WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ IN THE HOUSE:
Tonight: Division D has a bye. Check the schedule for your ice time and sheet.
Next Week: Just two more games until play offs!
Other NEWS: Playoffs will be played over 3 nights, single knock-out format - Wed April 15 - Teams 3-6 will playoff, the winners advancing. Monday April 20 teams 1&2 will play the winners from April 15, the winners advancing to the finals on Wed April 22nd.
Big THANK YOU to Team Erin Gilmore & others (full list will be available next week) for volunteering to organize our Closing Social! Please ensure you share your appreciation to them. We know it will be a huge success!
Get to know your new WNW Board Representative: Welcome Jane Donville!
I began curling in Oakville 12 years ago, and currently play in WNW and in the Weekend Mixed Ladder.
I am a physiotherapist by training, and spent many years working in different aspects of the healthcare industry.
Most recently, I was on the senior leadership team at the Canadian Red Cross, but am no longer working full-time.
I am the proud mom of 3 adult children, and love to spend time hiking, cycling and travelling.
I look forward to supporting the league for the coming years!
Next week: Get to know your new WNW Games Convenor: Board Representative: Erika Brown!
JOKE OF THE WEEK:
STUFF THAT MAKES US CURL BETTER:
RECIPES AROUND THE RINGS:
Baked Cinnamon Crunch French Toast
For a Tuesday treat or upcoming brunch, make this Baked Cinnamon Crunch French Toast. Made with a vanilla egg custard, each piece is stuffed with whipped cream cheese and finished with a cinnamon crunch topping. It’s that cinni “crunch” topping, that gets everyone, it really is delicious. Who doesn’t love warm french toast? Every piece of toast is soft, buttery, and custardy inside, yet caramelized around the edges…almost like a creme brûlée. Enjoy warm with just a little butter. Beyond delicious! Enjoy this pull apart french toast bake.
Ingredients
- Cream cheese
- Heavy cream
- Vanilla
- Challah bread
- Large eggs
- Whole milk
- Vanilla extract
- Kosher salt
- Brown sugar
- Ground cinnamon
- Flour
- Salted butter
Directions
- Start with the cream cheese. First, I should mention that if you’d prefer, you can skip the cream cheese altogether. But I do think it makes this french toast really delicious, so personally, I wouldn’t. You’ll want to whip the cream cheese with some whipping cream until it’s light and airy. Then take your thick pieces of challah (or brioche) bread and use a knife to make a small pocket in the middle of each piece. Stick the cream cheese into the pockets.
- From here, everything is pretty straightforward. The custard is a simple mix of eggs, milk, and vanilla. Dip each piece of bread into the custard, then arrange in the baking dish. Sprinkle over some cinnamon sugar.
- Once the french toast has been assembled, place it in the fridge for thirty minutes, or up to overnight. This is great if you want to have breakfast all prepped and ready for baking in the morning!
- Before baking, make the cinnamon crunch topping. It’s just brown sugar, mixed with cinnamon, flour, and butter. It clumps up as it’s mixed, so you can easily sprinkle it over the french toast before baking.
- As the french toast bakes, the custard sets, the cream cheese becomes warm and even creamier, and the topping begins to caramelize becoming crunchy.
View recipe on the web
GAMES, BOOKS, MOVIES & SHOWS:
My cousin Karen and I are listening to this book. We are not sure how we feel about it!
A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliation
Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo Indian reserve have been neighbours nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, an uncommon measure of hope.
Valley of the Birdtail is about how two communities became separate and unequal—and what it means for the rest of us. In Rossburn, once settled by Ukrainian immigrants who fled poverty and persecution, family income is near the national average and more than a third of adults have graduated from university. In Waywayseecappo, the average family lives below the national poverty line and less than a third of adults have graduated from high school, with many haunted by their time in residential schools.
This book follows multiple generations of two families, one white and one Indigenous, and weaves their lives into the larger story of Canada. It is a story of villains and heroes, irony and idealism, racism and reconciliation. Valley of the Birdtail has the ambition to change the way we think about our past and show a path to a better future.