(MCHoF&M Release) Three Canadian champion junior teams, a pair of dedicated long-term volunteers, and a curler with six Manitoba, Canadian and World championships on his resume will be honoured by induction into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame at the 2024 induction dinner, May 5 at CanadInn’s Polo Park in Winnipeg.

Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum President Peter Nicholls extends his congratulations to the 2024 inductee class and to the friends, family and curling fans who have supported their competitive and volunteer efforts.

The 2024 BUILDER inductees include former CurlManitoba President and Curling Canada Governor Sam Antila who has also been a long-time volunteer at Thompson’s Burntwood Curling Club and Bill Biehl, a pioneer in the implementation of organized coaching instruction and coaching programs in Manitoba and three-times past-President of Winnipeg’s Heather Curling Club.

The 2024 CURLER inductee is Ken Tresoor who won a pair of Manitoba Mixed titles along with a pair of Manitoba Men’s championships, one Canadian, and one World title in an over 25-year competitive career.

The three junior champion TEAM inductees honour the 1989 Canadian champion and world bronze medal team skipped by Cathy Overton, the 1994 Canadian champion team skipped by Jennifer Jones, and the 1995 Canadian champion and world bronze medal team skipped by Chris Galbraith.

“We are pleased to welcome these very worthy inductees into the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame,” says Nicholls. “Builders Sam Antila and Bill Biehl have played an important leadership role in Manitoba curling. Ken Tresoor and the members of the Overton, Jones and Galbraith teams set standards of excellence which junior teams following them have been challenged to meet and surpass.”

The 2024 Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame Induction Dinner will be hosted at CanadInns Destination Centre Polo Park on May 5, 2024. Dinner ticket prices will be held at $100 for 2024. More complete dinner details will be announced by March 1, 2024.

Interested persons are invited to send an email to mca@curlmanitoba.org to purchase tickets or to request more complete information when the details are finalized.

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BUILDER: Sam Antila was originally from Larder Lake in Northern Ontario where he had been a successful downhill skier. He began to curl when he moved to Northern Manitoba and it became his sport of choice in Thompson in 1982 when he recognized it could provide the competitive sport outlet he had been missing. This led him to a 40-year involvement with Thompson’s Burntwood Curling Club as well as to the boardrooms of both CurlManitoba and Curling Canada.

In Thompson, in the 1980’s, his first involvement with the local curling club was as a member of the bonspiel committee and willing volunteer for other roles as needed. After many years, and many roles, on the Burntwood Curling Club Executive and major events in the community, he would eventually serve as President – but not until after he served as CurlManitoba President and Curling Canada Governor.

At CurlManitoba, it was his objective to ensure that the concerns of Manitoba’s northern clubs and curlers were known and considered in provincial decisions. He brought the perspectives of an active competitor and an active club executive member to the Board table and was dedicated to ensuring that competitive and development opportunities existed for clubs across rural and northern Manitoba.

As President of CurlManitoba, where he was a Manitoba delegate at the regular meetings of the members of Curling Canada, he chaired the Provincial Associations Council at the national meetings and was recruited to serve as a Governor of Curling Canada. He served a two-year term (2018-19 & 2019-20) as Governor. His very recent experience at the provincial association level provided representation of provincial concerns in discussions of the same and new issues – but now from the national perspective.

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BUILDER: Bill Biehl was one of the first to become involved in Manitoba when the Curl Canada technical coach-instruction program was implemented in the 1970’s. He became certified as a Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Course Conductor and from 1978 to 1985, he served as Manitoba’s Provincial Coordinator (known at the time as the Master Course Conductor). In this capacity, he organized instructional programs and helped to train an estimated 400 curlers to serve as course instructors and curling coaches.

During the approximately two decades when the MCA & MLCA offered their junior curling camps program, Bill dedicated much of each summer to an instructor role. In the years 2003-2006, when he was the CurlManitoba Technical Director, he also took the lead role in organizing the junior instructional camps. He retired from CurlManitoba and direct involvement in coach-instructor training in 2006 when he took on a one-year assignment as a national coach-instructor in Italy.

At the club level, beginning as Junior Coordinator, and continuing for thirteen years, he was a member of the executive of the Heather Curling Club. He served as club President in 1983-84. He returned to the Executive and again served as President in 2010-11 and 2011-12. At the same time, he served as a member of the CurlManitoba Board of Directors for a three-year term (2010-11 to 2012-13).

For several years prior to 1993, Bill Biehl was the only certified national official in Manitoba. During the late 1980’s and in the 1990’s he was head official for several Manitoba Men’s, Scotties, Juniors, and Mixed Championships, an on-ice official on many other occasions at provincial, national events., and. His officiating assignment included Brandon’s 1995 Worlds (On-ice Official) and the 1997 Canadian Seniors – Nipawin, SK (Head Official).

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CURLER: Ken Tresoor played in his first Manitoba Junior Championship in 1985 and competed in a total of 22 Manitoba championships (2 Junior, 16 Men’s, 4 Mixed) by the time of his final appearance at the Men’s championship in 2012. He won Manitoba Mixed Championships with Howard Restall (1990) and Jeff Stoughton (1994). He won Manitoba Men’s titles with Jeff Stoughton in 1991 and 1996 and the 1996 team went on to win Canadian and World Championships. The 1996 team compiled a 30W-5L record in winning the Manitoba, Canadian and World titles. His overall championship win-loss record was 128W-61L in 27 championship appearances.

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TEAM OVERTON 1989: The 1989 Canadian Junior Women’s Champion team of Cathy Overton, Tracy Baldwin. Carol Harvey, and Tracy Bush won events in both the Junior Women’s and MLCA bonspiels and posted a 5W-1L record to win the Manitoba Junior Women’s title.

The team had the unique experience of not having to travel outside the province to win the Canadian juniors and advance to the World championship.

Playing at home at the Heather Curling Club, the team won the Canadian Championship and that trip to the world championship with a perfect 11W-0L record.

The Worlds was played in Portage la Prairie. Overton’s Team Canada finished with a 9W-2L record – they finished the round robin at 8W-1L (tied for first with Scotland) but lost a semifinal game 8-7 to Sweden before beating Switzerland 8-1 to win the bronze medal.

Cathy Overton was named All-Star skip at both the Canadian and World Championships.  Tracy Baldwin was all star third at the Canadians and Tracy Bush was all star lead at the Worlds.

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TEAM JONES 1994: Since the inception of world championship play, the 1994 Canadian Junior Women’s champion team has the unique (and unfortunate) distinction of being the only Canadian Junior champion team to not compete at a world championship. Jennifer Jones, Trisha Baldwin, Jill Officer and Dana Malanchuk showed a progression of success. In 1992, they lost the Manitoba Junior final. They won Manitoba in 1993 and finished fifth at Canadians. In 1994, they were undefeated (6W-0L) to win Manitoba again and won the Canadian title with an 11W-4L record.

Due to change in qualifying protocol, they did not have an opportunity to play at the Worlds but rather had an assured spot in the next year’s Canadian playoffs round. They also had the chance to compete again to be Team Manitoba but lost the 1995 final. The Canadians in 1995 became a sudden-death affair – dropped into the playoff round as Team Canada, they lost their first game. One and done, they missed their World championship opportunity.

Jennifer Jones was co-All-Star skip at the 1994 Canadian Championship.

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TEAM GALBRAITH 1995: In 1995, brothers Chris (Skip) & Bryan (lead) Galbraith joined forces with Scott Cripps (third) and Brent Barrett (second) to record a 25W-6L record in winning the Manitoba and Canadian Junior Men’s titles and the World bronze medal.

The 1994-95 line-up proved to be a winning combination. The Fort Rouge team recorded 6W-1L and 10W-3L records in winning the Manitoba and Canadian Championships.

As Team Canada at the World Juniors in Perth, Scotland the Galbraith team finished the round robin with an 8W-1L record to tie for first in the standings with Scotland’s Tom Brewster team. Team Galbraith bounced back from a semi-final loss to Germany to beat Sweden in the bronze medal game while Scotland won the gold medal.

Chris Galbraith was the Canadian Championship All-Star skip and received the World Junior Men’s Sportsmanship Award.

Beth Peterson’s Assiniboine Memorial team was the only one to win all three of their championship round games and will advance to the Sunday playoffs of the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME.

Peterson, the fourth seed in the competition, defeated both #2 Kate Cameron (Granite) and #3 Jolene Campbell (AMCC) as well as Zoey Terrick (Heather) in the team’s successful run to the playoffs.

Top seed Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge) lost Saturday morning to Campbell but bounced back to beat Cameron in an afternoon game which gave them a 7W-1L record and first place in the standings. With the win, the Lawes foursome earned the bye to the Sunday afternoon (2:00PM) final.

Cameron finished with a 6W-2L record, tied with Peterson, and the two will meet in the Sunday morning (9:30AM) semi-final.

With Peterson posting the third win Saturday afternoon, the only other team with a playoff hope was the Jolene Campbell team. A last round loss to Kristy Watling (East St. Paul) dashed the Campbell team’s hopes as they both finished with 5W-3L records.

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND STANDINGS
7-1 Kaitlyn Lawes (Fort Rouge)
6-2 Beth Peterson (AMCC)
6-2 Kate Cameron (Granite)
5-3 Kristy Watling (East St.Paul)
5-3 Jolene Campbell (AMCC)
3-5 Zoey Terrick (Heather)

The Deneen Cup dates back to the early days of organized women’s curling in Manitoba. Its intent was, and continues to be, to create an opportunity for creation of relationships between clubs and curlers in a friendly inter-club competition.

The first renewal saw two teams of women from Lorette Curling Club travel to Pembina for two games of curling and hospitality, hosted by Pembina.

During the 8-end games, the host four on each sheet of ice changes sheets at the mid-game break – creating the opportunity for all eight competitors from each club to play against the eight from the other club. Total score of the two games decides the winner.

Tara Kolisnyk, vice-president of the Lorette Curling Club, is chair of the coordinating committee which has put time and effort into renewal of the Deneen Cup Competition over the past year. She was one of the Lorette curlers who visited Pembina.

While it is inevitable that score will be kept, Ms. Kolisynk emphasised the importance of the hospitality received at Pembina. “Pembina CC were fantastic hosts,” she says.

During the mid-game break, and again over supper hosted by Pembina, she noted that “we spent the time visiting, asking about different leagues, bonspiels and sharing information about our respective clubs. And the food and atmosphere were top notch.”

She says the event “really solidified the social aspect of curling. Yes, everyone wanted to play their best and compete to the best of their abilities but it was awesome to see 16 ladies come together, get along and enjoy the sport we all love to play.”

For the historical record, the winner of the renewal match was Pembina CC, whose teams won by a total score of 22-9. As winner, Pembina will send two teams to Portage la Prairie in the next match in the series.

The 2023/2024 Deneen Cup has 5 clubs competing, with four clubs hosting games for the season. These games are spread through January and February.

Future challengers include Portage la Prairie (to host January 28), St. Vital (to host February 11), and Charleswood (to host February 28).

Lessons learned from the matches this season will be taken into consideration in for the planning and organizing for next season.  Registration information for the 2024/2025 season will be available on the Curl Manitoba website in March 2024. The rules and information about the Deneen Cup are also available on the website. 

Questions regarding the Deneen Cup can be directed to deneencupchair@gmail.com.

On behalf of the O’Grady Cup Trustees, Ron Margolis extended his congratulations to the volunteers who have taken on the task of renewing the Deneen Cup inter-club competition. “We have seen the value of the O’Grady in creating friendly competition between clubs and in maintaining the traditional emphasis on comradeship and friendly rivalry ahead of competition. We know the Deneen Cup will bring those same attributes to women curlers in Manitoba as the O’Grady Cup has for the men,” he said.

Participants in the Deneen Cup renewal’s first match included:

Pembina Curling Club: Staci Price, Laura Brinkman, Colbie Sierhuis, Danielle Wutske, Lisa Birchard, Samantha Gevers, Quinn Allan, and Hannah Thiessen

Lorette Curling Club: Adele Butcher, Tara Kolisnyk, Lucille Brunette, Natalie Audette, Shawna Kynoch, Gisele Chartier, Collette Wilvers, and Yvonne Delorme

In keeping with the spirit of the event, the playerss are intermingled as one group rather than as two separate teams.

Manitoba sports fans have a special opportunity to win an opportunity to cheer for Team Manitoba at the Regina Montana’s Brier OR MAYBE the Winnipeg Jets in the drive (hopefully) to the Stanley Cup OR MAYBE the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as they start the season with a Grey Cup re-match with the Montreal Alouettes.

These are the featured prizes in the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum’s 2024 Manitoba Sports Ticket Raffle (License: LGCA 4051-43040). The window of opportunity is a small one – ticket sales launched today and will close February 10. The winners will be announced at the Viterra Championship in Stonewall.

The first three prizes, in order, are:

• Two event passes for the Regina Montana’s Brier (March 1-10) PLUS $500
• Two tickets for the Winnipeg Jets VS Seattle Kraken (March 5)
• Two tickets on the 50-yeard line, lower bowl, for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers VS Montreal Alouettes (June 6)

Additional prizes will include two pairs of CurlManitoba all-season championship passes for the 2024-25 curling season. The recipients will receive a pair of passes which includes the U-18 & U-21 championships along with the Viterra Men’s, Scotties, Seniors, Masters, Mixed and Club Championship events. There will also be an early-bird prize draw (February 6) for a pair of passes compliments of the 2024 Stonewall Viterra Championship Committee (February 6-11).

Proceeds of the fund-raiser will support the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum’s virtual museum project (helping to make the museum’s collection of some 40,000 items available online) and CurlManitoba Junior Development projects rough the Curling for Life Endowment Fund.

Ticket sales are $5.00 each and will also be available in blocks of three for $10. They can be purchased online at www.fundingchange.ca/mbcurlmuseum .

9Curling Canada Release) Curling Canada has announced that a familiar face has been named Curling Canada’s new Chief Executive Officer.

Nolan Thiessen, a three-time Brier and former world men’s curling champion, who has been a member of the Curling Canada senior management team for the past four years, will take the position following a thorough and exhaustive search and interview process conducted by an external agency, SRI, alongside Curling Canada’s Board of Governors CEO hiring committee.

He replaces Katherine Henderson, who departed Curling Canada in August to take the position of CEO and president at Hockey Canada.

“I’m truly humbled by this opportunity, and it’s one that I know comes with a great deal of responsibility, but I have a great team around me that is well-positioned to continue taking our sport forward and build on what Katherine did during her time at Curling Canada,” said Thiessen, 43. “Our sport has so many avenues forward as we look to reach into new communities and make our sport and championship events even more inclusive and welcoming. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for curling in this country.”

Thiessen was a member of Brier-winning teams in 2010, 2014 and 2015, and was a member of Canada’s world championship gold-medal team in 2010.

He retired as a competitive curler following the 2015-16 season, and took on duties as an Athlete Liaison for Curling Canada in 2016 and also served as a consultant. He was formally hired two years later, and most recently served as the Executive Director, Marketing and Fan Experience.

Thiessen also has been active internationally, serving on the World Curling Federation’s Athlete Commission for more than five years (and chairing the commission for three of those years), and then moving onto the WCF’s Competition and Rules Commission a year ago.

Away from curling, Thiessen, a University of Manitoba Bachelor of Commerce graduate, is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, and holds the CPA and CA designations. He also sits on the board of Sport Tourism Canada.

“We said at the beginning of this process that we would leave no stone unturned, and that we would take the time to make sure we do this right, and I firmly we believe we did with Nolan Thiessen,” said Michael Szajewski, Chair of Curling Canada’s Board of Governors. “He has played an integral role in helping our organization move forward over the past few years, and his vision is completely in line with the Board’s on what needs to happen to continue this forward progress.”

Thiessen will assume the full-time duties as CEO this week, taking over from interim CEO Danny Lamoureux, who will resume his retirement plans that were delayed to help Curling Canada transition after Henderson’s departure.

“Danny has been, and will continue to be, a source of wisdom and we couldn’t be more thankful that he stepped up over the past few months as we embarked on our search,” said Szajewski.

“Curling Canada tasked SRI with conducting a comprehensive global search to identify its next CEO,” said Jeff Yocom, SRI’s North American partner leading the search. “Considering the strength and heritage of the sport in Canada, we recognized early on the importance of installing a Canadian into the role. With that intent, we identified an outstanding group of 13 candidates for the board to deeply investigate and consider. We congratulate Nolan for standing out and are confident he will excel in the role and continue the important work of Curling Canada to grow the sport.”   

Head protection is a good idea for beginning curlers and for those of us who are maybe “a day or two past our prime”. Three different types of head protection were on display in a recent stick-league game at Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge CC.

Norm Magnusson, Manitoba Stick Curling Association’s Chief Clinician, always opens an introductory stick curling session with an emphasis on safety, including a recommendation that “curlers of a certain age” should be thinking about head protection. He has taken his own advice by always wearing his choice of head gear.

The three different types of headwear being used on this day were Asham’s full helmet (right) worn by Dale Gray; the Goldline baseball cap with back-of-head protection (left) worn by Resby Coutts; and a soccer-rugby helmet (centre) worn by Magnusson.

The Goldline head-gear also comes in a headband, visor, and toque version. The writer has been wearing the baseball cap since Goldline began development over a decade ago.

Dale Gray began wearing his helmet “about three years ago”. Earlier he had taken a fall on the ice and began thinking about head protection. Later, after suffering a broken ankle, he adopted the helmet to ensure his safety on the ice while the strength in the ankle recovered. He has never taken it off (during curling games, that is).

Magnusson, who admits he is “not a hat guy”, had used the visor version of the Goldline hat for a few years when he was introduced to the soccer-rugby helmet at the Canadian Stick Championship in Moncton in 2022 by Jean Lamere of Quebec. He likes the feel of this helmet and the full head protection which it provides.

The point here is not to promote any of these options as favoured, and certainly not to promote them as favoured over other products from other suppliers. The point, simply, is to encourage every curler and especially every curler “of a certain age” to think about head protection.

Those of us wearing these hats and helmets are not yet in the majority in the stick leagues, or among older players in traditional leagues, but our numbers are increasing.

The Swiss junior champion team of Xenia Schwaller has won the 2023 DEKALB SuperSpiel, making them the first non-Canadian champion in the 16 year history of the event.

Schwaller needed an extra end today in the DEKALB final in Morris to defeat Serena Gray-Withers Alberta team 6-5. Earlier in the day, the young Swiss team had beaten Selena Sturmay (Alberta) 9-2 in the semi-final and Corrie Huerlimann (Switzerland) 8-1 in the quarterfinal.

In the Men’s final, Tanner Horgan (Northern Ontario) became a two-time champion with 4-2 final game win over Braden Calvert (Manitoba). Horgan was the 2019 champion when he was playing out of Manitoba.

In the semifinal, Team Horgan, which includes 2023 Manitoba Mixed champion Ian McMillan, beat Ryan Wiebe (Manitoba) 7-1.

(December 4 – 9AM) THREE MANITOBA TEAMS IN DEKALB MEN’S PLAYOFFS, ZERO IN WOMEN’S: Fourteen teams (8 women, 6 men) have advanced to the playoff rounds of the DEKALB SuperSpiel in Morris.

Two Swiss teams and one from the United States join five Canadian women’s teams. One USA team reached the men’s playoffs with five Canadian teams.

Three Manitoba men’s teams are hopeful of winning the top prize – they include the Jordon McDonald, Braden Calvert and Ryan Wiebe squads. They are joined in the playoffs by Rich Ruohenen (Minneapolis), Tanner Horgan (Northern Ontario) and Owen Purcell (Nova Scotia).

The Women’s Division features a Swiss match-up in the quarterfinals where Xenia Schwaller will play Corrie Huerlimann. The other women’s teams include Delaney Strouse (Minneapolis); Serena Gray-Withers and Selena Sturmay (Alberta) Clancy Grandy & Corryn Brown (BC); and Danielle Inglis (Ontario.

Top prize in the 24 team women’s event is $36,000 while the 16 team men’s division pays $24,000 for first place.

The final games are set for 4PM Monday in Morris.

CurlManitoba held a berth bonspiel for both the 2024 Scotties presented by RME and the 2024 Viterra Championship this past weekend.  The event was hosted by the Gimli Curling Club and had 7 teams participate in each event. 

In the Women’s event, Rhonda Varnes (Manitou) and Kristy Watling (East St. Paul) qualified out of the A event.  Emma Jensen (Heather) and Rachel Kaatz (AMCC) qualified through the B event.  In the page playoff, Varnes and her team beat Kristy Watling to move directly to the final.  In the 3vs4 game, Emma Jensen and her team took control of the game against Kaatz to move onto the semi-final against Watling.  It was Watling who came out on top of this match to set up a rematch of the 1vs2 game earlier in the day.  This time it was Kristy, along with Laura Burtnyk, Emily Deschenes and Sarah Pyke that outlasted Rhonda Varnes and came away with a 7-5 win. The Watling team will participate in the 2024 Scotties Tournament of Hearts presented by RME January 23-28, 2024 in Morden, MB.

In the Men’s event, Brett Walter and Devon Wiebe qualified out of the A event to meet in the 1vs2 page playoff game.  Walter’s team won the game to move directly to the final, while Wiebe had to then play in the semi-final against Justin Reynolds and his team from Winnipeg Beach.  Reynolds had beaten Emerson Klimpke (Stonewall) earlier in the day in the 3vs4 game to move onto the semi-final.  As in the women’s event, a rematch between Brett Walter (AMCC) and Devon Wiebe (Fort Rouge) was set after Wiebe beat Reynolds.  In the final, it was Brett Walter and his team of JT Ryan, Graham McFarlane and Hugh McFarlane that earned the berth to the 2024 Viterra Championship that will be held in Stonewall, MB from February 6-11, 2024.

With one round to play at the Seagram’s Whisky Manitoba Curling Club Championships, one team has a confirmed spot in the playoff round, the winner of two upcoming games are assured of a playoff spot, and the loser of those games plus eight other teams can make the playoffs with the right sets of wins & losses across the next two draws.

On the women’s side, only Kara Balshaw’s Thistle team is a ‘lock’ to make the playoffs. In their six-team pool, Team Balshaw is a perfect 4W-0L while four teams have 2W-2L records. Those four teams will be playing for wins and hoping for losses by the other teams to help them make the playoffs. In those games Laurie MacDonnell (Beausejour) plays Lisa Dickson (St. Vital) – both have 2W-2L records, so the winner has a chance. Balshaw plays former champion Tracy Andries (Fort Rouge) – Andries has a 2W-2L record, so she has a chance with a win. Tiffany Armstrong (Dauphin) is also at 2W-2L and has a chance to make the playoffs with a win over winless Sheri Horning (Burntwood).

Like Balshaw, Fort Garry’s Jennifer Clark-Rouire is still perfect at 4W-0L. Their last game is against former champion Lori Pelissier (Thistle) whose 3W-1L record will put them ahead of Team JCR in the standings, IF they win. Former champion Stacey Irwin (Brandon) also has a 3W-1L record and can improve to 4W-1L with a win over Kendall Kohinski (Neepawa) whose record is 1W-3L.

The only thing that is clear on the men’s side of the competition is that the winner between Andy Stewart (Stonewall) and Brett Walter (Elmwood) will advance. Both teams have 3W-1L records as the 2:30PM Saturday game gets underway. In the same pool David Bohn (AMCC) has a 3W-1L plays Randy Neufeld (La Salle) whose record is 2W-2L so for both teams a win is essential if they hope to make the playoffs.

In the other men’s pool, Derek Anderson (Gimli) and Kyle Forsyth (Dauphin) have 3W-1L records, so they have have win-and-you’re-in games. Forysth plays Grant Brown (Burntwood) whose 2W-2L records gives his team a chance, if they win. Anderson plays Corey Thompson (Deer Lodge) who is at 1W-3L. Like Brown, Ryan Hyde (Portage) has a 2W-2L record and still has a chance, with a win over Andrew Irving (Ft Rouge) who is also 1W-3L.

The top two teams in each pool advance to playoffs. In case of a two-team tie for second, there will be one playoff game. In a three-way tie, one team will be eliminated based on their pre-game button draws.

The first major event on the calendar at Fort Rouge this season will be the newly branded Seagrams Club Championships later this month – and visitors to the club for that event will find new, smiling faces and a very welcoming new menu in the main floor lunch counter.

Now branded as a satellite of A&V Diner/Drive-in, the operating hours this season will be 8AM to 9PM – with a full breakfast menu, hamburgers and lunch counter menu, and a pizza menu.

A&V (Angelo & Vickie) formerly operated a popular diner on Chevrier Boulevard and have now relocated that business to the Fort Rouge CC.

The A&V lunch bar is now open and fully operational as league curling begins this week.

Editor’s note: my appreciation for a good meal is pretty well-known, My first breakfast was A1 and I look forward to many more – RC.