Big night for curling (Transcontinental)

By Mike Carson

SUMMERSIDE — It was a night to honour and celebrate some of the best the
sport of curling has to offer Monday as nine curlers were inducted into the
Prince Edward Island Curling Hall of Fame and Museum.

The new inductees were Barb Currie, curler/builder category, Lorn Burke,
curler, and his daughter Kathie Gallant, curler/builder, Ken MacDonald, curler,
and Bill Jenkins rink, curler.

In her playing career, Currie and her team won the P.E.I. ladies’ curling
championship in 1984 and 1985.

She followed that with wins in the P.E.I. senior women’s championship in
2001, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

She won several club curling titles as well.

She was involved in all facets of the game from the competitive side to the
technical side to volunteering her time and talents to the game and as a
coach.

Currie’s nephew, Morgan Currie, accepted the award.

“It’s a great honour for the Currie family to be here this evening for the
induction of my aunt into the Prince Edward Island Curling Hall of Fame and
museum,” he said. “It’s an organization in which she was very much involved.
Barbara was a curler, a builder and a volunteer, a tireless promoter and student
of the game she loved. She was one of the founding members of the Curling Hall
of Fame and Museum and served as a board member until she passed away.”

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Photo (L-R): Morgan Currie, Lorn Burke, Kathie Gallant, Ken MacDonald

Photo (L-R): Doug Cameron, Alan Mayhew, Sandy Stewart, John Scales, Bill Jenkins

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