Before leagues start, we have a week of FREE curling instruction and practice to help all curlers get ready.

Monday, September 30 (7-9 pm): Learn to Curl

This clinic is for curlers brand new to curling or who have some experience (recently or long ago) and would like a refresher on basic skills, practice, etc. Marilou Richter, current BC Senior Women’s Champion(!), will be leading this session and covering regular and stick curling techniques.

Tuesday, October 1 (7-9 pm): Ladies Night

This session includes both curling instruction and practice time for any of our female curlers—plus a great opportunity to socialize! Our club member, Cathy Pidduck, will be providing instruction with help from other Ladies League curlers.

Friday, October 4 (7-9 pm): Stick Curling Intro & Practice

For new and experienced stick curlers to learn and practice basic techniques and find out more about how our new 2-person Stick Curling League works on Friday evenings. League Rep, John Surovy, will be leading this session with help from some of our other stick curlers.

Please email us (occ@eastlink.ca) to sign up for any of these evenings so we’re sure to have enough coaches on hand.

New curlers: Just bring clean runners and warm, stretchy layers. Bring a friend too! We’ll provide all the equipment.

Practice ice for all curlers:

• Monday, September 30 - Friday, October 4 (noon to 2 pm)
• Wednesday, October 2 & Thursday, October 3 (7-9 pm)
• You can drop in anytime on these dates/times. Club members will be on hand to help new(er) curlers too.

We’re also having our first social event of the season on Friday, October 4 from 7 to 10 pm for all curlers. Come "Meet & Mingle" with potential teammates and friendly competitors!

The club has entered the Kraft Heinz Project Play contest. The rally stage is happening now but it closes on SEPTEMBER 22.

We need everyone in the club (and everyone you know!) to get rally points for us. If we get enough points, we can be one of the top 4 finalists and in the running for $250,000 to upgrade our building.

You can participate through this link to our rally page. 

Please do as many actions as you can:

• submit a story (10 points)
• add 5 photos and/or videos (total of 15 points)
• react to stories, photos and videos by clicking on emojis 15x (total of 15 points)
• share via Twitter (5 points)

Please ask your family, friends, coworkers, neighbours, teachers.... Even if they don't have curling stories or photos, they can add emojis or tweet. 

Here's a short summary of how to enter and get rally points. Don't worry if there's a bit of delay in seeing your rally actions online as Kraft Heinz reviews stories and photos/videos first. It doesn't take much time to enter, but please do it soon so we have more materials to get points with.

Please share our nomination page widely (e.g., Facebook) and help us get the numbers to be in the finals!

Thanks everyone!