AGM and Prize-giving

On Wednesday the 17th of April, Currie and Balerno Curling Club had their AGM at Currie Rugby Club. The meeting was chaired excellently by our President, Betty Gibb with Secretary Jenny Barr and Treasurer Dave Munro filling in the top table.

Following this was the prize-giving. The winners of this year are as follows:

Kettle: John Steven, Jenny Barr, Sarah Ford and Sheena Munro

Harlaw Cup: Brian Fleming, Andrew Galloway, Lois Copland and Donald Kennedy

Doubles: Andrew Galloway, David Aitken and Holly Davis

Points Shield: Jennifer Marshall

Butter dish (Second in Points): Dave Munro

Rosebank Cup (Ladies Points): Jennifer Marshall

Lymphoy Cup: Niall Gunn, Rowena Steven, Morna Aitken and Stuart Ronald

Glenbrook Quaich: (Megan Priestley), Jennifer Marshall, Lois Copland, Graham Paterson and Sian Stockwell

Tom Holmes Trophy: Josh Kellock, Jenny Barr, Morag Wellman and Karen Munro

Club Achievement Award: Margaret Nicol

Thank you to the whole club for a fantastic season with some very competitive competitions! I'd also like to thank the committee, especially Jenny Barr, without whom the entire club could not function!

Kettle winners (Left to right: Jenny Barr, John Steven, Sarah Ford)

Points winner (Jennifer Marshall)

Lymphoy Cup winners (Left to right: Stuart Ronald, President Betty Gibb, Niall Gunn)

Club Achievement Award winner: Margaret Nicol

Tom Holmes Trophy 2024

On the 16th of March, Currie and Balerno came in their masses to Murrayfield to compete in the Tom Holmes trophy. This is a favourite competition within the club due to the unique make up of the teams. Once you have won the trophy as skip, you are no longer able to. This means that teams are helmed by people who wouldn't normally get the chance to (or usually don't want to) skip. As it's only 3 2-end games, the pressure is completely off and the whole afternoon is good fun all around.

Winning this year was Josh Kellock's team of Josh, Jenny, Morag and myself (which I was thrilled by considering I won it last year! And I was subbing for my Mum.)

Winning team for the Tom Holmes trophy (pic curtesy of Niall Gunn) 

The day before was also my 30th birthday and fellow Ides of March twin John Steven who was 60 and the club surprised us with a delicious cake.

Following on from a delicious meal from Parsley and Thyme catering, the main competition of the night went underway...the bottle sliding! A bottle of Highland Park (kindly donated by Donald Kennedy) and a bottle of Champagne (kindly donated by Betty Gibb) were the prizes. Colin Barr won the whisky and Jennifer Marshall won the champagne. £110 was raised in total, which will greatly help the clubs funds.