Officers

Dave Markowski
President

Pam Biesenthal
Vice President

Alice Hartman
Secretary

Shil Kothari
Treasurer

Dave Holt
Past President

Bob Broadhurst
Director

AnnMarie Holt
Director

Jojo Cruz
Director

Club Info

Home Ice
(5 Arena Sheets)
Vacaville Ice Sports
551 Davis Street
Vacaville, CA 95688
Phone: 707-455-0225
Direction/Map here

Club Telephone
707-374-3920

Snail Mail
Wine Country Curling
c/o Vacaville Ice Sports

Email
winecountrycurling at
gmail.com

Mailing list
groups.yahoo.com /
group/winecountrycurling

Affiliation
USA Curling
Mountain Pacific Curling

Previous Websites
WCC Version 1 2006-2007

Social Networks

League / Bonspiel

2006 [Wn] [Su]
2007 [Sp] [Crush] [Fl]
2008 [Sp] [Crush] [Fl]
2009 [Wn] [Crush] [Fl]
2010 [Wn] [Sp] [Crush] [Fl]

Discover Curling!

For a minimal fee, we offer adult and junior learn-to-curl on Saturday evenings. Bring a friend out and show them what curling is all about.

Email Education and Training program chairman, Jerome Larson: jlcurler AT frontiernet.net to reserve a spot.

What you need to bring to curl:
-clean rubber-soled shoes to grip on ice
-layered loose fitted clothes to keep you warm
-skate or bike helmet is optional


*Rocks, brush (broom), hacks are available for free. All participants must sign waiver at the rink.

More Curling Info:
Curling at Wikipedia
Test your Curling skills

Vacaville City Council to hear the sale of the rink

From Jerome Larson:

The Vacaville city council is meeting on Tuesday, November 11 at 7pm regarding the purchase by the city of the Vacaville Ice Sports Building. Like last weeks hearing at the Redevelopment Agency we need to show up in force.

UPDATE

The Public Hearing regarding the purchase of the Vacaville Ice Sports by the City of [...]

Edith Loudon appointed as WCF Representative

Wine Country CC friend and occasional curler Edith Loudon was appointed as the new  representative to World Curling Federation. Here’s the news release from the Royal Caledonian Curling:

The Royal Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Edith Loudon as its new WCF Representative. Edith who narrowly missed out on qualifying for the European Championships [...]

Vacaville HRC to vote on ice rink sale

Here’s the article from Vacaville Reporter:

The city of Vacaville is floating the idea of spending $6.7 million to purchase the Vacaville Ice Sports building.

Money to purchase the 90,000-square-foot building, where the city already leases one-third of the space, would come from redevelopment funds and no money would be spent from the General Fund, said [...]

End of Wine Country Curling?

From Jerome Larson

It appears that the City of Vacaville is considering purchasing Vacaville Ice Sports. If they do there is the possibility that they may want to remove one of the ice surfaces. And if they do that there would be no room for Wine Country Curling.

There is an open hearing regarding the issues [...]

Curling season begins October 11

WCC’s third season kick off tonight at the Vacaville Ice Center.

7:30PM – 10:00 PM

Draw here (coming soon).

Friendly reminder to new curlers

Please come early to help prefer the ice. Wear loose fitting clothing due to a good deal of stretching and bending involved in the game. For secure footing on the ice, bring shoes with rubber [...]

Loudon challenging Wood for Euro Championships

Edith Loudon (Crush 2008 champion) is set to challenge Kelly Wood for the right to represent Scotland in the Women’s European Championship in Sweden. Loudon occasionally curl at WCC is a veteran of Euro and world championships and once represented United Kingdon in the Nagano Olympics.

Playdown draw here. October 24-26, 2008.

Source: Curling Today 

Fall League

Submitted by Jerome L <jlcurler@frontiernet.net>

We have communicated with a number of members and come up with the following teams. We have two experienced curlers on every team with a roster of spares to flush things out. It seems to me to be pretty evenly matched up.

1.  Dave Holt, Ann Marie Holt, Johnny S., Aaron (Davis)
[...]

California curling reach Scotland

Our friend Edith sent this link from Curling Today (Scottish Curler Magazine blog):

Curling in the United States is growing as a consequence of the last two Olympic Games. The USA now has more registered curlers than has Scotland. The sport has spread far from the traditional Midwest hotbeds. You can now curl in a number [...]

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