Our AGM will be held on Monday 30 April 2012 at 12 noon at Hamilton Ice Rink.   Note:  This is changed from 7/6/12 which is a public holiday.

SLWCC is pleased to welcome so many curlers every year, from all over the GB to the Tunnocks Trophy.  This years event was enjoyed by 40 wheelchair curlers.  We had a great competition which lasted three days with three games each day.  There is usually much banter and laughter heard during the course of the competition.

Winners were the team from Moray – Gregor Ewan, Jim Gault, Mike McKenzie and Jackie Cayton.  2nd place went to Team Sellars supported by Rosemary Lenton, Robert McPherson, David Morgan and Gerald Pocock (SLWCC).

Boyd Tunnock presented the prizes at the dinner on Thursday night which was attended by competitors and guests.  Everyone agrees this is the best way to finish off the curling season.  Having some fun!!  Our thanks to Tunnocks for their sponsorship of the event.

You will find more information and pictures of the event at the following links.

http://local.stv.tv/hamilton/news/sport/32613-competition-brings-wheelchair-curling-season-to-a-close/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4DD6ZHmYQ0&feature=youtu.be

report by Angela Higson

8 Teams took part, in the competition this weekend at Curl Aberdeen with two teams from SLWCC.   The SLWCC  Teams of Paul Webster, Bill Masterton, Gordon Rainey and Angela Higson gained 5th position and the team of Jim Sellar, Rosemary Lenton, Robert McPherson and David Morgan gained 6th position.

The winning team was skipped by Gregor Ewan from Moray with Skip Aileen Neilsen’s (Braehead) team runners up.

A full list of results can be found at http://royalcaledoniancurlingclub.org/competitions/scottish-championship-wheelchair/

That favourite phrase of our friend and curling companion Craig Taylor who has died, and will long linger in my mind. It was always accompanied by a wry smile indicating he didn’t really believe a word one was saying, but was too polite to say so.

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It is with regret that we report the death of one of our longest serving members at SLWCC.  In fact Craig was one of the original team that started the club in 2002.  Craig passed away on Sunday 26 February 2012. 

Just recently he was among us at our 10th Celebration Dinner when he took part in our celebration by blowing out the candles of the cake!  Someone had put trick re-lighting candles on the cake so no matter how hard he huffed and puffed they would not be extinguished;  he enjoyed the joke in his own quiet way.

Craig also played at Braehead with the wheelchair curlers.  Lesser known to many is the fact that Craig also enjoyed playing Badminton with a small group of us.

We will miss him.

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Around 60 members and guests attended out Celebration on Friday 10 February 2012 at the Town House, Hamilton to celebrate our club’s 10 year Birthday.  Sponsors and guests were entertained by guest speakers Ron Harris, Reporter with the Lanark & Carluke Gazette and Kenneth A Ross Sheriff for Dumfries. Everyone enjoyed a two course meal which was followed by a large cake kindly provided by our sponsors, Tunnocks.

Report by Angela Higson

South Lanarkshire host the Norwegian, Great British, Scottish, Swedish, and German Curling Teams in a second international wheelchair curling championship at Hamilton. Watch this video for an overview of the event, which has built on the enormous success of 2011′s tournament.

Unlike the Battle of Largs in 1236, usually declared as a non-scoring draw, the second international tournament organised by South Lanarkshire’s enterprising wheelchair curlers ended in a victory for four modern Vikings. The competition held at Hamilton Ice Rink on the 17th and 18th of January ended with a final between the national teams of Norway and Sweden.

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Thirty two curlers, twenty four of them in wheelchairs took to the ice in Hamilton on the dreich Monday morning of 28th November.

It was the world’s first ever haggis curling tournament, sponsored by Lanark butchers Damn Delicious. The South Lanarkshire Wheelchair Curling Club, and guests the Upper Ward Ladies Curling Club engaged in battle. It was a tournament of skill (and lots of chance) as they aimed across the rink at an eight pound haggis.

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Advance Press News for Editors, from South Lanarkshire Wheelchair Curling Club

Event Date: 28th November at 1.15pm.

Yes it’s true, the world’s largest wheelchair curling club, based at Hamilton Ice Rink, is to hold the first- ever haggis curling competition. It will be on the 28th November at 1.15pm.

Six teams of wheelchair curlers, and one of ‘able-bodied’ curlers will slide their 44lb granite stones down the ice at a… HUGE HAGGIS supplied by the competition sponsors Damn’d Delicious of Lanark.

No picture editor worth his haggis, neeps, and tatties will wish to miss this unique event…never before played in the hundreds of years of the Scots (and our Colonies) involvement in the Roarin’ Game.

Amongst those playing will be the Great Britain team, the Silver Medalists at this year’s World Wheelchair Curling Championships. But will they be best at Haggis Curling?

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South Lanarkshire wheelchair curlers do it sitting down.