The View from the Hack

Following the sad retirement of Bob Cowan and his excellent skipcottage blog site at the end of last season, Ted Edmunds, has decided to try and step into Bob's very large shoes.  He has started 'The View From the Hack' blog.
This site has some interesting items and contains a lot of links to other curling and curling related sites.  We would like to wish Ted every success, so why not visit the site and have a look round.
The more traffic that sites like this generate, shows the demand for this type of information.

Haddington Sports Hub

We are pleased to be members of the recently launched Haddington Sports Hub and hope that this will help create closer links between our club and the community.  The Hub have now launched their Active East Lothian website and our club page can be found by following this LINK - or the link on this page.

Some of our activities will appear on the Active East Lothian website, but this site will remain our public face.

Novice, Junior, and Open Coaching

We have coaching sessions booked for Sunday 23rd September and Sunday 18th November 2012, both from 8pm.
These sessions are open to anyone wanting to Come & Try Curling, Juniors and all Leads/Seconds and will consist of practise and coaching.
Please note that places are limited, if you want to come along please email or text Graeme beforehand. (details are on the Contact Us tab, above)

Opening Bonspiel

The season has now officially started at the newly decorated Murrayfield.
For the records Shelagh's team was beaten by Andy's team by 6 shots to 4, with our newest player narrowly missing his shots as skip and bringing 'oohs' and 'aahs' enough to make those on the next rink pay attention.
On the other sheet Graeme's rink beat Simon's by 7 shots to 4.

Dont know what the 7 represents Sheena.

Sheena Munro wishes it noted that under her 2 end stint as skip more shots were amassed than by any other skip.
I am therefore proud to announce Sheena as the winner of the Bonspiel !
After the game we retreated to the bar and to sample the delights of Bruce and Lorette's catering (Bill & Anne having retired at the end of last season).
The evening was a very relaxed one with friends, old & new, enjoying the chat as much as the game.
With that under our belt we can now look forward to the more serious stuff...........

Come & Try session

Sunday 16th September saw our first Come & Try Session of the season.
We had 5 newcomers and Steven who had attended a C&T 2 years ago with coaching from John Good assisted by the lovely Graeme.
The session went well and everyone that was there seemed to have a good time and said that there was a high likelihood that they would give it another shot.  As usual we finished up with a small 3 end game.
Thanks to everyone that came.
Jane ( a friend of Gill's)
Jim & Moira, from Grahams the Jeweller in Haddington (where our trophies are engraved)
Ronnie & Morag (Graeme's brother and sister-in-law)
and Steven, who is on our reserves list and will be playing in the Opening Bonspiel and in the 3 Rennie trophy games in October.

Syllabus & ECC Membership Cards

Would all members please note that there will be a supply of  Syllabus Cards on our Club Notice Board (opposite sheet 5/6) at the ice rink.
If these are finished please ask Graeme.

ECC Membership cards/stickers
Would all members please see Graeme at the ice rink to obtain their stickers/ cards.

Opening Bonspiel - Monday 17th September

The Opening Bonspiel on

Monday 17th September at 5.30pm.

Where has the summer gone (did it ever arrive ?)

Supper will follow and will give us a chance to test the new catering contractors.

The ice fees are £10 per Adult and £ 5  per Junior

The teams are:-

S Main, K Dun. J A Good, S Dyer v A McDiarmid, J R Good, J Aberdein, L Starrs
and
S Kesley, C Baird, A Aberdein, P Blacker v  G Maguire, S Munro, S Nicoll, C Hood.
Please remember, like any other game, if you cannot make it, it is YOUR responsibility to arrange a substitute player.