This is your opportunity to help us plan for the future of the Fort Rouge. Special Open House - Thursday, May 18. Our new cafe operators will be providing a light snack and drink specials will be in effect. Please register now!

An opportunity to help plan our club's future!

On Thursday, May 18th, we invite you to join us in the Dan Hildebrand Lounge at FRCC (750 Daly Street S.) - 7:00 PM.

We will start with a brief Annual General Meeting. Following the AGM, we will present a snapshot of the State of the Fort Rouge Curling Club - where we are and where we feel we are headed. We also look forward to the opportunity to update you on some recent projects as well as some key decisions made recently by the Board of Directors.

Finally - the most important part of the evening - we encourage you to bring along your ideas and help shape the future of FRCC. All ideas are appreciated and will be considered.

The intent is an open forum with topics for discussion coming from all those in attendance. Some themes that come to mind include:

Curling Experience
Curling Facility
Attract and Welcome New Curlers from our Communities.
Volunteerism - Our Future Leaders!

To help plan for the event, including a light snack provided by our new cafe operators, we ask that you please RSVP if you plan on attending by clicking the link below.

We look forward to seeing you on the 18th.

For the Board of Directors,

Erik Wallace
President - FRCC

The Fort Rouge Curling Club is pleased with the results of our FRCC teams at the recent men's and women's provincial championships.

In the provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Team Lawes - Kaitlyn Lawes, Selena Njegovan, Jocelyn Peterman, and Kristin MacCuish (with Jill Officer playing in place of Selena) - lost a heartbreaker game in the semifinal. However, based on their solid CTRS ranking this season, they have qualified for the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Feb 17-26 in Kamloops, BC. We are confident they will be in the final mix at that event!

In the Viterra Championship, Team Dunstone - Matt Dunstone, BJ Neufeld, Colton Lott, and Ryan Harden coached by Adam Kingsbury - prevailed in a thrilling championship game to win the provincial title. Congratulations - we are sure you will represent the club and 'The Buffalo' well in the Brier, March 3-12 in London, Ontario!

Team Calvert - Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Ian McMillan, and Rob Gordon - also lost a tough semifinal. Team Wiebe - Ryan Wiebe, Ty Dilello, Sean Flatt, Adam Flatt, and coach Tom Clasper - had a good run, but unfortunately lost in their last attempt to qualify for the final four. Both teams demonstrated they are legitimate competitors at this level and will be for years to come.

The Strathcona Cup is an event that occurs every five years and has been going on for over a century. Every five years 15 teams of curlers come from Scotland to play against Canadian teams. Five years later 15 teams from Canada go to Scotland. The Scots 15 teams are broken up into three groups - five teams tour Western Canada, five teams in Central Canada, and five teams in Eastern Canada. They all meet in Ottawa for the finals.

The FRCC installment of the event went very well. We invited Honorary Life Members, Past Presidents, and then board members to participate. (because of late dropouts due to injury and sickness, we did end up having to use a couple of emergency spares). Not only did the event run extremely smoothly, but FRCC managed to tie the Scots (the entire event is total points - as of Saturday Canada was ahead by 99 points).

So - we didn't let Canada down, but were able to be good hosts and maintain our reputation of being "The Home of Friendly Curling"

Our manager Dennis, along with Mike Loeppky and Jim Aiken, did an excellent job of planning the event. It really went off without a hitch in our planning. The only complication was that the Scots got in very late from Saskatoon, and early Saturday AM let us know that they would be 30 minutes late. As a result, our Saturday leagues were all pushed back even further than what we had arranged. We apologize to the Saturday leagues for this delay and thank them for their understanding and cooperation.

Erik Wallace
FRCC President