2025-26 BOB PICKEN JUNIOR LEGACY GRANTS ANNOUNCED

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Resby Coutts

Six Manitoba Curling Clubs, one in Winnipeg and five in rural Manitoba clubs, will be receiving Bob Picken Junior Legacy grants in the near future. The Picken Open Masters Bonspiel Committee has reviewed this year’s applications and has announced that this year’s awards will go to support the junior programs at Brandon’s Riverview club along with the clubs in Stonewall, Steinbach, Teulon and both East and West St. Paul.

This year’s six $500 grants, made with the support of Access Credit Union and CurlManitoba, brings the total to $12,000 in Bob Picken Junior Legacy grants since the program began seven years ago.

“We continue to be impressed with the quality of the grant applications and the imagination that junior coordinators are putting into making their programs interesting to the junior curlers – a key to a successful program,” says committee co-chair Bob Minaker.

“We are also pleased to see programs continuing. It is a tribute to the hard work of the junior coordinators, but also a tribute to the memory of Bob Picken who was such a dedicated servant of our sport, when we see their junior programs succeeding,” Minaker says.

*Craig Strand, on behalf of the West St. Paul Junior Program, receives a 2025 Bob Picken Junior Legacy Grant plaque from committee member Resby Coutts*.

Back in 2019, Brandon’s Riverview club was one of the first three recipients of a Bob Picken Junior Legacy grant. Two others of this year’s recipients, Teulon and East St. Paul are also past recipients, Stonewall was part of Interlake Junior League group which received a grant in 2021.

Two clubs, Steinbach and West St. Paul, are receiving a Bob Picken Junior Legacy Grant for the first time.

In the years since the first grants were awarded in 2019, 15 different Manitoba clubs have benefited directly from the program. In addition, support has been provided to four different Junior Development Leagues with indirect benefit to some 15-20 additional clubs.

The Bob Picken Open Masters Bonspiel Committee is very appreciative of the support of CurlManitoba which has made a Masters Championship berth available and of Access Credit Union who became the bonspiel’s presenting sponsor two years ago. Other sponsors such as Asham Curling Supplies and the curlers who have participated have also made a significant contribution to the Legacy Grant fund.

The Bob Picken Junior Legacy grant program will continue in the 2026-27 curling season. Details will be announced in the fall of 2026.

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Including 2025, Bob Picken Junior Legacy Grants have been presented to:
(2024) Altona CC Juniors
(2022) Carman CC Juniors
(2024) (2025) East St. Paul CC Juniors
(2023) Elmwood CC Juniors
2019) Oakville CC Juniors
(2023) Portage CC Juniors
(2019) (2025) Riverview CC Juniors
(2024) Ste. Anne CC Juniors
(2024) St. Vital CC Juniors
(2025) Steinbach
(2025) Stonewall
(2022) Swan River CC Juniors
(2024) (2025) Teulon CC Juniors
(2019) Thistle CC Juniors
(2025) West St Paul
(2023) Winkler CC Juniors
(2021) Bob Picken Inter-Club Youth League (Winnipeg clubs)
(2021) Interlake Junior Inter-club League (Interlake clubs)
(2024) Sliding Stars North junior program (based at Swan River Curling Club)
(2022) Westman Development League (based at Virden)

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West St. Paul’s Karys Buchalter team (Ainslee Card, Amy Buchalter, Eva Le Heiget,
Assistant Coach Bryan Buchalter) have been part of the West St. Paul Junior program which is receiving a 2025 Bob Picken Junior Legacy Grant.

BUCHALTER, BOUTET WIN ASHAM U-18 CHAMPIONSHIPS

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Resby Coutts

Despite the start of CurlManitoba’s Asham U-18 Championships being delayed by last week’s storm, the event concluded on schedule Monday at the Riverton Curling Club, thanks to the efforts of the Riverton host committee and volunteers as well as the competing teams.

The final games ended with the teams skipped by Karys Buchalter – West St. Paul and Evan Boutet – Fort Garry winning the championships and earning the right to represent Manitoba at the national championship February 8-14, 2026 in Trimmins, ON.

The Asham U-18 Women’s championship was a re-match of last year’s final between Karys Buchalter – West St. Paul and Caitlyn McPherson – Gimli. The two placed first in their respective round robin pools this year. Team Buchalter was the only unbeaten women’s team with a 5W-0L record while Team McPherson finished with four wins in their five games.

In the final game, the fifth end was decisive as the Buchalter team stole five to jump ahead 8-2 enroute to a 9-2 victory.

*2025-26 U-18 Champions: Team Karys Buchalter (Ainslee Card, Amy Buchalter, Eva Le Heiget, Coach Kelsey Meger, Assistant Coach Bryan Buchalter)*

Team Buchalter (Ainslee Card, Amy Buchalter, Eva Le Heiget, Coach Kelsey Meger, Assistant Coach Bryan Buchalter) had defeated defending champion Caitlyn McPherson – Gimli (Julie Magnusson, Jorja Buhr, Anais McCormick, Coach Shawn Magnusson) 6-4 in the Page 1-1 Playoff between the top teams in each pool. Team McPherson bounced back with a 5-4 win in the semi-final over Ella Keough – Deer Lodge (Katie McDonald, Bailey Gunn, Skye Spulnick. Coach Rob Keough) to earn the final berth.

Team Keough, who had a 3W-2L record in round robin play, was second in the pool behind Buchalter. In the Page 2-2 Playoff, they defeated Joelle Plourde – Ste. Anne (Lu Abraham, Alyana Beaumont, Joséphine Jolicoeur, Coach Réal Jolicoeur) who had also finished the round robin with a 3W-2L record, in second place behind McPherson,

In the U-18 Men’s Championship game, the fifth end was also decisive. Evan Boutet’s Fort Garry team scored their second three of the game in the fifth to take a 6-4 lead over Tyler Graham’s Gimli team. Graham scored singles on the sixth and seventh ends to tie but Team Boutet won the game 7-6 with a single point coming home.

*Evan Boutet’s Heather team (Luc Cormier, Bryce Buchel, Quinn Lagace, Coach Blaine Malo) are the 2025-26 Asham U-18 Men’s Champions*

The Graham team (Jake Kowalchuk, Alex Newcombe, Johannes Magnusson, Coach Sheldon Kowalchuk) reached the final undefeated with a 4W-0L round robin record and a 7-1 win over Liam Burton – Heather in the Page 1-1 Playoff. Their final game opponent, Boutet’s Fort Garry team (Luc Cormier, Bryce Buchel, Quinn Lagace, Coach Blaine Malo) had earlier won the Page 2-2 playoff and the semi-final.

The semi-final was a Boutet 4-2 win over Team Burton (Tiernan Bertrand-Meadows, Myles Lagadi, Callum Smith, Coach Shelley Bertrand-Meadows). The semi-final was a re-match of the final round robin game which had been won by Team Burton to give them first place in the pool. It was the second consecutive semi-final loss for the Burton team in the U-18 provincial final.

Team Boutet had ended the round robin with a 3W-1L record and was Page 2-2 winner over Kaiden Andersen – Heather (Matt Le Heiget, Conner Kent, Maksym Russo, Coach Gerry Sande) who were also 3W-1L in the round robin.

A total of 22 teams, 10 U-18 Men and 12 U-18 Women, took part in the championship event in Riverton. This was up from 2024-25 when there were 18 teams (10M & 8W) and 2022-23 when there were 17 teams (7M & 10W). The 2023-24 entry was identical to this year (10M & 12W).

CURLMANITOBA HONOURS ALBERT BAZINET

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Resby Coutts

*The MJCT Heather Junior Bonspiel will hence forward be named the Albert Bazinet Open.*

The memory of Albert Bazinet, a dedictated Manitoba junior curling organizer and coach, was honoured at a Manitoba Junior Curling Tour event Friday evening at Heather Curling Club. Heather has renamed its MJCT Bonspiel the Albert Bazinet Open and CurlManitoba presented Albert’s wife Shirley, and the family with an Honourary membership for Albert. CurlManitoba was in the decision-making process to include Albert Bazinet as a recipient of a CurlManitoba Honorary Membership this season. Regretfully, the decision was too late to be able to make the presentation to Albert. While these awards are rarely made posthumously, it is appropriate in this case.

Albert Bazinet’s name first appears in the CurlManitoba historical records as coach of the Tyler Drews team which won a Junior Men’s bonspiel event in 2006. In the 20 year span since, his name is in the records a remarkable 30 more times.

*Elaine Owen, CurlManitoba Event & Development Manager, presents the Honourary Life Membership scroll and pin to Shirley Bazinet (Photos: Lynn Coleman)*

He is in there twice as a competitor – as skip of a provincial berth winner in the Club Championship in 2012 AND as a Manitoba Open bonspiel event winner in 2018. That means his name is in the CurlManitoba records 29 times as a coach.

He enjoyed playing the game – but he truly loved coaching and he coached at all levels. He coached four different times at the Viterra Men’s championship and once at a Senior Women’s. But his greatest involvement as a coach was with U-18 and Junior teams. At provincial championships, he coached three U-18 women’s teams, 2 U-18 men’s teams and two U-18 Mixed Doubles teams.

At the Junior level at provincials, he coached five Junior men’s teams and eleven junior women’s teams and he coached one Junior Women’s team at the Canada Games.

Two of those 29 teams reached provincial finals and took home silver medals. It is not reasonable to suggest Albert didn’t care that he never won a provincial title with one of his teams – of course, he cared – but he cared more because of disappointment for his curlers than for any personal disappointment.

He cared about his teams – perhaps more importantly he really cared that teams have an opportunity to play the game and to compete. He responded to direct requests from teams to be their coach …. but he also responded often to requests from CurlManitoba that he take on the task of accompanying a team and coaching them at provincials when they had qualified with a parent coach or some other coach who did not have complete credentials for provincials. Albert rarely said no to those requests because he wanted those teams to have that provincial experience.

The respect that his fellow coaches had for Albert was shown in their selection of him on three occasions as the recipient of the Coaching Award at provincials…at the Junior Men’s in 2011 AND twice in 2024 – at both the U18 Men’s and the Junior Men’s.

CurlManitoba has long admired Albert’s dedication to junior curling both as a coach and as the organizing energy behind the Manitoba Junior Curling Tour.

BRONZE FOR FREEMAN TEAM AT CANADIAN JUNIORS

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Resby Coutts

An extra end win to end the week at the Canadian Juniors gave Jace Freeman and his Virden team the bronze medal as Manitoba teams continue to fall short of the gold medals last accomplished by Manitobans Mackenzie Zacharias and Jacques Gauthier in 2020.

(l-r) Jace Freeman, Ryan Ostrowsky, Nick Senff, Luke Robins, Coach Graham Freeman *Curling Canada/Brodie Evans photo*

Three of four Manitoba teams reached the playoffs at the 2024 Canadian Juniors. Shaela Hayward, attempting to win a second championship to match the U-18 title won earlier, dropped out in the first round of playoffs. Jordon McDonald was beaten by Freeman – also in the first round of the playoffs.

In pool play, McDonald finished 7-1, in second place. while Freeman finished 6-2 in third place in the other pool. That put the two teams into the 2-3 crossover game which Freeman won 6-5.

In the semi-final, Team Freeman lost 7-5 to eventual; champion Kenan Wipf (Alberta) who they had beaten 8-3 in round-robin play. In an extra end, the Manitobans beat Dylan Derksen (Saskatchewan) 7-5.

In the Junior Women’s, Team Hayward’s 5-3 round-robin record earned them third place in the pool. They lost the 2-3 crossover 9-3 to former Manitoban Grace Beaudry, who skipped and threw second stones for the team shown as Alberta’s Claire Booth entry on the Curling Canada scores website. Tessa Terrick’s second Manitoba team finished with a 2-6 record.

Nova Scotia’s Allyson MacNutt team won the Junior women’s gold medal undefeated.

DYNASTY U20 MIXED DOUBLES BEGINS FRIDAY EVENING AT CHARLESWOOD

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Resby Coutts

There are provincial champions and provincial U-18 & U21 competitors scattered all through the 16 teams competing in CurlManitoba’s first U-20 Mixed Doubles Provincial Championship which gets underway today at the Charleswood Curling Club.

The Dynasty U-20 Mixed Doubles features 16 teams playing in round-robin format, pools of four teams with each pool playing four round robin games against teams from a different pool

The first two round-robin draws will take place at 5:30pm and 8:30pm Friday (March 8). There will be five round-robin draws scheduled all day Saturday, beginning at 8:30am.

“We are excited about hosting our first Dynasty U20 Mixed Doubles Championship,” says CurlManitoba Executive Director Craig Baker. “The young athletes competing in the event are some of the finest young curlers in the province, we think it is very important to give them this chance to expand their competitive experience and opportunities.”

The field of competitors includes:
** Keira Krahn (2024 Manitoba & Canadian U-18 champion, 2024 Manitoba Junior champion) partnered with Joshua Evans.
** Jensen Letham (2023 Manitoba junior champion, 2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Jace Freeman (2023 Manitoba U-18 champion, 2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist)
** Nick Senff (2024 Manitoba U-18 champion, 2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Ella Robins
** Rylan Graham (2023 Manitoba U-18 Champion, 2024 Manitoba U-18 champion) partnered with Julie Magnusson
** Rylan Campbell (2024 Manitoba U-18 champion) partnered with Lauren Evason (2023 Manitoba U-18 Finalist)
** Jack Steski (2023 Manitoba U-18 Champion) partnered with Shyla Johnson
** Zoey Terrick (2023 Manitoba junior champion, 2022 Manitoba U-18 champion, 2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Tanner Graham
** Tessa Terrick (2023 Manitoba Junior champion, 2022 Manitoba U-18 champion, 2023 Manitoba U-18 Finalist, 2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Ethan Brandt
** Piper Stoesz (2023 Manitoba U-18 champion) partnered with Nolan Ross
** Cassidy Dundas (2023 Manitoba Junior champion, 2022 Manitoba U-18 champion, 2023 Manitoba U-18 Finalist, 2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Hunter Dundas
** Ryan Ostrowsky (2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Emily Ostrowsky
** Luke Robins (2024 Manitoba Junior Finalist) partnered with Rylie Buchalter

The other teams, with less gaudy credentials but plenty of championship experience include Logan Strand/Samantha Eagles, Karys Buchalter/Hudson Strand, Ryan Hoplock/Olivia Hoplock, and Anabelle Lanthier/Colton Graham.

Two teams from each pool will advance to the 8-team playoff which begins at 10am on Sunday at Charleswood.

MCDONALD, TERRICK TEAMS WIN TELUS JUNIOR TITLES

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Resby Coutts

(CurlManitoba Release) Jordon McDonald (Deer Lodge) and Zoey Terrick (Heather) and their teams have won CurlManitoba’s TELUS Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s championships. The events wrapped up Saturday at the Portage Curling Club.

Team McDonald (l-r) Coach Blaine Malo, Jordon McDonald, Reece Hamm, Elias Huminicki, Cam Olafson
Team Terrick (l-r) Zoey Terrick, Jaycee Terrick, Jensen Letham, Tessa Terrick, Coach Clint Cullen

In the Junior Men’s, McDonald with Reece Hamm, Elias Huminicki, Cam Olafson, and Coach Blaine Malo had been seeded #1 going into the championships. They went undefeated through the competition, winning their four round robin games and defeating Jace Freeman’s Virden team (with Thomas McGillivray, Ryan Ostrowsky, Aaron Macdonell, 5^th Alex Fontaine and Coach Graham Freeman) twice in the playoffs, first in the Page 1 vs 1 playoff game and then in the final.

With the victory, McDonald, Hamm and Huminicki were able to defend the title they won a year ago.

In the Junior Women’s, Terrick, with older sister Jaycee and younger sister Tessa, as well as Jensen Letham, 5^th Cassidy Dundas and Coach Clint Cullen, had been seeded #2 entering the competition. They were the unbeaten “A” playoff qualifiers in the triple knockout championship. After losing the Page 1 vs 2 playoff game to Grace Beaudry’s St. Vital team (with Emily Ogg, Madelyn Hollins, Mackenzie Arbuckle, 5^th Julia Milan and Coach Calvin Edie), they beat Cheyenne Ehnes (Pembina) in the semi-final and defeated Team Beaudry in the final game.

Team Terrick, the first three-sisters team to win a Manitoba Championship since Connie Laliberte’s 1984 World Champion team, trailed Team Beaudry 5-1 after three ends but rebounded to lead 8-7 coming home. They forced a single on the home end and won on an extra end with a last stone draw which had to be in the eight foot circle but bit the button.

The Terrick and McDonald teams will go to the New Holland Canadian Junior Championships in late March in Quebec as Team Manitoba. The finalist Freeman and Beaudry teams will also both go to the nationals as Manitoba #2 teams. Manitoba has two entries in both the national Men’s & Women’s Junior championships thanks to the performance of past teams at the national event.

The trips earned Saturday in Portage by the four teams represent remarkable youth curling accomplishments for several of the players involved, as many of then will now participate in multiple national events this season (Canada Games, U18, U21).

Provincial level competition will continue for three of the four teams. The Beaudry team has qualified to compete in the Manitoba Scotties presented by RME, next week at East St. Paul. The McDonald and Freeman teams will compete in the Viterra championship in Neepawa in February.

PLAYOFFS RECAP – JUNIOR MEN: Jordon McDonald (Deer Lodge) and Jace Freeman (Virden) had been the two top seeded teams entering the competition and they went undefeated (4W-0L) through the round robin to meet in the Page Playoff 1 vs 1 game. After McDonald sent Freeman to the semi-final, the Virden team rebounded with a 7-2 win over Ronan Peterson (Heather) to set up the re-match final game. Peterson had won the Page Playoff 3 vs 4 game over Colton Olafson (Portage). The final game went down to last stone on the tenth end – facing two Freeman counters, McDonald had to draw to the eight foot circle to win the game 8-7.

PLAYOFFS RECAP – JUNIOR WOMEN: Zoey Terrick (Heather) and Grace Beaudry (St. Vital) entered the event as the #2 and #3 seeds respectively. In the triple knockout competition, Terrick was the unbeaten “A” qualifier while Beaudry was the “B” qualifier. They met in the Page 1 vs 2 game with Beaudry winning on a dramatic last shot takeout thrown through a very narrow centre line port in a game which was tied 6-6 coming home. Terrick rebounded in the semi-final with a win over Cheyenne Ehnes (Pembina), who had beaten defending champion skip Tansy Tober (Fort Garry) in an extra end in the Page 3 vs 4 game. Down 5-1 after three ends in the final, the Terrick team led 8-7 coming home. A Terrick guard on a stone in the four foot circle overcurled, leaving Beaudry a hit for one to force the extra end. Successfully using the difficult tick shot to remove well placed guards, the Terrick team was able to keep the front clear and won the game with a last rock draw to the edge of the button.

BOB PICKEN LEGACY AWARD JUNIOR GRANTS ANNOUNCED

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Resby Coutts

Bob Picken Legacy Fund grants to three Manitoba junior curling programs have been announced by organizers of the annual Bob Picken-Valour Road Masters Bonspiel.

The grants of $500 each are being awarded to support the high school curling program in Carman, a junior curling program in Swan River, and a new Junior Development league in Western Manitoba.

The Westman Development League grant will be made through the Virden Curling Club whose volunteers have undertaken to establish a new league involving several clubs in the Westman and south-east Saskatchewan region.

The league aspires to be an instructional-developmental league where young curlers, aged 9-15, can learn the game, have fun, and meet other young people from other clubs.

In Swan River, the Junior curling program combines structured instruction with fun event nights, game play and season ending fun bonspiel. The $500 grant is a significant contribution to a fund-raising initiative needed to acquire training aids and equipment required for an effective program in a community where distance limits access to services and programs more readily available in other parts of the province.

In Carman, the target audience is a group of high school curlers with a longer-term aim of establishing a high-school league. Key to initial success will be providing a high level of instruction, funded in part by the Legacy Fund grant.

The three $500 grants bring the amount of Bob Picken Legacy Fund support for junior curling province wide to $4,500 since the Bonspiel was established four years ago as a tribute to the memory of legendary curling (and multi-sport) broadcaster Bob Picken.

In his competitive years, Bob Picken wore the Valour Road colours with pride, hence the Bonspiel name. With the exception of one Covid-cancellation year, the event has been an annual affair at the Thistle Curling Club. It will continue in the fall of 2023 as an early season competition opportunity for Masters-age curlers.

PEMBINA TEAM WINS YOUTH ‘SPIEL U-13 DIVISION

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Resby Coutts

The Johnson team ‘hurries hard’ in the final game

A Pembina team skipped by Kailah Johnson defeated Danika Chartrand’s Petersfield team to win the U-13 Division of the Canad Inns Youth Bonspiel. Both teams had won three games out of four in their round-robin series when they met in the final game.

In the third place game, Calli Goethe and a Swan River team were the winners over Pembina’s Tiernan Bertrand-Meadows foursome.

The Bertrand-Meadows (Ainslee Card, Annalise Page-Burns, Miles Girardin) team was also one of two winners of the Fair Play Awards, determined by team voting as each team gave their opponent a Fair Play ranking after each game played.

The second Fair Play Award in the U-13 Division went to St. Vital’s Alexandre Newcombe team (Alex Home, Liam Cleary, Matthew Livetsky)

U-13 Division Winners: Pembina – Skip Kailah Johnson, 3rd Nancy Pu, 2nd Connor Sahaidak, Lead Nataya Johnson, Coach Christina Johnson

U-13 Division Finalists: Petersfield – Skip Danika Chartrand, 3rd Cassidy Laing, 2nd Autumn Clifton, Lead Aurora Marynowski, Alternate Josephine Jolicoeur, Coach Randy Kolomaya

U-13 Division third Place: Swan River – Skip Calli Goethe, 3rd Addison Hunt, 2nd Katie Hunt, Lead Darbi Barker, Coach Kari Goethe

U-13 Fourth Place: Pembina – Skip Tiernan Bertrand-Meadows, 2nd Annalise Page-Burns, Miles Girardin, Coach Shelley Bertrand-Meadows

OSTROWSKY & WEST ST. PAUL TEAM WIN U-18 YOUTH BONSPIEL

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Resby Coutts

In a tune-up for next week’s CurlManitoba u-18 Provincial Championship, Ryan Ostrowsky and his West St. Paul team went undefeated this weekend to win the Canad Inns Youth Bonspiel’s U-18 Division.

The Ostrowsky foursome won three round-robin games and a semi-final before winning the Sunday afternoon final game over Meghan Lagadi and her Pembina team.

Carter Walker’s Assiniboine Memorial team won the third place playoff with a victory over St. Vital’s Hannah Patton team.

U-18 Division Winners: West St. Paul – Skip Ryan Ostrowsky, 3rd Jack Steski, Lead Logan Strand, Coach Carlene Strand (Missing 2nd Luke Robins)

U-18 Division Finalists: Pembina – Coach Gerry Lagadi, Skip Meghan Lagadi, 3rd Jenna Williment, 2nd Abby Romaniuk, Lead Hailey Hall, Alternate Paul Graham

U-18 Division Third Place: Assiniboine Memorial – Skip Carter Walker, 3rd Connor Woodward, 2nd Graeme Sikora, Lead Jack MacDonald, Coach Brad Walker

U-18 Division Fourth Place: St. Vital – Skip Hannah Patton, 2nd Molly Cooper, Lead Kaely McLean, Co-coach Christy Patton (Missing 3rd Emerson Cauthers, Co-coach Paula Cauthers)

MORDEN’S SUGDEN TEAM WINS U-15 BONSPIEL

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Resby Coutts

The Nash Sugden team from Morden, with Tyler Fehr calling the shots and throwing last stones, defeated Pembina’s Luc Cormier team in the Sunday afternoon final game of the Canad Inns Youth Bonspiel U-15 Division.

The winning team, which played the final with three as Nash Sugden sat out due to illness, were undefeated in the bonspiel. They won their five round-robin games and two playoff games to advance to the final.

In the 3rd place playoff game, a Pembina team skipped by Karys Buchalter was the winner over the Caitlyn McPherson team from Assiniboine Memorial.

The U-15 Division’s Fair Play Awards, based on an accumulated ranking with each team rating their opponent after every game, were won by the Jessica Campbell team (Desirae Blunden, Danielle Livestky, Jordon Schroeder) from St. Vital and the Emily Mykula team (Kate Patterson, Bronwyn Trevellyan, Lexi Leadbeater) from Swan River.