High-level membership curlers from throughout the nation have slid into Barrie this weekend for the nation’s largest newbie competitors.
The Everest 2024 Canadian Membership Curling Championships kicked off in Barrie on Monday and pits 14 males’s and 14 ladies’s groups in opposition to one another for an opportunity to develop into nationwide champion.
I believe there’s going to be just a little little bit of all the pieces,” stated Patricia Bandurka, representing Ontario’s ladies’s workforce. “I believe proper now, we will take it one sport at a time, have a blast and soak all of it in.”
The championships signify an enormous alternative for Barrie and its curling membership.
Tony Marquis is the the host committee chair and stated having the ability to host a event of its measurement will assist in constructing towards the long run.
The Scotties and the Brier had been membership championships, that is the way it began,” Marquis stated. “In my thoughts, this has changed or backfilled these tournaments. “Barrie is a good metropolis, it is simply the proper measurement metropolis to carry occasions like this and and even some greater occasions sooner or later.”
For town’s tourism sector, it represents big financial acquire.
Tanya Schaefer-Montoya is the final supervisor of the Hampton Inn and Suites and in addition sits on the Tourism Barrie board of administrators.
Based on Tourism Barrie, the event is predicted to herald round $800,000 of financial worth to town.
“It is near say, like one of many music festivals or any of the downtown weekends that we have had,” stated Schaefer-Montoya. “Like Promenade or Kempenfest, there’s that a lot hype for this explicit occasion.”
Two video games and opening ceremonies are scheduled for Monday, however the majority of the motion will kick off on Tuesday.
The occasion is free to attend however organizers are asking for donations for the Barrie Meals Financial institution.
The championships will wrap up on Sunday.
