USWCA NEWS Portage ready for 65th National Bonspiel
By: Michele Kornaus USWCA National Bonspiel On-site Chair
Te 65th USWCA National Bonspiel “Dazzled
on Ice” will be held Feb. 13-17 at the Portage Curling Club in Portage, Wis. Te newly remod- eled Best Western Resort Hotel & Conference Center in Portage (and only minutes from the curling venue) will be the headquarters for the event. A “Kit Party” will kick off the event the evening of Feb.13. Curling competition will com- mence early on Feb. 14 and continue through Feb. 17. All games will be 10 ends. Te finals are scheduled for Sunday aſternoon with the awards ceremony to follow. Te Portage Curling Club is honored and very excited about hosting the 65th
anniversary of this
time honored event. Te 32-team event has been in the planning stages since the summer of 2011 and the Portage Curling Club members and the
Portage community are looking forward to wel- coming USWCA member teams from across the country. Formal invitations from the Portage Curling
Club to all USWCA member clubs/club reps were being sent out aſter the USWCA fall board meet- ing, which took place Sept. 22-23 in Madison, Wis. All USWCA member clubs (in good stand- ing) are eligible and invited to enter a team(s). All USWCA female members who have reached their 21st
birthday by Jan. 1, 2013, are invited to enter
as well. Te fee for the event is $320 per team and the deadline date for entry fees and rosters is Dec. 14. Tose clubs with more than one team entered should determine their team’s order of eligibility (i.e., ranking) by Jan. 4, 2013. Single entries are invited and encouraged in the event composite teams are needed. Watch for the arrival of the official bonspiel in- vitation and/or contact your USWCA rep to noti-
2012 Senior Friendship Tour ready to depart By: Charlene Fitzgerald, USWCA Senior
Friendship Tour Publicity Chair It is almost time for the 2012 Senior Friend-
ship Tour to depart for British Columbia. Tere are 16 ladies from all across the United States who are getting ready to set out on an international curling competition. Te Tour will arrive in Victoria, B.C., on
Oct. 31 where some of these ladies will meet for the very first time and then embark on a once- in-a-lifetime curling experience. Tey will curl in five or six clubs in Victoria and then travel to Vancouver for the remainder of their 12-day trip.
Tere will be four teams, made up of the 16
curlers from different regions of the USWCA. Te Red Team is Coco Wellington from
Cape Cod, the captain of the Friendship Tour ladies; Jackie Shuster from Chisholm, Minn.; Anne Vanic from Mayfield, Ohio; and Paul Kalke from Racine, Wis. Blue team includes Myrna Mackinnon from Arden Hills, Minn.; Lisa McCann from Philadelphia; Susan Tor- torelli from Detroit; and Nancy Myers from Aksarben, Neb. Black team is composed of Carla Lynch from Madison, Wis.; Karen Ham- ilton from Columbus, Ohio; Wendy Berger
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fy her of your interest to participate. Information will be on the USWCA website (
www.uswca.org) and you may also contact the Portage Curling Club on-site chairwoman of the event, Michele Kornaus, at
makornaus@aol.com for questions or concerns. n
from Albany, N.Y.; and Reilly Mannery from Seattle’s Granite club. Te fourth is the Green team of Laurie Rahn from Exmoor, Ill.; Molly Jensen from St. Paul, Minn.; Martha Maz- zarrella from Bowling Green, Ohio; and Joan Partridge from Te County Club in Massachu- setts. You can follow the tour by logging onto the
USWCA Friendship Tour page (https://www.
facebook.com/Uswca2012FriendshipTour) Once the tours starts sign on and see the
places they have been, check out the photos and keep track of their win/loss record. And, most importantly, cheer them on! Te USWCA Canadian Senior Women’s
Friendship Tour is a competition with a six- year rotation. Every six years the Canadian women curl in the U.S., and every six years the U.S. women curl in Canada. Te last time the U.S. curled in Manitoba in 2006 and the next time the U.S. will curl in Canada will be 2018. If you are eligible and at least 50 years old at that time, be sure to apply for the Tour. It is a truly wonderful competition. To learn more go to
www.uswca.org. Roberta Crain is the chair- lady of the USWCA Sr. Women’s Friendship Tour. n
Looking for gift ideas? Check out what the USWCA has to offer
By: Nancy Seitz USWCA Promotions Chair
A hot new jacket color scheme leads
off the USWCA clothing line this season! With black as the basic color and hot pink, or- ange, powder blue and green as available accents, the USWCA moves forward from the red, white and blue theme in these new polar fleece jackets for women. While those are still available, the new colors are expected to be popular as so many curlers wear black curling pants and are looking for a bit of color to ‘pop’ on the ice. Te jacket will debut at the USWCA fall meeting in Madison. A new pin in the USWCA lineup is the US-
WCA logo pin! Te pin sports the new USWCA logo adopted in 2008 and was requested by US- WCA members to use as a thank you, trading pin or token. Keep an eye on the USWCA web- site for curling jewelry, clothing and giſts that are very unique! New items will be available through order
forms on
www.uswca.org or through your club’s USWCA rep. n
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