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September 30 Member BBQ 6-8pm Semi-Ann Mtg 8pm in the SEPT-09 February hhouseou usese mhcc newsletter - September 2009 Welcome Come buy your FREE Back! Membership & in this issue: Enjoy a ... BBQ New Fee Structure League Contacts Semi-AnnualSemi-Annual MMeetingeeting March Hit The Button to be held Promotion!! Wednesday, September 30th Get Your Tickets & win a trip to Roar! 8:00pm Club Lounge All shareholders & non-shareholder Did You Know... December members & prospective members are A Tribute to Judy invited and encouraged to attend! Will follow FREE Membership Blitz Club Calendar BBQ from 6-8pm

2009-2010 Board of Directors:

Ray Aman LeRoy Angle Don Borrowman Bob Hagel Jim Hall Steven Kemp be the 1st on the ice! January DRAW IceIce Brenda Kobley DATE Sharon Lefever Get Your OCT 17 breakerbreaker Garry Mauch 2009! Millie Moch Jean Nitchke Tickets! bonspielbonspiel Warren Schafer Art Scott The Curling Club is working on a fundraiser Fred Schmidt October Vicki Sjolie by selling tickets for a chance to win an event package to Andy Stroh the Roar of the Rings Olympic Trial 2nd-4th Andrea Wilson Curling in ! Wouldn’t you love to go • Enter as an individual If you have any concerns or watch all these championship curling teams in one spot - • Guaranteed three new ideas for our club please all vying for that ONE olympic team spot? The winning 6-end games do not hesitate to talk to mens & ladies teams will represent Canada in Vancouver in anyone on the board. the 2010 Winter Olympics! It is guaranteed to be some call Ted Ganden to enter ... The board meets once a fabulous curling. The package which includes event passes, month to keep our club 403-527-4660 running smoothly and would gas & accommodation is worth $2600 - and tickets are only & get your curling be happy to hear what you $5.00 each. Get your tickets from any board member or at have to say! the front desk of the curling club. legs back ... DON’T FORGET: Purchase a Share in Medicine Hat Curling Club Semi-Annual Meeting - SEPT 30, 2009 - 8pm the Curling Club!

Purchase a share for $150 (redeemable at any time for $100)

Save $25/year off your General Managers Message: membership just for being a In Memory of shareholder!

2009-2010 ... about to begin. Judy Federkeil

Last year was a good year, new faces and some old faces coming back, The Ladies Afternoon Curling League wanted to do something to we had an introduction of a new open league, the stick league and remember Judy Federkeil because of her long time love of curling. They $50 shareholders the teachers (educators) are back. Did You collected donations from curling friends and realized a sum total of We have an exciting year planned. $780.00. non-shareholders Know... A mirror was purchased for the ladies washroom on the main floor of the $65 In addition to our regular fun filled curling calendar we are going to Curling Rink. Shirley Walker, at Capital Glass, laser engraved Judy’s name We started an host the Southern Senior Playdowns. on the mirror at no charge. The rest of the money was used to purchase a chair for the Palliative Care Unit in the hospital. OPEN We are very hopeful that our facility will have a new look this year, contingent on some grant applications. We are more than halfway We are grateful to Shirley for her artistic LEAGUE there to make our facility barrier free. The new larger doors at the talent and to all curlers who supported last season? north east corner allowed us to host the Gettysburg display during this project. Judy’s presence will the summer. Thursdays be greatly missed around the curling club. 8:30pm We were also able to host the pool league banquet on the floor The curling club is also better equipped to host other events on the ice as well as a surface because the circumference is all powered.

STICK Hope we have a great year, successful bonspiels and league play and most of all that each of us enjoy the Medicine Hat Curling club, it is LEAGUE one of the best in Canada. Fridays Des Grant 10am Membership General Manager Join up 50/50 Draw is back! Sign in once a week for your this See entry box & detai chance to win! season!! Agricultural League ls at the bottom of the stairs Our Agricultural league will run again each Thursday, starting with a mini-spiel for 3 weeks Oct 14, 21 & 28th. League play will begin Nov 4th. To play in the Ag League you must have an agricultural related President’s Message: person playing skip or third and one other ag related person on the team. Enter as a team or individual by calliing Millie Moch at It’s hard to believe that the 2009-2010 curling season is only a few 403-526-5483 or Cindy Good at 403-529-5657. weeks away. Your executive has had various meetings over the summer months to review our present fee structure and to make sure we have our main department heads in place for the coming year. I am pleased to announce that Des will be back as our general manager, ... Event! Mark will be back as our head ice technician and Linda will be back in ...Canada Cup Qualifier! October 16-19th, 2009 the kitchen. Jasmine Santor will be our new lounge manager. ... Bonspiel Qualifier! One of our biggest ongoing challenges is retaining and growing memberships. Memberships have been down over the past two years Come on out and watch some world-class and we hope that our new fee structure will bring in new members. caliber curling right here in our own club We also made fee adjustments for the mixed, open, teacher’s and civic at our own annual Meyers Norris Penny leagues which we believe will increase participation. Charity Classic! 9 Check out the action and Finally, I would ask you all to support our raffle for 2 tickets to the Olympic Trials this fall in Edmonton. Efforts such as these are critical if remember all proceeds go to we want to keep our fees down. the Children’s Wish Foundation! Warren Schafer President

in the Q: What’s a curlers favorite kind of food? A: Take-out! hhouse use mhcc newsletter - September 2009 SEPT-09 Welco Check out our new updated website. Thanks to Dixie Lorentz for her hard work to update it and to keep it current! INTERESTED IN JOINING THE CURLING CLUB BOARD? We are looking for new members. If you are interested please leave your name with Des www.mhcurling.com or talk to any board member (listed on front page).

We are hoping to bring back the “casual” curlers by lowering out membership fees. Please take a close look at the fee structure - most overall costs have stayed the same and in some cases decreased! * $50$50 shareholdersshareholders Did You Membership Fees: Know... * Junior Curlers $65$65 non-shareholdersnon-shareholders *plus only pay 1/2 Leagues & Contacts: GST membership Morning Ladies League Afternoon Ladies League Evening Ladies League and 1/2 league fees ... if you are Tuesdays 9am & Thursdays 9am Tuesdays & Fridays 1pm Tuesdays 7pm Mini Rockers in college and $1280 / Team $1280 / Team $980 / Team & Junior Programs are interested Elaine Stroh 403-527-2707 Linda Bower 403-580-3038 Lory Dela Cruz 403-548-3099 Mondays / Tuesdays 4:15 in curling Carol Eisenbarth 403-527-8720 Nancy D’Agostino 403-529-2214 14 weeks it is very Individual: $80 Family: $120 Mens Leagues Seniors Monday League Seniors Wednesday League Jean Nitchke 403-502-3139 affordable!! Mondays 6:30 & 8:30 Mondays 10am Wednesdays 9am / 11am / 1pm reg. day Oct 12 Wednesdays / Thursdays 7pm $780 / Team $780 / Team $980 / Team / Nite Jim Haland 403-526-6060 Art Scott 403-527-4827 Join a 2nd Nite for $780 Frank Ruckaber 403-526-1164 Learn to Curl Did You Delvin Moch 403-529-2664 Open League Saturdays NOON Wednesdays &/or Thursdays 9pm Open Superleague Work on your skills for approx. 1 hr Know... Mixed League pending entries Wednesdays 9pm with helpers from our club Friday 7pm / 9pm A curling sheet $240 / Team / nite $500 / Team - Cash Payouts Starting October 24th $240 / Team is 146 feet or Curling Club 403-526-3821 Vicki Sjolie 403-526-4201 Curling Club 403-526-3821 Alicia Hannah 403-580-3212 44.5 meters from board to Agricultural League Civil Servants League Teachers League board. Thursdays 12:30pm Saturdays 10am Thursdays 4:30pm Starts Oct 15th $240 / Team $240 / Team The maximum $780 / Team Dave Taylor 403-526-0934 Cal Hauserman 403-526-7450 Come Join weight of a Millie Moch 403-526-5483 curling stone is Cindy Good 403-529-5657 Check out some of our The Club! 44 pounds or 20 kilograms “Cheap Leagues”!

• Atron Refrigeration • Bob Bourke • Sandy Sage Angus • Sun Life Financial • BVA • TSG Insurance • Cherry McLennan • NGC Compression Thanks Advertisers! • Tim Hortons • Centum - Patty Horner • Penn West • Parkers Countrywide • Sterling Trailers • D3H Hotels • RBC Dominion • The Lounge FM Thank you to all of the companies you will see in the ice and on the • Western Financial • Prime Printing • 5th Ave Wealth Mgmt • Paradise Valley Par 3 walls of the curling club. We appreciate these businesses’ support! • Quickway Electrical • Servus Credit Union • 20-20 Vision • Pentagon Optimization PLEASE SUPPORT THEM when you can as they have supported our • River Dental • MNP • Curves • Cameron Kemp club ... at time of printing our advertisers included: • Gas City Drywall • Rodeo Ford • Contact Automation • Fountain of Health • Corona • Ag Financial Services • Medicine Hat Co-op Chiropractic • Big Rock Brewery

You don’t have to own a company to support the curling club, as you will see this season we have a few of our curling families with their name in the ice! Talk to any of our board members about how you can get your name in the ice next season!! Thanks to the Moch family, the Sharon and Rob Lefever and to the Frandsen family in memory of Larry - for their donations to the club this season.

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a Lounger ... watch for me Back! details ... OctoberOctober 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Q: How do you stop the bacon from curling in the pan? SeptemberSeptember 3030 12 3 MemberMember BBQBBQ 6-8pm6-8pm 5 A: Take away their little brooms Semi-AnnSemi-Ann MMtgtg 88pmpm 4 5678 910 Leagues Start 11 12 13 14 1516 17 Ice-breaker Spiel FebruaryFebruary 2010 October 2-4 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SACA Senior 1818 19 20 21 22 23 24 12341 5 6 Southern Learn to Curl MNP Charity Playdowns house Clinics Start Cash Spiel Jan 29-Feb 1 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 October 16-19 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sponsors Draft Skins Spiel 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Feb 5-7 November 2009

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 21 22 2323 2 244 2 255 26 27 Gas City Mixed 132 4 5 6 7 Spiel Feb 12-14

28 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Seniors Spiel Open Feb 22-25 Spiel Semi-Annual Meeting 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Nov 27-29 MarchMarch 2010

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 22 23 24 25 2627 28 123 45 6 Men’s Annual Spiel Mar 11-14 29 30 78910 11 12 13 Ladies Annual Spiel Mar 18-21 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DecemberDecember 2009

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 1234 5 Oilmen’s Bonspiel 28 29 30 31 12 3 April 1-4 6 789101112 APRIL

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Club Closed for Season April 5th Double- 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Sawbuck Yuletide Spiel Dec 28-30 27 2829 30 31

JanuaryJanuary 2010 Ice

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 breaker Junior Spiel Jan 2-3 3456783 9 bonspiel

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Agricultural Spiel Jan 14-17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

SACA Senior 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Southern Playdowns 31 Jan 29-Feb 1

Tiger Scheduled Home Game - get your parking spot early!

Tiger Hockey Nights ... Come out to the club early on league nite and get a good parking spot & eat at the rink! We have specials running every Tiger game nite! Not in league on game nite? come over after the game and check out the lounge! See calendar above marking home games & plan your evening ahead of time.