“Oh : af No. i January 15, 1966

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Level" magazine, end we in "Our Town" are in complete agreement with the remarks, plus one sorrowful addition....women cur] "Basically, curling is a game here too....and exnect to drink’ the scotch. where a bunch of men, who normally . wouldn’t brush the dandruff off their jackets, go out with a broom and think nothing of racing up and down a sheet of ice, sweep non-existing pieces of cirt out of the way of a fortv neound niece cf stone thrown by a uy who wouldn't. pick un anything bigrer than a double scotch.

Curling first started here in 1955 and has continued to thrive ever since with an average of 120 members ver season. The curling season lasts about 3% months during which time more than 10 trorhies are niayed for.

We have a four day Anrwalj Ponevie) with teams coming in from as far away as Vancouver, a distance of 1600 miles, to compete in this event. Cassi=r Asbestos Corporation provides free accommodation and meals for all visiting curlers, and the Curling Club Committee endeavours to make sure that everyone has a pocd time by beeping large auoplies of whiskey on hand. This years Bonspiel will be held in the letter vart of February, and will be our 12th.

Like that other great scotch fame, golf, you must have a series of excuses ready to make up for a lack of talent.

The ability, for instance, to look down the ice after you have thrown your rock ten feet short and three feet wide of the orvom and say "There’s a bad fault in the ice thers”, cakes years of training. You must be ready to blame the ice, your shoes the ice meker, your skip, their skip, ete. indeed blame everything but yourseif for the way that you curl.

During the curling season some of oar more enthualastic members varticinate in Bonspiels in other towns and on many cecasions they have come home "loaded with loot" or, in other words, trophies.

If vou are thinking of taking un the fame, renerber this..,..the Scots develoned scotch whiskey after they invented curling....which leads many of us to believe that curling will drive you to drink" . This is one of the many snorts available to you in "ONR TORT

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