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Author: richardt

Curling Final 2….postponed

March 6, 2013
Rainwater

Today was Angela’s Junior Mixed Curling “scheduled” finals, the game has been postponed until after the March Break. The school they were suppose to play was not allowed to play today due to an athletic ban on their school.

On Monday there was a senior boys tier 1 ROPSSAA hockey final between Mount Carmel and St Michael from Bolton. The Mount Carmel team won 6-1, but not before 4 St Michael players were ejected in the third period due to an incident with the ref (or zamboni driver…details from the girls are sketchy at this point). The St Michael fans were unruly using f-bombs and other disrespectful actions.

As a result Angela’s team put in some practice and eventually watched the Mt Carmel Junior Girls win their finals and the Junior Boys lose theirs.

Angela and some of her teammates taking a break. It’s too bad they didn’t get to play today, it will be even worse if the athletic ban is upheld and they win by default.

The story doesn’t end there, it also affects Gillian and her teammates, as you recall Mount Carmel played St Michael yesterday in the Senior Girls finals. Because of the athletic ban, they would be ineligible to compete at OFSAA the week after March Break. Since the deadline for team entry is Thursday at midnight, there is a chance that Gillian’s team will be going to Ottawa to represent the Region of Peel. From what I gathered from the coaches today, a decision will be made by tomorrow morning.

Curling Final 1

March 5, 2013
Rainwater

Today was Gillian’s senior girls curling finals against St Michael from Bolton at the Brampton Curling Club. Unfortunately they came out on the wrong end of a 10-5 final. They were up 2-1 after the second end but after they scored 3 in the third end, the other team stole 4 in the fourth to put the game out of reach. Here are Gillian and Amanda waiting for a measurement on the ice.

The girls had a hard time reading the ice early on. They just weren’t catching any breaks.

A time out after the fourth end.

They ran out of rocks in the eighth end. It was a good season for them as they all graduate this year.

Their coaches are dedicated and put in a lot of time and effort for all the kids.

Alie, Steph, Gillian, Amanda and Abbey.

The girls with their coaches, Ms. Giovino and Mr. Young.

Gillian receiving her medal.

Gillian and Amanda.

The Mount Carmel 2012-13 Senior Girls Curling team.

Booking More Time Off

March 4, 2013
Rainwater

Looks like I’ll be booking more time off work this week. Today was Angela’s Junior Mixed Semi-finals at the Brampton Curling Club. Her team won 10-0 and they never had the hammer.

Angela was playing lead.

She did pretty good considering she was sick most of the weekend.

She said she had to take a break after sweeping so hard.

It was 5-0 after 4 ends.

Angela and her teammates.

Getting ready to deliver her rock.

Celebrating the victory. They move on to the finals against St Michaels on Wednesday.

Tuesday afternoon is Gillian’s Senior Girls finals. Good luck to both of them!

Curling Playoffs

March 1, 2013
Rainwater

Both Gillian and Angela have made the ROPSSAA Curling playoffs. Gillian’s team played Friday in their semi-final and won 10-1 in 7 ends. They play in the finals on Tuesday afternoon. Angela plays in their semi-final game on Monday. Good Luck to both of them.

Claudia’s Pathfinder Enrolment

February 27, 2013
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Claudia had her Enrolment ceremony for Pathfinders. Here she is receiving her pin.

Unfortunately afterwards her leaders talked about how they may be closing the unit after this year. We’ll have to wait and see, Angela moves on to Rangers next year, so it is just Claudia that will have to find a new unit if they can’t find new leaders.

Congratulations Claudia!

Gillian’s Curling Game

February 25, 2013
Rainwater

Gillian’s last regular season curling game was Monday. I had the day off, so I picked up Claudia and Angela after school and we headed down to the Dixie Curling Club. Gillian’s team was 5-0 going into the game. Their regular skip was away at Space Camp in Alabama.

Without their regular skip, there was a lot of curling by committee.

One of their teammates had to leave early, so they were down to three, which meant more sweeping for Gillian.

They won the game 8-2 to finish 6-0. They play their semi final game on Friday.

Geraldton, ON

February 22, 2013
Work Posts

I was up in Geraldton, Ontario this past week installing a new monitoring site. The site is half way between Geraldton and Longlac. Flew into Thunder Bay and then a 3.5 hour drive from there.

There was a lot of snow in town, they received a good dumping of snow just before we got there.

Everywhere you go in town, people get out of their cars and leave them running. Not just to run into the local store, but when they go in for dinner or the grocery store.

On the Wednesday, it was -26°C and -38°C with the windchill, but Thursday was a balmy -13°C with the windchill.

On Thursday evening we went to the Geraldton Curling Club to watch the Northern Ontario Senior Men’s Provincial Curling Championship. There were eight teams from around Northern Ontario playing for the right to play in the Canadian Senior Men’s Championship to be held in PEI in March. Among those playing was Al Hackner, a mainstay at the Labatt Brier during the 80’s and into the 90’s. He won 2 Brier’s and a World Championship.

On Friday we headed back to Thunder Bay to catch our flight back to Toronto. There is a giant snowman in Beardmore, ON. It stands at 35ft.

My colleague had never been to the Terry Fox Monument, so I made him stop to see a piece of Canadiana.

It was another challenge getting home, we boarded our flight, and before I had boarded they had already made an announcement that there was a ground closure at Pearson Airport due to snow in Toronto. They only had one runway open and with a backlog of flights, they delayed us. We spent one hour sitting on the plane, before they de-planed us and waited for another hour before we boarded again and were able to take-off.

Quebec City

February 15, 2013
Rainwater

Claudia spent the week in Quebec City on a school trip. They left Monday and returned on Thursday. The weather was good, not too cold. Some of the things they did were dog sledding, touring the old city and visiting the Ice Hotel. She had a great time. Here is one of her photos of Bonhomme.

Curling Season

February 12, 2013
Rainwater

Angela and Gillian’s school curling season is underway. They both had a game at the Chinguacousy Curling Club in Brampton. Here is Gillian getting ready to throw her rock.

Angela plays on the Junior Mixed team.

It was a close game, they were playing the other undefeated team, her team scored 3 in their final end to tie the game 5-5 before time ran out.

Snow Storm 1

February 10, 2013
Rainwater

A couple of days after the Feb 8th snowstorm. Both Susan and I had already booked the Friday off to go for Claudia’s teacher interview and watch Angela curl in the afternoon. The 25 plus cm of snow closed the girls schools and everyone just hunkered down for the day.

Some of the icicles on the tree out front.