INSIDE 3 President’S Letter 3 Nominating Committee 4 Warming up at Bucks County 5 World University Games the Official Newsletter of the GNCC December 2017 | Vol
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GRAND NATIONAL CURLING CLUB INSIDE 3 President’s Letter 3 Nominating Committee 4 Warming Up at Bucks County 5 World University Games The Official Newsletter of the GNCC December 2017 | Vol. 28, No. 3 News 5 Second Century Fund 6 GNCC Junior Camp Report 2017 USCA Volunteer of the Year: 7 First-Ever LGBTQ Bonspiel Cameron Dunn of the Peachtree Curling Club 7 GNCC Senior Women’s by Bob Hogan 8 Blazing Leaves Bonspiel 8 Ray Turnbull Obituary Every club has a core group of people that a dusty and dirty endeavor. Cameron was 9 Ross Tarlton International always seems to be ready to help trouble- there for all of it. She led, organized, and shoot, make decisions, and ensure things motivated us. We saw her drive home from 10 Cape Cod Summerspiel run smoothly, and Peachtree is no exception. the rink covered in red Georgia clay, paint, 10 Colaccio Receives Award However, if there was a “Volunteer Hall of fiberglass insulation, cement, glycol, and 11 GNCC Wheelchair Clinics Fame” for those dirt. Sometimes she 11 Paralympic Team USA among that core sported the distinct group who take scent of diesel from 12 Peachtree 8-Ender their dedication and the Bobcat or the 30- effectiveness to the foot Genie extension next level, Cameron lift. GNCC 150th Anniversary Dunn would be one Much more space of the inductees. is needed to list Book is Now on Sale We are blessed with everything she numerous, very has done, but here The 150th Anniversary Committee is talented people who some key examples. pleased to announce that the 150th donated massive Cameron taught anniversary book, “1968-2017 A History amounts of their herself how to drive of the GNCC and its Member Clubs” has time and expertise to a Bobcat, which been published and is now available for ensure our club was she used to build shipping. This 268-page, limited-edition, built and is a continuing success. Cameron a 150- by 12-foot sand foundation for the hard cover book is $49.95 plus shipping not only helped build to our facility, she also concrete slab that would represent part of and handling of $13.65 for a total of helps to run it. our viewing area. She researched and hired $63.60 each. To order, please send a Before beginning construction, we talked the concrete company that poured the slab. check (payable to the GNCC) to Peter to numerous clubs that have been through She researched methods to waterproof Lyons, GNCC Treasurer, 171 Taylor Street, this process, and without fail everyone said our leaky walls, bought the material, and Nashua, NH 03060. the most critical element was to have a few helped apply it. She researched exterior “dedicated” people who refused to take spray foam that was needed to insulate and no for an answer, because there would be waterproof an adjoining roof, which was roadblocks and unforeseen speed bumps. poorly designed, and then helped spray the Cameron personifies that “dedication.” foam. The rink’s original foundation was demolished and removed (10 dump truck Our existing building needed an upgrade loads), so we could rebuild the foundation to produce the quality of ice we demanded, for three flat curling sheets. Cameron was so our project was going to be a very labor one of the Bobcat operators that loaded the intensive refurbishing mission—the floors, trucks. When we brought in 10 dump trucks ceiling, and walls would have to be rebuilt. of sand, to rebuild the foundation, Cameron Working inside the building was hot and helped level the sand by hand. She was part sweaty during the summer months and cold during the winter months. It was always continued on page 2 Cameron Dunn Message from the President Grand National Curling Club continued from page 1 by Gwen Krailo-Lyons Officers and Directors of the crew that cut and placed all the new media outlets. During our Housewarming An incredible year is summer. Delivery clinics, sponsored by President Gwen Krailo-Lyons insulation, the vapor barrier, and nearly Bonspiel last March, she coordinated our winding down as the the Mentor Program, were held at the 1st Vice President Charlie Brown 400 cooling tubes we had to install. She Friday dinner by recruiting members to GNCC wraps up our Mt. Washington Valley and the Peachtree 2nd Vice President Benj Guzman recruited her friends to help move the four donate and prepare over 20 crock pot meals. 150th anniversary Curling Clubs in conjunction with a session Secretary Jennifer Bragg 500-pound header pipes into place. She She helped set up and tear down the tent we celebration. As the on rules and etiquette. Our anniversary Peter Lyons was in a boom lift when we installed the used, and she recruited members to donate Treasurer second-oldest curling book is currently being published and will Immediate Past new ceiling insulation about 20 feet above 20 baskets for the raffle, which was a huge organization in the world, the GNCC served be ready for Christmas. The Curl Up With President the floor. She helped install the new wall success for us. She even subbed for a team as the national governing body for curling A Partner program funded programs at Sally MacKenzie radiant and fiberglass insulation and interior that won the C-event. in the U.S. from 1867 until 1945 when Ardsley, Rochester, and Rutland Rocks. At-Large Directors Peter Ellis, fabric. She helped mix the glycol solution A week before our Housewarming Bonspiel, the mid-western states formed their own Other applications are still being processed. George Shirk, Maryann Vermeulen, and pump it into the chiller system. She one of the PVC chiller pipes developed a association (the USCA was not founded until On a personal note, I have been on the GNCC News helped us build the ADA entrance ramp and hairline crack and was leaking glycol. While 1958). The GNCC stretched as far west as bonspiel train, playing in Peachtree’s first is published by the the entryway. She helped us landscape the we were contemplating what to do, Cameron the St. Paul Curling Club and included three fall bonspiel and at the Bowling Green Grand National Curling Club of 150-foot alleyway. In short, she came by the went to the nearby Home Depot and bought Canadian clubs. From 12 clubs with a few inaugural bonspiel. My home club, Nashua America, Inc. The newsletter is facility three or four days per week to do any some band clamps and gasket material, dozen members, the GNCC has grown to 62 Country Club, is expanding into a new distributed free to members of the task that was required as well as determine which stop the leak and allowed us to host clubs and 5,000 members. Six new clubs four-sheet facility, we expect to be curling by Grand National Curling Club. The the strategy to accomplish many of the joined our ranks this year. our first bonspiel. January 1—and we’ll have four new sets of annual subscription rate for non- tasks, and she drove most of an hour each Our celebration year was marked with stones from Kay’s of Scotland. way, often in gnarly Atlanta traffic. Based on her experience with other members is $10.00 (US). Advertising nonprofit organizations she helped us write numerous events. Canadian Hall of Fame During my first presidency I visited every rates are available upon request. As we transitioned from the construction our club’s by-laws, and she recently joined member, Earle Morris was the featured club in the GNCC. I have not had that phase to the operational phase this past speaker at the GNCC Annual Meeting and our Board of Directors. opportunity in round two, but I am working All correspondence should be sent to: January, we started making ice, and she was returned in October to conduct a coaching Cameron epitomizes the personality of our my way through the newer clubs and hope GNCC Curling News on tap for almost every flood. She helped clinic in conjunction with the GNCC Junior to visit them all as part of the Mentor Team. paint the ice, and she operated the scraper club. The vast majority of our members have Camp hosted by the Broomstones Curling PO BOX 396 and deciphered some of the data output on fewer than five years of curling experience. Club. The GNCC Mentor Program hosted Good curling, everyone. Madison, NH 03849 the chiller. She helped redesign our website, Our common bond is a love for curling a successful Arena Club Symposium and bonspiel logos, and pins. She helped run our combined with an unselfish, volunteer spirit is planning an expanded version for next Communications Director Pete Ellis, Night of the Curling Dead Bonspiel as well that has created a true curling family. [email protected] as last March’s Housewarming Bonspiel. Thank you to Cameron and all the volunteers She also instructs during our curling clinics. that built and run our club. Editor George Shirk, She wrote our press release and sent it to the [email protected] Nominating Committee Looking for Directors Art Director Jacki Temple, by Charlie Brown [email protected] As part of the New Management Plan (NMP) I wrote about in the last newsletter, the Contributors Carol Arkelian, nominating committee has been formed to recruit the nine (9) new Managing Directors to Todd Benedict, Chris Bond, the board at our Annual Meeting in 2018. Charlie Brown, Nate Clark, The committee includes: Mary Colaccio, Tony Colaccio, Zac Gery – Philadelphia Curling Club Dean Gemmel, Jeff Hannon, Monica Lynn – Bucks County Curling Club Bob Hogan, Gwen Krailo-Lyons, Dan Machold – Schenectady Curling Club Alex Leichter, Fred Leichter, Matt Schiener – Ardsley & Long Island Curling Clubs Michael Ray, Mario Riveron, Dave Schmel – Bucks County Curling Club Michelle