New Horizons Seniors’
Curling League
Executive Meeting
McIntyre Curling Club, Schumacher
Present: Ray
Schizkoske, Chuck Harrison, Ray Dumoulin, Ray Ginglo,
Don Critchley, Rhea McKane, Sheila
Harrison, Arnold St. Onge,
Connie Grosvenor
1.
Minutes of last
meeting
Connie Grosvenor read the minutes of the meeting
held on
Moved by Arnold St. Onge, seconded by Ray Dumoulin, that the minutes be accepted as read. CARRIED
2.
Business
Arising
There was no Business Arising.
3.
Financial
Report
Our current bank balance is $5,444.00. Challenge Round: The bus to
4.
Christmas
Banquet
The banquet will be held on
5.
Challenge Round
Remaining challenge round dates are January 14, 2009
in Iroquois Falls, and February 18, 2009 at the McIntyre Arena. To encourage more participation, it was
suggested that we ‘talk it up’ with others and use word-of-mouth to generate
more interest.
Regarding sign-up sheets for challenge rounds: the procedure used in the past is that if you curled in the last challenge game, you must sign up as a spare for the next challenge game. However, if you signed up as a spare, but ended up curling, you can sign up for the next game as a regular curler. (This recommendation will be made at our next General Meeting in April 2009.)
6.
Wednesday
Curling
Wednesday curling resumes on
7.
Joe Gubbels
Memorial Fun Spiel
Information was presented regarding the format and
rules for this bonspiel; we hope for increased participation, and should
encourage new curlers to join in the fun.
8.
Closing
Banquet/Presentations
D’Eatery will cater the closing banquet. It was decided that coffee and Timbits will
be available on the last day of the Bonspiel.
9.
Memorial Plaque
It was suggested by one of our curlers that a
Memorial Plaque be erected for deceased curlers. Discussion among Executive members present at
today’s meeting decided that the Over 80 plaque for active curlers is sufficient.
10.
Dusty Baker
Bonspiel
This year saw the lowest registration ever for the
Dusty Baker Spiel, with only 16 teams participating. Some suggestions put forth to increase
interest were to reduce the spiel to two days, or spread it out over 5 days
with one game per day. Another
suggestion was that we ‘market’ the Spiel to other area curling clubs.
The current format seems to serve us well, and it
was felt that perhaps the low number of participants this year was a ‘blip’
rather than a trend. We can accommodate
24 teams for this event.
Moved by Connie Grosvenor,
seconded by Rhea McKane, that we notify the clubs in Cochrane and Matheson, as
well as
11.
Wednesday
Curling League
There are only four teams curling in the
pre-Christmas draw. Some suggestions to
increase interest in the Wednesday league are to have draws of 4 or 5 weeks
only, rather than a short pre-Christmas draw and a lengthy post-Christmas draw;
selecting teams by the draw system; encouraging people to sign up as
individuals, and the drawmaster will make up teams for those individuals.
12.
Charlie Angus
letter re: funding
A letter was received from the Federal MP for
13.
Other
Christmas Banquet:
In previous years we have invited past members who are no longer curling
due to health reasons. This year we will
extend an invitation to Tremain Banks.
Linda Larrett, Tarja (bartender), and Kent McInnes will also be invited.
14. Adjournment
Moved by Ray
Dumoulin that the meeting be adjourned at
Minutes
recorded by Connie Grosvenor
conlen@ntl.sympatico.ca
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