PO Box 5
Highway 59 North
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
  
January 2006 Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 5
Upcoming Events
    
Kitchen Events :
•Carefree Canadian Bonspiels
Senior Ladies Jan 22-24
CAN/USA Feb 3-4
Ladies Open Feb 5-7
Why Not? Feb 19-21
Manitoba Hydr Feb 24-25
Senior Men Mar 19-21
•Lakes Open Bonspiel
Feb 10-12, 2006

•Annual Meeting & Club Championship
March 25, 2006

  No one has stepped forward to become the Kitchen Coordinator for the Curling Season. We need people to volunteer their time for one of seven events. We’re looking for volunteers to handle the Kitchen duties for each Carefree and the Lakes Curling Open Bonspiel. We wouldn’t need you here constantly, but someone to supervise the kitchen help. If you could help with one event, we promise not to ask you to help another event. The Senior Ladies Carefree Canadian Bonspiel is our first event, scheduled for Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, January 22, 23, & 24, 2006. Please let someone on the Board know that you’re interested.

  Family Night:
Interested in curling for the whole family? We are considering either starting a league or just have a night out for the family. We could schedule Friday nights, Saturday or Sunday afternoons or evenings. Let the Board know if interested and we will set the date(s).
  Women's League:
Dale Westley has reported that we have nine teams for the Mixed League on Mondays. That means 18-22 women who are now curling! We are looking for an individual(s) to establish a Women’s League consisting of 12-16 women or more. We will work with you and around our league schedules. Please take the time to discuss this wonderful opportunity. Let the Board know if interested and we will set the date(s).

  Rental of Club:
We will be charging $75 for rental of the club and $25 extra if not cleaned. Cleaning is clearing the tables of bottles and trash, restocking the refrigerator, cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms.
  Carefree Canadian Bonspiels:
Carefree is a Canadian travel agency, which has a contract with the Shooting Star Casino and our club. They bus curlers to the Casino and every two hours during the afternoon and evening they bus them down to our curling club for their Bonspiel. We rent the club and receive a large part of our revenue from this source. We need volunteers to help during these time periods. Our Kitchen and Beverage area are busy and need to be manned. The ice needs to be maintained. Many of our volunteers help with all six of these events. If you could help with one day or one event, it could relieve these people of constantly being at the club. Some of these events are on Monday or Tuesday, so if you’re retired or not working on those days, please consider helping.
Curling Tip:
Strategy of curling comes down to the draw game or the take-out game. The Free Guard Zone, the area in front of the house, cannot remove a rock from play by the opposing lead. This plays into the Draw game and allows for higher scoring because the Take-out game cannot be implemented until after the leads have thrown. The Draw game is offensive or aggressive play, where guards, raises, come-arounds, and freezes are either in front of or in the house. The Take-out game is a defensive style of play in which the house is kept free of opposition rocks and the front is kept as open as possible. Make an objective analysis of each team member’s ability to; draw, take-out and sweep before your team formulates an overall strategy. Implement the tactics that play to your team’s strengths and your opponent’s weaknesses. The last rock advantage (the “Hammer”) gives you the opportunity to become more aggressive. Skips will attempt to score more than one point. Taken from the USA Curling Association Brochure “Strategy Mind Play”.

There are four types of Ice Conditions: Heavy, Fast, Swingy and Straight. The worse the ice conditions the more aggressive you can be. Earlier this season we had swingy ice, this makes take-outs more difficult because weight and line of delivery are critical. What type of ice do we have now?

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