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The GMCC is pleased to announce the final "Learn To Curl" clinic of the season to be held on Saturday, February 14th, 2009, at the LARC arena in Morrisville, VT. It will start at 10:00am and last about 3 hours. You will learn the basics of throwing the stones, sweeping and generally playing the game. The cost is $25 unless you have joined as a member, in which case it is included in your membership fee. Note that if you would like to just try out the sport, you can pay for the LTC clinic and then have that fee applied toward your membership fee if you decide to join later.

If you are would like to attend, please send an email to greenmountaincurlingclub@gmail.com so that we can get an idea of how many people are coming. For information about how to get to the CREW arena and what clothing and shoes to wear, please see our Learn To Curl page.

Green Mountain Curling Club will be featured on Vermont Public Radio on Tuesday, 12/16, at about 12:45 or 12:50 pm at the end of the Vermont Edition talk show.

If you are not in the general listening area, you can give the streaming broadcast a try at http://www.vpr.net/listen/ (use "VPR Stream").

The GMCC is pleased to announce the next "Learn To Curl" clinic of the season to be held on Saturday, January 3rd, 2009, at the LARC arena in Morrisville, VT. It will start at 10:00am and last about 3 hours. You will learn the basics of throwing the stones, sweeping and generally playing the game. The cost is $25 unless you have joined as a member, in which case it is included in your membership fee. Note that if you would like to just try out the sport, you can pay for the LTC clinic and then have that fee applied toward your membership fee if you decide to join later.

If you are would like to attend, please send an email to greenmountaincurlingclub@gmail.com so that we can get an idea of how many people are coming. For information about how to get to the CREW arena and what clothing and shoes to wear, please see our Learn To Curl page.

At our recent Green Mountain Curling Club Board meeting, the Board members voted on and passed new membership categories. The intent is to offer a variety of membership categories to provide our members with a flexible and affordable dues schedule consistent with the operating needs of the club. After reviewing, should you decide to change the level of your current membership you will need to notify Connie Dollinger (GMCC Treasurer) BY DECEMBER 10, 2008.

For more information, please see our membership information page.

Ever wonder how curling stones are made? Here's a video on the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUy9ake9q8w

The GMCC is pleased to announce the next "Learn To Curl" clinic of the season to be held on Saturday, December 6th, 2008, at the LARC arena in Morrisville, VT. It will start at 10:00am and last about 3 hours. You will learn the basics of throwing the stones, sweeping and generally playing the game. The cost is $25 unless you have joined as a member, in which case it is included in your membership fee. Note that if you would like to just try out the sport, you can pay for the LTC clinic and then have that fee applied toward your membership fee if you decide to join later.

The team of Tish Orr, Meg O’Donnell, Connie Dollinger and Blythe Leonard competed this past weekend (Nov.1-2) in the Schenectady Invitational Carosella Women's Bonspiel. We won 3 of our 4 games including the D-event (MacIsaac) final. It was an exciting weekend, especially our second draw when we were tied after 8 ends. It came down to skip’s stones for the tie breaker. The team unanimously chose Meg to throw the skip stone because she really had her draw weight. She released the stone. Half way down, the sweepers begin to sweep for weight and line. They stop at the hog line because the weight looked good. As it approached the house, sweeping started again to get it as close to the button as possible, it stops just shy of the 4 foot. Our opponent steps up, delivers and sends it wide of the mark. Green Mountain wins.

That was only one of the exciting moments this past weekend.

We will see you all on the ice this Saturday for more curling excitement.

Good Curling.

Tish.

The Green Mountain Curling Club is a group of curling players and fans bringing curling into the state of Vermont. In previous years, we curled at the Border Curling Club just over the border in Stanstead, Quebec, but in 2006 we were very pleased to bring curling to the LARC ice arena in Morrisville, VT!

Now we are back for our third season with more sheets, more stones, more teams and are looking forward to an even stronger year of curling in Vermont!

This year, we achieved official status as a 501(c)(3) public charity! Our purpose is to promote local, regional national and international competition in the sport of curling and to prepare people for such competition.