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HEY SKIP, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!


Come on into the Huntsville Curling Club this Saturday, January 21 between 10 am and 2 pm to support our new Bonspiel sponsor, "Hear Well, Be Well" Hearing Clinic. Not only is Hear Well, Be Well sponsoring this weekend's bonspiel, they are also providing a great fundraising opportunity for our Club.

If you book a No cost hearing test at their Huntsville location (73 King William St #105, Huntsville, ph (705)784-0330), the Club will receive $50 for each appointment. If 10 members schedule a hearing test, the Club will receive a $500 donation!

We hope you can spare 10 minutes to come into the Club and get the information on this great opportunity to take care of your hearing while helping support our capital fund!!  As an added bonus, all those who drop by the "Hear Well Be Well" Open House on Saturday will be entered into a prize draw.

Can't make it out this Saturday? Don't worry, you can still take advantage of the Free hearing test and support the club. Stay tuned for future communication with a link to book your test.

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DRAW 3 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Sign-up for draw 3 is now open, and we ask that all changes be completed no later than Sunday, January 29th. This will allow our conveners time to set up teams and schedules.

Draw 3 begins Monday, February 6th, and ends Sunday, March 26th.

What do I need to do?

  • If you are happy with your league selections and no changes are required - you are done - nothing to do.
  • If you would like to make changes to leagues, simply log in and complete your registration
  • Log in using the link at the top of the Members Home page - if you don't see it when you log in, click on "Members Home" at the top in the menu bar
  • Draws 1/2 are locked, you can only change draw 3
  • to change leagues, simply delete the old league and add the new league - select draw 3 for the new league(s)
  • BE SURE TO COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION TO THE PAYMENT OPTION SCREEN TO SAVE YOUR CHANGES.
  • Any questions, reach out to Dave Rigby at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

How do I check what I signed up for in draw 3?

  • There is a new link on the home page (once you are logged in) - on the right-hand side - My Registration Info. Simply click on this link to see your leagues. See the images below

Home Page with link to review sign up
reg info

View of sign up details from Link - recaps all 3 draws if registered

my reg recap
 

 


The Huntsville Curling Club “Dutch Girl” Scoreboards, erected in December 1972, are 50 years old this month.
Who is the Dutch Girl and why is she on our scoreboards? 

This is the “Dutch Girl” Scoreboard Story.

By Dennis Rolland

The Collapse

At 5:45 PM on Wednesday, March 15, 1972, the wooden Glulam roof structure over our curling ice surface completely collapsed from snow load destroying the roof, walls, and Centre Street scoreboards. The block clubhouse, the four viewing windows and ice plant were not affected by the collapse. 

This was the second Huntsville Curling Club roof to collapse from snow loads. The first roof lasted 10 years, collapsing in 1910.  This roof lasted 21 years. The 1972 – 1973 Planning Committee, led by then President Bruce Petch, was tasked with the colossal endeavor to remove the collapsed roof, and rebuild with a design to last decades. Architects and Engineers recommended to the board that a flat steel roof 60 by 150 and no less than 14’ in height be built. The new walls and roof recommended were the strongest snow load design possible, capable of handling severe snow loads, and promised would serve the club for many decades. 

In November of 1972, the John Wheelwright Co of Weston Ontario was awarded the contract and began erecting our new rink steel structure. The rink construction included insulated walls and new fluorescent lighting that was completed for a January 13, 1973 open house where we opened our doors to the community once again. 

The Dutch Girl Scoreboards 

The previous scoreboards were destroyed when the roof collapsed. 

Doug Passmore and his wife Ruth were longtime members and volunteers of the Huntsville Curling Club. Thanks to the generosity of Doug, as the regional salesman for Schneider Meats at the time and his company, Schneider Meats, the scoreboards were donated to our Club. The widely known Schneider Meats “Dutch Girl” logo was all that was needed to identify the sponsor. 

                                 

Who was the Dutch Girl?

If you have ever bought a package of hotdogs, fried some bacon, or even walked through a grocery store meat department somewhere in Canada, driven down the 401 in Kitchener, or curled at the Huntsville Curling Club, you have seen Nancy Featherstone.

But you probably know her by her other name - the “Dutch Girl,” who is the blond, blue-eyed young woman in the white bonnet who smiles back at you from our beloved Huntsville Curling Club Scoreboards! 

Many people may not know there is an actual person behind that famous, made-in-Kitchener trademark; however, Nancy Featherstone is very real, and she lived close by in Central Ontario, in Victoria Harbour. 

Nancy was working as a child model at age 10 in the 1930s when she was contacted by a Toronto advertising agency looking for just the right girl to be the fresh face of a company that would become one of Canada's most recognizable brands.

                                  

Pictured above is the Highway 401 Schneiders sign, east of Kitchener, with our club’s Dutch Girl. The company was sold to Maple Leaf Foods in 2014, but the sign, with the Dutch Girl, is kept fully restored as a historic icon. Everyone knows the Dutch Girl logo, especially here at the Huntsville Curling Club.


2022-2023 Bonspiel Schedule

The Bonspiel Schedule is also located under Events>Bonspiels on the club website and on the club calendar.

 

Date

Bonspiel

Registration

Saturday January 21st, 2023

Hear Well Be Well, Winter Bonspiel

Mixed Open

Saturday February 11th, 2023

Levante Valentine Bonspiel

Mixed Open

Saturday February 25th, 2023

Sunlife Men’s Bonspiel

Open

Saturday March 4th, 2023

Ladies Bonspiel

Open

Saturday, March 10, 2023

Cogeco Regional

Mixed Open

Saturday March 18th, 2023

St. Patrick’s Day Bonspiel

Mixed Open 

Monday March 27th, Tuesday March 28th, 2023

Steak Spiel

HCC Members Event

     

 

 

To register for the HCC Senior (60+) Men's event, click   here

 

To register for the  HCC Men's (Any Age) event, click     here


Our Yesterdays ….by Dennis Rolland

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On February 8, 1951, the Huntsville Curling Club was Destroyed by fire. Ray Morris, our treasurer at the time, and who would become our president from 1952-1954, ran into the burning building to save four of the club’s most historic trophies, two under each arm. The rest of the club trophies and everything else the club owned, were lost to the fire.

This is the story of one of those four trophies, The Huntsville Trading Co. Cup. The Huntsville Trading Company Cup was donated to the Huntsville Curling Club in 1947 for the Annual Club Competition by owners Abraham and Israel Ginsberg. 

The Ginsberg family's history with our club dates back to the 1930s when they helped Allan White fundraise for a curling club building.  When the club began curling in the arena, Abraham and Israel were founding members of the 1940-revived club. Israel Ginsberg was the Mayor of Huntsville from 1930 to 1931, and again, from 1949 to 1950. The Ginsberg’s sold the business to Flotron in 1969.
The first rink to win the Trading Company Cup won it in the Huntsville Memorial Arena, the last year we curled at the arena. The rink was C. Grigg, N. Racicott, G. Denning, and S. Johnson. This trophy has been won by Club Presidents Ran Jupp and Wes Payne and was competed for until 1958. During that time frame, it was only in 1951, the year of the fire, that the trophy was not awarded to a Huntsville Curling Club rink.

The Huntsville Trading Company
1937

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On Wednesday, October 19th, Rick Thurston, Board Chair of CurlOn joined us at the
club and presented Beth Goodhew with the Curling Community Hero Award.
The Community Hero Award is a new award that recognizes those who have made
an extraordinary contribution to the sport of curling and to their community.
Congratulations Beth! 


 Screen_Shot_2022-09-13_at_8.59.37_AM.pngThe HCC is excited about the upcoming season!!   In a recent communication to members, Huntsville Curling Club President, Ron Kreutzer reviewed and highlighted Covid protocols for when our curling season kicks off in October.


Great news for our Club!!

 

Last Thursday, the Provincial Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, Lisa MacLeod announced the recipients of legacy funding from the Huntsville 2019 Ontario 55+ Winter Games.  HCC along with 7 other local organizations will receive this financial support intended for reinvestment back into the community targeting senior-focused activities.  

HCC intends to use this money to deliver Learn to Curl programs to 55+ individuals with the hope of providing opportunities for active healthy living. We look forward to enhancing our stick curling training and programs next season.  

For further information, see the recent article in The Doppler:

https://doppleronline.ca/huntsville/eight-community-organizations-receive-legacy-funding-from-2019-ontario-55-winter-games/

 


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