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Should you head to Fargo in November? You betcha.
By Terry Kolesar, Editor,
terry.kolesar@usacurl.org "Terry, did you do anything fun this summer?" People keep asking me
that, which I appreciate. Well, I (willingly) got in a car with my boss and drove for two days across Minnesota and North Dakota to spread the curl- ing gospel, trumpet the upcoming 2014 U.S. Olympic Team Trials ... and I survived. Does that count? (I think the boss might be reading this so ...). I got to visit the new year-round curling mecca in Blaine, Minn., while work- ing at a High Performance Camp (see Tuck's take on Page 29). Tat sounds like fun, right? Tat car ride helped put the polishing touches on the FANdango contest
that I've been blurting about on social media for the past two weeks. Es- sentially, we want to find out how rabid our curling fans are across the U.S. and reward you with a VIP trip to Fargo this November to experience the Olympic Team Trials and all that Fargo has to offer. People oſten laugh at me when I talk up Fargo but truly, you need to experience it for yourself to find out just how great this gem of a city is. You might even find yourself saying "How Fargo of you" long aſter you leave. So, get your creative juices flowing and enter our FANdango contest (Go to
www.usacurl.org for all the details). Te entries are due Sept. 6 with the winner announced somewhere around Sept. 13. Not feeling up to sending in an entry? Well, you can vol- unteer or just buy tickets and sit back and enjoy the curling. Can't make it to Fargo? Don't fret, we'll keep you captivated on your warm cozy couches. If all goes according to plan, in the next edition of the Curling News we'll be announcing the NBC Sports Network TV schedule and 12th End Sports Network webstream schedule for the Trials. New writers sought
We're going to be adding a couple of new features to the Curling News
this fall that I'm pretty exicted about. Te first is an opportunity for clubs to share more of their news in a region-by-region feature titled "Around the House," which will be a collection of short snippets of activities going on around the U.S. in our member clubs. I have some other ideas in the hopper but need some help. So, what I need from our readers is to find out if there are any aspiring writers out there in need of some writing samples to use for future job interviews. Ideal candidates are college media/communication/ public relations/marketing type students. So, if you know anyone, have them reach out to me at
terry.kolesar@usacurl.org. (Ask Mielke, Garber and Tuck about the pay.)
Aloha indeed! In an earlier column I talked about curling in Hawaii and many of you
thought I was kidding. I kid not. Tis October we will be making curling ice in Honolulu for a celebrity curling competition. Our chief icemakers Dave Staveteig and Kevin Madsen like challenges so this seems right up their al- ley. Te event is being backed by American Savings Bank with profits going to the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in Honolulu and USA Curling. Te curling fundraiser will take place Oct. 17 at Te Ice Palace in Honolulu. Even better, four sets of rocks have been purchased and will stay
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While in Fargo for the Olympic Team Trials, you too can take your turn donning an authentic earflap hat and pretend to stuff someone down the woodchipper a la the movie "Fargo." Be the first to identify the curler in this picture and I'll send you a present. (Editor's note: Mysteriously, this photo and caption were not on the proofs during the editing process. Huh, how did that happen?)
in Hawaii to help in the formation of a curling club. Now, who wouldn't want to go to an annual bonspiel in Hawaii?!? We've twisted the arms of 2010 Olympians Tracy Sachtjen and John Benton to join us in Honolulu to add some star power to the event. Website platform: Your thoughts?
As summer fades to fall, you've had a few months now to digest our new
USA Curling website at
www.usacurl.org. What do you think so far? We're still building out some pages and some sections have some bugs in them that the United States Olympic Committee techies are tweaking for us, in- cluding one of the most important areas – the bonspiel calendar – so please visit oſten. Oh, and I did manage to have some fun outside the curling world this
summer. Ask me about walking across the skywalk at Grand Canyon the next time you talk to me. n
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