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KOOTENAY WEBSITE www.ilovecreston.com January 2013 3 this issue – the Butterfly Bonspiel for men, rapidly as the 10th anniversary Guest which continues to this day. edition, hailed as the “highlight of From the editor While the Valentine’s Bonspiel was the curling season,” was won by a foursome from Calgary, and guests he Valentine’s Bonspiel, the named for its proximity to Feb. 14 were charmed by the warmth of the annual women’s event hosted by (being held on the weekend closest T small-town atmosphere. the Creston Curling Club, marks its to that date, but not later), the men’s 50th anniversary on Feb. 8-10. But ’spiel earned its title less practically. “Get-togethers were held Saturday the sport’s formal roots in the valley and Sunday and members of local According to a 1957 article in the date much farther back than that. rinks took the visitors to their homes Advance by Russ Joyce, the club’s for breakfasts and lunches,” said one Newspaper archives from the old secretary-treasurer, “During the report. “This hospitality was much Creston Review and Creston Valley opening ceremony conducted by appreciated by the visiting rinks.” Advance reveal that the club’s first the late Frank Staples on a glorious meeting was in December 1925 spring day, there fluttered down As recently as 2003 the Valentine’s with a Dr. Henderson presiding. from parts unknown a flight of small was still drawing close to 40 teams, Games were held in the town’s butterflies. Thus the name ‘Butterfly a figure organizers would be happy Agricultural Building on a natural Bonspiel.’ Since then it has become to reach this year as attendance has ice surface, portions of which the biggest and most popular ’spiel been in decline. Vice-chairman were designated for curling and in the interior of B.C.” Bev Pommier, however, remains confident of the ’spiel’s long-term skating. The curlers – membership Noting that the 1954 Butterfly appeal and survival. was capped at 24 – considered boasted a robust 82 rinks, with 78 themselves fortunate that freezing and 72 in subsequent years, Joyce “It’s a lifetime sport where if you temperatures prevailed that winter. wrote, “The B.C. Spiel in Victoria teach your kids to curl when they’re The club erected a curling-specific this year had an entry of 88. All younger they can curl until they are building to the west of the power to the Butterfly.” seniors and want to go south,” she agricultural grounds the next fall, says. “(And) it’s a social thing. If you The club moved into a new rink in move to a different town and you with carpenters earning 40 cents an 1950 and expanded membership hour. By the 1929-30 season they don’t know anybody, go to a curling to 132 from 62 two years later, rink.” were playing under electric lights. allowing a fourth sheet of ice to be Though founded by men, the installed and sets of matched rocks The key to growth, she adds, is club was not exclusive of women, to be purchased. revitalizing the dormant local junior program, because “that’s where your who were permitted to play in the The women’s game was also afternoon for $2 apiece. bonspiel people come from when gaining momentum as Creston they’re 20 and up.” The groundwork for the next ladies hosted the 1950-51 East and phase of modernization was laid West Kootenay Spiel and earned To enter the Valentine’s Bonspiel in 1938 when a concrete floor was the following props from Joyce: phone Pommier (866-5492) or poured. A new roof and clubhouse “Words fail to adequately express chairman Marlys Joy (428-7583). improvements followed in 1943, our gratitude and thanks to the Among planned special events are when affiliation with the B.C. Ladies Curling Club for what they dances to live music on the Friday Curling Association was struck. are doing and have done in many and Saturday nights, a Saturday ways besides donations of time and An ice-making plant was installed in banquet also open to former curlers services. A big thanks, gals.” 1945, making Creston the smallest and the traditional costume parade community in Canada to boast A-event winners of the first Friday evening. artificial ice, according to published Valentine’s Bonspiel in 1963 were “You never know what’s going to reports. skip M. Werner and rinkmates show up,” Pommier says. Mabel Smith, D. Langston and L. The club had incorporated under the There’s more on the bonspiel and McKenzie. Societies Act by 1946, when what curling in Creston in this month’s was billed as the biggest event in The field numbered in the 20s at cover story. Creston curling history was launched first but the bonspiel gained cachet 4 January 2013 www.ilovecreston.com feature Next generation of curlers needed to ensure 50-year-old Valentine’s Bonspiel thrives into the future iva the Valentine’s Bonspiel, at “We’re trying to make it bigger and every two hours,” says Pommier, Vwhich female curlers have been better (with) more entertainment who headed the organizing drinking in a combination of the and . more giveaways and gifts committee that year. “Literally every sport’s social and competitive elements and door prizes and things like two hours there was another for half a century. that,” Pommier says. “We have a live (draw). When the Creston Curling Club’s band this year instead of a DJ.” “I remember quite well (coming annual women’s event turns 50 in The committee invited as many past home) from the party at 1 (a.m.), February its entries may number entrants as it could track down to sleeping till 3 and coming back to barely half that of its peak period pump up the draw and augment the curl. You knew at the beginning of in the late 1980s, but they’ll still be atmosphere of nostalgia that seems the weekend that’s the way it was rockin’ the house as far as letting certain to prevail, given the 2013 going to be and if you didn’t like it, loose, according to vice-chairman Bev theme of It Happened in 1963. you didn’t sign up. Pommier. “(It) seems to be working,” Pommier “The year before we had 48 teams “Oh, absolutely,” she says with a says. “We’ve had a couple of e-mails so the last draw was at 1 in the laugh, before adding, “That’s all we from people that haven’t come for morning. Then they started at 7 on can say about that. What happens at years and years who are going to Saturday and 9 on Sunday morning the rink, stays at the rink!” come back because it is the 50th.

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