Curling at Lloyd Center!
Learn To Curl Dates Announced
Learn to play an Olympic Sport at Lloyd Center Ice participate and help Ignite Portland at the same time!
ECC will provide the equipment and the training necessary for you to enjoy the sport of curling.
There are just a total of 20 spots available for the Ignite Portland special on February 12th. (ECC is donating all fees from the Ignite Learn to Curl event to Ignite Portland)
Other regular Learn to Curl dates are available. Just go to our Learn To Curl Page and sign up!
For more information e-mail membership:
DIY: Dedicated Ice in a Year
Thanks to all of your efforts in fundraising this year! Your donations, loans and volunteer work helped us to secure a total committed amount of $332,186.
This meets our original goal of $300K, but our detailed planning revealed that we will require $385.000. We are actively seeking funds to close the gap, and we are confident that we will reach the goal in early 2012.
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December Open House
Learn to Curl Dates Set
November 28th
December 4th
December 6th
Sign up online to reserve a spot
Dare to Curl
The World Curling Federation and the United States Curling Association has produced a new video called "Dare To Curl".
We have open spaces available in November-December, and we will have some open houses in January. Link your friends to the Dare to Curl Video and DARE your friends to curl!
Junior Curling Camp Starts November 1
Kids can Try Curling on Tuesdays in November!!
Tuesdays, November 1, 8 and 15 at 4:30pm
at Lloyd Center.
Only $10.
Drop-ins welcome!
Registration for Pacific International Cup (PIC)
ECC is accepting registration for the Pacific International Cup (PIC) to be held April 18-22, 2012.
Men and women teams interested in representing ECC must Register by November 15th, 2011. The PIC is held at the Richmond Curling Club in Vancouver, BC. Each team is guaranteed a minimum of seven games.
ECC 9th Annual Interclub Bonspiel
November 19th & 20th, 2011
Granite Curling Club
1440 N 128th St. Seattle,
WA 98133
Sponsored by the Evergreen Curling Club (With generous support from Granite Curling Club)
Entry fee $200 per Team ($50 per individual), which includes four games for all teams, lunch and dinner Saturday night and a continental breakfast Sunday.
There is a 16 team limit so don't delay! This casual bonspiel is designed to provide novice and intermediate curlers a chance to curl with more experienced players, gain some additional ice time and become exposed to competitive curling. Please note your years or levels of experience, so we have an opportunity to get to know you and match you appropriately.
To reserve your team or individual entry, to to reserve your spot or for more information.
Registration forms will be emailed back and a $50 deposit will be required to finalize your spot.
Please indicate your position preference 1st/2nd/vice/skip and experience level.
DIY: Dedicated Ice in a Year
So far this summer we have made great progress toward our new dedicated ice facility. We have a viable prospect building in Hillsboro that meets all of our criteria for cost, size, configuration, parking, zoning, electrical, accessibility, etc.
The landlord would like to enter into a lease agreement with us as soon as we are ready to commit.
Our Building Committee has inspected the building in detail and has met with the Hillsboro planning board to discuss our use of the building. The Building Committee has drawn a preliminary floor plan and is now busy preparing a detailed cost estimate for construction of a basic curling rink within the building.
Steve Liske and Peren Bjork travelled to Granite Curling Club in Seattle where they purchased and picked up Granite's Ice King ice scraper. Granite purchased this Ice King new in 1997 to help get ready to host the USCA National Men's Championships. It has been maintained well and should serve us well for several years as we learn to make and prepare ice in our new facility.
Meanwhile our Fundraising Committee has had great success with the Big Dipper Bonspiel and the fundraising letter campaign. We have increased our collected and pledged amounts to a total of $175,000.
More, much more, still lies ahead of us. We are now applying for grants and loans. We need ECC members to send in their pledged donations and loans as soon as possible. We need all members to donate or loan whatever they can to help reach the $300,000 goal. Soon we will start a campaign to encourage our non-curling friends to donate to the cause. With everybody's help we will reach our goal of opening the first dedicated ice curling rink on the U.S. west coast since 1961.
---Bruce Irvin, ECC Treasurer
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