Committee meeting update:

Our club curling is now in full swing but we have sadly lost the services of our President Fergus who has very reluctantly resigned from the club. Fergus was finding it difficult to balance his curling activities with the demands of home life and the activities of his children. Fergus was a good supporter of the club and always willing to turn out to help the club particularly at our fund raising activities. We all hope that Fergus will want to return to play with us in the not too distant future but in the meantime, we all wish Fergus all the best for the future.

Vice president Bob Myles has agreed to assume presidency of the club with immediate effect and with Bob being both apast president and a current Convener of Angus Council, we know that the club is in good presidential hands. The committee decided not too appoint a new vice president meantime and the onus will be on our experienced members to help Bob particularly at friendly matches where the usual votes of thanks are an integral part of the evening.

Date for your Diary: Gordon has secured the Charity shop for the first 2 weeks of March 2009 and I would ask that you now start looking out your unwanted items....tell your friends to save up their items and let us try to match our excellent fund raising of last year.........£1,700.
Childrens toys are a favourite and both Gordon and I will start collecting in the new year.

League Matches: Thanks go to those who are starting to feed in some game reports, please keep it up. I will post league positions shortly.

The battle of the titans took place recently when Colin's rink played Ron's rink in what was being billed as the league decider with only one month of the season undertaken !!! Can I just say to the other skip's....prove me wrong !!!( Ron's words...not mine !!)

On extremely keen ice in the front hall, Ron's rink appeared to move quickly into control but a superb raised double take out at the very first end by Colin set the tone of the evening where some excellent curling was to be witnessed. After 5 ends, Colin led 4 shot to 2 but conceded a big 3 to allow Ron's rink to take a narrow lead. Colin took a big 2 and moved into the lead with 1 end remaining and what and end.

Ron clearly wanted his 2 to win the game but a fine freeeze by Ron Morrison looked to dictate the end for Colin. However,Colin's requested attempt of a peeled short stone went horribly wrong and played into Ron's hands. The excitement was not yet over as Ron's first stone picked and this allowed Colin to play a fine tap back through a narrow port to lie shot. Ron had to follow and with good sweeping control by Alistair Inglis in the head, Ron matched Colin's stone and scored a big 3 to win the game. Let's hope we can enjoy more games like this throughout the season.

On Monday night Mike's Rink played Gordon's rink in the club league. With Gordon missing Fergus he has quite a job chasing around for players for every game so if you get a call please try and help out. For this game Gordon brought in a new curler Jim (whose last name escapes me right now). It was only Jim's second game and played well for someone so new to the game.

In a tight game with Andrew & Gordon having the work cut out at certain ends the score finished a very crediable 6 - 3 for Mike's team. Again good fast ice albeit with a bit of a fall back as we have come to expect on Rink A.

National Province Championships: Greenacres:

This coming weekend see's the Edzell Rink of Gordon, Colin, Ron & Mike head down to compete in the National Province Championship at Greenacres Ice Rink. Always a very testing competition but one that Edzell representing North & South Esk province normally fair well in. Our first game is against a team from England followed by games against East Lothian, Breadalbane & Moray 2. If you want to follow the results click here: http://www.royalcaledoniancurlingclub.org/competitions/dyncat.cfm?catid=21312