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Quinte Curling Club
The Quinte Curling Club is a curling club in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The city of Belleville was without a curling club since the closing of the Belleville Curling Club (which had been founded in 1867) in the 1920s. That all changed with the founding of the Quinte Curling Club in 1957. The club was built on city fair grounds in the west end of town on Bridge Street W. While the club was being built, club games would be played at CFB Trenton. The facility was first opened on February 15, 1958. Mayor Gerald Hyde would throw the first stone. At the time of the founding of the club, the only women who could be members had to be wives of the male members. It was not until the 1988-89 season that the ladies' section of the club would be fully integrated with the rest of the club and have the same rights. The club has had four sheets for the entirety of its history. The club is located in Zone 4 of the Ontario Curling Association, and remains the only curling club in Belleville to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called ''rocks'', across the ice ''curling sheet'' toward the ''house'', a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a ''game''; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each ''end'', which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. The player can induce a curved path, described as ''curl'', by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
