1000 Island's Mixed Bonspiel March 4-6th at BCC

The Brockville Country Club presents the "1000 Island's Mixed Bonspiel" March 4, 5 & 6th, 2011. This spiel historically is well attended with teams coming from far and wide! Participants get a great package: Three (3) games guaranteed; Friday night pub snacks and Karaoke; Saturday breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening party; Beau's beer tasting; Sunday breakfast for teams still playing.
EVERYONE WELCOME for the spiel's Saturday evening party March 5th! Come on Members & Guests, let's join the curlers and party with Brockville's favourite band .. Healy and Orr ... starting at 7:00 PM. Cover charge just $5.00 with proceeds going to our BCC Little Rocks. Organizers Derek, Rob, Luc & Denise guarantee you'll be "Lovin the Ride".

BCC Impressive at Kingston Bonspiel

This past Saturday, February 12th, four Brockville Country Club curling teams participated in the Pat Lidd Senior Curling Bonspiel; at Cataraqui, Kingston. And our BCC teams were impressive; in fact they dominated!
Of the 24 teams participating our BCC teams placed 1st; 3rd; 4th and 5th. Wow! That's quite an acomplishment!
First overall was our BCC team skipped by Ron Edgeley, vice Warner Bischof, second Terry Fox and lead Jim Duhart.
Placing 3rd was Hank Hornay skip, Wayne Gallinger, John Wellington and Charlie Brady.
Fourth was Ray Thiboutot skip, Terry McDermid, Ian Nussey and Don Presley.
Fifth overall was our team of Al Kennedy skip, Larry Burrows, Grant Marshll and Colin Marriott.
Congrtaulations to all our players for representing themselves and the Brockville Country Club so well.

Busy Sunday Feb 13th at the BCC

Valentines Champagne Punch Brunch: A great turnout of some 110 BCC members and guests enjoyed a wonderful Valentines Brunch at the BCC Sunday February 13th from 11:00 AM to about 1:30 PM. Round of Beef; Rainbow Trout; Roasted Chicken; Ravioli; Sausage & Bacon; Vegetables; French Toast; Crepes; Omelette Station; Salad and Pastries along with beverages were some of the main features.
And of course the Chocolate Lovers Dessert Buffet was a huge draw to top off the scrumptious Brunch.


Golf Academy: While Brunch progressed in the Main Dining and Boardroom areas, members of the BCC Golf Academy were just below in the golf lounge hitting balls and taking a lesson from Derek. The Academy has been a great addition to the BCC giving our golfing members the opportunity to tune their game over the winter months.

Little Rocks Take to the Ice: Also Sunday morning, the Little Rocks program was in full swing on sheets 1 and 2 of our curling rink. Our budding stars! In addition to Jonathan, thanks goes to Cindy Dalgleish and Francis Lebrun for providing instruction.

Zone 2 PlayDowns: And if that was not enough, while all the above was going on, the BCC was hosting the Canada Gold Whisky Senior Mixed AND John Shay Insurance Mixed Zone 2 PlayDowns on sheets 3 to 6. Teams from Rideau, Prescott and Brockville participated with the top 2 from each divison advancing to the Regionals in Carlton Place. From there successful teams go to the Provincials the beginning of April. Congratulations to Matt Hone, Zone 2 OCA Representative and BCC member for orchestrating the event. Matt advises that next year, the BCC will actually be hosting the Provincials. Wow!

A busy Sunday Feb the 13th which demonstrates the many activities available to members; not just during the summer or winter, but all year round. Yes, membership in the BCC is a great value proposition!

Flagstick President Visits the BCC

This past Friday (Feb 4th), Jeff Bauder, President/Group Publisher of Flagstick Magazine, and related products, dropped into the BCC for a meeting with Derek MacDonald and Jack Kenny to talk golf and discuss BCC's promotional plans for the 2011 season. Serving Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais, Flagstick Magazine can be found in some 170 golf clubs throughout the area. The Magazine represents a targeted vehicle for the BCC to reach golfers in the greater Ottawa valley market. Flagstick is celebrating their 15th year of operation this season and will be moving to a higher-quality paper, making the magazine even more dazzling. To learn more about Flagstick, check out their web site at http://www.flagstick.com/. Now if we can just get rid of all that white stuff outside ..........

St. Lawrence Academy Enjoys Curling Classes

For the past three weeks, some forty (40) plus students from the St. Lawrence Academy have been enjoying and taking instruction in curling at the BCC. The program has been very successful in exposing the young grade 3 to grade 8 students to the game of curling. Thanks to Jonathan Penny and Ara Papertzian for providing instruction. Jonathan, who set up the program, indicated the students were really easy to teach and "were like little sponges" adapting very quickly to the instruction.
With the very successful curling program over for this year, the BCC fully expects to see the St. Lawrence Academy back again next year with their well behaved, enthusiastic students, for more curling instruction and experience.

LaChance Wins Mid Winter Classic

The BCC's Mid Winter Classic Bonspiel was held this past Saturday January 22, 2011. Twelve (12) member teams participated in some great and closely matched curling. Two complete (8 end) games were played with a lunch break between games.
The overall winner was the Bernie LaChance team (38.5) with vice David VanBridge, 2nd Lorraine White and lead Julie Brais. Closely in second was Ann Chick's team (35.0) with Raul Cirne (vice), Gord Dougall (2nd) and Cynthia Maskell (lead). Third place team was Bob Chick (34.0) with

Corry Fox, Lorna VanBridger and Mo Gariepy.

All said they had a great day and liked the format with many hoping the same format will be used for the closing bonspiel. Congratulations to Harold Mooibroek for organizing at great spiel.

BCC Members Welcome Home Cody Fox

Cody Fox has long been associated with the Brockville Country Club. He played in many curling leagues starting as a junior and throughout high school. He represented the BCC, TISS, EOSSA in many tournaments. He also worked part time at the BCC as one of our ice technicians. And then he joined the Canadian Forces and went to Afganistan. Completing his tour of duty in Afganistan, Cody recently returned to Brockville. BCC member Sid VanderMeuler suggested BCC should welcome Cody back (Cody seen in picture with parents Terry and Corry) by holding a bonspiel in his honour. The Club agreed and Bob Jordan said he would organize.

So Friday evening, Jan 21st, a "Welcome Home Cody" fun bonspiel was held in a "Doubles Curling" format under World Confederation Rules. Eight (8) ends of curling, a buffet compliments of BCC, and a lot of camaraderie. We are all proud of Cody for his service in Afganistan and it's great to have him home back safe and sound.