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Public curling leaves the house Curlers swept aside for hockey unless enough joinWinter Club ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com
Two grand old Canadian sports have been pitted against each other at the North Shore Winter Club with hockey potentially poised to bodycheck
curling out of the facility for good. The private North Vancouver club recently announced that it will scrap public curling altogether in April of 2015 and will eliminate its curling rink entirely — turning it
into a hockey rink — if it isn’t able to sign up 360 curlers to a limited athletic membership by Nov. 15. The decision seemingly puts an end to an agreement hatched in the late 1990s between the Winter Club and the North Vancouver Recreation Commission to provide a space for public curling following the rec commission’s decision to
replace the curling rink at Harry Jerome Recreation Centre with the Flicka Gymnastics Club. The Winter Club says it has been losing money on the deal despite fees it collects from the rec commission. The club argues it is subsidizing public curling at the expense of its members, only a handful of whom actually use the
curling facility. The athletic membership now being offered to curlers includes an initiation fee of $900 plus monthly dues starting at $113, prices that the club is calling affordable. North Shore curlers, however, say that’s a huge jump in price from what they are paying to curl now. As of Friday, not one of the more than 500 registered
curlers on the North Shore had accepted the new membership offer. “It’ll kill public curling on the North Shore,” said Bruce Beveridge, a curler and league organizer who has been playing the sport on the North Shore for the past 27 years. “(The club’s offer) is not going to be accepted by the curlers. See Club page 11
Traffic help on the way — Walton BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
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Federal and provincial help is apparently on the way to help untie the traffic knots at the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing bridgehead. That’s one of the messages from District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton, who talked all things transportation at a North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday. The district has been working with the province to redesign the onramps and offramps between the bridge and Lynn Valley Road, aiming to ease traffic congestion. The total cost of the highway project is expected to be $140 million between the three levels of
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