Craig Bakay | Jan 15, 2020


There are several differences between curling and crokicurl, one of those being that these days, most curling is done indoors.

But, relatively new sport that it is, corkicurl is still played outdoors and as such is at the mercy of the weather.

But it won’t always be, said organizer Rudy Hollywood, who plans to keep Saturday crokicurl going at the ballfield parking lot in Sharbot Lake whenever the weather cooperates.

“This (the rainstorm) will just be an extra flooding,” Hollywood said. “Not the worst thing that could happen.”

Hollywood said the rec committee just bought a new liner for the rink and new rocks, so he’s been looking forward to trying them out.

“The new rocks are concrete and steel and as such they have to be stored outside or they’ll melt the rink,” he said. “We bought a freezer to store them in and we’ll be putting a combination lock on it so people can play whenever they want.”

He put a caveat on that by saying “people over 10 or with adult supervision.” The rocks themselves weight about 20 pounds and are tough for children to handle.

“There are sticks that can be used to shove them,” he said.

He said the game was “fairly successful” last year and they’ve grade the rink for this year.

“We’re planning on having a registered tournament on Heritage Weekend this year,” he said.

“We even have push sticks so you don’t have to get down,” said Joan Hollywood. “We’d just like to have people come out and have fun.

“Anything to get people out and moving.”

“You don’t have to play a whole game,” Rudy said. “We often have subs.”

Come to think of it, there is one other major difference between curling and crokicurl.

“The only problem is we don’t have a facility where the losers can buy the winners a drink,” he said. “But we’re working on having the canteen only.

“Hot chocolate is still a drink.”

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