After noon, we untied the boat and motored to the town dock, a couple of miles toward town, so that we could go to the grocery store. The Grocery store, Foodland, is open 24 hours. However, the catch is that you must walk up a huge hill, and with your stuff, come back down to the city dock.
Along the way, we saw this mural on a store front and visited the huge church. There was no sign, but, we are sure it is Catholic. The church was built in 1897 and is the largest structure to be seen in the area.
Penetangishene is the home of the Curling World Champion. It is also the home of the famous individual curling champion, Russ Howard. There is a monument to Russ and his accomplishments. From 1900-2100, Bay Moorings hosted a wine and cheese party for the loopers. Had about 50 people there, including the staff. It was very nice and a lot of stories (true and not so true) were exchanged. Ken MacDonald, the regional manager of the Parkbridge Marinas, was our host.
Yes Russ Howard is a famous curler and his rink of Canadians are World Champions. the next big curling compettion will be the Olympics in February and NBC has promised good coverage. I do not know if the Howard rink will represent Canada but the USA team is from Duluth and skip by a yong man named John Schroeder that I met when he was lead for the Fenson rink at the World championships in Lowell just after I retired in 2006. The US womens team is also good and skipped by Debbie McCormick from Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteCurling was started in the 1600's it is thought in Scotland, Howard, and the largest number of curlers are in Canada where they number in the hundred of thosands in the Us there are around 20,000 with about 65 of us in North Carolina where we will host the Carolina Classic bonspeil next week-end in Wake Forest.
BeachMonger, I am sorry that I am too busy to attend the bondspeil in Wake Forest. I had been so looking forward to it....(:-})
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