Correction of Playdown dates for MoPac in Seattle:

•Club National Playdowns - for WA and MoPac - Sat and Sun, Jan 16 & 17
•Mixed National Playdowns - for WA and MoPac - Sat and Sun, Jan 30 & 31

Curlers,

There will be a Mini Conference/Skills camp on October 10-11 in Vacaville at the
Wine Country Curling Club.

There might be a charge for the skills camp, but not yet determined, will post
more info as I get it.
Please let me know if you are planning to attend this event, USCA wants to know
how many are willing to take the camp and/or attend the conference!
Send me an email:
lenick@yahoo. com

On the agenda:

Rick Patzke USCA Chief Operating Officer to talk about USCA and the Olympics.

Bev Schroeder will be teaching skills on ice along with John Mielke and Sandra
McMakin. Video taping will be done.

One segment will also be on Coaching and the road to becoming certified.

Chris Sjue is the Board Director for Member Services and will fill in on all the
programs available to clubs.

and more.....

Hi all,

In order to incorporate a first aid course into our instructor training classes,
we've had to move the date and time of the Level 2 class and change time of the
Level 1 class.

The Level 2 class is now:
June 9 at 7 pm

The Level 2 class now starts at:
7 pm

Again, to sign up, please contact President@...

thank you,
Gabrielle Coleman




--- In Curl_SanDiego@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kitinski" <lenick@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> The San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club (SFBACC) and WineCountry Curling are
offering USCA Level 1 and Level 2 Instructor Training Classes in June and we'd
like to invite folks from the region (and anywhere else!) to join us.  We've got
information available on the SFBACC web site:  www.bayareacurling.com  but here
are a few key details:
>
> Level 1 -- Tuesday, June 16, 7:30-11:30 pm, (2 hours off-ice, 2 hours on-ice),
must be a USCA member to attend
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> Level 2 -- Tuesday, June 2, 7:30-11:30 pm (2 hours off-ice, 2 hours on-ice),
must be Level 1 certified to attend.  (The reason Level 2 is offered before
Level 1 is that you need to teach a Level 1 class to get Level 2 certification.)
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> Both classes will be held at Sharks Ice at San Jose (the Sharks' practice
facility) 1500 S. 10th Street, San Jose, 95112.  Jerome Larson, Level 3
instructor and curling guru, is scheduled to be the lead instructor.
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> Contact Brent Halpenny at president@... for price information and to sign-up. 
Please contact me if there's anything else I can do to help.  And please pass
this along to anyone I've missed!
>
> thanks,
> Gabrielle Coleman
>

Hi all,

The San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club (SFBACC) and WineCountry Curling are
offering USCA Level 1 and Level 2 Instructor Training Classes in June and we'd
like to invite folks from the region (and anywhere else!) to join us.  We've got
information available on the SFBACC web site:  www.bayareacurling.com  but here
are a few key details:

Level 1 -- Tuesday, June 16, 7:30-11:30 pm, (2 hours off-ice, 2 hours on-ice),
must be a USCA member to attend

Level 2 -- Tuesday, June 2, 7:30-11:30 pm (2 hours off-ice, 2 hours on-ice),
must be Level 1 certified to attend.  (The reason Level 2 is offered before
Level 1 is that you need to teach a Level 1 class to get Level 2 certification.)

Both classes will be held at Sharks Ice at San Jose (the Sharks' practice
facility) 1500 S. 10th Street, San Jose, 95112.  Jerome Larson, Level 3
instructor and curling guru, is scheduled to be the lead instructor.

Contact Brent Halpenny at president@... for price information and
to sign-up.  Please contact me if there's anything else I can do to help.  And
please pass this along to anyone I've missed!

thanks,
Gabrielle Coleman

San Diego Curlers,

Hollywood Curling is holding its 2nd annual tournament this Memorial Day
Weekend(May 23-24th). We have a few of your members already signed up, but it
would be nice to see a few more of you show up and support us.
This year we have extended the tournament to two days. We have teams coming from
Seattle, Ogden, San Francisco, Vacaville, Scottsdale, Hollywood and San Diego.
If you have never been to a tournament, this will be a great tournament to get
your feet wet. The competition will be a notch up from your league play, and
there will be lots of side activities and festivities included. Our raffle and
silent auction will have very unique items like Signed Basket ball from Shaq,
Signed Poster from the US Olympic Curling Team, Signed Script from the Simpson
Series and lots more….
We are including Breakfast for both days and a great dinner party on Saturday
night. Our host hotel Mariott has given us a great deal on rooms, $89/night. All
team members get a goodie bag with swag.

For more info please go to our web site:
www.hollywoodcurling.org

If you want to join us as an individual player we can team you up with some of
our or other players from out of town.

Please send us an e-mail:
hollywoodcurling@...

Nick Kitinski
Hollywood Curling

Curlers,

THE ANSWERING MACHINE'S new Music Video has been released, and you might find
the set familiar. This Young band from Manchester wanted to try Curling so bad
that they requested it as a topic in their Video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDTTg_RCaTk


Their Signed CD will be in our Summer Blockbuster Spiel Raffle, Memorial Day
Weekend......


Nick

No I don't I had to drop it. I was hoping to hook up with a team from SD or LA.



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> I tried to register a team back in March, but they were sold out!
> Do you have a team slot?
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Nick are you going to the Desert spiel? I am looking to hook up with a
team as the team I had is not going to make it.


On 3/20/09, Nick Kitinski <lenick@...> wrote:
> San Diego Curlers,
>
> Hollywood Curling is having the "Summer Blockbuster Bonspiel" this Memorial
> Day Weekend. It will be twice as good and twice as long as last years Fun
> Spiel we had.
>
> We hope you had a good time last year and we would like to see more of you
> to this year.
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> There will be more info coming soon on our web page:
> www.hollywoodcurling.org
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> Nick Kitinski
> Hollywood Curling
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San Diego Curlers,

The Hollywood Summer Block Buster Spiel, May 23-24,info is now up on our
website:
www.hollywoodcurling.org

Margie, Cindy Ronzoni and Jon Wilson are attending....
We have Ogden Curling club, Granite Curling Club, Coyote Curling Club, Wine
Country CC and SFBACC attending as well.

Hope to see you there,

Nick Kitinski
Hollywood Curling


--- In Curl_SanDiego@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kitinski" <lenick@...> wrote:
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> San Diego Curlers,
>
> Hollywood Curling is having the "Summer Blockbuster Bonspiel" this Memorial
Day Weekend. It will be twice as good and twice as long as last years Fun Spiel
we had.
>
> We hope you had a good time last year and we would like to see more of you to
this year.
>
> There will be more info coming soon on our web page:
> www.hollywoodcurling.org
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> Nick Kitinski
> Hollywood Curling
>

San Diego Curlers,

Hollywood Curling is having the "Summer Blockbuster Bonspiel" this Memorial Day
Weekend. It will be twice as good and twice as long as last years Fun Spiel we
had.

We hope you had a good time last year and we would like to see more of you to
this year.

There will be more info coming soon on our web page:
www.hollywoodcurling.org


Nick Kitinski
Hollywood Curling

Well first I have had major problems with the computer and lost
EVERYTHING that was on it. Then my fiance ended up in the hospital due
to a stroke. She's fine now ( knock on wood ).
I just found out that the curling league has started and I never knew
about it until today. I guess I will not be participating this time
around.
Well I hope everyone is doing good. I am doing better, maybe I can
make it out there soon :)

It's Nick from Hollywood.
I plan on coming out to sub for anyone who needs me, any position.


Nick
818/731-4268

Jon,

Club management is currently myself, Alan Schmaltz, and Bob Weber, with
significant contributions from several other members.  I have been
traveling for the last few weeks and am still catching up on e-mail.

-Elliot

--- In Curl_SanDiego@yahoogroups.com, "Jon" <jonswilson@...> wrote:
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> Hi Curl San Diego.
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> Checking in on club status. No one answering posts on here. I have
> also e-mailed Elliot and no response. The USCA has contacted me about
> WCF stones. USCA needs to hear immediately from someone at Curl San
> Diego. Don't want to lose those stones?
>
> Please someone respond, or e-mail USCA.
>

Hi Nick,

We are having a learn to curl clinic this coming Saturday and our next
league will start on 1/31.  If there are any hollywood members crazy
enough to drive down for some curling, we have a few spots left to
fill... : )

-Elliot

--- In Curl_SanDiego@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kitinski" <lenick@...>
wrote:
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> Your Hollywood Curling Friends are wondering when your league will
> start up again??
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> Nick
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Hi Curl San Diego.

Checking in on club status. No one answering posts on here. I have
also e-mailed Elliot and no response. The USCA has contacted me about
WCF stones. USCA needs to hear immediately from someone at Curl San
Diego. Don't want to lose those stones?

Please someone respond, or e-mail USCA.

Your Hollywood Curling Friends are wondering when your league will
start up again??

Nick

Some Southern California Headlines!

Nick
Hollywood Curling


Seattle team posts big win

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 4, 2008

Seattle team posts big win at 2009 U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship



(TWO HARBORS, Minn.) - Seattle's Brady and Cristin Clark have won five
U.S. mixed team titles but have yet to conquer the mixed doubles
format. They got off to a fine start Thursday afternoon as they handed
Tom Hemenway and Margie Nelson an 11-2 loss at the 2009 U.S. Mixed
Doubles Championship at the Two Harbors Curling Club.



The Clarks methodically broke open a close game early and kicked it
into high gear in the second half to post the win. "We were only up
one at the halfway point, but I'm always comfortable if I know I have
the hammer to start the second half," Brady Clark said.



Hemenway (Scottsdale, Ariz.) had to make a tough draw in the first end
to avoid the steal and did it again in the third end to keep his team
in the game. "Tom made some crucial draws," Cristin Clark said of her
opponent.



Leading 3-2 after four ends, the Clarks scored three points to open up
the second half and then stole another three when Hemenway couldn't
convert one more big shot. A steal of two in the seventh end
mathematically put Hemenway and Nelson (Duluth, Minn.) out of the game.



"It's always nice to start out with a win," Brady Clark said. "We knew
we needed to keep the pressure on in the second half and force Tom to
make big shots."

Hi Curlers,

This saturday we will have another "fall league" set of games - if you
missed the last night, it was a lot of fun.

Our lines for the houses and hogs are in pretty rough shape.  The rink
manager has offered to help us fix them by having his crew paint and re-
flood the ice, but we need to router out the lines we want filled.  We
have been offered the time to do this after the games on Saturday (or
potentially during - we probably won't use all four sheets) - if you
would be available to help do this, we need at least a couple people to
pull this off - please let me know if you could help out!

Thanks,
-Elliot

Curl San Diego Curlers,

Hollywood Curling is donating seven brand spanking new step-on sliders
to Curl San Diego in the effort to help you guys out with the loss of
some of your sliders. These are hand made from one of our member, John
McIntosh, who has made us some in the past. I find them better than
the ones they sell.....
Hollywood just got 2 sets of stones from the USCA, and we are blaiming
it all on Jon Wilson!
Thanx Jon.


Sweep hard and see you guys on the ice soon,

Nick
Hollywood Curling

Two things. First, my new address and phone number (my home email
remains the same):

Bob Weber
4405D Parks Ave.
La Mesa, CA 91941

(619) 825-6390

Second: on October 11, I have to attend a school event and so will not
be able to curl. On October 25, I will be at a conference in Tulsa, OK
for school and so will not be able to curl. I should be able to make
the November date, but that's the only one. Therefore, I will stand
ready to sub on that night, if need be, but I will not I say again NOT
be joining a team for this "season"—it simply wouldn't be fair to my
teammates, whomever they may be. I'm NOT quitting, though! This is too
much fun! I'll look forward to teaming up with someone in January or
February or whenever we get rolling—no, sliding—again.

I can be there.



On 9/25/08, elliot_hicks <ehicks@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In case you have not yet heard, we have had to cancel this Saturday's
> planned curling night as our sliders went missing.  However, the ice is
> open from 7 PM on, which gives us an opportunity to repaint the houses
> and hog lines (they are almost gone).
>
> So, do we have enough people available to volunteer on Saturday night
> to get a crew together? Please let me know if you would be able to help
> out - it would be great to have our lines back.
>
> And sorry for the late notice - just found out from the rink manager
> that this Saturday would be available.
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> Thanks,
> -Elliot
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