Wednesday, March 17, 1999

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Win and draw for Eagles

. The Peninsula Atom: B Eagles played two exhibition
games this week before heading to Aldergrove for their final
:-tournament.. 3°).

~The Ragles SDarmed all over the Victoria Ice ae Lit,

i Steve Kot led the way-with seven goals, Michael Pires had a-
“pair: with Jeff Spoor, Kris Gower and Josh Ceasor picking up
‘the singles. The Eagles then played a're-match with the Vic-.

Se

= tori ria Racquet Club and fought back toa 2.2. draw. Kot and =

Kevin Woodley _ _
Peninsula News Review

Glen McCord’s love for
curling started more than
thrity years ago, when he was
still a teenager.

Three years ago his desire
to play led to ice time at the
Victoria Curling Club for ca-
sual drop-in sessions every
Thursday.

Last fall it brought. him
closer to home on the Penin-
sula, where he took part ina
beginners orientation league
at Glen Meadows Curling
Club. _

And. now the 46-year- old

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-Nicholand Johnathan Robinson lead.a concerted ground at:
‘tack. The Raiders defence held under constant pressure, ak

BC: Special Olympic silver

Special Olympics next year.

Tom McLaughlin, Drew
Denny, Boyd Farrell, Tracy

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weeks ago in Richmond after

fone

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throughout.”

volved with Special Olympics
and with the curling program

for three, called the. silver
-medal “icing on the cake.”

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Coach Russell Minnis (far left) poses with (from left
--to right) Tom McLaugilin, Boyd Farrell, Sidney’s Glen
McCord, Drew Denny, Tracy Waistell and their Special

a Sidney skip proudly wears a>

medal and hopes for achance_.-

to compete in the Canada - Victoria rink earned silver two weeks. ago at the BC

McCord.-was “joined by - Special Olympics i in Richmond.

_ guys like this,” says Minnis

‘Waistell and coach Russell
Special
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smiling McLaughlin. “All y
~ these guys want to do is curl.
- When - they’re. here, they.

S don’t want anything else.” . - says.
dropping the gold . -medal =~

game. to a ink fr om a Penticy T “hursday league for Victo-

: See -ria’s mentally “challenged
; “They did great,” says. community. expand continu-.
Minnis: “They started this -

’, thing and finished it in style.

“menting on how: well they.
_ themselves

Minnis, who has been in-.

“in Victoria for seven years:

“The. real rewards. are

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ating in Nanaimo and further
up Vancouver Island:

“There wasn’t anybody in
Victoria to play against,” says
Don. “Then I discovered
these other clubs and they
were all having a ball.”

So. Don made. arrange-
ments for some cheap ice
time with the Victoria Curling
Club and started the Thurs-

_ day league.

“It really started as a way
to get them out there and
maybe provide a social net-
work and a place for these
athletes to learn about the.
game,” says Don. “They've all
worked so hard and they now

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true gentleman's game.”
Barbara Lovick has:been
curling for 20 years and
started working with the
Thursday curling program a
little over a year ago. She has

Olympic silver medals. Led by skip Glen NicCord, the.

ously since it started at the =
‘Victoria Curling Club three
“years ago.

“ “We started with six play-
ers and now we ve got 2A, "he

putting his. arm. around. a

“The league. started when:
Trene” and. Don : “McCord,
“Glen's: parents, discovered a

couple of similar clubs oper.

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