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Top tier curling returns to Cranbrook
Cranbrook awarded Grand Slam’s Tour Challenge — featuring two tiers, 60 teams — set for November, 2016 T R E VO R C R AWL EY
The Grand Slam of Curling is officially coming to Cranbrook. The announcement was made by Sportsnet on Monday morning, just days after the contract was signed between the City of Cranbrook on Friday. The event — The Grand Slam of Curling Tour Challenge — will feature 60 world men
and womens teams playing in two tiers that will compete at Western Financial Place and the Memorial Arena from Nov. 8-13, 2016. Todd Pellerin, one of the organizers of the committee that has been working to bring the event to Cranbrook, told the Daily Townsman that everyone is excited to bring the event to the city.
“It is the biggest thing in curling,” Pellerin said. The event will be broken down in to 15 men and 15 women’s teams in Tier One—the top level of competition. The same format will be duplicated for the Tier 2, which will feature professional curlers that aren’t quite at the elite level. Pellerin singled out
city staff such as Paul Heywood, events and marking manager, and Chris New, the director of leisure services, along with Mayor Lee Pratt and Councillor Tom Shypitka for their work in landing the event. Pellerin said Pratt was a helpful presence when Sportsnet staff toured the facilities in Cranbrook in January.
“Mayor Lee Pratt was probably the tipping point that got us this big event, because with him coming with me on the tour when Sportsnet came to visit in January,
it really showed a commitment from the City that Cranbrook is willing and able to offer a world class event in our
community, so his involvement, and Tom Shypitka as well, really solidified it,” Pellerin said.
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Grainger named Woman of the Year
STAFF tee for the CFUW Cranbrook Club. The Woman of the Year 2016 for Celebrations will be held at the the East Kootenay has College of the Rockies Foyer been selected by the on International Women’s CFUW Cranbrook Club’s Day, Tuesday, March 8, at 4 Committee. p.m. All former Women of “We are pleased to anthe Year recipients, all nounce that Donna friends, family and well Grainger was nominated wishers are invited to this not only by one commitceremony. tee, but by two different A full story about Dongroups in the east Kootena’s nomination and how DONNA GRAINGER nay community,” said she got to be Woman of the Cathryn Henley, Chair of Year 2016 will be featured the Woman of the Year 2016 Commit- soon in the Daily Townsman.
Rocking out with The Sheepdogs TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Winemaking
COURTESY TRACY MCGUIRE
On Thursday, Feb. 11, Cranbrook Pathfinders met at Exhale Yoga Studio to do a dance class with Celeste Farmer. The class is called “Groove” - a super simple, insanely fun dance experience for everybody!
MADE EASY!
By the early 1970s, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show had achieved some early commercial success in their musical career, however, they had yet to mark a rite of passage that most artists of the time experienced as they became more and more popular. Taking a song written by Shel Silverstein in 1972, the group recorded a satirical song about the trials and tribulations that artists go through in order to get an opportunity to make it on the cover of the Rolling Stone Mag-
azine. The song was a smash hit and the band appeared on the cover of the magazine a year later. While it wasn’t quite the same experience for The Sheepdogs, the Saskatoon-based band went through their own unique journey before appearing on The Rolling Stone cover in August 2011—the first unsigned band ever to make it on the front of the magazine.
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