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Russell curlers rock 100 years of fun for their sport
“Very good turnout,” reported Roger Gosselin and Darlene Hall Barrette, curling club representatives. Taking the overall grand champion award at the end of the night was the rink of Ryan and Kim Furuness and Dale and Kim Williams. ribbon-cutting ceremony, presided over by the mayor of Russell Township, a high- ranking representative from the Canadian Curling Association, and several veteran local curlers, the 32 rinks registered spent the night running up the ice in between socializing and enjoying the music of Funk Factor inside the club lounge.
G REGG C HAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
RUSSELL | A centennial anniversary is a big event on anyone’s calendar. So no surprise that Russell’s curlers let the good times rock and roll in a big way over the last weekend of January as they celebrated the 100 th birthday of their local club with a big bonspiel bash on Saturday night. The fun began in true curling tradition with the piping in of the rinks, courtesy of bagpiper Kyle McKentyre, performing the classic “Bonnie Dundee”. Following the
A 100 th anniversary bonspiel rates some special attention to the opening ceremony. Sharing the ribbon-cutting duties are (left) Bill Malenhorst, one of the senior members of the Russell Curling Club, Mayor Jean-Paul St. Pierre, John Cull, interim club president, Jim Campbell, Canadian Curling Association board of governors vice-chairman, Jim Sullivan, senior curler with more than 60 years in the Russell club, and Dave Chapman, a club member for more than 40 years. photo submitted
Skip John Cull launches his first stone of a late-night match Saturday night during the Russell Curling Club’s 100 th anniversary bonspiel. In-between rocks, Cull also helped instruct some new curlers on the opposing rink on their sweep-and-throw techniques. photo Gregg Chamberlain
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photo submitted Mayor Jean-Paul St. Pierre gets to cast the first stone to get things rolling on the rink for the Russell Curling Club’s 100 th Anniversary Bonspiel over the Jan. 28 weekend.
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