Meeting Date:
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Member’s Meeting:
Members meeting called to order at 9:40 A.M. by President, Jim O’Neill. Roll call was taken of the clubs with updates from various clubs present.
The following clubs were present at the meeting: Appleton, Arlington, Blackhawk (Janesville), Centerville, Clintonville, Green Bay, Kettle Moraine, Lodi (report in writing), Madison, Milwaukee, Portage, Poynette, Racine, Rice Lake, Stevens Point, Tri-City, Waupaca, Wauwatosa and Waukesha. The following clubs were absent. The number in parentheses represents the consecutive meetings missed: Alpine (6), Loch Wissota (16), Marshfield (2), Medford (7), Pardeeville (3) and Wausau (5).
Appleton - Jim O’Neill reported. Incremental better year for Appleton. Significant growth with Juniors as a result of splitting the 8th graders and up from the younger children. Spent about $75,000.00 in roof repairs. Continuing to work on improving the environment in the ice house.
Arlington - Merwin Jenkins reporting in Bernie Dushek’s absence. Status quo. Work this spring and summer on a new ice field.
Blackhawk (Janesville)- Tony Jacobson reported. New roof which resulted in savings in heat bills. Membership about 150 adults. The leagues are strong. Celebrated the 40th anniversary of their Last Chance Men’s Spiel with 24 teams.
Centerville - Dan Lilla reported. Club experienced best open houses they’ve had in years. Lots of Juniors curling at the club. 60 kids on Monday and 30 kids on Tuesday. For 2008/2009, hosting the Midwest South Men’s Qualifiers in January and the State Junior Championships.
Clintonville - John Williamson reported. The club is doing well. Continued significant increase in mixed curlers. Also the membership of the club is getting younger. Expects to install dehumidification system this summer. Bill Wilberg from Green Bay located a unit on the internet that Clintonville will be installing. Also will be remodeling the upstairs locker room.
Green Bay - Bill Wilberg reported. The club is going to keep their ice in year round this year. Dehumidification system has been installed within the last 20 days. Expects that the system will be running three to four hours a day allowing the brine temperature to be raised 1E with the resulting expected savings. Green Bay is hosting this summer an Elite Camp and a revival of their Summer Spiel the weekend of June 20th. Due to their prime time week day evening ice availability this spring, they’ve experienced the freedom to rent their ice out to businesses. Schneider Trucking has rented the ice out on four different occasions, grossing the club $800.00 in rentals. Green Bay is also running a 10 team spring league on Wednesdays.
Kettle Moraine - Dave Lewis reported. Club realized 41 new members last season. The clubhouse is being redone this summer with the cash to pay for the same realized out of the raffles.
Lodi - Greg Bancroft by e-mail provided report. See attached report.
Madison - Rich Lepping reported. A slight decline in the membership for last season. Madison held its Mixed Bonspiel with good results. It was a good year for competitive curlers in Madison with success nationally with the Junior Women and Junior Men. Also Club National Championship, National Men’s and Women’s and Sr. Men’s. Madison lost a long time curler and supporter of the club, Dewey Schumacher this spring.
Milwaukee - Jay Packard reported. There continues to be cloud hanging over Milwaukee over the next two to three years. Ongoing issue as to relocation or staying at Ozaukee. Currently Milwaukee’s lease is good for the next two years. Membership continues to be steady.
Portage - Bob Daly reported. Membership in Portage at 182 remaining stable. Portage hosted the USCA Junior Nationals last season. The club netted approximately $21,700.00 from the Junior Nationals. The club also hosted State High School Championships. About 80 juniors participated in the Saturday program.
Poynette - Jeff Koch reported. Membership is 85 to 95 members. The spring league is continuing with its seventh season. Numbers are down from previous seasons, there being six teams on Monday, six teams on Thursday, 40 - 45 curlers. Poynette is also hosting its Spring Spiel the weekend of May 16th and hosting a new Curl/Golf/Curl Spiel the last weekend in May. This summer the club will be replacing the flat roof over the clubhouse.
Racine - Mike Dry reported. Racine’s membership is stable. New adult members replaced lost junior members. The increase is mostly being realized in the mixed leagues. Saturday morning leagues have a doubles format, with a possible expansion next season to Sunday evening. Restarted the Racine Men’s Invitational Spiel with eight teams. Hopes to continue to hold this spiel in the second week of January. Will need to either repair or replace the clubhouse furnace which broke about two weeks before the season ended.
Rice Lake - Larry Sharp reported. Busy year in Rice Lake. Approximately 258 members. Have three nights of mixed curling, two nights of men’s and one night of women’s leagues. Numerous Phy Ed classes use the club with approximately 2,000 students total. Also through local Tech College had a class in curling. About 15 individuals took the class which resulted in 14 new members for the club. Rice Lake continues to look to improve the environment in the ice house. It has installed an emissivity curtain which paid for itself in less than three years. Installed dehumidification which paid for itself both in the improved quality of the ice and reduced utility bills over a four year period. Dave Manske (sp.?) is an engineer who’s a member of the Rice Lake Curling Club. He has designed a method to recapture heat off the compressor to be used to heat the ice house. After rebates from the utility company, the net cost to the club was approximately $3,200.00. Larry expects about $2,000.00 in savings in the utility costs. Rice Lake puts in their ice in August. Holds an Elite Junior Camp in August together with their Summer Spiel the weekend of August 23rd. For the 2008/2009 season Rice Lake will host the National Senior Qualifiers leading to Worlds.
Stevens Point - David Garber reported. Membership at around 125 members. Has an active high school program, 15 to 20 kids. Have run the Cash Spiel which is down to about eight to ten teams. Also runs mixed and Men’s Spiels. Considering to add an additional bonspiel by way of either Stick Spiel or possibly a Mixed Double Spiel. Improvements in the equipment room consist of installing a number of digital controls. Installed a circulating pump with greater efficiency. The lease on the land on which the club is situated runs out in about 20 years. There is an ongoing discussion at the club as the extent of physical improvements to be made. The club continues to have in place a used compressor that they purchased in 1960. The profit of the club is 20% to 25% of expenses.
Tri-City - Jon Neidhold reported. In June of 2007, experience a hail storm which demolished the roof. Fortunately, insurance covered the replacement of the roof. Also installed new lighting system in the ice house. Realized rebates from the utilities. Also realized about $1,000.00 savings on the electric bill as a result of the new lights. Club membership is down to around 50. About just enough members to hang on. There are no mixed or women’s leagues. The economy in the Tri-City area is a significant factor in the reduced membership of the club.
Waupaca - Dennis Girard reported. See attached report.
Wauwatosa - Greg Dunlop reported. For the upcoming season, club will be hosting the USWCA Spiel.
Waukesha, Greg Dunlop reported. No bonspiel hosted last season.
Old Business:
Discussion was had concerning scheduling bonspiels on a state wide basis. The information on bonspiel dates is existent on the WSCA website and also on the USCA website. Questions were posed as to reviving the WSCA produced bonspiel poster. The information for the bonspiels can be gathered through the Club Roster sheets to be supplied to clubs and returned this summer. Upon a motion made by Dave Carlson and seconded by Larry Sharp, it was carried that the WSCA prepare and fund the printing of a State Bonspiel poster for the 2008/2009 season. A sufficient number of the posters should be printed to cover not only the Wisconsin clubs but also Minnesota and Illinois clubs.
New Business:
A question was raised as to 501(c)(3) status. Through the USCA Membership Conference, there is a presentation available concerning obtaining 501(c)(3) status. In addition, there is a “For Dummies” book addressing the creation of 501(c)(3) organization.
Upon a motion duly made by Chris Daly and seconded by Greg Dunlop, the members meeting was adjourned.
Board of Directors Meeting:
Board of Directors Meeting was called to order by President Jim O’Neill.
Upon a motion duly made and seconded by Rich Lepping and Dave Lewis, the Minutes from the September 28, 2007 meeting were approved.
President O’Neill is making a change in the Agenda such that items 9 A and B will be reversed in the order that they are addressed.
Treasurer’s Report - Greg Dunlop reported.
Attached to these Minutes is the Financial Report consisting of Balance Sheet for Year Ends 4/30/08 and 4/30/07, Profit and Loss Comparisons for the same years, Championship Competition Income and Expense for 2008 back to 1999, and a listing of the Dues Paying Clubs with the WSCA as of April 24, 2008.
Discussion was had concerning the restricted funds of $200.00. The source of this is Geoff Goodland. The purpose of the fund was to provide funding to replace the current state junior trophey with a new trophy. It was commented that there are upkeep costs. However, historically the cost of the engraving has been the responsibility of the winning team.
It was noted that there are three clubs that have not paid their WSCA dues for 2007/2008. These are Blackhawk (Janesville), Lodi and Marshfield. The President has indicated that all three clubs are intending to pay.
It was observed that 80% to 90% of the income from WSCA is used to support State Men’s and Women’s, Mixed and Junior playdowns.
Larry Sharp asked why the WSCA is making no contributions to the Senior Men’s or Women’s teams especially when they’re from Wisconsin. President O’Neill observed that the WSCA has a role in scheduling the Men’s and Women’s, Mixed and Junior State Championships and collects fees for the same, whereas for Senior’s they do not.
The membership of the Wisconsin clubs overall have been relatively flat. WSCA needs to continue to address the issue of the value realized with the club’s membership in WSCA. Jeremy Roe observed that one of the values is that host clubs do receive per diem payments for hosting WSCA sponsored events. The per diem is $200.00 per day up to a total of $800.00. The State Mixed hosting sites are now available for the smaller two sheet clubs.
Upon a motion duly made by Bob Daly and seconded by Dan Lilla, the Treasurer’s Report was approved.
USCA Director’s Report - Mark Swandby reported.
Mark Swandby is a USCA delegate to the World Curling Federation. Mark reported on the World Curling Federation meetings. The IOC is commencing sponsorship of a Youth Olympic Games. The first Winter Games are scheduled to be held in 2012. The tentative format is that there will be mixed gender teams from 16 countries. The first five days will be round robin competition, the sixth day will be education and the last three days will be mixed doubles format. Teams for mixed doubles will consist of team members from different countries. There are currently four countries bidding to host the 2012 Winter Games. These are China, Finland, Norway and Austria.
Drug testing is done on an out of the competition basis not only by the IOC but also now by the WCF.
At the USCA meetings for April, 2008, there was an update of the strategic plan. One of the focuses was discussing ways to help mature clubs who are struggling. It continues to be the belief for the USCA that increased participation in curling is gained through TV exposure. It is anticipated that the TV coverage for the 2010 Olympic curling will be at least the same as 2006 coverage. The USCA has also acquired a grant from the Chicago Community Trust for marketing efforts and to cover some of its ongoing overhead.
New Officers for USCA for 2008/2009 are:
President: Chris Moore from Great Lakes;
Vice Presidents: Chris Sjue from North Dakota
Jim Pleasants from Washington
Kent Beadle from Minnesota, and
Walt Erbach from Wisconsin
Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Bernauer from Illinois
AAC Members: Bill Todhunter from Wisconsin
Nicole Joraanstad from Wisconsin
Richard Maskel from Wisconsin
Tom O’Conner from Minnesota
Maureen Brunt from Minnesota, and
John Benton from Minnesota.
The Rock Star Program was a reality TV project. The concept was to recruit non-curlers and train them full time for a six to nine month period of time. Then have them enter the USCA Playdowns. The project fell short of raising sufficient sponsorship money. Therefore will not be going forward at this time.
The US teams success at World’s for 2007/2008 included the wheelchair team winning a bronze. The team was coached by Steve Brown from Madison. Also, the Senior Men’s Team won a bronze which team members were all from Wisconsin including David Russell from Centerville, Bill Rhyme from Green Bay, Mike Fraboni from Madison, Mark Swandby from Madison, and Dave Carlson from Poynette/Madison. In addition, the Junior Men won gold for the first time since 1984. Matt Hamilton from Wisconsin was a member of this team.
On a competitive curler basis, there is now discussions centering on the need for year round training and competition. This is based upon the standard being set by the Chinese.
Ed Lukowich is the Athletic Development Director (ADD) for USCA curling. He will be looking for an Assistant ADD for the 2008/2009 season. Qualified candidates from the United States are encouraged to apply. Lynita Delaney continues as the Junior Athletic Development Director. This is a position that is being funded by USOC money. The position is currently being retained on a year to year basis. Pursuant to USOC mandate, a Coach Development Director was hired. This person is Scott Higgins. His position is funded through USOC dollars. Scott is looking to integrate a training and instruction program from the bottom up. This should be of assistance to those that are involved in training juniors as well as adults through competitive curlers.
Members services continue to hold adult camps for coaches and instructors. For 2008/2009 season looking to reinstitute regional coordinator for instructors. Youth camps will be held in Rice Lake and Eau Claire in the Wisconsin area along with junior champs at other clubs outside of Wisconsin. There will be an Annual Membership Conference held in Bismark, North Dakota July 16th and 17th. The focus of this conference is on training and instruction. The USCA does provide support for costs to attend the conference. An invitation is generally made to the State and Regional Associations through their President. The USCA encourages each region to send a representative to the conference.
On a financial basis, the USCA budget for 2007/2008 is projected on a break even basis. The Donation Program has been continually decreasing over the years. At one time it raised approximately $80,000.00. However, in the 2007/2008 season it has raised $11,000.00 currently. Expected that the Donation Program will reinstitute a rebate back to the clubs for the 2008/2009 season. There has been approved a $2.00 dues increase per member for the 2008/2009 season. Discussion was also had concerning instituting a “ear marking” program whereby donations may be made to the USCA but ear marked for specific projects such as new club development or team support for Nationals, Juniors or Seniors.
Judy Maier Reported:
National Championship sites have been selected for the USCA Championships for 2008/2009. These sites are in Judy’s report attached to these Minutes. There is a need for a host for the Trials for the Winter World University Games. There is also a need for host sites for the Women’s Qualifiers and the Men’s and Women’s Challenge Rounds. Expects that there may be a greater interest in the Women’s Nationals on the basis that 2008/2009 is an Olympic qualifying year. In 2006, the last Olympic qualifying year, 20 women’s teams signed up to compete.
Future sites for the USCA Men’s and Women’s National Championships are anticipated to be venued in arenas. The goal is to gain greater exposure for curling by having the National Championships in a larger venue with possible TV coverage and better sponsorship opportunities. Jon Wilson is heading up the organization of the officials for the 2009 Nationals set for suburban Denver, Colorado. If curlers are interested in volunteering as officials, plenty of volunteers will be needed.
College curling has been organized by the Illinois Curling Foundation. The likelihood is strong that the USCA will need to take over college curling. This is due to changes in funding for the Illinois Curling Foundation.
An ice making video has been produced by the USCA. It can be found on the website. There are approximately 80 dedicated curling clubs in the US and approximately 50 arena clubs. However, the USCA membership consists of approximately 85% from the dedicated clubs and 15% from the arena clubs. As a result, with the financial restraints upon arena clubs, the likelihood is reduced as to the availability of arena clubs to host USCA sponsored competitive events.
The WCF Rock Loan Program continues. It’s now coming to a point where the clubs that received the rocks need to decide whether they’re going to keep the rocks and start paying for them or return them. The USCA is the conduit between the WCF and the local clubs in regards to this Rock Loan Program.
Bonnie Dixon is the new President of the USWCA.
David Russell commented on the concern about the siting of the 2014 Winter Olympics being in Russia. With the nearest curling facility being in excess of three hours away, a concern about technical expertise and local support of curling.
Jay Packard reported:
Jay wants to echo the optimism about the job Scott Higgens is doing. As an example, Scott Higgins has created benchmarks for the development strategy of curlers, i.e. what curlers may expect to be able to do at various levels.
There was a 10 minute break called by the President.
President’s report - Jim O’Neill reported:
Jim O’Neill stated it has been an honor and a privilege to serve as President of the WSCA. He reviewed the pluses of his term which included:
1. Membership increase at most clubs;
2. Many clubs improved their facilities;
3. The value of the WSCA communicated via the Mission Statement and WSCA continuing liaison with USCA.
The minuses that Jim observed were as follows:
1. Some clubs are not doing as well;
2. The continuing trend of under reporting individual membership at the clubs for dues paying purposes;
3. The loss of Superior as a member of the WSCA in spite of repeated contacts by many people over the previous years.
Jim’s hope is that the clubs continue to participate in the WSCA as a means of exchanging communication and growth of the sport of curling.
Rules - Mark Swandby reporting in Richard Maskel’s absence:
The WCF reviewed and revised the rules of curling from the 2007/2008 season. These rules were reviewed and revised for the 2008/2009 season. Approximately 54 proposed changes were made to the rules for the 2008/2009 season. Approximately three-fourths of these proposals were from the U.S. Many of the proposals concerned housekeeping matters such as changing the word “rink” to “sheet.” Mark then went through a number of the proposed rule changes in no order of importance. Some of the changes that Mark highlighted were:
1. Reinforcing that there is no sweeping of an opponent’s rock except behind the “T” line.
2. That no player may cause damage to the ice surface whether due to hand, body, equipment or otherwise.
3. If a sensor handle was not properly activated, and the rock was thereafter delivered, it will be deemed a hog line violation and pulled.
4. In wheelchair curling, there are now going to be some additional lines on the ice 18" either side of the centerline. These lines are to permit different positioning of stones to be delivered by wheelchair curlers.
5. Also, in mixed doubles curling, there is now going to be three different marks on the ice for placement of the stationary guard stone. The official is to pick one of these three spots for the competition taking into consideration the curl of the ice.
6. The stationary stones for mixed doubles will continue to be placed by an umpire per rule and not by the player.
7. In World competition, the bronze metal will be decided as a result of a game being played.
8. Mixed doubles will retain the rule that there must be a person in charge of the house positioned inside the hog line and on the ice surface at the playing end while the team is in the process of delivery.
WCF, despite the objections by the U.S., Canada and Scotland, retained the release point for stick players as was in the 2007/2008 rule. The USCA, at their April, 2008 meeting, voted to defer implementation of this WCF release point rule for sticks. Per USCA rule, the release point for stick players in the U.S. will continue to be the hog line. WCF, also, in adopting the release point at the T rule did reject the proposed “Spirit of Curling” language regarding use of sticks.
In 2010, the WCF will again review and reconsider the rules. There was no discussion at the WCF meeting as to playing 8 ends verses 10 in championship games. Keith Wendorf of the WCF has suggested consideration of 8 end games. The intent behind this is to shorten the length of competitions. Mr. Wendorf thinks that by shortening the games to 8 ends that the WCF will save an accumulative total of 30 days of competition in the various World Curling Championship events on an annual basis.
Attached hereto is a Resolution that was presented to the WSCA concerning stick curling. On a motion duly made by Richard Lepping and seconded by Tony Jacobson, and after a discussion was had concerning adaptation of this Resolution by the WSCA, upon a show of hands, the Resolution was adapted on a vote of 14 to 5.
Committee Reports by Chairpersons:
Directors/Website - Dave Carlson reported that he will be circulating amongst the clubs an information sheet for roster information for the 2008/2009 season. He requests that this information be returned to him promptly.
Mark Hartman reports that the website is fully functional. There are repairs that need to be made to the website to make it work more correctly. Mark has sought bids for repairs to be made to the site. He has received but one bid for $1,500.00. This bid is from a curler. Mark asks that the Executive Board review this bid and pursue the repair of the website. The WSCA website address is http://www.wi-curling.org. Mark estimates that he spent about 30 hours inputting new information into the website. Jeremy Roe, who assists Mark in inputting information, estimates that with Mark’s time and Jeremey’s, they spent about 50 to 100 hours total for the year.
By-Laws - David Russell reported:
David affirms that there is one vote per club and one vote for each of the four officers of the organization. He also believes that an Executive Committee needs to be elected. The By-Laws are approximately 20 years old at this point.
Junior’s Championships - Mark Hartman reported:
Medford hosted the 2008 State Junior Championships. There were nine women’s and seven men’s teams. There were four draws per day. Mark urges the WSCA to consider usage of time clocks for the future Junior Championships to keep teams on track given the four draws per day. He also is suggesting that the host club be required to provide officials. The 2008/2009 Junior Championship will be held in December in Centerville.
Mixed Championships - Jeremy Roe reported:
The Mixed Championships were held at the Green Bay Curling Club. The Ryan Lemke is the State Mixed Champion. Ryan Lemke went on to represent Wisconsin at the National Championships winning a silver.
Men’s/Women’s State Club Championships - Jeremy Roe reported:
These championships were held at the Clintonville Curling Club along with the Green Bay Curling Club. There was a number of issues concerning the co-hosting of the championships. These focused on the draw and scheduling. With the triple knock-out format, the teams are unable to plan ahead as to where they’re going to be from draw to draw. This creates complications when there is a split site. In hind sight it would have been better to use a round robin format with a split site venue. The Wisconsin State Club Champions for men was the Dave Brown Rink from Madison. The Wisconsin State Club Champions for women was the Joy Paul Rink from Green Bay. The Dave Brown Rink went on to win Gold at the Nationals while the Joy Paul Rink won silver. Jeremy explained the events concerning the Pacific International Cup Event held in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada in April. He acknowledges that he missed sending in the entry reservation fees on a timely basis for Wisconsin for the PIC for April of 2008. The women’s team did get in off the waiting list. However, the men’s team did not. Jeremy has apologized to the Dave Brown team for his omission.
Jeremy is reviewing the weekends available for the State Club Championships for 2008/2009. It appears that there may be two choices. These are the weekends of January 17th or 24th. Further review will be made as to which of these weekends will best be suited for holding the State Club Championships.
Senior Curling:
Merwyn Bauer reporting in the absence of Bernie Dushek. The Columbia County Day League continues with 15 rinks from the five Columbia County clubs. The Wisconsin State Senior Men’s Spiel was held at Arlington/Poynette. There were 36 teams represented 20 different clubs. Also, Lodi ice was used. For the 2008/2009 season, Wisconsin State Senior Men’s Spiel will be held at Waupaca the weekend of January 16th to the 18th. The WISCA league had 20 teams participating in the 2007/2008 season. According to Bernie, he thinks that in excess of 50% of the senior curlers deliver using the stick.
High School Curling:
No report was given.
There was a discussion had about the coordinating of scheduling of bonspiels. This was based upon determining when the first week is for 2009 for bonspiel purposes. Upon a motion made by Dave Lewis and seconded by Jay Packard, for the 2009 season, the first weekend of curling was designated to be the weekend of January 9th to 11th.
Old Business:
Judy Maier followed up with Superior Curling Club. She talked to the President of Superior. The President claims that the USCA does nothing for them. After having made this claim, later in the week there is a newspaper article that comes out quoting the Superior President who claims an increase in their membership is attributable to Pete Fensen and curling being on TV. It was observed the reason curling is on TV is primarily due to the efforts of the USCA.
It was also observed that the curling news has increased the reporting of results from local bonspiels. This increase in coverage was in response to local club’s requests.
New Business:
Elections: The first election is for a USCA representative to replace Jay Packard who is resigning. Jay’s term has two years remaining on it. The nominees are Rich Lepping and David Carlson.
There being no further nominations, the nominations were closed. Rich Lepping and David Carlson were given an opportunity to make comments. Jim O’Neill thanked Jay Packard for his six years of service as a Wisconsin representative to the USCA.
Upon a vote taken by ballot, David Carlson was elected to replace Jay Packard as a USCA representative from Wisconsin.
The next election was to replace Mark Swandby, a USCA representative. Mark’s regular term as a USCA rep from Wisconsin has ended. Mark has indicated that he is willing to continue to serve. There being no other nominations, upon a motion duly made by David Carlson and seconded by Greg Dunlop, nominations were deemed closed and a unanimous ballet to be cast for Mark Swandby. Said motion was carried unanimously.
Officer Election:
The Nominating Committee has nominated as Officers for the 2008/2009 year the following:
President: Jeremy Roe
Treasurer: Greg Dunlop
Vice President: David Carlson
Secretary: Michael Dry
Richard Lepping was also nominated as candidate for Secretary. However, Richard Lepping withdrew his name as Secretary nominee.
Upon a motion duly made by Chris Daly and seconded by Jim O’Neill, the nominations were closed and a unanimous ballot was cast in favor of the slate of Officers as stated. Said motion was carried unanimously.
Executive Committee:
An Executive Committee needs to be elected. It was proposed that the following be members of the Executive Committee, Jeremy Roe, Jim O’Neill, Chris Daly, Greg Dunlop, David Carlson and Mike Dry. Upon a motion duly made by Larry Sharp and seconded by Bill Wilberg, the nominations were deemed closed and a unanimous ballot cast in favor of the Executive Committee as listed above. This motion was carried unanimously.
Jeremy Roe thanked Jim O’Neill for serving as President. A President’s pin was presented to Jim O’Neill.
Next Meeting:
The next meeting of the WSCA shall be on Saturday, September 27th commencing at 9:30 A.M. at the Portage, Wisconsin curling club.
Upon a motion duly made by O’Neill and seconded by Dan Lilla, and thereafter carried, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 2:30 P.M.
Tri-City Curling Club, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin