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BCH looks for more
ice time in Clinton
Brussels Curling Club holds year-end bonspiel
Another season gone
The Brussels Curling Club celebrated the end of the curling season with its annual year-end
bonspiel on Saturday at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. The club will hold
its year-end banquet on Friday. (Jim Brown photo)
The Brussels Curling Club held itsfinal night of curling on March 11.Winners were: first, skip Steve
Steiss, Annette Lewington, Jeff
Thompson and Marnie Knight;
second, Doug Dale, George Zwep
and Dona Knight; third, Jo-Ann
McDonald, Jeff Cardiff, Ken
Penfound and Shawn Mitchell;
fourth, Tom Warwick, Mary
Bernard, Martin Thomet and
Matthew Swart; fifth, Orval Bauer,
Don Chesher, Jennie Schimanski
and Sandra Cable; sixth, Steve
Knight, Ruth Bauer, Reg
Vinnicombe and Bob Alexander;
seventh, Ernie Lewington, Katherine
Thomet, Debbie Campbell and Brent
Alexander; eighth, Mike Alexander,
Jean Bewley, Karen Uhler and Brian
Wheeler; ninth, Carman Bernard,
MaryAnn Thompson and Brian
Warwick; 10th, Douwa Top,
Amanda White, Norm Dobson and
Mervyn Bauer. It has been a good
year and awards will be presented at
the year-end banquet.
Following the final game of the
draw a social time and annual
meeting was held. President Douwa
Top conducted the meeting and had
secretary/treasurer Susan Alexander
read the minutes of last year’s
meeting. She also presented the
financial report for the year to this
point. Douwa thanked everyone for
curling and hoped everyone had a
good year. The new president for the2013/2014 season will be RegVinnicombe; first vice-president,
Steve Knight and second vice-
president, MaryAnn Thompson.
Incoming president Reg made his
remarks and thanked everyone for a
great year of curling and hoped
everyone will return again next year.
We have to all work together to keep
our club going. The club can always
have more members, so try and fine
new members over the summer.
The Brussels Curling Club held its
yearly bonspiel on Saturday, March
16. The St. Patrick’s Day theme of
green could be seen throughout the
hall. There were eight teams each on
the two draws and all had a good
time. The registration was handled
by Steve and Marnie Knight and the
scoring by Stewart Steiss. The
morning coffee and muffins were in
the capable hands of Jean Bewley
and Dona Knight. The lunch was
provided by the club members and
served by helpers Jo-Ann
McDonald, Jeff Cardiff, Jean,
Madeline Steiss, Donna Knight and
Ruth Bauer. The capable social duos
of MaryAnn Thompson and Jennie
Schimanski and Carman and Mary
Bernard looked after the curlers
between the games.
Winners of first draw were: first,
Bruce Hahn’s team from Monkton;
second, Rick McDonald, Seaforth;
third, Steve Steiss, Brussels; fourth,Judy DeJong, Mitchell; fifth, RossEngel, Monkton; sixth, Ernie
Lewington, Brussels; seventh, Rob
Wolfe, Mitchell and eighth, Brad
Knight, Mitchell.
Winners of the second draw were:
Bob Alexander, Brussels; second,
Mark Bancroft, Milverton; third,
Greg Rolph, Mitchell; fourth, Karen
Uhler, Brussels; fifth, Steve Knight,Brussels; sixth, Carman Bernard,Brussels; seventh, Wayne Alexander,
Trowbridge and eight, Tom
Warwick, Brussels.
A bonspiel could not happen
without teams and without the
wonderful sponsorship of the local
companies and businesses of the
area. The club appreciates the
support of each and everyone andthank them for their generousdonations.
The year-end banquet is Friday,
March 22 with social time at 6:30
p.m. and potluck dinner at 7 p.m. We
hope everyone wil be able to attend.
The prizes for the year’s curling will
be presented and a social evening
will follow.
Mike Millian, president of the
BCH Minor Hockey Association,
appeared before committee
members to plead his case for more
ice time at the Central Huron
Community Complex.
Millian says it is important for the
Bayfield Clinton Hensall Minor
Hockey Association to be able to
play on all of the host community’s
rinks, especially given about 70 per
cent of the membership of 273, with
skaters from ages four to 18, hails
from Clinton.
Millian is asking for council to act
as a mediator between the
association and the local skating
club, which has ice booked during
times the association wants.
“We’re running into a bind
because we can’t get ice here,” said
Millian, noting it is ironic that the
players can’t access more Clinton
ice time when they played an
instrumental role in lobbying efforts
for the new arena complex.
Millian says the key issue is being
able to host tournaments in Clinton,
though the current ice time schedule
does not permit for it.
“We’re giving six months’ notice,”
said Millian. “If we can’t have
weekend ice, we can’t have a
tournament.”
Facilities Manager Steve
Campbell, who joined a recent
meeting between the two sides, says
the traditional practice has been for
the skating club to have reserved ice
time and that the chances are they
need the hours they have in order to
be able to have trainers and skating
professionals on hand.
“Last time I checked, they [the
skating club] didn’t own the arena,”
said Councillor Burkhard Metzger,
who says the club should be able to
make some compromises with the
association. Campbell says the issue
is not as cut and dried as it appears.
“We’re assuming they [the skating
club] can arbitrarily move,” said
Campbell. “Maybe they just can’t.”
While Campbell said the policy in
place has been the same for many
years, Councillor Dan Colquhoun
suggested it would be foolhardy for
council to get involved. “My
suggestion is: Don’t get involved
with the Hatfields and McCoys.”
Millian says minor hockey’s
support of the arena complex project
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