Souris PEI native Ian MacAulay, a well-known Ottawa-area ice-technician and curler, paid a visit to the Cornwall Curling Club, where he had a chance to throw a few rocks, and talk “ice” with Cornwall’s new icemaker, Brent Irving.

Brent Irving (left), and Ian MacAulay

MacAulay, playing on the Bryan Cochrane team, is a former Ontario Provincial Men’s Curling Champ, two-time Canadian Senior Men’s Curling Champion, former World Senior Men’s Silver-Medallist and reigning World Senior Men’s Champion.

Team Canada, with a pair of Islanders on the roster, won the world senior men’s curling championship in Norway. From left are Paul Adams, Ken Sullivan, Morgan Currie of Summerside, Ian MacAulay of Souris and Bryan Cochrane. Photo by Alina Pavlyuchik/World Curling Federation – Contributed

MacAulay has been the head ice technician at the Rideau Curling Club, Ottawa Curling Club and currently at the RCMP Curling Club.