Twin Rivers Curling Club had a big cheque to hand over to city officials last Monday night.
They presented $100,000 to the City of North Battleford, representing a huge chunk of their overall $250,000 building commitment to the capital costs of Northland Power Curling Centre.
Curling club representatives Doug Fehr and Richard Pratchler presented the cheque to Mayor Ryan Bater at the start of Monday’s council meeting.
The reason the curling club was able to retire $100,000 of their $250,000 commitment in one fell swoop was due to the success of the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event, the Meridian Canadian Open, held in January at the North Battleford Civic Centre.
The event generated records for attendance and profits, with big revenues flowing into the curling club’s coffers. That allowed the club to accelerate their payment towards the building.
The other news from that night is that Pinty’s could make a return trip to North Battleford. Curling club officials confirmed at the meeting that they were indeed pursuing a second Pinty’s event for North Battleford for January 2019.
Club officials voiced confidence they could set new attendance and profit records for that event; however, they also pointed out it is not yet official and no contract is signed.
At the meeting Bater congratulated the curling club for their successful hosting of the Pinty’s event and for their funding commitment to the Northland Power Curling Centre.
“We appreciate their commitment to that facility and the enhancement of the organization,” Bater said to reporters following the meeting.
