Brandon has been quite blessed this winter season with a bevy out outdoor skating and hockey rinks including facilities that have been on the receiving end of meaningful upgrades in recent years.
Thanks to the good folks at Green Acres School this week, you can add curling to the list of sports that can be played outdoors while the weather still accommodates.
As part of the schoolâs Middle Years Winter Fun Day on Thursday teachers with the help of a handful of students assembled a curling surface adjacent to the Green Acres Community Centre complete with four playing sheets. Playing the role of curling stones were milk jugs frozen with red and yellow food colouring. By all accounts students and staff had a blast on the day that also included skating, snowshoeing and quinzee building.
With Winter Fun Day complete, the curling sheets remain in tact for the public to enjoy as part of the community centre so long as weather co-operates. The only caveat being that folks would have to bring their own equipment with the makeshift milk jug stones used on Thursday belonging to the school.
The setup caught the attention of Curling Canada, which is in the midst of conducting the Championship round of the 2020 Tim Horton's Brier national men's curling championship:
Anyone thatâs curious but not able to check it out before Mother Nature forces a change in our outdoor recreation options may still be in luck. This yearâs experiment was a first for the school with a representative of Green Acres telling me that they already intend to bring the setup back in the future.
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