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2012-2013 Season Registration

Registration is now closed for the 2012-2013 Curling Season, though we are now accepting SPARE players for the season. The spare list will be regularly communicated to players (Names, Email and Phone Numbers) so that you can be called upon when a regular season player is unable to make it.

Games are 5pm - 7:30pm on select Sunday Evenings - 2012: Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, AND 2013: Jan 6, Jan 13, Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 17, Feb 24, Mar 10, and Mar 17. Games are played at the Mayflower Curling Club (3000 Monaghan Drive - behind the Young St. Pizza Hut).

Please note that joining the Loose Ends group does not grant you the privledges of full membership at the Mayflower Curling Club, i.e. sparing in all the other leagues organized by the Mayflower Curling Club.

Details:

Spare Registration is open at all times

Step 1 - Check out the Schedule

Please look at the Loose Ends Schedule page so you know when the group is playing - in summary: Games are 5pm - 7:30pm on select Sunday Evenings - 2012: Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, AND 2013: Jan 6, Jan 13, Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 17, Feb 24, Mar 10, and Mar 17.

Step 2 - Pay the Spare Fee of $40

Click on the Paypal Button
and remember to press "ADD" on additional information
to be able to input your Full Name

Step 3 - Print Registration Form

2012-2013 Season Registration Form (Same Form for Spares and Regular Season Players)

Step 4 - Submit Registration Form

You can either bring the Registration Form to the first night of Curling on Sunday Nov 25th, 2012 or scan a signed copy to our email address halifax.glbt.curling@gmail.com. Either Way, you need to sign a copy of the waiver before you get out on the ice for your first game.

League Logistics

Forming Teams and Amount of Play - This is a social league, and the senior curlers of the Loose Ends club will be the skips and 3rds on the teams and we will incorporate players into the other positions. Like last year, we plan to have people play with the same team for half the season (6 games) and then switch the teams for the second half of the season so that people get to play with others having different skill levels around the league, and then get to play with almost everyone in each half of the season.

What you need to play:

Very CLEAN SNEAKERS - ABSOLUTELY NO DEBRIS, DIRT or ROCKS on the soles of the sneakers at all (or curling shoes)
Shoe slider - you can borrow one from the club (for free), or you can buy your own.
Broom - You can buy your own broom ($50-$150), or you can rent a broom from the club (about $2/week)
Comfortable clothing (gym or sweat pants, warm sweaters or long sleeve t-shirts, layering is recommended)

The History of the Loose Ends Group

The Loose Ends used to be an unofficial club established in September 2006, with gays and lesbians curling on teams with the Friday night Recreation League at the Mayflower Curling Club. In the 2009-2010 curling season, The Loose Ends club started an official social league on Sunday Evenings at the Mayflower Curling Club.

The Loose Ends group has successfully hosted a PINK BROOM fundrasier in Halifax to get the GLBT community and its supporting straight allies to try its hand at curling in March 2009 and March 2010. This year's Sept 29th (2012) PINK BROOM Fundraiser fundraiser will help raise money for the 2013 Canadian Gay Curling Championships, which will be hosted in Halifax April 25-28, 2013.

Our next Bluenose Bonspiel will take place in conjunction with the 2013 Canadian Gay Curling Championships over the same dates, and we are looking for volunteers who can help show our guests from across the country what it is like to curl here on the East Coast!

Gay Curling in Canada

There are eight other GLBT curling leagues across Canada in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto (2 clubs), Ottawa, and Montreal (2 clubs). Many of them organize their own bonspiels throughout the curling season - a Gay-Bonspiel-Circuit so to speak. Check out www.gaycurl.ca for links and information on the other GLBT leagues across Canada.