners when
Big Country 93.1 challenged Q99 to a draw to
the button competition! Our @CurlingCanada
twitter feed posted the action live.
With curling having such strong roots on the East
Coast, what better place to promote the Home
Hardware Canada Cup presented by Meridian
Manufacturing and the Scotties Tournament
of Hearts than at the East Coast Garden Party.
People got to rock out to a fabulous line up
of musicians and hear about the great curling
events coming to town! – Continued on page 3
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing | 2016 SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
SUMMER
EDITION
08 09
worth
twittering
about?
Did you know – live
curling news is
available all day, every
day? Your community
event team is on-site
in Grande Prairie and
online with Twitter just
Follow Us
@CurlingCanada
#CanCup & #Scotties
for live event news
and photos!
FACILITIES VICE-CHAIR
Bain looking forward to elite
curlers going to battle
Michael Bain, Chair of Facilities, was born in Grande Prairie and resided
there until the age of ten before his family moved to Valemount, British
Columbia. The family spent eight years in Valemount before moving back
to Grande Prairie and making it their home since then.
Michael spent 34 years working in the telecommunications industry
before trying out freedom 55 in 2002. He quickly learned he just was
not ready for retirement so went back into the employment market –
driving a delivery truck until 2008. Now he spends time golfing, curling,
woodworking and traveling Canada, taking in this beautiful country from
coast to coast with his wife of 46 years, Wilma. They have three children
and 5 grandchildren.
MICHAEL BAIN
Vice-Chair Facilities
Michael started curling at age 14 and hasn’t stopped since. He has been to the Master’s Provincials
and coached junior curling for 12 years. He was on the board of the Grande Prairie Curling Centre for
6 years and has been part of host committee’s for provincial and national curling events.
The experience and expertise Michael brings to the position of Vice-Chair of Facilities will not be
wasted and the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling presented by Meridian Manufacturing and
the Scotties Tournament of Hearts will benefit from his involvement. When asked about the upcoming
curling events, Michael says, “it will be exciting to see Canada’s elite curling teams do battle at
Revolution Place in Grande Prairie.”
Daily Herald Tribune creates
new logo for events
The Daily Herald Tribune,
Media Partner for the Home
Hardware Canada Cup of
Curling presented by Meridian
Manufacturing and the Scotties
Tournament of Hearts, have
taken their event partnership to
a whole new level! The paper has developed a brand new logo,
with a strong curling theme, to use for the upcoming Season of
Champions events – they’re truly “living it live”!
Out of Town Volunteers...
WHERE TO STAY?
Volunteers interested in staying at our sponsor hotels
please call the Event office at 587-771-0900, ext. 204:
Holloway Inn & Suites
Best Western Grande Prairie Hotel & Suites
Holiday Inn & Suites Conference Centre
Super 8 Grande Prairie
Sandman Hotel Inn & Suites
Paradise Inn & Conference Centre
Service Plus Inn & Suites
For more information:
www.gptourism.ca
– Street Fest photo by Mallory Donahue
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing | 2016 SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
08 09
SUMMER
EDITION
Doing business in Grande Prairie and area since 2003
VANTAGE SAFETY
Providing safety services and technical
resources for clients across a variety of
industries, including gas monitoring, air trailers,
plant & project supervision, and confined
space personnel. We also have a safety supply
store that carries all the major brands for your
PPE needs. Along with that we also offer our
clients a PPE inventory management system
that helps them with their new hire and overall
management for their PPE requirements.
www.vantagesafety.ca | Call 1-888-513-4097
Curling hits
the streets –
“Thank You”
– cont’d from page 1
The event office would
like to send out a very
big thank you to all the
volunteers who have
helped with these events.
If you are interested
in lending a hand at
community events,
please contact Mallory,
mdonahue@curling.ca or
587-771-0900 ext. 208,
for more information.
Volunteer uniform sizing
September office hours
The office is located upstairs in the Grande Prairie Curling Centre. We are here to answer any
questions you have; please call (587) 771-0900, ext. 208 or stop by 10127 - 99 Ave.
The September calendar below shows the times available for completing your volunteer registration
and trying on the volunteer uniform. We look forward to seeing you in the office. If you need an
alternate date or time please call Mallory Donahue or Carla Radke to make arrangements.
The Grande Prairie Curling Centre registration night is taking place on September 14th. We will be
there to size
and recruit
volunteers!
Join us!
Volunteering
is a great way
to meet new
people!
EVENT STAFF
TERRY MORRIS
Event Manager
E: tmorris@curling.ca
MALLORY DONAHUE
Marketing & Office
E: mdonahue@curling.ca
CARLA RADKE
Admin Assistant
E: cradke@curling.ca
DIXIE LORENTZ
Sponsor Fulfillment
E: dlorentz@curling.ca
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing | 2016 SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
SUMMER
EDITION
08 09
@missrodeocanada and all the royalty this past weekend in Dawson Creek #greatjob
#DCEx2015
– Dawson Creek Exhibition photo
Curling meets rodeo
at the Dawson Creek
Exhibition
The 93rd annual Dawson Creek Exhibition & Stampede took place
from August 4 to August 9 and curling was well represented. Dawson
Creek Curling Club partnered with the Home Hardware Canada Cup
presented by Meridian Manufacturing and the Scotties Tournament
of Hearts to promote their curling club and both events ticket sales.
Cowboys and cowgirls, young and old, had the chance to try their hand
at curling and enter a draw for an autographed Ferbey Four book and a
Dawson Creek Curling Club membership.
The Dawson Creek Curling Club lost their ice plant just four short
weeks into the curling season last year so it was a great opportunity for
the club to let locals know that they would be up and running for the
2015-2016 season. The booth was busy the whole time and it would
not have been nearly as successful without the help of the amazing
volunteers from the DC Curling Club and Club Manager, Jeff Ginter.
Royalty even graced the booth on Sunday when Miss Rodeo Canada
and other rodeo queens tried their hand at curling and learned a little
bit about the game!
Dawson Creek Exhibition community event photo with cowboys
drawing the button was taken by Mallory Donahue.
CFGP Rock 97.7- Today’s
Best Rock & Killer Classics
CFGP Grande Prairie
has been on air for 77
years, which makes
it Grande Prairie and
the Peace Regions
longest serving broadcaster.
ROCK 97.7 delivers community news,
up to date information and the very best music!
The Rock Star VIP Club which currently has over
10,000 active members & Social Media including
Facebook where we have over 10,000 like’s! We
provide our listeners with all sorts of awesome
things like chances to win tickets to the hottest rock
concerts. and purchase sweet items and swag.
Rock 977 Rock Star VIP club has a demographic of
52% male – 48% female listener base.
Grande Prairie has a current population of
approximately 60,000 but guess what, That’s not
all! We currently have 2 repeater stations, located
north and south of Grande Prairie. We have one in
Tumbler Ridge BC as well as Peace River which
gives us the opportunity to reach the entire trading
area of 250,000!!
www.rock977.ca
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing
08 09
SUMMER
EDITION
2015 Home Hardware Canada Cup men’s field
TEAM SIMMONS – Calgary, AB
Skip: Pat Simmons, Third: John Morris,
Second: Carter Rycroft, Lead: Nolan Thiessen
TEAM McEWEN – Winnipeg, MB
Skip: Mike McEwen, Third: B.J. Neufeld,
Second: Matt Wozniak, Lead: Dennie Neufeld
(Pictured here L-R: John, Pat, Carter & Nolan)
TEAM LAYCOCK – Saskatoon, SK
TEAM KOE – Calgary, AB
TEAM JACOBS – Sault Ste. Marie, ON
TEAM GUSHUE – St. John’s, NF
Skip: Steve Laycock, Third: Kirk Muyres,
Second: Colton Flasch, Lead: Dallan Muyres
Skip: Brad Jacobs, Third: Ryan Fry,
Second: E.J. Harnden, Lead: Ryan Harnden
Skip: Kevin Koe, Third: Marc Kennedy,
Second: Brent Laing, Lead: Ben Hebert
Skip: Brad Gushue, Third: Mark Nichols,
Second: Brett Gallant, Lead: Geoff Walker
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing
2015 Home Hardware Canada Cup men’s field
TEAM EPPING – Peterborough, ON
Skip: John Epping, Third: Mat Camm,
Second: Patrick Janssen, Lead: Timothy March
– cont’d from page 5
TEAM CARRUTHERS – Winnipeg, MB
Skip: Reid Carruthers, Third: Braeden Moskowy,
Second: Derek Samagalski, Lead: Colin Hodgson
Official Draw
www.curling.ca/2015canadacup
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing | 2016 SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
Q99’s Shoot for the
Win a big success
08 09
SUMMER
EDITION
Q99 ran online and on-air contests the last week
of July for listeners to have a chance to qualify
for a “Shoot for the Win” contest. Qualifiers
had to correctly answer a trivia question about
the sport of curling or the history of the Home
Hardware Canada Cup.
Twelve qualifiers came out to Windsor Ford, an
official vehicle supplier for the Home Hardware
Canada Cup, on Friday, July 31st for the chance
to win two full event passes to the event taking
place in Revolution Place this December.
Contestants had one chance to shoot their rock
closest to the button, using the rocks and rings
rocks on the street curling game.
They came, they shot and there was a winner!
Shirlee Keown, from Rycroft, AB was the
lucky winner with a shot right on the button. A
huge curling fan, she was pushed to tears of
excitement. All contestants walked away with a
goody bag of event swag.
Photo on the left: Shirlee Keown throwing the winning draw to the button to claim Q99’s “Shoot
for the Win” championship, hosted by Windsor Ford. Photo on the right: Mallory Donahue from
Curling Canada and Landon, Nicholas from Q99 present a pair of full event ticket packages for
the Home Hardware Canada Cup presented by Meridian Manufacturing to Shirlee
Thank you to our Media Partner and
Official Vehicle Supplier for a successful contest
Congratulations Shirlee, we look forward to
seeing you in December at the Revolution Place!
A big thanks goes out to Q99 for running such a
fun and successful contest and to Windsor Ford
for letting curling hit the floor of their showroom!
&
Street curling
debute at First
Year Anniversary
celebration with
2DayFM!
curling.ca/2015canadacup
curling.ca/2016scotties
2015 HOME HARDWARE CANADA CUP presented by Meridian Manufacturing | 2016 SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
Join the Revolution with
Janet Jackson tickets
Volunteers of the Home Hardware Canada Cup presented by Meridian Manufacturing and
the Scotties Tournament of Hearts have been selected to qualify for a VERY special offer
from Revolution Place. They are offering volunteers the chance to enjoy a world class show
at HALF the price! Below is a code that you can use on revolutionplace.com, when
buying tickets for this specific show that will then allow you to buy a ticket at the regular
$99 price & receive a second ticket for NO CHARGE!
Your code is:
REVOLUTION
Home Hardware
Canada Cup
ticket winner
Congratulations to Alan Tucker
from Smithers, BC for winning
four (4) Classic Full Event
Ticket Packages courtesy
of the community events
promotion program through
the event office.
The Friday night practice round started with a Best Ball format
with guys against girls – Team Brown vs Team Cotter. Team
Cotter won by two strokes but they had to work for it. Photo
(left to right): Rachelle Brown, Margaret Groves (All West Glass),
Dianne Williams, Cody Brown and Jim Cotter.
Rachelle Brown getting her pigtails pulled by the famous
Hanson Brothers from the movie “Slap Shot”. All West Glass is
a proud sponsor of the Home Hardware Canada Cup presented
by Meridian Manufacturing, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts
and the Smithers Charity Golf Tournament.
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