Dear Members,
As we move through the winter season, we would like to ask for your help in maintaining the best possible ice conditions for everyone.
Dec 11, 2025 Day Women’s Trim A Tree Day Spiel
Dec 21, 2025 Euchre Sunday
Dec 22-23, 2025 Club Closed for Camera Installation
Dec 24-26, 2025 Club Closed for Christmas Holidays
Dec 27-28, 2025 Family & Friends Bonspiel
Dec 29-Jan 1, 2026 Club Closed for Ice Maintenance
Dec 2, 2026 Regular schedule curling resumes
Greeting to all OCC members,
I hope you are enjoying the 2025/26 season to date. Our league Directors and Convenors have been working diligently to ensure that all the leagues are well planned out and run without a hitch. To all of our Directors and Convenors…Thank you!
I would also like to send a special thank you to all of our staff. Ian, Casey, Scott and his team, and of course our wonderful bar staff who all work hard to ensure that every time we step into the club and onto the ice we enjoy a ‘best in class’ experience.
It has been and will continue to be an extremely busy year at the OCC. We have seen another successful Gathering Bonspiel run by Rick Brady and his volunteer group and Scott Cooke and Andrew Skelton once again took the reigns on a fun filled United We Curl Bonspiel. It looks like all of our upcoming club bonspiels will once again be sell outs and I congratulate all of the organizing committees on their efforts!
Scott and Melissa Foster are off to Ottawa for the Senior National Championships November 29th – December 6th. Scott will be playing 3rd for the Mike Harris Team and Melissa will be playing 2nd on Team Sherry Middaugh. I know I speak on behalf of everyone at the OCC when I say how incredibly proud we are of them and wish them the very best in their pursuit of a National Championship. I think we can find the room in the lounge for a new banner or two!! Have a great time Melissa and Scott!
The OCC will also be hosting the 2026 Ontario Seniors Championships March 11- 15 showcasing the provinces top ‘veteran’ curling talents. I’m hoping the club will be well represented! Our organizing committee is working behind the scenes to ensure it is a great success. I encourage all of our members to try and make it to the club and take in this wonderful event.
As part of the on-going upgrading of our facilities. On December 22nd and 23rd we will be converting our archaic analog camera system to a fully digital system. With this system will come enhanced graphics and imagery but also the capability to live stream games on sheets 3 and 6. Initially, these two sheets will be our TV sheets. They will be equipped with 4K PTZ (Point Tilt Zoom) cameras so that we can continually show games on those sheets via YouTube but we will also have the ability to produce the games. This system is long overdue and we look forward to maintaining this club as best in class.
Hard to believe but Christmas is just around the corner and in the spirit of giving, the Oakville Curling Club has donated surplus funds from our OLG Bingo Fund to 2 very worthy local charities. Our past president, James Francolini, who volunteers for the Fare Share Food Bank, presented a cheque in the amount of $2,500 to that organization last week and Ian and I had the pleasure of presenting a cheque to Gary O’Neill, Executive Director of the Kerr Street Mission in the amount of $5,500. Both of these organizations do tremendous work and rely on donations to assist people that need the support of their community. I have included a link below to both of these charities and would encourage members to have a look at the work they do and support them in anyway you can, especially at this time of year.
https://www.oakvillefoodbank.com/
That’s it for the time being. Thank you to all of our members for your continued support and on behalf of the Board of Directors and OCC staff, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and a Happy New Year! Look forward to seeing you at the club.
Greg Irwin
Recently, OCC’s Day Women and The Senators brought their leagues together for the 2nd Guys & Gals Bonspiel. This fun and friendly mixed team bonspiel consisted of 7 ends and a roll off, followed by lunch and some great prizes! With 56 curlers making up 14 mixed teams, competition was stiff!
Congratulations to this year’s GUYS & GALS BONSPIEL Winners: TEAM WIENHOLD
Skip: Tom Wienhold, Vice: Marjorie Julian, Second: Gerry Ruygrok, Lead: Davy Wong
By the bell, Team Wienhold swept their way to a clear victory and their name on a trophy, not to mention some impressive gift cards.
Overall, our curlers shared some laughs, made new curling friends and delivered positive feedback to the organizers. Thank you to all who came out to make this bonspiel a memorable event! We gratefully thank our sponsor Maple Lodge Farms for their support. Thank you to the organizing committee: Larry Trimble, Peter Campbell, Larry O’Brecht, Roy Gorka, Johanne Boivin, Kristine Smith, Karen Rodricks, Sharon Bishop.
Congratulations to Oakville’s Team Murphy for winning the Oakville Fall Challenger for the second year in a row!
The Oakville Fall Challenger is an inter-club competitive women’s league that kicks off the curling season with a five game series. The league welcomed 12 teams this year: teams from Burlington Curling Club, Chinguacousy Curling Club, Dixie Curling Centre, Dundas Valley Golf and Curling Club, Mississaugua Golf & Country Club, as well as Oakville Curling Club.
Congratulations to all the winners:
First Place: Team Murphy, Oakville CC
Janet Murphy, Sarah Reid, Jacquie Ramier, Mary St James
First Place Consolation: Team McFadyen, Dixie CC
Helen McFadyen, Nancy O’Shaughnessy, Bridget O’Toole, Tish Pearce
Second Place: Team Scarrow, Oakville CC
Janet Scarrow, Suzanne Michaelson, Annie Ribau, Sally Reinfeld
Third Place: Team Neal, Burlington CC
Karen Neal, Tanya Labenski, Maureen Smith, Jennifer Smith
Fourth Place: Team Harrison, Burlington CC
Nancy Harrison, Jeannie Davies, Cindy Watts, Terri Welsford
A big shout-out to everyone who competed in the Oakville Fall Challenger. We hope to see you all back next October!
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I thought I would let you know my team won the Toronto Hope bonspiel yesterday! There were 32 teams competing and the bonspiel raised more than $135k this year.
My team included Carol Sandwell, Helen Stephenson, and Johanne Boivin.
Kelly Breard
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Dear Members of the Oakville Curling Club,
We wanted to make you aware of an unfortunate incident that occurred at the club earlier this week. A couple of unauthorized individuals entered the building and took some credit cards from one locker that we are aware of.
We ask that everyone please take a moment to double-check their belongings—including wallets and personal items—to ensure nothing is missing. If you notice anything unusual, please let us know as soon as possible.
As a gentle reminder, we encourage all members to keep personal belongings securely locked up or take them with you onto the ice surface for safekeeping. Even those well-worn curling shoes and sentimental items deserve a little extra care.
We have been in contact with Halton Police and have provided high resolution video footage of the individuals entering and leaving the building. The timing aligns with the reported incident, and we are cooperating fully with their investigation.
In addition, we will be looking into upgrading the security of the locker rooms by installing keypads on both the men’s and women’s doors to help prevent similar incidents in the future.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we continue to keep the Oakville Curling Club a safe, welcoming place for everyone.
Warm regards,
Ian Tetley, General Manager
Oakville Curling Club
Greetings to all of my fellow Oakville Curling Club members and a special welcome to all new members who have joined our club. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer and are gearing up for the upcoming 2025/26 curling season. The ice is in and is fantastic. Thanks to Scott Foster and his crew!
We’ve have had a busy off season with a number of projects that have been or are very near completion. When you come to the club you will notice a number of changes and big improvements.
As you may know we received a grant from the Ontario Trillium Fund to assist in our efforts to become compliant with the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). Over the spring and summer, we had a number of upgrades completed including the addition of a chair lift on the stairs leading down to sheet 8. We have also added 6 automatic doors and replaced the concrete sidewalk on the northside of the building, bringing it up to grade level with the emergency exit doors. Additionally, we had the lounge bathroom upgrading and the emergency exit signs have also been upgraded to meet with the new standards. These changes will allow for all of our members to enjoy everything the club has to offer.
We have also had to deal with some drainage issues at the northside of the building. The existing drainage system that dealt with a large volume of water from the ice shed roof had become dilapidated and this resulted in flooding of our walkway and created some potentially hazardous conditions. We excavated the entire northside area of our property as well as a large portion of the west side parking lot and installed new piping as well as a new drainage system under the parking lot. This will dissipate the roof run off for years to come and provide a safer environment for our members.
We have also resurfaced the west side parking lot and added some curbing as well which we can all agree was overdue. On top of this, we updated our electrical power grid which now feeds our 4 new light posts on the west parking lot, again adding addition safety and security for our members.
Some smaller upgrades include, better lighting in both the lounge area and in the ladies locker room lounge as well as a new POS system at the bar and we are also upgrading our on ice camera system that will allow for streaming of games and better viewing for members in the lounge area.
These accomplishments and the efforts of our various committees and the board of directors speak to our ongoing efforts to ensure the Oakville Curling Club is ‘best in class’ and provides the best possible venue for our membership.
A special shout out and sincere thank you to both Karl Mitchell who gave generously of his time and expertise to ensure that these complex projects were done properly and on time, and secondly to our General Manager Ian Tetley who was hands on for all of this and was our point of contact for all of our contractors. This could not have happened without these two gentlemen.
Finally, thank you to all of our members! While our facility continues to be upgraded, the heartbeat of the OCC is our members who continue to support the club. None of these accomplishments happen without you. Please enjoy the upcoming season. I look forward to seeing you all very soon.
Very Best,
Greg Irwin
Thanks to the incredible popularity of our Day Women's morning leagues we have more women signed up than we can accomodate. We have over 80 women signed up for each day, with a capacity of 64. Many of you have signed up for both days, which means our first action will be to assign those who selected both days to their preferred day. To ensure this is done fairly and that no one is missed, please take a moment to check your Series Signup on-line.
From the Series Signup page you will be able to confirm:
- Which day(s) you are signed up for, and
- Your preferred day (if signed up for both)
You can make any necessary changes right from this page. You can add or remove a series, or change your preferred day.
We will be building the teams on October 5 and team lists will be available online the following day. Those women who did not get placed on a team on their non-preference day will be encouraged to sign up for the spares list for that day instead.
We also want to encourage all women who have signed up for the DW Tuesday/Thursday League to come to our Open House on Wednesday, October 1st from 2-4PM at the Oakville Curling Club.