History 
Combined Association Minutes 1998-99 to 2002-2003
The recording of the history of the PEI Curling Association (Men's and Ladies) and curling clubs on PEI is part of a project initiated by Jerry Muzika through the PEI Curling Association with the view to preserving the curling heritage of Prince Edward Island. Minutes from the Associations and some of the curling clubs have been reviewed and excerpts taken and compiled chronologically. Some anecdotal accounts have also been included for their historical interest.
Thank you - to all who have cooperated and participated in this project. Especially to Debbie Carragher and Janet Doiron at Sport PEI, Shirley Lank, Cornwall Curling Club, Ron Atkinson, Belvedere, and all those who located minutes and entrusted them to me as I carried out my review. Any errors and/or omissions are unintentional and corrections should be passed on to me at this web site. - Jerry Muzika
Below are the minutes of the PEI Curling Association after the 1990 amalgamation of the men's and women's association, and covering the period from 1999-2003.
1998-1999 Season
P.E.I CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Thursday, May 27, 1999
Charlottetown Curling Club
The 10th Annual General Meeting of the PEI Curling Association was held at the Charlottetown Curling Club on May 27, 1999 with President Bruce Read in the Chair.
ITEM I: CALL TO ORDER
President Bruce Read welcomed all members and called the meeting to order. Bruce introduced Les Harrison, Director of C.C.A., here from Moncton, as an observer.
ITEM II: REPORT OF CREDENTIALS
Crapaud - No vote; Silver Fox - One (1) vote; Cornwall (2) votes; Montague - Two (2) votes; Charlottetown - Two votes; O’Leary - Two (2) votes; Alberton - Two (2) votes; Five votes from the Executive plus the President’s vote to break a tie if necessary.
ITEM III: RECOGNITION OF CURLERS DECEASED DURING THE PAST YEAR
A moment of silence was held in recognition of curlers who passed away during the past year.
ITEM IV: MINUTES OF PREVIOUS ANNUAL MEETING
It was moved by Bruce Read, seconded by Wellington Gay, that the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting be accepted as circulated. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM V: PRESIDENT’S REPORT
It was moved by Bruce Read, seconded by Val MacLean, that the President’s Report be adopted as circulated. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VI: SECRETARY/TREASURER’S REPORT
It was moved by Jim Trainor, seconded by Kaye MacFadyen, that the Secretary/Treasurer’s Report be adopted as circulated. MOTION CARRIED
Kathy O’Rourke suggested that for next year a balance sheet be included in the Auditor’s Report. Bob Wright advised it would be no problem to do this but would cost more money.
ITEM VII: OTHER REPORTS
President Bruce announced that an Ice Makers Course would be put on by the C.C.A. at the Crapaud Curling Club in August prior to the Summer Spud. Cost would be $500.00 per Club. This would be deducted from the profit to be given to each Club from the Scott. Clubs are to advise as soon as possible if they are attending.
President Bruce Read moved the adoption of his report, seconded by Kaye MacFadyen.
MOTION CARRIED
Sharon Walker, 1st Vice President, moved the adoption of her report, seconded by Brenda MacMillan. MOTION CARRIED
Kevin Champion, 2nd Vice President, moved the adoption of his report, seconded by Dawn MacFadyen. MOTION CARRIED
Nicole Phillips, 3rd Vice President, moved the adoption of her report, seconded by Sharon Walker.
MOTION CARRIED
Bruce Horne, Delegate-at-Large, moved the adoption of his report, seconded by Val MacLean.
MOTION CARRIED
Marketing - No report.
Barb Currie, Technical Director, moved the adoption of her report, seconded by Wellington Gay.
MOTION CARRIED
Brenda MacMillan, Junior Development, moved the adoption of her report, seconded by Kaye MacFadyen. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VIII: CORRESPONDENCE
No correspondence was put forth.
ITEM IX: BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE
No business arising.
ITEM X: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BYLAWS
It was moved by Past President Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Read that:
(1) Be it resolved that Section 2 of the P.E.I.C.A. Constitution be amended as follows:
Repeal Section (e)
“Member” means any member of an affiliated curling club or other curling establishment duly registered with the Association.
Interpretation
Only those member categories which require the maximum fee for men, women and juniors are eligible to enter provincially sanctioned competitions. (This excludes the life-member category at those clubs which have contracted such a membership).
With regards to the Eight Year and Under Provincial Championship, it shall be open to all members of curling clubs and club leagues, including one night members and rec./commercial league curlers.
Replace with:
“Member” means any member of an affiliated curling club or other curling establishment duly registered with the Association.
MOTION DEFEATED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Nicole Phillips, that:
(2) Be it resolved that Section 6.4 of the P.E.I.C.A. Constitution be amended as follows:
Repeal:
Twelve members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at
all meetings of the Association.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Sharon Walker, that:
(3) Be it resolved that Section 7.2 of the P.E.I.C.A. Constitution be amended as follows:
Repeal the line
Delegate-at-Large Provincial Men’s 8 Year and Under and Women’s 8 Year and Under
Replace with:
Delegate-at-Large Provincial 8 Year and Under
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Sharon Walker, that:
(4) Be it resolved that Section 14 of the P.E.I.C.A. Constitution be amended as follows:
Repeal
The Annual Dues for each affiliated club shall be at a rate determined by the Executive and ratified at the Annual Meeting. Dues shall be payable on the 1st day of January of each year. Should a club fail to pay its dues by the due date, its members shall not be eligible to compete in bonspiels sponsored by the Association.
Replace with:
The Annual Dues for each affiliated club shall be at a rate determined by the Executive and ratified at the Annual Meeting. Dues shall be payable on the 1st day of December of each year and shall be comprised of two
components:
(1) A fee for each member of an affiliated curling club who curls a minimum of once per week.;
(2) A per sheet assessment determined by the Canadian Curling Association.
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Wellington Gay, that the above motion be amended with the sentence, “ This fee entitles the member to play in all Provincially sanctioned events and receive other Association benefits” being deleted.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Brenda MacMillan, that:
(5) Be it resolved that 16.5 of the P.E.I.C.A. Constitution be amended as follows:
Repeal sections (c) Provincial Junior Mens and Womens
(e) Provincial Senior Mens and Womens
(f) Provincial Masters Mens and Womens
Replace with sections (c) Provincial Juniors
(e) Provincial Seniors
(f) Provincial Masters
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Horne, that:
(6) Be it resolved that Section 18 of the P.E.I.C.A. Constitution be amended as follows:
Repeal: Delegate-at-Large
Chairs Provincial Mens and Womens 18 Year and Under
Replace with: Delegate-at-Large
Chairs Provincial 8 Year and Under
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Nicole Phillips, that:
(7) Be it resolved that the Provincial Playdown General Rules be amended as follows:
Repeal from all titles the word Rules.
Replace with: Rules for (title).
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Horne, that:
(8) Be it resolved that Page 7 of the Provincial Playdown Rules be amended as follows:
Repeal the title Provincial Junior Mens and Womens Rules.
Replace with: Rules for Provincial Juniors.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Sharon Walker, that:
(9) Be it resolved that Section 4 the Provincial Junior Mens and Womens Rules be amended as follows:
Repeal: The draw is to be a triple knockout competition for the curling season 1997-98 on a trial basis, then to be reviewed before the 1998-99 season.
Replace with: The draw shall be a triple knockout competition.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Horne, that:
(10) Be it resolved that Page 8 the Provincial Playdown General Rules be amended as follows:
Repeal the title: Provincial Senior Mens and Womens Rules.
Replace with: Rules for Provincial Seniors.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Horne, that:
(11) Be it resolved that the Provincial Playdown General Rules be amended as follows:
Repeal Page 9. MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Horne, that:
(12) Be it resolved that Page 10 the Provincial Playdown General Rules be amended as follows:
Repeal the title Provincial 8 Year Womens Rules.
Replace with: Rules for Provincial 8 Year and Under.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Helen Robbins, seconded by Kenny Mutch, that:
(13) Be it resolved that the PEI Provincial Junior Playdowns be run as a round robin tournament if there are six (6) or less teams entered. If there are more than (6) teams and even in number, tournament is to be run as a spilt round robin (pools). If there are more than (6) teams and odd in number; the tournament is to be run as a double knockout to declare the winner. The round robin or spilt round robin would then use the page system for the top four teams to declare a winner.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Brenda MacMillan, seconded by Helen Robbins, that the above motion be amended to read that:
The PEI Provincial Junior Playdowns be run as a round robin playdown.
Round robin will be followed by playoff determined by the number of entries. The
Playoff format would be decided by the Executive and Junior Co-ordinator.
ORIGINAL MOTION DEFEATED
AMENDED MOTION DEFEATED
It was moved by Donna Lank, seconded by Sharon Walker, that:
To reword Item #8
Repeal: Friday Curling will commence at 4:00pm or later
Replace with: Friday Curling will commence as late in the day as possible to ensure all teams can be scheduled to play two games on Friday, unless the number of teams makes this impossible.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Kathy O’Rourke, seconded by Wellington Gay, that:
The Provincial Mixed Curling Playdowns be moved to the first week in December of the same curling season as the National Championship.
We therefore move that beginning with 2000/2001 curling season, the Mixed Playdowns be held in December of the same curling season as the National Championship. The format would be a one weekend double knockout Championship opened to all teams in the Province.
It was moved by Sharon Walker, seconded by Sarah, that the above motion be amended to read:”to December” instead of “to the first week in December”.
MOTION CARRIED
ORIGINAL MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED
It was moved by Brenda MacMillan, seconded by Kevin Champion, that:
Be it resolved that young men and women who meet the age requirements and holding a Provincial Competitors Card be able to play in any Provincial Playdown (e.g. Scott Tankard, Mixed). Eligibility age for competitions regarding the above is 19 years of age before July 1st prior to the competition.
It was moved by Sharon Walker, seconded by Donna, that the above motion be amended to read:
“Be it resolved that young men and women who meet the age requirements in their last year of junior eligibility and holding a Provincial Competitors Card be able to play in any Provincial Playdown (e.g. Scott Tankard, Mixed).
MOTION CARRIED
ORIGINAL MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED
It was moved by Sharon Walker, seconded by Bruce Horne, that the Rules for Provincial 8 Year and Under be changed as follows:
PREVIOUS
1. Rules of the games shall be those adopted by the Canadian Curling Association. All games will be ten ends in duration, but if tied at that point, will continue for extra ends until a winner is declared. The losing team may concede the game at any time they so wish, with the approval of the umpire.
NEW
1. Rules of the games shall be those adopted by the Canadian Curling Association. All games
will be eight ends in duration, but if tied at that point, will continue for extra ends until a winner is declared. The losing team may concede the game at any time they so wish, with the approval of the umpire.
PREVIOUS
6. Once during a competition a team may play three games per day. On all other days no team
shall be required to play more than two games. It is further provided that no team shall be required to commence a game without having a rest period of at least (1) hour.
NEW
6. A team can play (3) games on any day of the competition games. No team shall be required to commence a game without having a rest period of at least (1) hour.
PREVIOUS
8. It shall be the responsibility of the Provincial Chairperson to arrange the draw and games schedule within the scope of the rules. Complete authority to conduct the competition within the rules is the responsibility of the Provincial Chairperson.
NEW
8. It shall be the responsibility of the Provincial Chairperson to arrange the draw and games. If there are more than 12 teams entered than there will be two (2) divisions with the winners and the runners-up receiving prizes. If there is less than 12 teams then there will be only one section in the draw. Complete authority to conduct the competition within the rules is the responsibility of the Provincial Chairperson.
NEW
11. This event will be double knockout competition. The first game will be no earlier than 6:00 pm on the first day and will conclude on Sunday.
NEW
12. This event will be a cashspiel. The prize money will come from the entry fee and the sponsor. The prize breakdown will come from the entry fee and the sponsor. The prize breakdown will be the responsibility of the Chairperson.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Wellington Gay, seconded by Mark O’Rourke, that beginning with the 1999/2000
curling season, the Men’s Final 8 Tankard Playdowns be held at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club and the Womens Scott Playdowns be held at the Charlottetown Curling Club. These two events would then alternate between these two clubs every year thereafter.
The Tankard Open would rotate between Alberton, O’Leary, Crapaud, Montague and Cornwall.
MOTION DEFEATED
ITEM XI: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SITES AND DATES FOR BONSPIELS
Seniors Maple Leaf Dec. 10-14, 1999
Juniors Silver Fox Jan. 7-10, 2000
Masters Charlottetown Jan. 10-12, 2000
Scott Western Jan. 21-25, 2000
Labatt Open Crapaud Jan. 28 - Feb. 1, 2000
Labatt Final Eight Cornwall Feb. 4-8, 2000
8 Year and Under Montague March 3-5, 2000
Novice Charlottetown Feb. 18 -20, 2000
ITEM XII: ELECTION OF OFFICERS
The Nominating Committee, Dawn MacFadyen moved the nomination of the following for the positions as noted, seconded by Muncey Harris.
Bruce Read Past President
Nicole Philips 2nd Vice President
Sharon Walker President
Bruce Horne 3rd Vice President
Kevin Champion 1st Vice President
Marion MacAulay Delegate-at-Large
Dawn MacFadyen declared all of the above elected.
ITEM XIII: NEW BUSINESS
Mark O’Rourke suggested that the P.E.I.C.A. consider allowing Novice Curlers to play in the Provincial Junior Playdowns.
ITEM XIV: APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
President Bruce announced the President Elect Sharon Walker would be the Representative to the Annual General Meeting in Ottawa.
ITEM XV: ELECTION OF AUDITOR
Bob Wright has agreed to do the audit for the 1999/2000 curling year.
ITEM XVI: HALL OF FAME
Nothing to report.
ITEM XVII: VOTE OF THANKS
Bruce thanked everyone for the help they gave him over the past seven years.
ITEM XVIII: INSTALLATION OF NEW PRESIDENT AND HER REMARKS
Bruce welcomed Sharon Walker as the new President of the P.E.I.C.A. Sharon thanked Dawn and Bruce for all their help during the year. She also thanked all members of the Executive and other officers who are staying on. Sharon welcomed Marion MacAulay to the Executive as Delegate-at-Large.
ITEM XIX: RATIFY DUES
It was moved by Helen Robbins, seconded by Kenny Mutch, that the Association fees collected by the P.E.I.C.A. be set at a minimum rate of 2% (to a maximum of 3%) of the Club membership dues.
MOTION DEFEATED
It was moved by Dawn MacFadyen, seconded by Bruce Horne, that the dues for the year 1999/2000
be set as follows:
‒ Sheet assessment increased from $76.00 to $80.00;
‒ Association dues will be $5.00 per member who curls for a minimum of once per week;
‒ Participant cards increased from $15.00 to $20.00;
‒ Entry fees for Scott, Tankard, Mixed and Seniors increased from $80.00 to $100.00;
‒ Masters and Eight Year remain at $68.00;
‒ Juniors remain at $60.00
‒ Novice remain at $48.00
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XX: ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Donna Lank moved that the meeting be adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Trainor
Secretary/ Treasurer
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Enclosures
PEI Curling Association
Presidents Report
1988 - 1999
It was a great honor to act as your President this past year. Following in the footsteps of Dawn MacFadyen was no easy task, especially since she was awarded Administrator of the Year by Sport PEI.
Speaking of Sport PEI, Curling did very well at this years Sports Awards event with three awards. Along with Dawn, we had Stefanie Richard win the Fair Play Award and the Suzanne Gaudet Rink won the Team of the Year Award - Congratulations to all of you.
One of the main objectives your Executive had this year was to show positive results relating to financials. I’m happy to report that with the help of Jim Trainor, Bob Hennessey and Kathy O’Rourke we achieved this goal by implementing a new accounting system, which allowed us to have better control over revenue and expense. By keeping a close eye on results we were able to report a surplus this year.
The other members of your Executive did an outstanding job of coordinating provincial events and carrying out various administrative duties.
After Christmas, Pat Alyward informed us that he had to resign his position of Marketing Director for personal reasons. Pat was a large contributor over the past few years in promoting curling at the grassroots level and started the national program of Business in Curling with many of our clubs. Pat’s contribution to curling will be missed by all of us who had the opportunity to work with him and we wish him the best in the future.
On the curling front we sent some of our best teams to the Nationals with the highlight being the Peter MacDonald Rink’s Second place finish in Victoria.
Our Juniors held their own and our Seniors had a great time at their Nationals. Robert Campbell won his 5th Provincial and held his own at the Nationals against a strong field. Rebecca Jean MacPhee kept us on the edge of our seats trying for a playoff berth but fell just short.
FORD PROVINCIAL MIXED
FINAL REPORT
1999
This year’s Ford Provincial Mixed was hosted by the Maple Leaf Curling Club and the Western Curling Club with the event being held on two weekends March 19-21 and March 26-28.
A total of 18 Teams entered the event, down considerably from last year. When asked the teams stated reasons like too late in the year, have to be away two weekends, should have one weekend only and should be held one or two months prior to the National Championship, not 10 months.
Our first weekend in O’Leary was hosted by Leah and Muncey Harris, who were on a cruise, while their friends did a great job of hosting the 18 teams. As usual, they put on a great banquet and took care of the needs of the players and the sponsor.
Our final eight weekend in Alberton was hosted by Charlene Ashley who with her team had the Club looking great. The food prepared by volunteers was better than any I have tasted in clubs across the Island. The Western Club put a lot of effort into hosting this event and did an outstanding job, it’s too bad the fans did not show up to enjoy their hospitality.
We saw some great curling at this event and at the end of the first weekend we declared Eight Teams for the Finals. John Likely, Andrew Robinson, Leo Stewart, Bill MacFadyen, Peter MacDonald, Clari Sweet, Roddy MacDonald and Mike Gaudet.
During the final weekend John Likely continued to dominate the field and was declared the winner on Sunday going through undefeated with a win in the final game over Roddy MacDonald 7 -2.
John and his team of Susan MacInnis, Mark Butler and Nancy Cameron will represent PEI and the 2000 Nationals in Lethbridge, Alberta.
2ND VICE PRESIDENT'S REPORT
The 1999 Labatt Tankard Open was hosted by the Cornwall Curling Club from January 29th to February 2nd. The event was once again sponsored by the Labatt’s Breweries and Island Tel and we once again thank these valued sponsors for their support and look forward to working with them in the future.
There were thirty seven teams entered in the Competition with all curling clubs on PEI being represented. Bob Wright and Sarah Stevenson co-chaired the Host Committee for their club and the Cornwall Curling Club proved once again to be an excellent host for a provincial competition. Thank you Bob, Sarah and the Cornwall Curling Club for a job well done.
A banquet was held on Friday night between draws and was attended by approximately 80% of the curlers. On hand at the banquet was Errol Thompson of Labatt Breweries, Bruce Reid representing Island Tel, as well as the recipients of the Labatt Appreciation Awards. The Award winners were Roy Coffin, Cornwall; Charles MacIntosh, Summerside; and Bill MacPhee, Charlottetown.
The eight qualifying teams were as follows:
1) Garth Mitchell 5) John Likely
2) Mike Gaudet 6) Doug Jenkins
3) Blair Weeks 7) Peter MacDonald
4) Robert Campbell 8) Phil Gorveatt
The Labatt Tankard Final was held at the Charlottetown Curling Club from February 4th to February 8th. I would like to thank Wellington Gay and his Committee for an excellent job for what very well may have been the best Final to date.
Events held during the “Final Eight” weekend included an opening ceremony in which the curlers were piped in as well as the singing of O’Canada, a Closing Ceremony with an on ice presentation of the Labatt Tankard to the winning team; as well as live entertainment between draws and after.
On Friday evening a reception was held for the former PEI Provincial winners. This reception was well attended and proved popular with the past Provincial Champions.
The Host Committee guaranteed seating by setting up bleachers on the unused ice surface where many of the curling fans took in the action.
The Charlottetown Curling Club set a precedent with the 1999 “ Final Eights” and it is hoped that all clubs can follow suit and help us to build this into a premier event.
The Final came down to a best two of three games between Robert Campbell and John Likely. The Campbell Rink swept both games by scores of 7-3 and 5-1 to claim the Provincial crown. Members of the winning team as well as the runner-up team are as follows:
Skip Robert Campbell Skip John Likely
Mate Peter Gallant Mate Kevin Champion
Second Mark O’Rourke Second Eric Broderson
Lead Mark Butler Lead Mark Victor
Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Champion
2ND Vice President
PEI Curling Association
3rd VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CURLING ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
MAY 27, 1999
CHARLOTTETOWN CURLING CLUB
As 3rd Vice President for the Association for the 1998-1999 curling season, I was responsible for
co-ordinating two championship events sanctioned by the Association: the Masters and the Seniors.
What was unique about these two events was that neither lead to a national event sanctioned by the Canadian Curling Association. Instead, the former event had its winners participate in the Maritime Masters Curling Association Championships and the latter event produced winners that will be seeded into next year’s provincial event.
One common thread I realized throughout my year is that we, as an Association, must secure good sponsors early to help subsidize the costs of events and to ensure that participants will find value in participating, especially in those events that do not lead to a prestigious national event.
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S PROVINCIAL MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP
This event was held successfully at the Silver Fox and Yacht Club in Summerside January 11-14th with 11 Men’s teams and two Women’s teams participating as follows:
Our event budget was set at $500.00, with entry fees of $68.00 per team. Although last year’s event did not have a corporate sponsor, we were able to secure Island Tel Mobility for this year’s event in the form of a cash sponsor.
Banners were displayed in the club to ensure our sponsor received visibility.
Revenues: Team Entries $884.00
Sponsorship $300.00
Total $1,184.00
Budget: $ 500.00
Expenses: Reception $ 264.83
Prizes (Gift Certificate from Island Tel) $ 200.00
Under Budget: $ 35.17
A reception was held at the Silver Fox late Monday afternoon with hors d’oeuvres catered by the Silver Fox at which time a few welcomes were given by Jim Smith who was Chair of the Maritime Masters, and me.
The event was a double-knockout format with the eventual winners being both from the Host Club, Silver Fox:
MENS Wayne Gardiner, Skip WOMENS Marie Gaudet, Skip
Fred Hiscock Mabel Gardiner
Earl Hayes Wilna Yeo
Raymond Thomson Marie Landry
Runner-Up teams were the Richard Savidant Rink and Pearl Giggey Rink respectively.
Press releases were sent to various media outlets prior to the event, results were faxed to these outlets, and the newspaper was contacted to take pictures of the winning teams.
The top two Finishing teams from both Mens and Womens Divisions qualified to play in the Maritime Masters Championships, which were also being hosted at the Silver Fox in February. At this time, the P.E.I.C.A. does not formally sanction this Maritime event because it is hosted by a separate Association. (i.e. Legion, Firefighters events, etc.). However, from speaking to various participants, I feel they would like the P.E.I.C.A. to continue running the Provincial event and every third year when it is PEI’s turn to host the Maritime event, administer and sponsor that event too. At this time, I recommend that the P.E.I.C.A. continues their current arrangement.
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S PROVINCIAL SENIORS SEEDING EVENT
At last year’s Provincials, the participants were surveyed as to whether they would prefer having the Provincial event in the same curling season as the National event over the existing rule. Overwhelmingly, the group chose the change meaning that the event in March 1999 would be a “catch up” year in which winners would not go to the 1999 Nationals. Instead, the P.E.I.C.A. would hold a seeding event in March 1999 and change the Provincial’s annual date to December 1999 and winners from that would be sent to the 2000 Nationals. It was decided as an incentive for teams to participate, this year’s one time event would be run as a Cashspiel and that the top four Finishing teams in both Men’s and Women’s would be seeded into the December 1999 event.
This Seeding Championship was held at the Montague Curling Club and was scheduled for March 5th- 8th, with a Banquet being held on Friday night catered by the club. Nokia filled their final year of their commitment as a sponsor and donated cash as well as prizes, and the Company Representative, Dan Sutherland was present for some of the games. (Nokia has nationally shifted all their curling sponsorships to the sport of Snowboarding for the next few years). Again, it was ensured that our sponsor received visibility in all forms of promotion and press coverage and many banners were placed throughout the club.
There were 6 Men’s teams and 6 Women’s teams entered in this year’s competition.
Due to inclement weather, the Finals were postponed to the following weekend with the top four teams for seeding purposes in each of the Men’s and Women’s Divisions as follows:
MENS WOMENS
Jim Trainor, Charlottetown Diane MacKay, Charlottetown
Roddy MacLean, Cornwall Myrna Sanderson, Cornwall
William Nicholson, Crapaud Sharon Knox, Charlottetown
Leslie Hardy, Western Eileen Fulford, Charlottetown
The Men’s Champion was the Jim Trainor Rink and the Women’s Champion, the Diane MacKay Rink, both from the Charlottetown Curling Club. Entry fees were $80.00 per team and our budget remained the same at $1000.00.
Revenue Sponsorship $2,000.00
Entry Fees $ 960.00
Total Revenue $2,960.00
Budget $1000.00
Expenses Banquet $660.00
Cash Prizes $600.00
Over Budget $ 260.00
Although it appears that this event’s expenses were over the allotted budget of $1000.00, it has been agreed to by the Executive at a meeting on February 4, 1999 that the cash prizes for the modified event would be 60% of the total entry or $576.00, which I rounded up to $600.00.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole Phillips
3RD Vice President
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT
REPORT ON THE 1999 SCOTT TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS
SILVER FOX CURLING AND YACHT CLUB
JANUARY 22-27, 1999
There were 16 teams entered this year. This was doubled over last year’s 8. The Opening Draw was Friday the 22nd at 4:00pm and the Final Game was Wednesday the 27th at 7:00pm. It was a triple knockout event.
The Opening Ceremonies started with the teams being piped in by Lex Pate and escorted by Scott Representative Gerry Gelhart and “Scotty”, the official mascot.
After the First Draw there was a Banquet for curlers and invited guests. Following the Banquet the 1999 Scott Appreciation Awards were presented by Gerry Gelhart.
This year’s worthy recipients were:
- Helen MacDonald from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club. She was introduced by Barb Currie.
- Vernita Flemming from the Cornwall Community Curling Club. She was introduced by Carolyn Hughes.
- Florence Wonnacott from the Charlottetown Curling Club. She was introduced by Pearl Giggey.
Three very deserving Award winners.
We were very pleased to have attend the Banquet: Gerry Geldhart from Scott Paper; City of Summerside Councillor Norma DesRoches; MLA Summerside-Wilmot Greg Deighan and his wife Pauline, MLA Summerside-St. Eleanors Nancy Guptill; Club Manager Carl Delaney and his wife Irene; Silver Fox Club President Alan Ripley and his wife Sandy, P.E.I.C.A. President Bruce Read and his wife Evelyn and Silver Fox Club delegates Sandy MacPhee and Pat Pegg.
Many thanks go to Club delegates Sandy and Pat for all their hard work in making sure everything went on schedule and that all requests were met. Many thanks go to Carl Delaney and his staff for their hard work and long hours. Also, a special thanks to the members of the Silver Fox who willingly gave up their ice time to ensure that the Final games could be played when the spectators could come and watch.
Our Champions this year were from the Charlottetown Curling Club. They are:
Skip Rebecca Jean MacPhee
Mate Kim Dolan
Second Kathy O’Rourke
Lead Lou-Anne Henry
5TH Shelly Bradley
Coach Peter MacDonald
The Runner-Up Team was from the Charlottetown Curling Club. They are:
Skip Tammi Lowther
Mate Krista Cameron
Second Shelley Muzika
Lead Julie Scales
Coach Al Ledgerwood
Jeff Martin from Scott Paper was in attendance to make the presentation to both teams.
The National Scott Tournament of Hearts was in Charlottetown February 20-28, 1999. The Rebecca Jean MacPhee Rink were excellent ambassadors for Prince Edward Island. They delighted their home Province with excellent curling. They finished the week with a 6-5 record.
It has been my pleasure to be the Chairperson for the past 2 years and I wish all lady curlers much success in the years to come.
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon Walker
Vice President
P.E.I.C.A.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
CURLING ASSOCIATION
DELEGATE - AT - LARGE REPORT
P.E.I.C.A. ANNUAL MEETING
MAY 27, 1999
As Delegate At Large, I was responsible for the 8 Year Provincial and Under which took place at the Cornwall Curling Club, March 5th-7th of 1999. Fifteen Men’s Teams entered which was up slightly from the previous year though only one entry was received from the Womens. I was disappointed with the fact that only one Women’s Team entered. In the future, I believe the Co-ordinator of this event should contact each Club delegate well in advance and ask them to promote the event to the eligible curlers of their Club.
Because of the lack of interest in the Provincial 5 Year Womens it was decided that the option be given to that one team to participate in the Men's or remove the team from any competition and return their entry fee. The team decided to withdraw their entry.
Rodd Resorts and Hotels was again the sponsor donating Eight One Night Stays at Rodds. I also purchased four engraved trophies for the winner of this event. I would like to thank the P.E.I.C.A. for buying a plaque to be displayed at the winners club.
The winner of the Rodds Provincial 5 Year and Under was Mark Kinney’s team from the Charlottetown Curling Club, Runner-Up was Leo Stewart’s team from the Silver Fox.
I would like to thank very much the help given me by Sara Stevenson and Bob Wright who made my job so much easier, also the Cornwall Curling Club, Staff, and Volunteers who helped with ice, bar and food.
Sincerely,
Bruce Horne
Delegate At Large
P.E.I.C.A.
To: P.E.I.C.A.
From: Barbara Currie, Technical Coordinator
Re: Annual Report
Date: May, 1999
The Course Conductors for the Technical Division are Marilyn Sutherland, Don Gorveatt and Barbara Currie. Two Level 1 Courses were offered this year but due to a lack of entries the Courses were postponed until next year with a Level 1 Technical being offered at the Silver Fox Curling Club around the October 17th weekend.
The Maritime Course Conductor’s Conference was held in Summerside this year in September, 1998.
Plans for next year include offering Levels 1 and 2 Technical Courses, updating the material for these courses, updating the Officials List to have a workable list of those interested, and hopefully to have a Refresher Course for these officials.
JUNIOR COORDINATOR’S REPORT
MAY 27, 1999
The 1998 -1999 Curling season for Juniors was quite successful. There were numerous In House and Outside Bonspiels for the Juniors to participate in. I would like to thank the Junior Coordinators of the various clubs for getting their programs up and running.
Monthly Reports have been submitted outlining details of events held in the various clubs and the Provincial Playdowns held in O’Leary and Crapaud.
The fundraiser that was held in the Fall was successful and the teams that went to Canada Games and Nationals received monies realized from this event. The Skills Award Program was introduced into the Clubs also this year. The curlers will be presented with certificates and badges when they finish their Levels.
Respectfully submitted,
Brenda MacMillan
Junior Coordinator, P.E.I.C.A.
1999-2000 Season
PEI CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday, May 31, 2000
7:30pm
Silver Fox Curling Club, Summerside
The 11th Annual General Meeting of the PEI Curling Association was held at the Silver Fox Curling Club with President Sharon Walker in the Chair.
ITEM I: CALL TO ORDER
President Sharon welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order.
ITEM II: REPORT OF CREDENTIALS
Alberton- 2 votes; Silver Fox - 2 votes; Cornwall (2) votes; Crapaud - No vote; Maple Leaf - Two votes; Montague- Two (2) votes; Silver Fox- Two (2) votes.
Five votes from the Executive plus the President’s vote to break a tie if necessary.
Sharon introduced Les Harrison, Vice President of the World Curling Federation and Atlantic Representative of the Canadian Curling Association.
ITEM III: RECOGNITION OF CURLERS DECEASED DURING THE PAST YEAR
A moment of silence was held in recognition of curlers who passed away during the past year.
ITEM IV: MINUTES OF PREVIOUS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Sharon requested a volunteer for the position of Technical Director. It was moved by Sandy and seconded by Nicole that the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting be accepted as circulated. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM V: PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Attached.
ITEM VI: SECRETARY/TREASURER’S REPORT
Attached (financial statements for the year ending April 30, 2000).
ITEM VII: OTHER REPORTS
It was moved by Brenda and seconded by Nicole that all reports be adopted as circulated or read.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VIII: CORRESPONDENCE
a) Grey Power has dropped out as our Senior Sponsor.
b) Shannon Keenan from Souris has won a Ford car in the 8 Ender Contest. The game was in Montague.
c) Received letter of thanks from Ken MacDonald for the donation to Kidsport in memory of Dr. Wen MacDonald.
d) Teams at the Brier and Scott will receive $6,000.00 and $2,400.00 each minimum this past year.
e) Regina, Saskatchewan will host the 2001 Canadian Curling Trails December 1st to December 9th, 2001.
f) There is a website for Ice Makers. Contact Sharon for information.
g) Letters of Thanks were received from the Junior teams for the P.E.I.C.A. sponsorship.
ITEM IX: BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE
Clubs are requested to put in written requests for the time clocks by September 30, 2000.
ITEM X: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE BYLAWS
1) It was moved by Bruce and seconded by Nicole, that the changes to the Constitution and Bylaws as submitted by the Executive be approved with the exception of #9 and #11.
MOTION CARRIED
2) It was moved by Bruce and seconded by Nicole that Article #9 and #11 be approved as submitted. MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Ernie and seconded by Rick that the last sentence of Article #11 be amended to read: “The persons in these positions shall be required to attend 60% of all regular meetings and attend 60% of all executive meetings in order to retain their position and voting privileges for the Annual Meeting”. AMENDED -MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Ernie and seconded by Rick that the following sentence be added. “No person attending a meeting of the P.E.I.C.A. shall have more than one vote”.
AMENDED -MOTION CARRIED
Original Motions #9 & 11 as amended. CARRIED
3) It was moved by Bruce and seconded by Rick that the rules regarding the time clocks Article 26 be added to the general rules of play as submitted.
MOTION CARRIED
4) It was moved by Bruce and seconded by Brenda that the Provincial Age Criteria for Novice and Intermediate Championships dated March 4, 2000 be changed as submitted.
MOTION CARRIED
5) It was moved by Bruce and seconded by Brenda that the winning boy’s and girl’s team of the 17 and Under Competition participate in the Atlantic Regional Championship. Also, that the entry fees realized from the 17 and Under Competition after tournament expenses are paid be allotted to teams to help defray costs involved in going to the Regional Championship. MOTION CARRIED
6) It was moved by Pat Pegg and seconded by Sandy that Article 2.E be repealed and replaced with “Member” means any member in good standing of an affiliated provincial curling club
who is registered with the Association. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XI: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SITES AND DATES FOR BONSPIELS
PROVINCIAL DATES
2000-2001
EVENT DATE LOCATION
Mixed December 1-4 Cornwall
Seniors December 8-12 Silver Fox
Juniors January 5-8 Western
Masters January 8-10 Cornwall
Women's January 19-22 Charlottetown
Men’s Open January 26-30 Montague
Final 8's February 2-6 Crapaud
Novice February 16-18 Cornwall
8 Year March 2-5 O’Leary
ITEM XII: ELECTION OF OFFICERS
The Nominating Committee, Bruce Read moved the nomination of the following for the positions as noted, seconded by Nicole.
Sharon Walker Past President
Bruce Horne 2ND Vice President
Kevin Champion President
Marion MacAulay 3RD Vice President
Nicole Phillips 1ST Vice President
Darrell Kirev Delegate at Large
Bruce declared all of the above elected. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XIII: NEW BUSINESS
No new business.
ITEM XIV: APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sharon, Marion and Nicole will attend the National Meeting.
ITEM XV: ELECTION OF AUDITOR
Bob Wright will do the audit for the 2000/2001 curling year.
ITEM XV1: HALL OF FAME
Nothing to report.
ITEM XVII: VOTE OF THANKS
Sharon thanked everyone for the help they gave her over the past six years.
ITEM XVIII: INSTALLATION OF NEW PRESIDENT AND HIS REMARKS
Sharon welcomed Kevin as our new President of the P.E.I.C.A. Kevin thanked Bruce and Sharon for all their help during the year. He also thanked all the members of the Executive and other officers who are staying on. Kevin welcomed Darrell Kirev to the Executive as Delegate at Large.
ITEM XIX: RATIFY DUES
It was moved by Kevin and seconded by Nicole that dues for the year 2000 -2001 be set as follows:
1) Sheet Assessment - $80.00
2) Association Dues - $5.00 per member who curls a minimum of once per week.
3) Participant Card - $20.00
4) Entry fees for Men’s, Ladies, Mixed and Seniors - $100.00
5) Masters and 8 Year and Junior - $80.00
6) Novice - $60.00
7) 15 and Under - $48.00
ITEM XX: ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Norma Jean moved that the meeting be adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Trainor
Secretary/Treasurer
Motions to be brought forward by the Executive of the P.E.I.C.A. at the Annual General Meeting
(To be moved by Bruce Read, Past President and Chair of the Bylaws, Constitution and Nomination Committee, and seconded by Nicole Phillips).
CONSTITUTION
1. .....that Article 2(e) be repealed and replaced with:
“Member” means any member of an affiliated curling club or other curling establishment duly registered with the Association.
Interpretation:
Only those member categories which require the maximum fee for men, women and juniors are eligible to enter provincially sanctioned competitions. (This excludes the life-member category at those clubs, which have contracted such a membership).
With regard to the Eight Year and Under and Masters Provincial Championships, they shall be open to all members of curling clubs and club leagues, including one night members and rec/commercial league curlers.
Rationale for change: When amended previously, the Masters event was not included although rule is applicable.
2. .....that the following spelling and grammatical errors be corrected and amended, and be reflected in the next typed Constitution:
Article 4.5 Insert “t” before “he” to form word “the”
Article 8.3 & 8.5 Insert “d” after the word “entitle” to form “entitled”
Article 16.5 The word “under” should be capitalized
3. ....that Article 4.6 be repealed
Rationale for change: Redundant article. Same statement in Article 2 (e).
4. ..... that Article 7.2 be repealed and replaced with:
The Executive (together with further assigned responsibilities) shall consist of:
President
- Presides at all meetings;
‒ Ex-officio of all committees;
‒ Makes a full report to all Annual Provincial and National Meetings;
‒ Chairs the Provincial Mixed;
‒ Chairs Finance Committee;
‒ Receives reports from all committees;
‒ Shall be delegate to the National Curling Conference and AGM.
First Vice President
‒ Presides at all meetings in the absence of the President;
‒ Chairs the provincial Men’s or Women’s depending on gender;
‒ Assumes role of President in the event that the President cannot continue
‒ Shall be delegate to the National Curling Conference.
2ND Vice President
‒ Chairs the provincial Men’s or Women’s depending on gender;
‒ Assumes the role of President in the event that the President or 1ST Vice President is absent;
‒ Chairs Honourary Committee;
3RD Vice President
‒ Chairs the Provincial Seniors and Provincial Masters;
‒ Assumes the role of President in the event that the President, 1ST Vice President, and 2ND Vice President are absent;
Delegate at Large
‒ Chairs Provincial 8 Year and Under;
Past President
‒ Chairs the Nominations Committee;
‒ Chairs the Constitution and Rules Committee;
‒ Shall be delegate to National AGM.
Rational for Change: Sections 7.2 and 18 both cover the roles of Executive positions and should be combined. The role of Secretary-Treasurer is removed from the Executive because it is an appointed position and falls under Article 10.3. In order for the Past President to retain vote, he/she should be required to attend at least 60% of all meeting, so we have dropped “attends meetings at his/her discretion”.
5. ....that Article 7.3 be repealed and replaced with:
All members of the Executive shall be elected at the Annual Meeting and shall be chosen from members of the Association. All members of the Executive are required to attend at least 60% of all regular and executive meetings in order to retain their vote at the Annual Meeting. (Gender according to rotation).
Rational for Change: The above reflects the former Article 7.3 but combines it with a line from Article 18. These two sections refer to the same topic and for consistency we have made changes.
6. ....that Article 8.1 (e) be repealed and replaced with:
Be responsible for Provincial events held in your Club. This includes attending meetings with Provincial Chair of event and submitting Host Club’s plans for event to Provincial Chair in advance of event.
Rational for Change: Clarifies role and ensures proper communication with Provincial Chair.
7. ....that Article 8.2 be repealed:
Rational for Change: Our general meetings and monthly Directors meetings are open
to the public and this particular group, if in existence, does not make use of this clause. It also sets precedent for other special groups to be recognized.
8. ....that the words ”of the same gender” in Article 8.1 (b) be repealed:
Rational for Change: It is often difficult to get a replacement of the same gender.
9. ....that Article 8.3 be repealed and replaced with:
Each delegate, officer, director or chairperson present at the meeting shall be entitled to one vote.
Rational for Change: Currently, the Technical, Junior Development, and Marketing Chairpersons do not have a vote. We are proposing that this be changed so that they will be entitled to one vote each.
10. ...that the first sentence of Article 10.3 be repealed and replaced with:
The Executive Council shall appoint a Secretary-Treasurer who shall, subject to the directions of the proceedings and financial affairs of the Association, conduct the correspondence, sign all cheques, collect all dues, keep a correct amount of all receipts and expenditures of the Association and Executive Council and Committee thereof, be on the Finance Committee, and such other duties as may be designated from time to time by the Executive Council.
Rational for Change: We are trying to make the Secretary-Treasurer’s job description complete and have combined original with statements from Article 18 for consistency.
11. ...that Article 12.1 be repealed and replaced with:
The position of Junior Development Chairperson, Promotions and Marketing Chairperson, and Technical Chairperson shall be advertised in local papers; the Executive Council will review applications and appoint persons for each committee for a period of three (3) years. Persons holding these positions are entitled to vote at each at Association or Annual Meetings. The persons in these positions shall be reviewed yearly by the Executive prior to the Annual Meeting. The persons in these positions shall be required to attend 60% of all regular meetings and 60% of executive meetings in order to retain their position for next year. 5
Rational for Change: These changes reflect corrections in grammar and spelling as well as keeping the titles of positions consistent. Also, we reflect that we are proposing a change that Chairpersons will now be able to vote.
12. ...that the words “Provincial Novice and Provincial Junior Men and Womens Curling Playdowns” in Article 12.2 be repealed and replaced with “Provincial Novice, Provincial Intermediate and Provincial Junior.”
Rational for Change: Change keeps references to the events consistent with other sections of the Constitution and reflects that there is an intermediate division
13. ...that the first sentence in Article 12.4 be repealed and replaced with:
Technical Committee The Chairperson has the responsibility of overseeing all Technical Development activity in the Province.
Rational for Change: To keep references to like positions and committees consistent in wording.
14. ...that Article 12.6 be repealed and replaced with:
Nominations Committee This Committee shall be chaired by the immediate past president; other members to be one male and one female director appointed from P.E.I.C.A. At the Annual Meeting the Nominations Committee shall present a list of nominees who have allowed their names to be considered for election to Executive positions. The chair will also call for nominations from the floor at the Annual Meeting and if further nominations are received, votes shall be cast by secret ballot. The nominee receiving 50% plus one of the votes will be declared a winner.
Rational for Change: To clean up wording and clarify the role of the committee..
15. ...that a new Article called “Disciplinary Procedures” be inserted after the article titled “Meetings” (currently Article 17, changing to Article 16) and include the following :
17. Disciplinary Procedures
17.1 Definitions
a) A competitor/coach shall be deemed to be any person who is participating or has participated as any member of any team endorsed by the Association, within any local, provincial, national or international event sponsored, promoted, endorsed, or supported by the Association, or any member association of the Association.
b) A competition shall be deemed to be any local, provincial, national or international event promoted, endorsed, or supported by the Association or any member association of the Association and shall extend from the day preceding the first day of play to the day immediately following the final day of play.
17.2 Disciplinary Measures
a) The Association shall have the right to implement and administer reasonable disciplinary measures made necessary by any competitor/coaches conduct(whether of a verbal or physical nature) occurring:
i. during any provincial competition whether in the course of on-ice play or at any other time; and
ii at any time or place other than specified in 17.2 (a)i.
b) Such disciplinary measures may include, but are not limited to:
i. an informal reprimand or verbal warning;
ii formal reprimand (written);
iii temporary or permanent suspension of competitive privileges; or;
iv dismissal from any team representing the Association
(c) Disciplinary measures imposed on a competitor/coach arising out of conduct referred to in subparagraph 17.2 (a)i. above shall be implemented in accordance with the following rules:
i. The Event Chairperson appointed by the P.E.I.C.A. or the certified official presiding, shall have the sole right to impose any of the disciplinary measures referred to in subparagraph 17.2 (b) i. and ii. and suspend the competitor/coach from one game at the event giving rise to the impugned conduct.
ii Before imposing any disciplinary measure, the Event Chairperson or Official shall carry out an investigation that includes interviewing relevant witnesses and the involved competitor/coach.
iii. If the Chairperson or Head Official feel disciplinary measures are warranted, a P.E.I.C.A. record of infraction form shall be completed. One copy to be given to the player and another copy to be filed with the P.E.I.C.A.
iv. The Chairperson or Official’s decision shall not be subject to appeal.
v. If the Event Chairperson/Official feels that the impugned conduct warrants more disciplinary measures then referred to in Article 17.2 (b) i. and ii. he/or she shall immediately contact the Association President, who in turn will form a committee of no less than three executive members to hold a meeting and determine whether further disciplinary action is appropriate. If the President is unavailable, the 1st Vice President shall chair the meeting.
vi. The Executive Committee shall give notice to the Chairperson/Official and to the impugned competitor/coach of the time and place of the meeting.
vii. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Disciplinary Committee can either (1) dismiss the competitor/coach from any further action; or (2) impose any of the disciplinary measures referred to in Article 17.2 (b).
d) Disciplinary measures imposed on a competitor/coach arising out of conduct referred to in Article 17.2 (a) ii. shall be implemented in accordance with the following rules:
i. If the Association is made aware either by verbal or written means that there may have been inappropriate behavior of a competitor/coach, then it shall be the right of the Association to investigate the allegations.
ii. The investigation shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of Article 17.2 ii.
iii. The President of the Association shall select a Committee of at least three executive members to review the findings of the investigation and at this can either:
- Decide that no disciplinary measures are to be implemented against the competitor/coack; or
- Impose any of the disciplinary measures referred to in Article 17.2 (b).
17.3 Hearing and Appeal Procedure
If 17.2 does not produce results satisfactory to the Competitor/Coach, the Competitor/Coach shall be entitled to a hearing before the Appeal Panel of the Association, and the following rules shall apply to such a hearing.
a) The Competitor/Coach shall notify the Committee Director in writing requesting a hearing before the Appeal Panel, within 60 days of receiving results of 17.2.
b) The Appeal Panel shall consist of three persons appointed by the P.E.I.C.A.
c) The Association shall appoint a time and place for such a hearing, accommodating as far as possible the requirements of the Competitor/Coach.
d) The hearing shall take place as soon as reasonably possible after receipt of the Competitor/Coaches request.
e) The Association shall notify the Competitor/Coach in writing of the date and location of the hearing.
f) The Competitor/Coach shall have the right to be represented at such a hearing by an agent or by legal council and shall have the right to present his or her evidence or arguments.
g) The decisions of the majority of the Appeal Panel hearing the grievance shall be final and binding both on the Association and the Competitor/Coach, and
h) Upon the decision of the Appeal Panel being rendered, the Hearing and Appeal process shall be deemed to be exhausted.
Rationale for Change: Currently, we are using an Appendix and part of Article 13 as our disciplinary measures. We feel it would be easier to follow and be more consistent to have an Article in the Constitution devoted to this topic.
16. ....that Article 13 in its entirety be repealed.
Rationale for Change: The contents of Article 13 (Special Meetings) will be inserted into Article 17 (Meetings) were applicable and under “Obligations of Competitors and Coaches” were applicable.
17. .....that the following be added to Article 17:
Special Meetings
Special Meetings of the members may be called by the President, or failing him or her, the Secretary-Treasurer upon written request of the Executive. Written notice stating the time and place of such meeting and the matters to be presented at such meeting shall be mailed to each affiliated club at least (5) days prior to the date of such meeting.
Rationale for Change: Clause from previous Article 13 that fits better here.
18. ....that the word “wind-up” in Article 19 be replaced with the word “Dissolution”.
Rationale for Change: More appropriate term.
19. ....that Appendix 1: Report to P.E.I.C.A. by the Disciplinary Committee be repealed in its entirety.
Rationale for Change: This report will be filed appropriately, and its recommendations
will be incorporated into the new article titled “Disciplinary Measures” which has been referenced to.
20. ....that the following be added to the Obligations of Competitors and Coaches:
(h) to abide by the rules of the competition
Rationale for Change: Follows format of CCA and other provinces.
21. ....that “Obligations of Competitors and Coaches” as amended be placed under Article 22 in the same format as the other articles.
Rationale for Change: Keeps format consistent and places this topic in the actual Constitution as opposed to being in the Appendix.
PROVINCIAL PLAY DOWN GENERAL RULES FOR MEN’S, WOMEN’S, MIXED, SENIORS, AND JUNIORS
1. .....that the following be added to Article 12:
In the event that the winning team is unable to represent or attend the National Championships, the runner-up team will automatically be declared the new representative.
Rationale: This addition clarifies the procedure for picking the new rep team.
2. .....that Article 16 be repealed and replaced with:
Each team member attending the National Junior, National Senior, and National Mixed Championships will receive $150.00. Jackets from the P.E.I.C.A. will be provided to first time participants of all sanctioned Canadian Championships.
Rationale: This money is intended for the purchase of clothing required to compete. Teams in the Men’s and Women’s do not receive money as CCA or national sponsor provides clothing.
3. ....that a new Article be added at Article 27 as follows:
In order to be granted access to the playing area of the Provincial Playdowns, Coaches must hold a Level Coaching Certificate.
Rationale: This prevents unauthorized persons being in the playing area in accordance with CCA Rules.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MEN
4. ....that Article 3 be repealed and replaced with:
Players in their last year of eligibility of play in the Canadian Junior Curling Championships are eligible to play in the Provincial Playdowns.
Rationale: This change reflects the motion passed at last year’s AGM and recorded in the minutes.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MIXED
5. ....that Articles 6 and 7 be repealed in their entirety.
Rationale: These Articles contradict Article 1.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL WOMEN
6. ....that Article 3 be repealed and replaced with:
Players in their last year of eligibility of play in the Canadian Junior Curling Championships are eligible to play in the Provincial Playdowns.
Rationale: This change reflects the motion passed at last year’s AGM and recorded in minutes.
7. ....that Article 8 be repealed and replaced with:
Friday curling will commence as late in the day as possible, providing that all teams can still be scheduled to play two games on Friday.
Rationale: Just corrects the grammar from last year’s motion that was approved.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL JUNIORS
8. ....that Article 2 be repealed and replaced with:
Each participant must be twenty years of age or under as of December 31st of the year prior to the National Championship.
Rationale: In accordance with CCA Rules.
9. ....that a new Article be added as follows as Article 5:
All Junior teams must have a Level 1 Certified Coach and list that Coach on their entry form in order to participate in the Provincial Championships.
Rationale: In accordance with CCA Rules.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL SENIORS
10. ....that Article 2 be repealed and replaced with:
Each participant must be at least fifty years of age as of December 31st of the year prior to the National Championship.
Rationale for Change: In accordance with CCA rules.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL 8 YEAR AND UNDER
11. ....that Article 2 be repealed and replaced with:
Total years of curling for each participant cannot exceed 8 years in order to participate
in this event.
Rationale for Change: This event is designed for people who have curled 8 years or less, whether a full member or not .
12. ....that Article 8 be repealed and replaced with:
It shall be the responsibility of the Provincial Chairperson to arrange the draws and games. Complete authority to conduct the Competition within the rules is the responsibility of the Provincial Chairperson.
Rationale for Change: Previous version is too restrictive, and this event has changed over the last few seasons.
13. ....that Article 13 be repealed and replaced with:
This event will be a double knockout competition. The first game on the first day of competition will be held as late in the day as possible to still ensure that the event will conclude on Sunday.
Rationale for Change: As the number of number of entries increase, it may not be possible to start after 6pm.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MASTERS
14. ....that Article 2 be repealed and replaced with:
Each participant must be at least 60 years of age as of December 31st of the year prior to the Competition.
Rationale for Change: Makes requirement consistent with other categories.
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL NOVICE
15. ....that the following be added as Article 6:
There will be a zero tolerance of consumption of alcohol or illegal substances.
Rationale for Change: Previously listed under Article 13 of the Constitution, but should be placed under rules, as it is in the Junior Rules Section.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CURLING ASSOCIATION CURLING ASSOCIATION
DELEGATE AT LARGE REPORT
P.E.I.C.A. ANNUAL MEETING
MAY 31, 2000
As Delegate at Large for the P.E.I.C.A. I was responsible for the 8 Year and Under Provincial Championships for both ladies and men. The event will take place this year in Montague March 3-5, 2000. The year began with the announcement from Rodd Resorts and Hotels that they would no longer be sponsoring this event. The Executive was unable to secure another sponsor for this year but every effort will be made for one to be in place for the 2001 Playdowns.
A motion was passed at the 1999 Annual Meeting indicating that the 8 Year and Under as to be become a double knockout cash spiel. This format was followed and received favorably by the players. It was also recommended that play not begin before 6pm on Friday and was to conclude by suppertime on Sunday. Due to the number of teams entered it was necessary to begin play by 5pm on Friday.
This year’s entries were strong with 15 teams entered in the Men’s Section and 8 teams entered in the Ladies. The Tammy Dewar Rink from Montague claimed the Ladies Section while the Robbie Shaw Rink of the Silver Fox claimed the Men’s Division. A new plaque was purchased by the Association for the Ladies Division.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all those that help guide me through my first Provincial Playdown particularly the Montague club delegates and the officials that volunteered their time.
I would like to conclude by acknowledging that this first year on the Association has given me as a player and club member an entirely new appreciation for those behind the scenes that work hard to promote and develop our great sport!
Yours in Curling,
Marion MacAulay
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CURLING ASSOCIATION
CURL ATLANTIC
P.E.I.C.A. ANNUAL MEETING
MAY 31, 2000
An exciting new initiative for Atlantic Canada curlers was implemented during the 1999-2000 curling season. The four Atlantic Curling Associations along with the Canadian Curling Association have supported the creation of an Atlantic Canada Regional Development Centre which from now on will be referred to as “Curl Atlantic”.
The mission of Curl Atlantic is to attract, retain and advance to grow the sport of curling in Atlantic Canada. Curl Atlantic will represent the members of the affiliated clubs of the four Atlantic Curling Associations. Each Association will appoint two members to the Board of Curl Atlantic. P.E.I.C.A. Representatives presently are myself and Shirley Lank.
Each Association has committed $15.00 per sheet for the next three years to the budget. The largest contributor of funding however is Red Book money from CCA which carried with it a stipulation that the Center must be established near a National Training Center which in Atlantic Canada is Dalhousie University. The Co-ordinator will therefore work out of her home in Halifax and will be affiliated with one of the metro Halifax curling clubs. Letters of interest from clubs have been received but no decision has been made to date.
Representatives of each Association spent two weekends in Halifax this year developing goals, objectives and strategies. A job posting was created in January for a Co-ordinator for Curl Atlantic. Thirty-four applications were received which was short listed to four candidates for interview. Three members of the Board of Directors along with the Marketing Co-ordinator from CCA made up the interview team. The successful applicant was Karen Ouellette. Karen, a life long curler brings with her a degree in Sports Administration and vast array of experience in the areas of marketing, fund-raising, and event management. Karen will not officially start her position with Curl Atlantic til July 1ST, 2000 due to prior work commitments. She has however established a questionnaire which will be distributed very shortly to all clubs in Atlantic Canada.
Anyone who would like to know more about the initiatives of Curl Atlantic please contact either Shirley Lank or myself and we would be happy to answer your questions. The Board is meeting in July in Saint John, New Brunswick which will be followed by a report to each Association.
Yours in Curling,
Marion MacAulay
To: P.E.I.C.A.
From: Barbara Currie, Technical Coordinator
Re: Annual Report - 1999 - 2000
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Executive and Delegates for their support while I was Technical Director for the P.E.I.C.A. I have been involved as Co-ordinator on and off for a number of years and I have met and worked with some wonderful curling people both on and off the Island. While I am resigning as Co-ordinator I will stay involved as a Course Conductor and look forward to working with curlers in that capacity.
The Course Conductors for the Technical Division are Marilyn Sutherland, Don Gorveatt and myself. Marilyn is the Master Course Conductor.
There were 3 Technical Courses given this year - Level 1 at Silver Fox Curling Club - October 17, 19 and 21st with 10 participants; Level 2 at the Crapaud Curling Club- February 22, 24, and 27th with 4 participants; and a Level 1 at the Silver Fox again- March 28, 30, April 2 with 15 participants. A number of the Level 1 participants have expressed an interest in taking a Level 2 in the early Fall of 2000.
Marilyn was available for a Clinic to update the rules for Officials at the Cornwall Curling Club - December 1st. While the turnout was low this year, the session was informative for those attending.
3RD VICE-PRESIDENT FINAL REPORT
2000 GREY POWER INSURANCE BROKERS PROVINCIAL SENIORS CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Provincial Men’s and Women’s Championship was held at the Maple Leaf Curling Club, O’Leary from December 10th - 14th. There were 15 Mens teams and 7 Womens teams that had entered the competition.
I would very much like to thank the club delegates Anne and Sherrill Barwise, Maple Leaf Club President Clair Sweet and of course the Icemaker Wayne Arsenault and as well all of the people on their Committees. As well, a thank you to the Western Community Curling Club which hosted two draws.
We were very pleased to have a great sponsor Grey Power and all of their Reps., as well as the Max Event Marketing Firm.
Winners of the Provincial Championship Teams that represented PEI in Portage LaPrairie, Manitoba in January were as follows:
MENS/ WOMENS
Skip Jim Trainor/ Skip Marg Nowlan
Mate Paul Saulnier/ Mate Ann Currie
Second Bobby Dillon / Second Gen Enman
Lead John Stewart Lead/ Mabel Gardiner
(Ch’town Curling Club) / (Silver Fox Curling Club)
Respectfully submitted,
Bruce Horne
3RD Vice President
PEI Curling Association
P.E.I.C.A. PROVINCIAL MASTERS FINAL REPORT
The Provincial Masters was held at the Charlottetown Curling Club with 12 Mens Teams and four Womens Teams entered. It was held January 10th - 12th.
I would very much like to thank Jim Smith who was a very big part of making this event a success as well as everyone on his Committee.
There was no sponsor for this event with all the entries going back into the prizes and banquet.
Following is the list of winners and runners-up which went to the Maritime Masters Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in February.
MENS WINNER/ WOMENS WINNER
Wayne Gardiner Skip /Helen Robbins Skip
Fred Hiscock Mate/ Kay Hughes Mate
Earl Hayes Second /Louise MacLeod Second
Ray Thomson Lead /Evelyn MacLure Lead
(Silver Fox) /(Montague)
RUNNER - UP/ RUNNER -UP
Paul Gallant Skip/ Gladys Wright Skip
Reg Peters Mate/ Eileen Blanchard Mate
Jim Smith Second/ Mary Plamondon Second
Henry MacWilliam Lead /Beverley Brown Lead
Respectfully submitted,
Bruce Horne
3rd Vice President
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
FINAL REPORT
The Opening Round of the Labatt Tankard was held at the Crapaud Curling Club from January 28th to February 1st, 2000 with a total of thirty-six teams entered in the Competition.
I would like to thank Lester Callbeck, the Host Committee Chair, and the many volunteers that helped co-ordinate the event.
The banquet was held on Friday evening at the Crapaud Curling Club. I would like to thank the kitchen staff for the excellent roast beef dinner that was served. The participation by the curlers was very poor and the attendance was documented by our President. In a follow-up conversation with the Sponsor it was felt that it was time to address this type of formal banquet. The Sponsors suggestion was to make it a Final Eight Team Banquet where the media, sponsors and players could all be in attendance.
Congratulations to Rick Richard of the Charlottetown Curling Club and Lance Lowther of the Cornwall Curling Club on receiving the P.E.I.C.A. Appreciation Award.
The eight qualifying teams were as follows:
1) Robert Campbell
2) Mark Kinney
3) Kevin Champion
4) James Grattan
5) Mike Gaudet
6) Pat Lynch
7) Andrew Robinson
8) Peter MacDonald
The Final Eight was held at the Cornwall Curling Club from February 4th to 8th, 2000. I would like to thank the Cornwall Curling Club delegates Shirley Lank and Ernie Stavert for all their hard work in helping co-ordinate the Final Eight Event. Also, I would like to thank all the volunteers on the Host Committee for a great job.
Over the past few years there have been great strides being made to raise the profile of this provincial event. The Cornwall Curling Club can be applauded for a job well done and hopefully future Host Clubs can keep building on this event and take our Provincial Championships to new heights.
In the Final Game on Tuesday evening, the Andrew Robinson Rink defeated the Peter MacDonald Rink to become our 2000 Provincial Champions. It was an amazing comeback as the Robinson Rink dropped their first two games before reeling off six straight victories. The Andrew Robinson Rink went on to represent PEI at the Labatt Brier in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan were they compiled a 4 & 7 record. Their week was highlighted with a record breaking Seven Ender against Nova Scotia’s Shawn Adams and a final round robin win against World Champion Kevin Martin.
Yours in Curling,
Kevin Champion
1ST Vice President
PEI Curling Association
2ND VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
PEI CURLING ASSOCIATION
MAY 31, 2000
SUMMERSIDE, PEI
INTRODUCTION
This year, my role as 2nd Vice President included chairing the Provincial Women’s Championships, chairing the Honourary Committee, sitting as a member of the Constitution and Rules Committee, and being a member of the Executive which dealt with the policy, applying for Sport PEI funding, and disciplinary issues.
PROVINCIAL WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
The Provincial Scott Tournament of Hearts was held in Alberton at the Western Curling Club on January 21-27, 2000, with a total of 13 teams entered. The Champions were Shelly Bradley as Skip, Janice MacCallum, Leslie Allan, and Tricia MacGregor from the Charlottetown Curling Club. The Runner-Up team was the Tammi Lowther Rink, Kathie Gallant, Shelley Musika, and Marion MacAulay.
Scott Paper Limited was again the Title Sponsor of the Provincial Event and we also received local sponsorship including Rossignol Wines, CIBC, Atlas Wines, and the Western Flower Shop.
A Banquet was held on Saturday at which the three recipients of the Scott Appreciation Awards was announced. Unfortunately, due to a combination of illness, and poor road conditions, only Barb Currie was present to receive her award. Therefore, I will take a opportunity at the Annual General Meeting to quickly read the citations of the other winners, Netta Gordon and Dawn MacFadyen.
Representative Jeff Martin of Scott Paper Limited was present to make the Championship Trophy Presentation at the Closing Ceremonies held immediately after the Championship Game. The Bradley Rink went on to represent the Province at the National Scott Tournament of Hearts in Prince George, B.C.
HONOURARY COMMITTEE
As Chair of this Committee, I was responsible for assembling nominations for Sport PEI’s Annual Awards. After gathering information, the Committee nominated the Peter MacDonald Mixed Curling Rink for “Team of the Year” and Kim Dolan and Mark O’Rourke as “Administrator of the Year” and I ensured that the nomination form was filled out and submitted to Sport PEI.
Out of all the individuals and teams nominated in a variety of sports, both of our nominees made it to the Finalist Round and were invited to attend the Sport PEI Awards Gala on April 26, 2000. Unfortunately, our curling nominees did not win their respective categories, however, we certainly feel the recognition they did receive was well deserved and we thank them for their contribution to curling.
As Chair of this Committee, I also met with Keith Tanton who is Executive Director of the PEI Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Summerside, to discuss the procedure in nominating individuals and teams to the Hall of Fame. Their inductions are held each May - June and a total of five individuals, builders or teams are chosen annually to be inducted. Nominations are submitted to a Board of Directors who then vote by secret ballot as to who will be entered that given year. Therefore, if any Clubs would like to nominate one of their members, I recommend they give me a call and a joint nomination from the Club and the Provincial Association could be considered.
CONSTITUTION AND RULES COMMITTEE
This Committee, made up of members of the Executive met several times to discuss potential changes to the current documents that we use as guidelines for the Association - 1. Constitution and 2. Playdown Rules.
Every year the Association makes adjustments to correct grammatical mistakes and typos and to satisfy any motions that were passed in the previous year. However, over time and many changes, the entire document can lose its clarity and flow. Therefore, we concluded that our documents needed to be revised so that they would flow in an easier- to- read sequential manner, be not as repetitive, and would incorporate earlier passed motions that never made into the document. Also, one area that we wanted to discuss was the lack of clarity in our disciplinary measures.
I have tried, with the help of the Executive and after many hours, to compile our recommended changes to accomplish our goals and this was mailed out to you last month prior to the meeting. Hopefully, you will see some improvement to the documents we use and agree with passing these changes.
CONCLUSION
This has been a busy year for me as I started a new job and joined a new curling club, but I definitely enjoyed working with the other members of our Executive on a variety of issues. I especially enjoyed dealing with the Western Curling Club when chairing the Provincial Scott. Next year I will be moving into the 1st Vice President’s role but will remain with the Scott event so I look forward to working with my old club, the Charlottetown Curling Club, the venue for 2001.
For continuity’s sake, I will also provide some written recommendations to the incoming 2nd Vice President Bruce Horne, with regards to Honourary Committee nominations and look forward to working with returning Executive members and delegates under Incoming President Kevin Champion’s guidance.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole Phillips
P.E.I.C.A.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT 1999 - 2000
MAY 31, 2000
The past year has been both busy and exciting and I thank you for the privilege of serving as President of the PEI Curling Association.
This past year we did not have a Ford Provincial Mixed Competition. We had decided at our last Annual Meeting to declare the Champions in the same year as the National event. Needless to say there were many other tasks that took the place of running this event.
With the help of all the Executive and especially Barb Currie and Nicole Phillips, we completed our two year plan for submission to government. This was a valuable exercise as it forced us to look at what we were doing right and what needed to be improved upon. I encourage the new Executive to do a self - evaluation of the plan in order to continue the improvements we deemed necessary.
I want to thank the other members of the Executive for their hard work and dedication this past year, Kevin, Nicole, Bruce, Marion, Brenda and Barb. These members of your Executive did an outstanding job of co-ordinating provincial events and carrying out their various administrative duties. Thanks to outgoing Past President Bruce Read for his time and commitment to curling on PEI. Your knowledge and support will be missed.
Thank you to Blair Jay, Drawmaster and Tammy Dewar, drawboards for their assistance with the Provincial events this past season.
On the National Curling front we sent excellent representatives to all the National Championships. The Silver Medal wins by the John Likely Mixed team and Suzanne Gaudet’s Junior Womens Team were exciting for all Island Curlers.
Individually, Island Curlers showed that they could curl with the best of them too. We had 8 All Star Members at National Championships. First Team All Stars were: John Likely (Skip), Susan MacInnis (Mate), and Nancy Cameron (Lead) at the Mixed; Mabel Gardiner (Lead) at the Seniors; Suzanne Gaudet (Skip) and Robyn MacPhee (Lead) at the Juniors, and Tricia MacGregor (Lead) at the Scott Tournament of Hearts.
Sharon Walker, President
APRIL 24, 2000
PROPOSAL:
To allow teams that win the Provincial 17 and Under (if the motion goes through to change the criteria of the Provincial Novice) to represent the Province at the Atlantic Regional Championship which is to be held each year in rotating order between the four Atlantic Provinces. The first Regional Championship is tentatively set for Easter of 2001 in Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland.
RATIONALE:
To provide more competitive competition for this age group to help prepare themselves to compete at a National event.
MOTION:
I move that the winning Boy’s and Girl’s team of the 17 and Under Competition participate in the Atlantic Regional Championship.
I move that all entry fees realized from the 17 and Under Championship after tournament expenses are paid be allotted to the teams to help defray costs involved in going to the Regional Championship.
Respectfully submitted,
Brenda MacMillan
PEI Junior Co-ordinator
March 4, 2000
P.E.I.C.A.
Proposal to change the Provincial Age Criteria for the Novice and Intermediate Championships.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE FOLLOWING:
Age criteria be adopted for the 2000-2001 Curling season and thereafter. All ages effective December 31st of the year prior to the Championship will be:
- 17 and Under, Winner to represent PEI in the Atlantic Regional Tournament. (Details to follow).
- 15 and Under
- 13 and Under
- 11 and Under
Participants in each age level are permitted to play in an older age category. Provincial Junior Champions will not be permitted to play in the 17 and Under Championship in the year they have won the Provincial Junior Title.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the coaches at the March Meeting by,
Brenda MacMillan
P.E.I.C.A. Junior Rep
PROVINCIAL PLAYDOWN GENERAL RULES FOR MENS, WOMENS, MIXED, SENIORS AND JUNIORS
The P.E.I.C.A. has purchased time clocks to be used at the Provincial Championships.
Therefore a rule regarding time clocks needs to be added to the general rules of play.
#26 Game Time Operation
1. 73 Minutes per team with one 2 one minute time-outs allowed. In the case of an extra end, each team will be allotted 10 minutes. If a team has not used their time-outs, they may be utilized during the extra end.
a) The delivery of the team’s final stone in a game shall reach the nearer tee line prior to their game time expiring to avoid a potential forfeiture of the game due to the game time violation.
Penalty: If the allotted game time of a team expires before the team’s final stone of the game reaches the nearer tee line, the official shall allow a player, who is in the process of delivery, to complete his/her delivery and allow and delivered stone and all affected stones to come to rest before calling a time out. The offending team shall forfeit the game unless the non-offending is unable to demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the official, that they have previously scored or are able to score sufficient additional points within their allotted time or game duration to tie or win the game. The final result of the game shall be established by implementing a game resolution process.
b) If the official verifies that the non-offending team is ahead on the scoreboard or have
secured sufficient additional points via their counting stones to win the game, the non-offending team shall be declared the winner.
c) If a winner has not been declared by the application of Rule 26 (1) (b), the official
shall request the offending team leave the playing surface and start the non-offending team’s time clock.
d) The non-offending team shall be provided the opportunity to use their remaining game time to continue play in an attempt to tie or win the game. They shall be allotted a 20 second interval between their consecutive deliveries which will be recorded on the offending team’s time clock.
e) If, at the conclusion of the game resolution process, the official verifies that the non-offending team has secured sufficient additional points via their counting stones to win the game, the non-offending team shall be declared the winner.
f) If, at the conclusion of the game resolution process, the official verifies that the non-offending team has been able to secure sufficient additional points via their counting stones to tie the game, an extra end(s) shall be played in accordance with Rule 26 (1).
The first team to incur a game time violation shall deliver the first stone of the extra end.
g) If the non-offending team is unable to score sufficient additional points to tie or win the game within their allotted game time, they shall lose the game.
MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE MEETING, PEI CURLING ASSN., APRIL 24/00
ITEM VIII: TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Barb Currie announced that she would be resigning as Technical Director. She advised that she would stay on as a Course Conductor. An ad will go in the papers for a new Technical Director.
ACTION BY: MARION AND JIM
ITEM IX: LEGAL FEES
Kevin advised that the Executive decided to pay legal fees $676.24 arising from the Kelowna incident.
ITEM X: PROPOSED CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION
Much discussion followed concerning proposed changes to the Constitution. These changes will be typed up and mailed out prior to the Annual Meeting.
ITEM XI: ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Trainor
Secretary/Treasurer
2ND VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT
PEI CURLING ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEETING
February 6, 2000
As I will be away on a conference for work on February 6th, I send my regrets in being unable to deliver the following report in person.
One of my roles as 2nd Vice President is to co-ordinate and act as Chair of the Scott Tournament of Hearts Provincial Curling Championships which were scheduled to be in Alberton on January 21-26.
Due to blizzard conditions that were forecast and that did take place on January 21st, I made the decision after consultation with various parties, to postpone play until Saturday, January 22nd with the schedule simply moving forward one complete day. Originally, the draw would have potentially gone into the Wednesday, and with the weather delay, this meant the actual Final was played the next day on Thursday, January 27th. A total of 13 teams were entered.
I am pleased to announce that the 2000 Provincial Women’s Curling Champions are the Shelly Bradley Rink from the Charlottetown Curling Club consisting of Shelly Bradley, Janice MacCallum, Leslie Allan, and Tricia MacGregor. The Runner-Up was the Tammi Lowther Rink, also from Charlottetown.
The Banquet was held on Saturday evening and the winners of the PEI Curling Association’s “Scott Recognition Awards” were announced as follows: Barb Currie, Netta Gordon, and Dawn MacFadyen. I thank all clubs that submitted nominations. Two of the recipients were unable to attend the Banquet, so I will inform clubs at a later date as to when presentations will be made.
The Western Community Curling Club was a gracious and very accommodating Host Club and I would like to thank especially Larry and Heather, Leonard and Charlene for their support and assistance throughout the tournament. I will be sending thank you notes on behalf of the PEI Curling Association to our Officials, Sponsors, Host Club Committee members as soon as possible.
Also, due to weather, I did not receive the Scott pins until we were more than half way through the event, thus I will mail 4 pins to each team that participated. Also, I have received bills for the Banquet, wine(sponsored by Atlas) Scott Awards (sponsored by Scott) and will arrange for payment upon my return to PEI next week.
DELEGATE -AT-LARGE REPORT - MARCH 29, 2000
The Provincial Eight Year and Under Mens and Ladies Championships took place this year May 3rd-5th at the Montague Curling Club. The decision last year to establish the Eight Year as a Cashspiel was implemented and distributed as $25.00 per win.
The Ladies Section had eight teams entered with five from the Host Club. There were a large number of first year curlers which was very encouraging to see. The Tammy Dewar Rink of Montague won the Championship defeating Sharon Horne of the Western Curling Club 9 in the Final. Other members of the Dewar Team were Darlene Clow, Gail Greene and Susan Watts. There was $375.00 given out to the women with $175.00 of that to the winner.
On the Men’s side fifteen teams competed with Robbie Shaw’s Rink of the Silver Fox finishing on top by defeating Clubmate Sandy MacPhee 8-3 in the Final. Other members of the Shaw Team were Robbie Younker, Deryl MacCarville and Randy Reardon. There were $775.00 given out to the men with $200.00 to the winner.
On Friday night there was food available for the players to make sandwiches for themselves following each draw. A short meeting also took place prior to each draw on Friday to clarify rules of the Competition.
Overall, I felt the weekend was very successful. Feedback from the players indicated they enjoyed the Cash spiel format. Last but not least, I would like to acknowledge the Club Delegates and Officials that helped out all weekend- Thanks!
Yours in Curling,
Marion MacAulay
Delegate at Large
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING, PEI CURLING ASSN., FEB 6/2000
ITEM V: CORRESPONDENCE
a) “BUSINESS OF CURLING” MAGAZINE:
The C.C.A. announced the premiere issue of this magazine. It is published three times a year and is circulated free of charge to the Board of Directors and Managers of every affiliated Club in the country. Eight magazines will be delivered to your Club during the last week of January, the third week of March and the last week of September.
b) COUNTDOWN TO BRIER:
All provinces will have declared their winners by February 13th.
c) RED KING SMITH EXECUTIVE AWARD:
The winner was Lorne Mitton from New Brunswick. The Award for Achievement went to Linda Moore from Vancouver.
d) SENIOR CURLING:
The Senior National has been awarded to the Calgary Curling Club for the year 2001 - January 20th to 28th.
e) RULE CHANGES:
Much discussion followed on the proposed rule changes to be voted on at the National Conference Meeting at the Brier.
ITEM VI: REPORTS
a) PAST PRESIDENT
No report.
b) PRESIDENT
Sharon’s report is attached. Sharon commented that some competitive curlers should be reminded that Executive members and Delegates are volunteer positions and should be therefore treated with more respect.
c) 1ST VICE PRESIDENT
Kevin thanked Lester Callbeck, Brian Boyle, and all who helped at the Tankard Banquet in Crapaud. Kevin suggested some changes are being considered for the timing for the Banquet. Only 17 teams were present at the Banquet.
d) 2ND VICE PRESIDENT
Nicole’s report is attached.
e) 3RD VICE PRESIDENT
Bruce announced the Master’s winners. Women’s #1 Team: Helen Robbins, Kay Hughes, Louise MacLeod, and Evelyn MacLure. Women’s #2 Team: Gladys Wright, Eileen Blanchard, Mary Plamondon and Bev Brown. Men’s #1 Team: Wayne Gardiner, Fred Hiscock, Earl Hayes and Ray Thompson. Men’s #2 Team: Paul Gallant, Reg Peters, Jim Smith and Henry MacWilliam. Kit bags were given as prizes. He wished them luck for the Maritime Finals in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
f) DELEGATE AT LARGE
Marion reported on the 8 Year Playdown. No Sponsor as yet but one possibility.
g) FINANCIAL
Report attached.
h) MARKETING
Sharon’s report is attached.
i) JUNIOR CO-ORDINATOR
Brenda’s report is attached.
j) TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR
Barb’s report is attached.
It was moved by Shirley Lank, seconded by Shelley Ebbett that all reports be accepted as presented.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VII: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
- A report on seeding for the Men’s Cash spiel is attached. Kevin suggested that seeding rules should be in the Constitution and Rules. More on this at the Annual Meeting.
- Sharon announced that the advertisements for Team Manager and Coaches for the Canada Games Teams will be put in the papers.
- The ARDC representatives will be Shirley Lank, Sharon Walker and Marion MacAulay.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
FEBRUARY 6, 2000
I have been working on finding a Sponsor for the Provincial 8 Year and Under. Schurman’s Building Supplies is looking promising. I am waiting for someone to return from holidays. I should know more next week.
Congratulations to John Likely, Susan MacInnis, Mark Butler and Nancy Cameron for their 3RD Place Finish at the Canadian Mixed. Also, Congratulations John, Susan and Nancy for their selection to the All Star Team.
Congratulations to Mabel Gardiner for her recent selection to the All Star Team at the Canadian Seniors Championship.
I am receiving responses from survey from the Women’s and Men’s Championships and still the responses are “NO”, they would not purchase one night memberships and play in the Provincials.
I want to thank Nicole, Kevin, Brenda and Bruce for their hard work at their recent events. They all had to make some tough decisions and give up a lot of their time. I appreciate all your efforts and want to publicly acknowledge the wonderful jobs you did.
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon Walker
President P.E.I.C.A.
2000-2001 Season
P.E.I CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
7:30pm
Charlottetown Curling Club, Charlottetown
The 12th Annual General Meeting of the PEI Curling Association was held at the Charlottetown Curling Club with President Kevin Champion presiding.
ITEM I: CALL TO ORDER
President Kevin welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order. He introduced Special Guest Les Harrison, Vice President of the Canadian Curling Association.
ITEM II: MOMENT OF SILENCE
A moment of silence was held in recognition of curlers who passed away during the past year.
ITEM III: SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Kevin presented special gifts to the Suzanne Gaudet Rink for their win at the World Junior Championships. Les Harrison, on behalf of the C.C.A., presented the team with the Championship Banner.
ITEM IV: REPORT OF CREDENTIALS
Alberton - 1 vote; Charlottetown - 2 votes; Cornwall - 2 votes; Crapaud - no vote; Maple Leaf - 2 votes, Montague - 1 vote, Silver Fox - 2 votes; Sharon, Nicole, Bruce, Marion, Darrell, Don and Brenda - 1 vote each plus the President’s vote to break a tie if necessary.
ITEM V: MINUTES OF PREVIOUS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
It was moved by Kevin and seconded by Darrell, that the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting be accepted as circulated. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VI: PRESIDENT’S REPORT
President’s Report is attached. It was moved by Kevin and seconded by Sharon, that his report be accepted as read. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VII: SECRETARY/TREASURER’S REPORT
The Secretary/Treasurer’s Report is attached. Financial Statements for the year ending April 30, 2001.
ITEM VIII: OTHER REPORTS
It was moved by Nicole and seconded by Rick Richard, that her report be accepted as presented.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Bruce, seconded by Sharon, that his report be accepted as presented.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Marion and seconded by Nicole, that her report be accepted as presented.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Darrell, seconded by Bruce, that his report be accepted as presented.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Don, seconded by Brenda, that his report be accepted as presented.
MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Brenda, seconded it by Sharon, that her report be accepted as presented.
. MOTION CARRIED
It was moved by Sharon and seconded by Bruce, that her Marketing Report be accepted as presented. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM IX: CORRESPONDENCE
a) A thank you note was received from the Suzanne Gaudet Rink.
b) A thank you card received from the Atlantic Canadian Championship Team: Susan Baglole, Emily Waugh, Suzanne Thompson and Krista MacLellan.
c) Complete list of the PEI Officials registered with the C.C.A. database.
d) Application form for the Volunteer Conference in Vancouver.
ITEM X: BUSINESS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
No business from correspondence.
ITEM XI: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BYLAWS
Rules for Provincial Seniors be amended as follows:
1) It was moved by Charlie, seconded by Shelley that a new article, #5 be added as follows:
The Mens Competition shall be an Open Bonspiel to qualify 8 teams to play in the Provincial round and the Open Competition to be held the year prior to the Final Competition.
MOTION DEFEATED
1) It was moved by Jeff and seconded by Shelley:
that Clubs hosting the Tankard Open or Final Eights must host at least one competitive Mens Cash spiel prior to the Provincial event and during the same curling season in which they are hosting the Provincial event.
MOTION DEFEATED
2) It was moved by Jeff, seconded by Kenny:
that eight teams will be seeded in the Provincial Men’s Open Round draw. The seeding will be based on total money earned in Cash spiels (both on and off Island Spiels) in the same curling season as the Open Round (eg. Seeding for 2002 Open Round will be based on Cash spiel earnings from September 1st , 2002 up to Monday prior to the beginning of the Open Round).
The team earning the most money will receive the #1 seed, team earning the second most money, the #2 seed, and so on.
Amended to read “2 days prior” MOTION CARRIED
Original motion as amended. MOTION CARRIED
3) It was moved by Jeff, seconded by Shelley;
that the Final Eight format be changed from the current triple knockout format to an Eight Team Round Robin with a One Game Final on to be played on Sunday. The first place finisher of the round robin will receive a bye to the final to face the winner of the 2nd vs. 3rd semifinal game.
MOTION CARRIED
4) It was moved by Jeff, seconded by Darrell:
‒ that a set of standards be developed and implemented for the Provincial Play including but not limited to:
‒ Ice scraped before the first draw each day (open round) and preferably before each draw in the “Final Eight” play.
‒ Practice time to be made available after the last draw each day. (Final Eights)
‒ 3 Hours and 20 minutes between draws rather than the current 3 (Open Round; to allow adequate time for game completion, ice preparation, and pre-game practice).
‒ Hacks
‒ Spectator admission charges.
‒ It was moved by Ernie and seconded by Sherrill that the above motion be amended to read, “ that a set of standards be developed and implemented for Provincial Play”.
AMENDED MOTION CARRIED
6) Resolution for the P.E.I.C.A.
Be it resolved:
That the Tankard Provincial Playdowns be turned into a two zone playdown Eastern Zone and Western Zone with the zones being determined by the curling population of PEI.
Eastern Zone: Would include Montague, Charlottetown and Cornwall Curling Clubs.
Western Zone: Would include Maple Leaf, Western Community, Silver Fox and Crapaud Curling Clubs.
Each zone will continue with a triple knockout draw system, but will only qualify four teams from each zone to be sent to the Final Eight Championship.
NO MOVER FOR MOTION
(This resolution is open for amendments).
It was moved by Brenda and seconded by Rick:
that Provincial Junior 20 & Under be a round robin with playoff format to be decided when the number of teams have been declared.
MOTION CARRIED
PROVINCIAL PLAYDOWN GENERAL RULES FOR MEN’S, WOMEN’S MIXED, SENIORS AND JUNIORS
- Be it resolved that rule #9, that reads “9. In all games the directives and decisions of the Umpire must be obeyed and accepted, subject only to immediate appeal to the Bonspiel Committee by the Skip feeling aggrieved”.
Be changed to:
- 9. In all games the directives and decisions of the Head Official must be obeyed and accepted. Grievances and complaints must be submitted to the Head Official no later than one hour following the completion of the competition.
As moved by Sharon and seconded by Marion. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MEN
- Be it resolved that rule #3, that reads “3. Players in their last year of eligibility of play in the Canadian Junior Curling Championships are eligible to play in Provincial Playdowns.
Be changed to:
- 3. Juniors who reach the age of 19 as of December 31st of the year prior to the National Championship, may play in the Men’s Playdowns providing that there are not any conflicting situations.
As moved by Brenda, seconded by Marion. MOTION CARRIED
- Be it resolved that rule #8, that reads “8. The Tankard Final be held no more than four (4) weeks prior to the start of the Brier”.
Be changed to:
- 8. The Men’s Final will be held no more than four (4) weeks before the start of the Men’s Canadian Championship.
As moved by Sharon and seconded by Rick. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MIXED
- Be it resolved that a rule be added as follows:
6. Juniors who reach the age of 19 as of December 31st of the year prior to the National Championship, may play in the Mixed Playdowns providing that there are not any conflicting situations.
As moved by Brenda, seconded by Nicole. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL WOMEN
- Be it resolved that rule #3, that reads “3. Players in their last year of eligibility of play in the Canadian Curling Championships are eligible to play in the Provincial Playdowns”.
Be changed to read:
- 3. Juniors who reach the age of 19 as of December 31st of the year prior to the National Championship may play in the Woman’s Playdowns providing that there are not any conflicting situations”.
As moved by Brenda, seconded by Nicole. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL JUNIORS
- Be it resolved that rule #3, that reads “3. Young men and women who meet the age requirements in their last year of Junior eligibility and holding a Provincial Participants card be able to play in any provincial PLAY DOWN (example: Scott, Tankard or Mixed)”.
Be changed to:
- Juniors who reach the age of 19 as of December 31st of the year prior to the National Championship, may play in the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Playdowns providing that there are not any conflicting situations”.
As moved by Brenda and seconded by Nicole. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL 8 YEAR AND UNDER
- Be it resolved that rule #7, that reads #7. In all games, the orders and decisions of the Umpire must be obeyed and accepted, subject only to an immediate appeal to the Provincial Chairperson by the Skip”.
Be changed to:
7. In all games, the directives and decisions of the Head Official must be obeyed and accepted. Grievances and complaints must be submitted to the Head Office no later than one hour following the completion of the competition.
As moved by Bruce and seconded by Nicole. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MASTERS
- Be it resolved that rule #6, that reads “6. In all games, the orders and decisions of the umpire must be obeyed and accepted, subject only to an immediate appeal to the Provincial Chairperson by the Skip”.
Be changed to:
- 6. In all games the directives and decisions of the Head Official must be obeyed and accepted. Grievances and complaints must be submitted to the Head Official no later than one hour following the completion of the competition.
As moved by Bruce seconded by Nicole. MOTION CARRIED
- Be it resolved that rule #10, that reads “10. When a round robin completion is played, in the event of a tie for runner up at the end of the conclusion of round robin play (a) the record of the past round robin play of those teams tied shall be used to determine the winner of the runner up position and failing that (b) there shall be a play-off among those teams tied for runner up position”.
Be changed to:
- 10. The competition shall be a double knock-out.
As moved by Bruce and seconded by Shelley. MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL NOVICE
- Be it resolved that the title, “Rules for Provincial Novice”.
Be changed to:
“Rules for Provincial 17 and Under and Provincial 15 and Under.
As moved by Brenda and seconded by Nicole. MOTION CARRIED
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CURLING ASSOCIATION CONSTITUTION
MOTION
- Be it resolved that the following be added to article 12.4:
In consultation with the P.E.I.C.A. Executive, is responsible for appointing an Officiating Co-ordinator who will be the Head Official for all provincial championships, assist club delegates with the scheduling of officials and timekeepers for each draw and provide training clinics before each championship for volunteer time keepers.
As moved by Bruce and seconded by Marion. MOTION CARRIED
MOTION:
- Be it resolved that 15.5 be repealed and replaced with:
15.5 The following competitions are under the jurisdiction of the Association:
a) Provincial Mens
b) Provincial Womens
c) Provincial Juniors
d) Provincial Mixed
e) Provincial Seniors
f) Provincial Masters
g) Provincial 8 Year and Under
h) Provincial 17 and Under
i) Provincial 15 and Under
As moved by Charlene and seconded by Rick. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XII: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SITES AND DATES FOR BONSPIELS
PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
2001 - 2002
Event Location/ Dates/ Contact /Entry Fee
Mixed /Silver Fox/ Dec. 7-11/ Nicole Phillips/ $100.00
Juniors/ Charlottetown/ Dec.14-18/ Brenda MacMillan/ $ 80.00
Seniors / Cornwall / Jan. 4-8 / Darrell Kirev/ $100.00
Masters/ Crapaud/ Jan.14-17/ Darrell Kirev/ $ 80.00
Women's/ O’Leary /Jan 31 - Feb 5/ Marion MacAulay/ $100.00
Men’s Open/ Alberton/ Feb 8-12 /Bruce Horne /$100.00
Final Eight/ Montague/ Feb 15-19/ Bruce Horne/ N/A
Prov. 17 & Uunder/ Silver Fox/ Brenda MacMillan / $ 60.00
15 & Under/ Silver Fox/Brenda MacMillan/$ 48.00
8 Year & Under/ Crapaud/ March 8-11/ Delegate-at-Large/ $ 80.00
2002 SEASON OF CHAMPIONS
Canadian Mixed Halifax January 5 -13
Karcher Juniors Summerside January 19 -27
Canadian Seniors St. Thomas February 2 - 10
Scott Brandon February 23-March 3
Brier Calgary March 9-17
ITEM XIII: ELECTION OF OFFICERS
The Nominating Committee - Sharon moved the nomination of the following for the positions as noted; seconded by:
Kevin Champion Past President
Marion MacAulay 2nd Vice President
Nicole Phillips President
Darrell Kirev 3rd Vice President
Bruce Horne 1st Vice President
Pat Pegg Delegate at Large
Sharon declared the above candidates duly elected by acclamation.
ITEM XIV: NEW BUSINESS
Nicole advised that a new website would be up and running before the end of summer.
ITEM XV: APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
Nicole and Bruce will represent the P.E.I.C.A. at Calgary in 2002.
ITEM XVI: ELECTION OF AUDITOR
Doug MacEachern has agreed to do the audit for the year 2001/2002 curling year.
ITEM XVII: HALL OF FAME
Nicole advised that Doug Cameron was nominated to the Hall of Fame.
ITEM XVIII: VOTE OF THANKS
Kevin thanked the Executive and Delegates for all their support during the year. He also thanked Les Harrison for attending our meeting.
ITEM XIX: INSTALLATION OF NEW PRESIDENT AND HER REMARKS
Kevin welcomed Nicole as our new President of the P.E.I.C.A. Nicole thanked Kevin and the Executive for all their help during the year.
Nicole also welcomed Pat Pegg to the Executive as Delegate at Large.
ITEM XX: RATIFY DUES
It was moved by Nicole and seconded by Bruce that dues for the year 2001 - 2002 be set as follows:
Affiliation dues remain at $5.00 per member.
Event Location/ Dates/ Contact /Entry Fee
Mixed /Silver Fox/ Dec. 7-11/ Nicole Phillips/ $100.00
Juniors/ Charlottetown/ Dec.14-18/ Brenda MacMillan/ $ 80.00
Seniors / Cornwall / Jan. 4-8 / Darrell Kirev/ $100.00
Masters/ Crapaud/ Jan.14-17/ Darrell Kirev/ $ 80.00
Women's/ O’Leary /Jan 31 - Feb 5/ Marion MacAulay/ $100.00
Men’s Open/ Alberton/ Feb 8-12 /Bruce Horne /$100.00
Final Eight/ Montague/ Feb 15-19/ Bruce Horne/ N/A
Prov. 17 & Uunder/ Silver Fox/ Brenda MacMillan / $ 60.00
15 & Under/ Silver Fox/Brenda MacMillan/$ 48.00
8 Year & Under/ Crapaud/ March 8-11/ Delegate-at-Large/ $ 80.00
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XX: ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Nicole moved that the meeting be adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Trainor
Secretary/ Treasurer
P.E.I.C.A.
P.E.I .C.A. PRESIDENT’S REPORT
First of all I would like to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to serve as your President for the past year. It was a challenging and rewarding year for myself and I learned a lot about all aspects of the game of curling in the Province of PEI. I would like to thank the other members of the Executive for all their dedication and hard work. Thank you to our Technical Team, our Junior Chair, our Treasurer, and also the club delegates for their help in co-ordinating Provincial events. Thank you to Sharon Walker, our outgoing Past President and Marketing Director, for all the hours of hard work for the Association and wish her all the best as Chairperson for the 2002 Karcher Juniors in Summerside.
Highlights of 2000 - 2001
The biggest highlight of the year was the Suzanne Gaudet Rink winning the World Championship in Ogden, Utah. Congratulations and well done girls! Also, Congratulations to all our other Provincial winners who attended Nationals.
The 2000 - 2001 season saw the introduction of time clocks for the first time into our Provincial Playdowns. They were well received and the overall consensus was positive that the clocks were working. I would like to thank Kay Atkinson, our Head Official, for all the hours she put into this project to get it off the ground.
We can’t thank Scott Paper enough, one of our valued sponsors for putting forth financial support to help develop grassroots curling in this province. For an Association as small as ours, I can’t even begin to explain how important this was.
One of the biggest highlights of being President this last year was being a part of the P.E.I.C.A. Brainstorming Session held in Summerside on May 5th. For the first time since I have been on the Association, I really felt all the clubs were pulling together and working as a team that day to help with the future direction of this Association. All the clubs were in favor of change as the game of curling continues to grow and, although there is still a lot of work yet to come, it is the clubs uniting on this that is very positive.
Being President, I was Chairperson for the Ford Provincial Mixed in Cornwall. I would like to thank the delegates at the Cornwall Club, Shirley Lank and Ernie Stavert, for all their hard work. The John Likely Rink with Kathie Gallant, Mark Butler and Krista Cameron were the eventual winners and went on to a third place finish at the Nationals in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
In closing, I can see a bright future for the Association and the sport of curling in this province. I will always look back at my year as President of the P.E.I.C.A. as a positive experience for myself and will always have the best interest of the sport of curling at heart.
Yours in Curling,
Kevin Champion
President, PEI Curling Association
REPORT TO PEI CURLING ASSOCIATION
1ST VICE PRESIDENT
May 29, 2001
Charlottetown Curling Club
Charlottetown, PEI
(Responsibilities of this position include chairing the Provincial Women’s Championship, assuming the role of President in his/her absence, delegate to the National Curling Conference).
The Provincial Women’s Championships - The Scott Tournament of Hearts- was held at the Charlottetown Curling Club from January 18-23, 2001 with ten entries. As with many of this year’s events, a formal sponsorship agreement was signed with the Title Sponsor, Scott Paper Ltd., which included a large cash contribution of $10,000.00 to the Association, which could be used towards general Association programming and not limited to the event.
A Publicity Campaign was launched in mid - January with the Guardian, Journal - Pioneer, Eastern Graphic, CBC Radio, C102FM, and Island Radio providing both excellent coverage both pre and post event. A temporary website for the event was built and co-ordinated by Derek MacEwen.
The event included a Banquet on Thursday evening in which Scott Representative Hilton Moore was in attendance, an “On-Ice” Opening Ceremonies on Friday. This was preceded by a reception from 6:00 to 7:30pm for all past Champions of the Provincial Championship and included the awarding of the Scott Recognition Award (now renamed the “Marion Dockendorff Recognition Award”) to Beverley Millar of Summerside.
New at this year’s provincial event was one of the Association’s time clocks managed by our new Head Official Kay Atkinson. Club delegates Shelley Ebbett and Rick Richard, along with the Charlottetown Curling Club staff, did an outstanding job organizing the weekend.
The event concluded Tuesday with the title going to defending Champions Shelly Bradley (Skip), Janice MacCallum (Third). Leslie Allan (Second), and Tricia MacGregor (Lead) and Coach Pat Reid. Gerry Geldart of Scott Paper made the presentation of the championship trophy. The team named Nancy Cameron as their Fifth for the National Scott Tournament of Hearts which took place in Sudbury.
Although I was unable to go to Sudbury to the National Curling Conference, in my role as 1st Vice President, I did participate in the following meetings/events:
- Canadian Curling Association Annual General Meeting (June 2000) via teleconference
- Sport PEI Annual General Meeting
- PEI Brainstorming Event re: Organization restructuring
- Sport PEI Annual Awards Banquet
- Reception for the Suzanne Gaudet Rink for both winning the Canadian and World Junior Title
- P.E.I.C.A. Senior Championships Banquet
Also, I was pleased to be part of formalizing the sponsorship agreement now used by the Association for provincial events, in submitting nominations for the PEI Sports Hall of Fame and for Sport PEI Awards, and being part of the Executive team overseeing the budget and planning for the year. I am also very pleased to announce that the Association has accepted a proposal submitted by Derek MacEwen for an official website, which will be up and running by the end of summer.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole D. Phillips
FINAL REPORT 2ND VICE PRESIDENT
The Labatt Tankard Open was held at the Montague Curling Club with the Charlottetown Curling Club being used as the overflow. This year there was Thirty-five teams entered, for a position in the Final Eight Playdown. This year we did not hold the traditional banquet but had an open informal luncheon, this was held at the Montague Club.
I would like to thank all the Host Committee on helping me put on a great event, this includes the Icemaker, kitchen staff, bar staff, and anyone who volunteered as a scorekeeper or official. A special thank you to June Moyaert for all her hard work to help organize this event. I would also like to thank the Charlottetown Curling Club and their volunteers and staff with their help as an overflow club.
The eight qualifying teams were:
Andrew Robinson
Peter MacDonald
Robert Campbell
Kevin Champion
Mike Gaudet
Blair Weeks
Rodney MacDonald
Jody Jackson
The Final Eight was held at the Crapaud Curling Club, were a formal banquet was held where all who attended enjoyed a great meal put on by the club and sponsored by Island Tel. Every team was represented and our Sponsors of this event delivered Congratulatory speeches. I thank Marie Nicholson and her committee for all their hard work putting on a great Final Eight.
At this time I would like to give a special thank you to a couple of people who made this year’s event successful in many different ways. Firstly, Derek MacEwen who spent many hours updating both the Open and the Finals on the internet on his own time, thanks for your dedication and support of the P.E.I.C.A. Secondly, I thank Kay Atkinson for all her hard work organizing officials and timekeepers, as well as the many hours of work as the Head Official of this event along with all the training she provided to bring this Tankard in line with the ruling standards of National events.
This year’s Tankard Final winner for 2001 was the team of Peter MacDonald, Peter Gallant, Mark O’Rourke and Mark Butler of the Charlottetown Curling Club.
Yours in Curling
Bruce Horne
2ND Vice President
PEI Curling Association
3RD VICE PRESIDENT
P.E.I.C.A. ANNUAL MEETING
MAY 29, 2001
This year, my duties as 3rd Vice President included chairing the Provincial Men’s and Women’s Senior Championships, chairing the Provincial Men’s and Women’s Masters Championships, P.E.I.C.A. Representative on Curl Atlantic Board of Directors, P.E.I.C.A. Voting delegate at the 2000 CCA AGM and 2001 CCA AGM and NCC and member of the Executive that dealt with day to day policy.
2000 CCA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
The Executive decided in the Spring of 2000 to participate in the 2000 CCA AGM via teleconference. Nicole Phillips and I were the voting delegates and while this method of participating in the AGM was a considerable cost savings we would not recommend it for future AGM’s. Highlighting the voting at this meeting was the change in age eligibility for the Juniors and Seniors to coincide with the end of the calendar year. It was also decided at this meeting to move the AGM to the same time as the National Curling Congress (NCC) which now takes place alternate years at the Scott and Brier. This is a considerable cost savings measure which should now allow PEI to send two voting delegates to these meetings.
PROVINCIAL SENIOR’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Provincial Men’s and Women’s Senior Championships were held at the Silver Fox Curling Club December 8 - 11, 2000. We began the season without sponsorship for this event and were very fortunate that the Consolidated Credit Union stepped forward at the last minute to sponsor the event.
There were six Women’s teams and fifteen Men’s teams entered in the competition. The Barb Currie Rink of the Silver Fox Curling Club captured the Women’s title with teammates Anne Currie, Joyce Duffy and Helen MacDonald. The Men’s title was captured by the Ted MacFadyen Rink of the Charlottetown Curling Club with teammates Barry Stevenson, John MacKay and Mike Coady. Both teams were excellent representatives for PEI at the Nationals that were held in Calgary, January 2001.
I would like to thank all those that made this event a success especially club delegate’s Pat Pegg and Bob Smith, Silver Fox Manager Carl Delaney, time keepers and officials.
PROVINCIAL MASTER’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Provincial Men’s and Women’s Masters Championships were held at the Cornwall Curling Club
January 8-11, 2001. We, unfortunately, were unable to secure a Sponsor for this event for this season.
- Marion MacAulay, 3rd Vice-president
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR’S REPORT
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
PEI CURLING ASSOCIATION
MAY 29, 2001
CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI
This was a busy year for the Technical Program. I have noted in my report some of the new as well as the existing programming we undertook. Plans for next year are now underway which will see further development in the Coaching and Player Skill improvement.
JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR
The Fall of 2000 saw the first in what is planned as an Annual event to assist clubs in improving their Junior programs.
The Seminar consisted of various guest speakers and topics. Some examples of topics were: Implementing a Little Rock Program, Organizing a Junior Tournament, Fund Raising Techniques, as well as discussion on junior programs in clubs.
The initial group was small but the majority felt the sessions were very worthwhile.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS
Level 2
A Level 2 Technical Course was held at the Silver Fox Curling Club on October 17, 19, and 22, 2000. There were nine (9) participants of which eight (8) were successful in passing the Technical Exam.
They were:
Sheila Compton,Wendy Mitchell, Tom Peters, Paul Power, Donald Vickerson, Ann Doucette, Peter MacDonald, Bill MacPhee
TECHNICAL REPORT
LEVEL 1
A Level 1, Technical Course was held at the Cornwall Curling Club the week of December 17, 2000. There were six (6) participants who successfully completed the program.
They were:
Arnold Nabuurs,
Stephen Nabuurs, Darrell Tschirhart,
Nancy Yeo, Pat Atkinson, Lori Robinson.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS
The Technical Staff were involved in a number of Skill Development Seminars during this curling year. The Sessions consisted of reviewing basic rules, delivery analysis, as well as brushing mechanics.
The Technical Group view these seminars as vital in helping to maintain curling club memberships. Through our Certified Coaching Programs we have received many comments from participants who tell us that Skill Development Sessions are needed in order to keep members who wish to progress beyond the Novice Level.
AUDIO VISUAL MATERIAL
This year the Technical Program purchased badly needed audio visual equipment. It is our plan over the next couple of years to obtain further equipment which will be used by the Technical Course Conductors as well as Coaches to improve skills.
NATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
Marilyn Sutherland and I will be attending the Canadian Curling Association Technical Conference in Quebec City beginning July 5, 2001. If you have any issues you would like us to bring forward please let us know.
SUZANNE GAUDET RINK
Congratulations go out to the Suzanne Gaudet Rink for their win at the World Junior Championship and in particular to Coach Paul Power who was successful in obtaining his Level 2 Certification this year. Paul has recently completed his Level 3 Theory Course at the recent Atlantic Coaching Conference held in Charlottetown.
CONCLUSION
At this time I want to thank the curling clubs for the generous donation of club time to assist us in conducting our programs.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank Marilyn Sutherland for her invaluable efforts this year in conducting Certification programs as well as Skill Development Seminars. We are indeed fortunate in this province to have a person with her skill and dedication.
Respectfully submitted,
Don Gorveatt
REPORT ON THE PROVINCIAL MEN AND WOMEN’S 8 YEARS AND UNDER
The 2001 Provincial Men’s and Women’s 8 Year and Under was played March 2- 4 at the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary. 17 Teams Participated - 11 Men’s Teams with Sandy MacPhee from the Silver Fox defeating Larry Profitt of the Western Curling Club in the finals and 6 women’s teams with Sharon Horne of the Western Curling Club defeating Kim Glydon of the Cornwall Curling Club in the Finals.
The format used was:
- Double Knockout Cash Spiel
- 8 End Games with No Warm-ups
- Money was given out starting with the Semi- Finals Game in both the A and B Sections of the draw with the winning teams also receiving plaques.
Curling began Friday Night with draws at 5:00pm, 7:00pm and 9:00pm. The Championship Game was completed on Sunday. A meal was provided on Saturday where the curlers were given a choice of: Chilli and roll, Stew and roll or roast beef in a bun and a free pop, tea or coffee. There were also numerous sweets available.
The issue of giving out of prize money was brought to my attention. Some felt that it took away from some of the prestige of the event being a Provincial Championship. They felt that tournament winners should be recognized as Provincial Champions, given plaques and maybe a prize, but not money. I asked others what they thought of the prize money and while most seemed not to care, others were in favor of it; but they all admitted they would have entered the event even if no money was involved. The suggestion that often was brought up was, is there a chance of getting a Maritime or Atlantic Championship for the winners.
I would like to suggest that our Curl Atlantic Representatives look at this possibility. Now that we have an Under 17 Atlantic Championship, why can’t we also have one for the intermediate or newer adult curlers. Instead of putting the entry money back into prize money we could maybe better recognize the Provincial winners and put the rest into an Atlantic Event.
I would like to thank Sherrill Barwise and Anne Barwise, Maple Leaf Curling Club delegates and Crystal MacWilliams, Club Manager for their help.
Respectfully submitted,
Darrel Kirev
Delegate at Large
PEI Curling Association
ANNUAL JUNIOR REPORT FOR 2000 -2001
May 29th , 2001
With the change in format for our Provincial Playdowns this year, Curlers and Coaches saw a successful year at the Provincial, National and World Level. This year for the first time we divided our Play downs into age categories and the curlers were very happy with this change. Curlers could, if they desired, possibly play in all five (5) Playdowns if age permitted. Teams could play against teams within their own age and skills category without feeling overwhelmed that they had to play against teams older and more skilled than themselves. The format was very appreciated and welcomed.
It was a proud year for us when the team of Suzanne Gaudet, Stefanie Richard, Robyn MacPhee, Kelly Higgins and Paul Power won our Province, went on to win the Nationals, then the World’s. What an achievement this was to our Junior Curling body. This year was also the inaugural Atlantic Junior 17 & Under Championship which was held in Port aux Basque, Newfoundland and once again the Junior curlers of PEI dominated the scene when our teams of Lincoln Peters, Dennis Watts, Matthew Pratt, Nick Gagne, Christa MacLellan, Susan Baglole, Suzanne Thompson, and Emily Waugh won the Championship. Junior Curling on PEI is very active and we are truly well represented when we enter tournaments out of Province.
The Skills Award Program was successful again this year among the Juniors and many achieved their Level 2 and 3 badges. Club co-ordinators keep up the good work.
I would like to thank at this time all Junior Club Co-ordinators, Coaches and my fellow Executive for the help and support that was given to me in the past year. I will look forward to seeing/working with you in the Fall.
Respectfully submitted by,
Brenda MacMillan, P.E.I.C.A.
Junior Coordinator
MARKETING REPORT
ANNUAL MEETING P.E.I.C.A.
May 29th , 2001
This year has been a busy and exciting in the marketing of Curling on Prince Edward Island. A 3 Year Contract has been signed with Labatt Breweries and Errol Thompson to continue to be the Title Sponsor of the Labatt Tankard Men’s Championship.
Sponsorship continues to be an area of great need and concern on the Executive. Sponsors need to be obtained for: the Masters, the Seniors, the 8 Year and Under. The Ford Dealers of PEI would like to negotiate their contract for the 2001/2002 curling season.
Another area of great need is the development of a website for the P.E.I.C.A. This will be an excellent opportunity to link Prince Edward Island Curling with the rest of Canada.
Work completed in 2000/2001 Curling season:
- Individual posters for each event
- One entry form for all Championships
- Posters of information for dates and locations of Championships and information on the Executive
- Contract signed for 3 years with Labatt Breweries
- One Year Contract was agreed upon with Island Telecom for the banquet for the Men’s Championship
- One Year Sponsorship from the Summerside Consolidated Credit for Senior’s Championships
- Ads/pictures/write-ups in the paper throughout the season
- New paper for P.E.I.C.A. Correspondence and
- Two newsletters that were distributed to all Island Clubs
I want to thank everyone who has helped me with the marketing of Curling on PEI and I wish the new Executive and Marketing Director much success in the upcoming Curling season.
Yours in Curling,
Brenda MacMillan
Marketing Director
P.E.I.C.A.
2001-2002 Season
P.E.I CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING
Monday, February 18th, 2002
7:00pm
Sport PEI , Charlottetown
IN ATTENDANCE:
EXECUTIVE: Nicole Phillips, President
Kevin Champion, Past President
Bruce Horne, 1ST Vice President
Marion MacAulay, 2nd Vice President
Darrel Kirev, 3rd Vice President
Don Gorveatt, Technical Director
Brenda MacMillan, Junior Development
Marilyn Sutherland, Technical
Jim Trainor, Secretary/Treasurer
DELEGATES: John Sentner, Alberton, Western
Shelley Ebbett, Charlottetown
Bob Pritchett, Charlottetown
Nancy Yeo, Cornwall
Ernie Stavert, Cornwall
Lyndon Mayhew, Crapaud
Shirley Matheson, Maple Leaf, O’Leary
Tammy Dewar, Montague
Larry Dewar, Montague
Brenda MacLean, Silver Fox
A quorum was established with the following number of votes: Alberton = 1, Charlottetown = 2, Cornwall =2, Crapaud = 1, Maple Leaf =1, Montague=2, Silver Fox =1, Executive =7.
ITEM I: CALL TO ORDER
President Nicole Phillips welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order.
ITEM II: AGENDA
It was moved by Brenda MacMillan and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that the agenda be approved as circulated. MOTION CARRIED
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING MONDAY, FEB. 18, 2002 2
Jerry Muzika: Jerry gave a presentation on the PEI Archives/Hall of Fame. He pointed out that the P.E.I.C.A. does not have an active Honourary Life Membership program. Report is attached.
ITEM III: MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
It was moved by Marion MacAulay and seconded by Tammy Dewar that the minutes of the previous meeting be accepted with the following addition. A canceled Canadian Games Bonspiel booking at the Crapaud Curling Club was replaced with a Junior Spiel.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM IV: BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
a) Nicole Phillips advised that she received an Administration grant from the Province for $1,400.00.
b) Constitution change regarding definition of a member,,,,to be completed.
ACTION: NICOLE PHILLIPS
c) Nicole advised that she responded to the letter from Amanda Bulger regarding Women’s Provincials. She also responded to the letter from Jim Praught regarding the Mixed Provincial.
d) Curling dues have been paid by the Maple Leaf Curling Club.
e) It was moved by Kevin Champion and seconded by Tammy Dewar that the PDR money be re-invested with Metro Credit Union in a one year redeemable certificate.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM V: CORRESPONDENCE
a) Thank you letter from Sharon Walker with loan payment of $5,000.00 for the National Juniors.
b) Letter from Jim Smith requesting $300.00 for Maritime Masters. This was paid.
PEI CURLING ASSOCIATION
Thank you for allowing me some time to present some ideas to you tonight.
I have three subjects that I would like to talk about. Hopefully, these subjects will turn out to be Programs for the Association.
- Honourary Life Memberships
- PEI Curling Hall of Fame
- History of Curling on PEI
HONOURARY LIFE MEMBERSHIPS
To my knowledge, the PEI Curling Association does not have an Honourary Life Membership Program. I believe it should. Most, if not all Provincial Curling Associations, the Canadian Curling Association and the Charlottetown Curling Club all have this type of Program.
This is an excellent method to use to honor individuals that have contributed above and beyond the normal to the growth of our sport. This Program does not cost any money and is a good method to use to thank our volunteers for their monumental contribution to our sport.
PEI CURLING HALL OF FAME
I believe that the PEI Curling Association needs a program to recognize, honor, and pay tribute to individuals and teams for curling excellence and to individuals for distinguished service.
This could stand-alone or you could add to this program. It could be expanded to establish and maintain the Archives of Curling on PEI and even include a Reference Center for data on all aspects of our game. This could lead to collecting memorabilia and artifacts relating to our history and allow for occasional displays of this material to the public.
The Canadian Curling Hall of Fame has categories for Curler, Builder, Curler/Builder, Team and Others, such as Past Presidents.
Again, this program does not cost any money.
A Committee would need to be created to develop this program and to make the selections. This same Committee could handle the Honourary Life Membership program too.
- Jerry Muzika
P.E.I CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Thursday, May 28, 2002
7:00pm
Community Curling Crapaud Club
IN ATTENDANCE:
EXECUTIVE: Nicole Phillips, President
Kevin Champion, Past President
Bruce Horne, 1ST Vice President
Marion MacAulay, 2nd Vice President
Don Gorveatt, Technical
Brenda MacMillan, Junior Development
Jim Trainor, Secretary/Treasurer
Marilyn Sutherland, Technical
DELEGATES: Sharon Horne, Alberton, Western
Shelley Ebbett, Charlottetown
Bob Pritchett, Charlottetown
Nancy Yeo, Cornwall
Ernie Stavert, Cornwall
Evelyn Rodgerson, Crapaud
Lyndon Mayhew, Crapaud
Shirley Matheson, Maple Leaf, O’Leary
Tammy Dewar, Montague
Larry Dewar, Montague
Cliff Poirer, Silver
Bob Smith, Silver Fox
ITEM I: CALL TO ORDER
President Nicole Phillips welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order. Nicole introduced special guest Les Harrison, representing CCA, to the meeting
ITEM II: REPORT OF CREDENTIALS
Alberton- One (1) vote; Charlottetown - 2 votes; Crapaud - (2) votes; Maple Leaf -1 vote; Montague- 2 votes; Silver Fox - 2 votes; Executive - 6 votes.
ITEM III: MOMENT OF SILENCE
A moment of silence was held in recognition of curlers who passed away during the past year.
ITEM IV: MINUTES OF PREVIOUS ANNUAL MEETING
It was moved by Bob Pritchett, and seconded by Shelley Ebbett, that the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting be accepted. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM V: PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Report is attached. It was moved by Nicole Phillips and seconded by Bruce Horne that the report be accepted. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VI: SECRETARY/TREASURER’S REPORT
The Secretary/Treasurer’s Report is attached. It was moved by Jim Trainor and seconded by Kevin Champion that the report be accepted as read
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VII: OTHER REPORTS
Reports by 1st Vice President Bruce Horne, 2nd Vice President Marion MacAulay, Junior Development Co-ordinator Brenda MacMillan and Regional Development Co-ordinator Karen Ouellette are attached. It was moved by Brenda MacMillan and seconded by Bob Pritchett that these reports be accepted.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VIII: CORRESPONDENCE
a) Letter from the World Curling Players Association. Representatives from the W.C.P.A. and the C.C.A. met to discuss areas of concern within curling. Main issues were dates relating to Provincial Championships as well as scheduling a format of Playoff processes leading up to Provincial Championships.
b) E-mails from Mel Bernard and Barb Currie. Concerns were expressed about the Senior Draw during work hours. Nicole Phillips indicated that the Events Committee should be tackling this.
c) Memo from Neil Houston, C.C.A. regarding curfew being broken at the Karcher Juniors. He indicated that in the future breaking curfew should not occur again without a punitive consequence to those who were involved.
d) Nicole Phillips advised she wrote a letter to the Provincial Games Committee. She supported and recommended that Brenda MacMillan and Tom Peters be accepted as Coaches for the Canada Games Teams. Tom Peters coaches the Lincoln Peters team and Brenda MacMillan coaches the Megan Hughes team.
ITEM IX: BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE
No business from the correspondence.
ITEM X: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BYLAWS
1) It was moved by Brenda MacMillan and seconded by Don Gorveatt. Be it resolved that the Provincial 15, 13, 11 and Under be a Round Robin Playdown as opposed to a Double Knock-out as long as numbers, ice and time permits. If not the Double Knock-out will be played.
MOTION CARRIED
Under Provincial Playdown rules for Men’s, Women’s, Mixed, Seniors and Juniors.
2) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule#20 be revised to: The Closing Date for team entries will be at least twenty one days prior to the Competition Start Date except in the case of entries for the Men’s Tankard Open Competition which shall be due January 2. Entries postmarked after that date will not be accepted. Entries must be mailed or Hand delivered. Dropped off entries will not be accepted.
MOTION CARRIED
3) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule#24 (b) be revised to: The Chairperson or P.E.I.C.A. Representative will be present when the teams are drawn and positioned on the draw. Any interested curlers may also attend. The teams will be drawn blindly or “from a hat” and positioned on the prepared draw in the order drawn with the exception of the Men’s Open Draw where those teams identified as the top 8 seeds as determined in the Rules for Provincial Men will be placed in their predetermined positions on the draw and will not be included in the blind draw.
MOTION CARRIED
4) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule#24 (c) be revised to: The Draw schedule, complete with Skips’ Names will be delivered to the Journal-Pioneer and Guardian at least 5 days prior to the Competition Start Date, except in the case of the Men’s Open, which will be delivered the Monday prior to the Competition Start Date, with a request that it be put in the paper as soon as possible. The completed draw will also be sent as expeditiously as possible (i.e. E-mail/Fax) to the P.E.I.C.A. Webmaster for posting on the P.E.I.C.A. website as well as curling clubs across PEI.
MOTION CARRIED
Under Rules for Provincial Men
5) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule#4 be revised to: Eight teams will be seeded in the Provincial Men’s Open Round draw. The seeding will be based on total money earned in Cash Spiels (both on and off Island Spiels) in the same curling season as the Open Round. All money earned from September 1st up to and including the Sunday immediately prior to the start of the Open Round will count towards a teams seeding position.
The team earning the most money will receive a #1 seed, the team earning the second most money, the second seed an so on. In cases where two or more teams are tied for a position, the team that qualified in the greatest number of qualifying events will be ranked higher.
MOTION CARRIED
6) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule#5, 6 and 7 be revised to: 5. The following rules and schedule (draw could be revised for a 3 sheet club) will be in place for the Men’s Final Eights.
FINAL EIGHT
Wednesday
1:00 Rules Review (Mandatory)
1:30pm Practice
2:00pm Draw 1
6:30pm Practice
7:00pm Opening Ceremonies
7:30pm Draw 2
Thursday
1:30pm Practice
2:00pm Draw 3
6:30pm Practice
7:00pm Draw 4
Friday
1:30pm Practice
2:00pm Draw 5
6:30pm Practice
7:00pm Draw 6
Saturday
8:30am Practice
9:00am Draw 7
2pm?? Tie-breakers (if required)
6:30pm Semi Final (if only 1 tie breaker)
7:00pm Semi Final (unless needed for tie breakers)
Sunday
9:30am Semi Final Practice (if Semi not played Saturday night)
10:00am Semi Final (if not played Saturday night)
2:30pm Finals Practice
3:00pm Final
Round Robin Draw Schedule
ICE 1 ICE 2 ICE 3 ICE 4
Draw 1 Wednesday 2pm 1 2 3 4 vs. 8 7 6 5
Draw 2 Wednesday 7pm 6 3 8 2 vs. 5 4 7 1
Draw 3 Thursday 2pm 7 5 4 8 vs. 3 1 2 6
Draw 4 Thursday 7pm 2 4 1 7 vs. 6 8 3 5
Draw 5 Friday 2pm. 1 6 5 3 vs. 4 7 2 8
Draw 6, Friday 7pm. 8 3 7 6 vs. 2 5 1 4
Draw 7 Saturday 9am 4 1 5 2 vs. 7 6 8 3
- The number refers to the team’s qualifying position in the Open Competition.
The Men’s Labatt Final 8 is a Round Robin format consisting of 8 teams qualifying from the Labatt Tankard Open.
For Draw #1, where there are 3 A qualifiers, 3 B qualifiers, and 2 C qualifiers in the Open Competition, the A qualifiers will receive last rock advantage AND choice of rock handle color and will play against teams in reverse qualifying order as indicated on the Draw Schedule. The teams qualifying 4th and 5th will flip prior to practice for the choice of EITHER last rock advantage OR rock handle colour. Where there are 2A, 2B, and 4C qualifiers in the Open Competition, the 2A qualifiers will receive last rock advantage AND choice of rock handle color and play against teams in reverse qualifying order as indicated on the Draw Schedule. The 2B qualifiers will have a choice of EITHER last rock advantage OR rock handle colour against their opponents as indicated on the Draw Schedule. For the remainder of the Draws, the team listed on top of the Draw Schedule will receive last rock advantage and throw red handled rocks. In all cases, the team with last rock advantage will have first the first practice. Each practice will be timed and will last 10minutes.
At the conclusion of the Eight Team Round Robin, the top three teams shall participate in the Playoffs. In the Sudden Death Semi Final, the second place team shall play the third place team with the winner advancing to the Final and the loser eliminated. In the Sudden Death Final, the first place team in Round Robin shall play the winner of the Semi Final.
In Playoff Games, last rock advantage AND choice of rock handle colour shall be awarded to the team with the better win-loss record during the Round Robin. If the teams had an equal win-loss
record, the team ranked higher shall have the choice of last rock advantage OR choice of rock handle colour. The set of rocks may be chosen from any sheet for the Semi Final and Final Games.
TIE BREAKERS
Teams that complete the Round Robin with identical win-loss records are considered to be tied. Teams tied for a playoff position shall only be eliminated from the Playoffs by playing a tiebreaker
game(s). The only playoff position that shall involve tiebreaker games is the third and final playoff position.
Where teams are tied for a playoff position, the round robin win-loss record of these teams against each other shall be used to determine their ranking and therefore how the teams are positioned in the playoff draw or tiebreaker game(s). When the ranking of teams cannot be determined by comparing round robin win-loss against the teams involved in the tie, the ranking shall be determined by the implementation of a skill based team ranking process. When the round robin win-loss of the two teams involved in the playoff or tie-breaker game(s) is the same, the team that won the game between the two during the round robin shall have choice of either last rock OR rock handle colour.
SKILL BASED TEAM RANKING PROCESS
At the completion of the first draw, the skill based ranking will take place. All four members of each team shall throw one draw shot to the tee, with sweeping allowed, on the sheet on which they just competed. The winning team (from Draw #1) will complete its throws before the losing team begins. Each individual’s rock that can be measured shall be measured to determine its distance from the tee up to a distance of 6 feet, then shall be removed from play. Stone that cannot be measured due to their close proximity to the tee shall be assigned a distance of 0. Stones that are located outside the 6 foot perimeter shall be assigned a distance of 6 feet 1 inch. The team’s accumulated total distance from the tee shall determine their ranking. The least accumulated distance shall receive the highest ranking and so on until ranking is completed. In the case of a three-player team, the first player to deliver a stone for his/her team shall also deliver the final stone for his/her team.
MOTION CARRIED
7) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule #8 be revised to:
6. The Mens Final will be held no more than four weeks before the start of the Men’s Canadian Championship.
MOTION CARRIED
RULES FOR PROVINCIAL MIXED
8) It was moved by Bob Pritchett and seconded by Shelley Ebbett that Rule #1 are revised to:
1. Draw shall be a one weekend, Double Knockout, held in March of the Curling season prior to the National Championship.
MOTION CARRIED
9) It was moved by Bruce Horne and seconded by Nicole Phillips that the following structure be implemented immediately to act as the framework for governance of the PEI Curling Association, and then a Committee be struck to determine the changes required in our current
Constitution to reflect this structure:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE
PRESIDENT 1 year term, voting
1ST VICE PRESIDENT 1 year term moving up from 2ND Vice President, voting
2ND VICE PRESIDENT 1 year term moving up to 1ST Vice President, voting
SECRETARY 2 year term, voting
TREASURER- CURRENT/SECRETARY
2 Year term with honorarium, non-voting
PLUS
One representative from each club, each with a two year term and with voting privileges. Four Clubs
would name their Representatives on Year 1 and 3 Clubs would change them on Year 2. So, the first round of Representatives will be a combination of 1 and 2 Year terms. If the named Representative is unable to attend a meeting, a Substitute can attend on their behalf with full voting privileges.
MONTAGUE One Year
CHARLOTTETOWN Two Year
CORNWALL One Year
CRAPAUD Two Year
SILVER FOX One Year
MAPLE LEAF Two Year
WESTERN COMMUNITY One Year
- The Board would meet bi-monthly beginning in August through to May.
CO-ORDINATORS
MARKETING AND EVENT CO-ORDINATOR 3 Year term
TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR 3 Year term
OFFICIATING CO-ORDINATOR 3 Year term
JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT 3 Year term
COMMITTEES
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
Chair Member of the Board of Directors
Marketing and Event Co-ordinator
2 Members of the Board of Directors
2 Members at Large
Total:6
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Chair Member of the Board of Directors
Technical Co-ordinator
Officiating Co-ordinator
2 Members of the Board of Directors
Total: 5
JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Chair Member of the Board of Directors
Junior Development Co-ordinator
Junior Development Representatives from each Club
Total:9
EVENT COMMITTEE
Chair Member of the Board of Directors
Marketing and Event Co-ordinator
1 Member from each Club that will be designated Event Chairperson of Provincial Event
1 Member from the Board of Directors
Total: 10
FINANCE COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT
1ST VICE PRESIDENT
TREASURER
Total:3
MOTION CARRIED
BACKGROUND/IMPLICATIONS
So in essence, each Club will now commit three (3) people to represent them at various levels of the P.E.I.C.A. (some persons already established):
1) A person to sit as a Voting member of the Board of Directors.
2) Junior Representative (to sit on Junior Development Committee).
3) A person to act as Event Chair of the particular Provincial event being hosted by Club and to sit on Event Committee.
We would ask that the Clubs discuss at their next meeting as to who may be interested in the above positions for the 2002 - 2003 terms and then have them submitted to the P.E.1.C.A. by June 30, 2002.
ITEM XI: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SITES AND DATES FOR BONSPIELS
Labatt Tankard January 24, 2003 Silver Fox
Final 8's February 5, 2003 Western
Mixed December 6, 2002 Crapaud
Seniors December 18, 2002 Charlottetown
Juniors January 2, 2003 Maple Leaf, O’Leary
Scott January 17, 2003 Montague
Masters January 27, 2003 Montague
8 Year March 14, 2003 Western
17 Year January 31, 2003 Cornwall
15, 13, 11 Year March 18, 2003 Charlottetown and Cornwall to be
confirmed
- Date and Site for Mixed in March 2003 to be set by new Executive.
ACTION: NEW EXECUTIVE
ITEM XII: ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Kevin Champion nominated the following for the positions as noted:
Bruce Horne President
Darrell Kirev Vice President & 2ND Vice President
David Murphy Secretary
Jim Trainor Treasurer
Kevin declared the above candidates duly elected by acclamation.
ITEM XIII: NEW BUSINESS
1) Guy Hemmings Tour, Marion MacAulay gave a detailed summary of the Guy Hemmings Tour to PEI on October 26th and October 27th, 2002.
2) Discussion followed on the Men’s Open Draw. Nicole Phillips suggested that complaints on this subject should be forwarded to the Event Committee.
3) Discussion followed on ideas to spend the surplus monies in the bank account. No final decision has been made.
ITEM XIV: APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
Not required for next year due to the change in the schedule of the National Meeting.
ITEM XV: APPOINTMENT OF AUDITOR
It was moved by Ernie Stavert and seconded by Bob Pritchett that Doug MacEachern be appointed to do the P.E.I.C.A. audit for next year.
. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XVI: HALL OF FAME
Nicole Phillips recommended that Jerry Musika be approached to chair a Special Meeting to establish a more formal process to deal with the history of Curling in the Province.
ACTION: NEW EXECUTIVE
ITEM XVII: VOTE OF THANKS
Nicole Phillips thanked the Executive, delegates and volunteers for all their support during the year.
ITEM XVIII: INSTALLATION OF NEW PRESIDENT AND HIS REMARKS
Nicole Phillips welcomed Bruce Horne in as our new President of the P.E.I.C.A. Bruce Horne thanked Nicole for all her hard work during the year and welcomed David Murphy on the Executive as our new Secretary.
ITEM XIX: RATIFY DUES
It was moved by Ernie Stavert and seconded by Tammy Dewar that the dues for the year 2002-2003 be set as follows:
Affiliation Dues remain at $5.00 per member. Competitor Dues remain at $20.00.
MIXED $100.00
JUNIOR $80.00
SENIORS $100.00
MASTERS $80.00
LADIES $100.00
MENS $100.00
17 & UNDER $60.00
15 & UNDER $48.00
8 YEAR & UNDER $80.00
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XX: ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Bruce Horne moved that the meeting be adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Trainor
Treasurer
P.E.I.C.A.
2002-2003 Season
P.E.I CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
7:00pm
Community Curling Club, Crapaud
IN ATTENDANCE:
EXECUTIVE: Bruce Horne, President
Darrell Kirev, 1ST Vice President
Lyndon Mayhew, 2nd Vice President
David Murphy, Secretary (Absent)
Jim Trainor, Treasurer
COORDINATORS: Don Gorveatt, Technical (Absent)
Brenda MacMillan, Junior Development (Absent)
Marilyn Sutherland, Master Course Conductor
Angela Hodgson, Marketing and Event (Absent)
Kaye Atkinson, Officiating
DELEGATES: John Sentner, Alberton (Absent)
Jim Smith, Charlottetown
Dennis Dunne, Cornwall
Evelyn Rodgerson, Crapaud (Absent)
Shirley Matheson, Maple Leaf, O’Leary
Tammy Dewar vice June Moyaert, Montague
Brenda MacLean, Silver Fox
REGRETS: Nicole Phillips, Past President
ITEM I: AGENDA
President Bruce Horne welcomed everyone. Review and adjustment to the Agenda was done. Moved by Lyndon Mayhew and seconded by Jim Smith that the revised Agenda be accepted.
CARRIED
ITEM II: CALL TO ORDER
President Bruce Horne called the meeting to order.
ITEM III: MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
Moved by Lyndon Mayhew and seconded by Darrell Kirev, that the minutes be accepted as presented. CARRIED
ITEM IV: BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
a) Lyndon Mayhew presented an update on the Provincial Crest Competition. The selected Crest was getting cleaned up at the Designers. After a general discussion it was decided to order at least 100 Crests to cover the needs for the P.E.I.C.A. Completion Teams not advancing to Canadian Championships.
ACTION: LYNDON MAYHEW
b) Men’s Closing 8 Draw was made by the Events Committee to make the final decision with the assistance of Paul MacRae. Feedback that it was O.K. - except that the Page system should have been used in some way. Any further changes should be presented at the AGM for next year with input from Rod MacDonald and other assistance as required. Marketing and Events Co-ordinator to keep all Club Committee members up to date.
ACTION: EVENTS COMMITTEE
c) HISTORY OF CURLING ON PEI: Bruce Horne is to give an up date on the status of this project being undertaken by Jerry Muzika. He had started in his efforts to compile a history and has been in contact with the Clubs, Associations and people who have been involved in the sport. Jerry is still recovering from his setback with his health but has indicated that he still wishes to carry on with the Project.
His Contact Address via E-mail: [email protected]
Support can be offered to Jerry in various ways and as his health returns he will be more
active.
ACTION: PRESIDENT
d) Don Gorveatt as Technical Co-ordinator was to initiate contact with the Clubs and Icemakers, to set up lines of communication and areas to be investigated, as to time and method of presentation of materials. Discussion had lead to an agreement that the Provincial Icemakers of all the Curling Clubs be approached through their Club Managers/Presidents to what sort of program, skill enhancement and networking would be of the most value to increase the skill levels and the consistence of the ice from club to club.
Report to be presented at the next meeting.
ACTION: TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR
ITEM V: CORRESPONDENCE
a) Email from Saskatchewan Curling Association showing some of the date conflicts between the bigger associations - Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario with the CCA proposed dates. There can still be conflicts but none expected until after the NCC meeting in June. Our views have to be ready to be presented at the meeting.
b) Request for funding support by the Suzanne Gaudet team to help defray some of their costs for the Canada Cup. No motion in favour presented - no action.
c) Letter from Gord and Shirley Lank reference the follow up from the Scottish Curling Tour, more information will be given at the AGM.
d) NCC Meetings - delegates going was discussed, a tentative list has been forwarded to confirm attendance from PEICA but final decision to whom actually attending will be done later.
P.E.I CURLING ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Saturday, May 31, 2003
1:00pm
Community Curling Club, Crapaud
IN ATTENDANCE:
EXECUTIVE: Bruce Horne, President
Darrell Kirev, 1ST Vice President
Lyndon Mayhew, 2nd Vice President
David Murphy, Secretary
Jim Trainor, Treasurer
COORDINATORS: Don Gorveatt, Technical (Absent)
Brenda MacMillan, Junior Development (Absent)
Marilyn Sutherland, Master Course Conductor(Absent)
Angela Hodgson, Marketing and Event (Absent)
Kaye Atkinson, Officiating
DELEGATES: John Sentner, Alberton (Absent)
Jamie Newson, Charlottetown
Derek MacEwen, Cornwall
Connie MacKinnon, Crapaud
Shirley Matheson, Maple Leaf, O’Leary
Tammy Dewar, Montague
Sharon Walker, Silver Fox
ITEM I: CALL TO ORDER
President Bruce Horne welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order.
ITEM II: REPORT OF CREDENTIALS
Alberton - absent; Charlottetown - Current; Crapaud - Current; Maple Leaf - Current; Montague - Current; Silver Fox - Current; Executive - Current; Treasurer, Co-ordinators, and guests no voting rights.
ITEM III: MOMENT OF SILENCE
A moment of silence was held in recognition of curlers who passed away during the past year.
ITEM IV: MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS ANNUAL MEETING
It was moved by David Murphy and seconded by Darrell Kirev that the minutes of the previous Annual meeting be accepted. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM V: PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Report is attached. It was moved by Bruce Horne and seconded by Shirley Matheson that the report be accepted. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VI: TREASURER’S REPORT
The Treasurer’s Report is attached. It was moved by Jim Trainor and seconded by Lyndon Mayhew that the report be accepted. MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VII: OTHER REPORTS
The following reports are accepted as attached.
1ST Vice President - moved by Darrell Kirev, seconded by Tammy Dewar
2ND Vice President -moved by Lyndon Mayhew, seconded by Connie MacKinnon
Officiating - moved by Kay Atkinson, seconded by Jamie Newson
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM VIII: CORRESPONDENCE
a) Report from Curl Atlantic - Outline attached. Package of information given to delegates present.
b) Report from Shirley and Gordon Lank on Scottish Tour - Copy attached.
c) Letter of Resignation from Mr. Don Gorveatt as Technical Director. This has been accepted with regret; and
d) Various emails from CCA on upcoming sites for the 2005 Competitions and the Canadian Cub Curling Trails. This information can be viewed on the CCA website.
ITEM IX: BUSINESS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
No business from the correspondence
ITEM X: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BYLAWS
Proposal 1
It was moved by David Murphy and seconded by Darrell Kirev:
That the registration deadline for the Provincial Junior (20 & Under) be changed to December 1.
That the registration deadline for the Provincial Scott be changed to December 1.
That the registration deadline for the Provincial Tankard be changed to December 1.
That the registration deadline for the Provincial Seniors Men and Women be changed to December 1.
Rationale:
Teams are usually together in October as that is when the Competitive spiels begin.
This will allow more time to get the draw complete and checked for errors.
This will allow more time to get any needed information out to the teams prior to the event.
MOTION DEFEATED
Proposal 2
That the registration deadline for the Provincial Mixed be changed to February 1.
That the registration deadline for the Provincial 8 Year and Under be changed to February 1.
That the registration deadline for the Provincial Under 17, Under 15, Under 13, and Under 11 be changed to February 1.
Rationale:
Teams may not form as early for the March event so have a later deadline.
This will allow more time to get the draw complete and checked for errors.
This will allow more time to get any needed information out to the teams prior to the event.
This was Withdrawn
Proposal 3
Moved by Sharon Walker and seconded by David Murphy:
Although team registration must be received on time, names on team rosters can be changed up to the start of the event. Provided that they are eligible for the event and that they are not registered on another team in the event.
Rationale:
Because registration dates are earlier something may come up that somebody can’t make it to the event. Allowing the change of players will not change the number of teams or the draw.
MOTION CARRIED
Paragraph #6 PEI Provincial Playdown General Rules MOTION CARRIED
Proposal 4
Moved by Tammy Dewar and seconded by Shirley Matheson:
If the number of teams entered in the Provincial Senior Competition is 6 or less, a round robin format should be used. The top 3 teams would then playoff 2 vs.3 with the winner to play the first place team. Positioning will be determined by looking at who beat them.
If it is impossible to determine using this method, use the results of a skill based competition (draw to the button by all players) which would be done at the end of the first practice prior to the first game. Teams tied for third will play a tiebreaker.
Rationale:
Any team going to a National Competition needs to play as many games as they can to ensure that the representative is as competitive as possible.
Paragraph 3 - Rules for Provincial Seniors MOTION CARRIED
Proposal 5
From John Sentner:
Rules for Provincial Playdowns 8 Year and Under
#11. This event will be a double knockout event. The first game on the first day of competition will be held as late in the day as possible to still ensure that the event will conclude on Sunday.
TO
#11. This event will be a double knock out event.
Not moved by any delegate present - Dropped
Proposal 6
The Cornwall Curling Club would like to purpose the following resolutions.
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Resolution one (1) Moved by Derek MacEwen, seconded by Sharon Walker:
Be it resolved that the Scott Tournament of Hearts be a round robin with a three team playoff if there are 8 teams or less entered. Teams have points draw after second game on Thursday.
Be it further resolved that a Committee of:
P.E.I.C.A. - Person responsible for the event
Club - person responsible for the event
Competitor - Volunteer from curlers be set up to draw up guidelines for the draw, drawing knowledge from other events, C.C.A. and other Provincial Competitors.
Be set up each year to look after event.
MOTION DEFEATED
Resolution Two (2) This was withdrawn
Be it resolved that the draw for the Scott Tournament of Hearts be a round robin if there is nine teams entered with an exception made to three games a day rule so you can play 3 games on two days or an extra game on Sunday.
Three team playoff to determine winner
Be it further resolved that a Committee of:
P.E.I.C.A. - person responsible for the event
Club - person responsible for the event
Competitor - Volunteer from curlers be set up to draw up guidelines for the draw, drawing knowledge from other events, C.C.A. and other Provincial Competitors.
Be set up each year to look after event.
Resolution three (3) This was withdrawn
Be it resolved that the Scott Tournament of Hearts be two pool round robin with a Page Play-off if there are 10-12 teams. All teams shoot for points.
Proposal 7 Change to P.E.I.C.A. Constitution
Submitted by Cliff Poirier, Silver Fox Curling Club President
PURPOSE: All members of the PEI Curling Association and its Executive be paid up and active
members of curling clubs.
I feel it very unfortunate that an Executive member of the P.E.I.C.A. does not have to be a paid up member of a Club. How would it be if all the P.E.I.C.A. Executive were all non-members? How could they serve the general membership and have the best interest of club members foremost in their hearts?
Moved by Sharon Walker and seconded by Tammy Dewar that the proposal be amended to read:
All voting members of the PEI Curling Association and its Executive be paid up and active members of the Curling Clubs. MOTION CARRIED
Proposal 8 Change to P.E.I.C.A. Constitution
Submitted by Executive: Moved by Tammy Dewar and seconded by David Murphy:
6:1 The Annual Meeting of the members of the Association shall be held in such place within the Province and at such time not later than the 1st day of June in each year as determined by the Executive.
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The Annual Meeting of the members of the Association shall be held in such place within the Province and at such time not later than the 1st day of June in each year provided the National AGM has been held. In years in which the National AGM has not been held by June 1st, it shall be held within 30 days following the National Conference as may be determined by the Executive.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XI: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SITES AND DATES FOR BONSPIELS
Labatt Jan. 29-Feb 3, 2004 Maple Leaf
Final 8's Feb. 11-15, 2004 Silver Fox
Scott Jan. 22 -26, 2004 Cornwall
Mixed (2005) March 18 - 22, 2004 Montague
Seniors Jan. 2 - 5, 2004 Crapaud
Masters Jan. 12 - 15, 2004 Maple Leaf
Juniors Jan. 8 -12, 2004 Montague
8 Year March 11-14, 2004 Western
17 Year March 4-8, 2004 Charlottetown
15, 13, 11 & Under March 15 -19 Western
ITEM XII: ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Bruce Horne nominated the following for the positions as noted.
Darrell Kirev President
Lyndon Mayhew Vice President
Kathie Gallant 2nd Vice President
David Murphy Secretary
As there were no other nominations it was moved by Tammy Dewar and seconded by Sharon Walker that the above candidates be duly elected by acclamation.
MOTION CARRIED
Jim Trainor Treasurer (Appointed)
ITEM XIII: NEW BUSINESS
Update given by Jerry Muzika to the current status with the history of Curling in the province. He is to contact the Association for any assistance that we could provide.
ITEM XIV: APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
Not required for this next year due to change in the schedule of the National Meeting.
ITEM XV: APPOINTMENT OF AUDITOR
I was moved by Jim Trainor and seconded by David Murphy that Doug MacEachern be appointed to do the P.E.I.C.A. audit for next year.
MOTION CARRIED
ITEM XVI: HALL OF FAME
No action at this time.
ITEM XVII: VOTE OF THANKS
Bruce Horne thanked the Executive, delegates and volunteers for all their support during the year.
ITEM XVIII: INSTALLATION OF NEW PRESIDENT AND HIS REMARKS
Bruce Horne welcomed Darrell Kirev in as our new President of the P.E.I.C.A. Darrell thanked Bruce for his work and stated that the Board and the Association will have a very active year upcoming.
ITEM XIX: RATIFY DUES
It was moved by Jamie Newson and seconded by Tammy Dewar that the dues for the year 2003 -2004 remain as follows.
Affiliation dues remain at $5.00 per member. Competitor dues remain at $20.00
Mixed $100.00
Junior $80.00
Seniors $100.00
Masters $80.00
Ladies $100.00
Men’s $100.00
17 & Under $60.00
15 & Under $48.00
8 Year & Under $80.00
ITEM XX: ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, President Darrell Kirev moved that the meeting be adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
David Murphy
Secretary
P.E.I.C.A.
VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT
This past year I have chaired the Junior Development Committee. We have looked at the various Provincial Championships for the Junior Division and lower and have decided on the following for next season.
For the 20 and Under Event we have reviewed how the round robin that was implemented in 2001 has worked over the last two seasons. Although there have been some problems the Committee supports the format for future years. The Committee likes the playoff system used last year where 2nd place and 3rd place will play in the Semi Finals with the winner advancing to the Finals against the 1st place team. If the 1st place team is undefeated than they have to be beaten twice. The one change is to add a tie breaking game if there happens to be a tie for 3rd place.
17 and Under, We will use the same format as the Junior with the following differences: Games will only be 8 ends. Because of the shorter games; teams can be scheduled to play 3 games in a day. Also, an Official (knowledgeable curler is fine) will be used. (The Junior Co-ordinator can switch this Tournament to a Double Knockout if there are too many teams to play a Round Robin.)
15 and Under would play 8 End Games with a team being scheduled to play up to 3 games in a day and they would also have an Official (knowledgeable curler is fine) for each draw. The format would be a Double Knockout event with a Consolation Section so that teams would play at least 3 games.
13 & Under would play 6 end games with a team being scheduled to play up to 3 games in a day and they would also have an official (knowledgeable curler is fine) for each draw. The format would be double knock-out event wiht a consolation section so that all teams would play at least 3 games.
11 and Under would play 4 End Games, and that there would be an Official (knowledgeable curler is fine) on the ice for each game. This person would be there to try and keep the games moving along. The format would be a Double Knockout event with a Consolation Section so that all teams would play at least 3 games.
The plan is to have a Playoff Manual consisting of various draws based on the number of teams for 20 and Under Junior Provincial in place for the 2004 AGM. We want to look at how the format will work with different numbers of teams, at what number we should break into different pools and how to decide which teams should go into which pools. We also want the specific playoff format we are going to use. This could be different if we have more than one pool. If we get along well with this we hope to continue and do the same for these other Junior events.
I have also been involved with several curling issues outside the Junior Development Committee; most are with the everyday running of the Curling Association and are in the minutes of our regular meeting. One that is not detailed in any of the minutes is that we are trying to get some government funding to bring Certified Ice Technician to our province to provide training for the Ice Technicians in our province. Our goal is to have a certified Ice Technician in charge of the ice at each Provincial event, but first we want to give all our present Ice Technicians an opportunity to get the training they require to obtain this certification. As we get more trained Ice Technicians we can then place rules that for each event the Host requires to have an Ice Technician with a certain level in charge of the ice for that event.
If their Club does not have one then they would have to bring one in for that event. Hopefully with better trained people in charge of the ice we would have one less thing to worry about when going to an event.
Darrell Kirev
Vice President
PEI Curling Association
PRESIDENT’S FINAL REPORT
P.E.I.C.A. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
May 31, 2003
This has been a year of transition for the P.E.I.C.A. with the new structure in place in the hopes of making this Association stronger and more efficient. As in any new formats, there always seems to be bumps in the road, with it doubt that it will work. Though now with the first year behind us we have been able to make the necessary adjustments for the future. In past years, our Volunteer Boards had to make long term commitments for up to six years. Along with decision making each Executive Board Member was responsible for running P.E.I.C.A. events. Now since the hiring of an Events Co-ordinator we have lightened the load of responsibility for each Director, so they can focus on the workings of this Association. This I predict will help impact the course in which should be taken to help with the growth and promotion of Curling on PEI.
Committees are an important part of this process and I urge each Club to take an active part. I realize there was some disorganization with the Committee meetings, for this I apologize, and possibly some disappointment when suggestions from these meetings were brought to General Meetings and turned down. We are no different from any other organization and each Club is diverse, which sometimes causes differences of opinion but our goal on the Association is to find the middle ground for all the Curling Clubs and the Curlers best interest.
I would like to thank all of you for this opportunity to serve as President of the P.E.I.C.A. It was a challenging experience for me and certainly one which has left me grateful to so many people for their help and support over these past five years.
I would like to thank the Technical people, as well as our Co-ordinators which has helped the sport of Curling to continue to be both fun and competitive on PEI. Many thanks to different people who sat on the P.E.I.C.A. as Club Delegates and have helped initiate policy for this Association.
A couple of highlights for this year was the Strathcona Cup with which the hard work and dedication of Gordon and Shirley Lank was a complete success. I thank you for the invitation to the Banquet and the opportunity to meet some really great people.
Another was the success of our Team of Suzanne Gaudet with her first year out of Junior and taking a backseat to nobody on the National scene. Congratulations on their success they had at both the Tournament of Hearts and the Canada Cup.
So at this time I would like to thank all of our Sponsors that help make our Events successful. I pass on best wishes and congratulations to the new Executive.
Again Thank you
Yours in Curling
Bruce Horne
President, PEI Curling Association
EVENTS COMMITTEE REPORT
I would like to thank all the people who have given their time to this Committee. I know at times it seems like you were not getting anywhere but this has not been the case. Your ideas and continued support is appreciated.
Firstly, I would like to point out that Darrell, Lyndon, Dave and myself are in the process of making application to the CCA Development Fund to assist the P.E.I.C.A. in developing a strategy to start having Ice Making Clinics held annually to certify Ice Makers and increase the ice quality for our events. We believe this money would be much better spent improving the people that make Curling Ice on PEI as opposed to hiring a Named Ice Maker to come here to prepare ice for our main events.
Secondly, I would like to propose that the P.E.I.C.A. will have a one year trial, to entice Women Curlers into a competitive environment. The goal is to produce an enjoyable yet competitive event.
We would have two or three events (depending on available ice, Club and participant interest, Provincial schedule and Club schedules etc.) Five Hundred dollars would be allotted to the Host Club as a base for prize money. (This would be called the Scott Tour as this would come from Scott Sponsorship money). The interested Clubs would take on the sole responsibility as Host of one of these events (advertising, promotion, and accepting entries). Entries should not exceed $100.00 /Team).
The P.E.I.C.A. Events Committee will be responsible for Site Selection ( to be determined before September 1, 2003) the set up of prize allotment and draw format. Open to Regular, Senior and Junior Womens’ Teams.
I have received a petition from the teams of the Provincial Women’s Eight Year, after I had discussed why only one person out of these eight teams had participated in the Provincial Scott. Only one person in the event didn’t sign it.
Again, I thank all of you who helped with the success of the Provincial event or events which were held at your Club.
Event Chairperson,
Bruce Horne
PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON THE NATIONAL CURLING CONFERENCE
JUNE 19 -22, 2003
Rule Changes Passed: Agenda
Removed the use of the Throwing Stick from officiated play. For all Provincial play leading to a National the throwing stick has been removed. Our Association will have to make an determination for other events like the 8 Year and Under that do not lead to a National event. The throwing stick was originally introduced to allow people who loved Curling but were unable because of health reasons to get back into the game. This is still being allowed as the throwing stick is still permitted in Club play and local bonspiels. For Cash spiels the team may want to check with the organizers.
The Canada and World Curling Federation got together and tried to make the rules of Curling more common. The hope is that by the start of next year all the major rules will be the same. Canada has agreed to change the “to the four rock free guard zone” and have also changed our release rule back to what it used to be. You must release the rock prior to reaching the Hog Line and you can’t retouch the rock once it has been released. We have also adopted a change in the maximum size of the curling sheet. The World Curling Federation is looking to make changes to their rules regarding sweeping, coaches and the allowing of timeouts to reflect what we have for rules.
The National Seniors and Mixed will no longer have any television coverage and are no longer considered part of the Season of Champions. This has allowed for date changes for these the National Championships. The 2005 -2006 Championships have been changed to have the National Mixed Championship in the Fall of November 20-28, 2004 and the National Senior will be held March 19-27, 2005. The change to the Senior should allow the Senior’s to play a longer season.
World Senior’s: It was decided that we would not send teams to either the World Senior Men’s or Women’s Championships in 2004. Although the event is sanctioned by the WCF, the CCA felt that until all nations operate properly structured National Playoffs for teams to qualify, Canada would not send teams to participate in what is, in effect, a World Open Competition.
There were several Presentations including: Wheelchair Curling and Sponsorship.
One recommendation under Sponsorship was for all the Atlantic Provinces to combine the Scott and Brier into one event with the Championship Games being played on the same weekend in the same venue. One being played on Saturday and the other being played on Sunday. The object was to strike a TV contract with a local TV network to televise the 2 major Championships from each province. This would be played over 4 weekends with each province hosting their own weekend. To help the network keep the cost down both Finals would have to be played in the same rink on the same weekend. They could come in and set up once and televise both events. Then the following week they could move to one of the other provinces.
Benefits: Good source of income, more exposure for our sport, and more media exposure for our athletes.
Disadvantages: Both events would have to be held in the same venue (curling club or arena). Format for both events would have to be so that they have one Championship game. Both events would have to be played at the same venue or at least the Championship games would have to be played at the same venue. (We could survey the competitive curlers but I don’t believe that many would be interested in playing a Provincial in one club and then switching to a different club for the Final game). Another disadvantage is some provinces would be holding their Tankard real early as they are talking about over 4 weekends.
Curl Atlantic is looking to hold an Atlantic Curling Conference at the Mount Allison University:
Tentative Dates: April 30 - May 2, 2004. They are looking to hold several sessions at the same time: Ice makers: Each Club will be invited to send 1 or 2. They will discuss issues relating to ice making. Manager or Club President: Issue including marketing of our sport and how to increase membership. Association Representative will look at a variety of things including the packaging of our Championships.
Darrell Kirev
P.E.I.C.A. President
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