Present: Don Evans (chair), Pamela Bowen, Janet & Bill Prueter, Suzanne Villeneuve, Keith Southey, Gerry McCall, Vicky Horvath (minutes)

Regrets: Pat VanGeytenbeek, Paul Russell, Bob Lacroix, Terry Kouyoumjian, Barb Finlayson,

• Minutes from November 21, 2017 reviewed and accepted

• Treasurer’s report: Paul

  • See report on website

  • Overall 10% higher in revenue than last year

• Membership Report: Pamela

  • 71 members which includes 9 social members

• League Sections:

  • Suzanne:

    • Feb 12, 2018 played Huntsville and won! Darlene, Joanne, Cathy H and Brenda)

    • Parry Sound / Muskoka are struggling with putting on a Bonspiel in terms of cost. Baysville CC has offered $50.00 to support and board has approved

  • Janet:

    • Monday curling has improved greatly. A great opportunity for practice. 8-10 players average per week

• Maintenance: Don

  • Flood in January 2018. Need reminders to turn water valve off before winter freeze. Don to make visuals as reminders.

  • Emergency furnace repair: Did not do annual check this year, but it needs to be done yearly. Don will add to annual maintenance list.

  • Terry looked at ice heaters, he will do spring maintenance.

• Advertising: Don

• Peter Craik purchased a 2 year plaque for the wall

  • Bill met with Andrea at Cast Iron and she requested both wall plaque and in-ice plaque and also requested to be advised as soon as tickets for Surf & Turf are available

• Rentals: Don

  • Rentals have gone very well this year with several repeats. One last rental in March 2018.

• Bar: Pat

  • Need red plastic glasses. Keith to pick up from Costco.

• Kitchen: Barb

  • Sign-up sheet for TimbrMart Bonspiel posted at club.

• Ice Maintenance:

  • At tankard, our ice making team talked to their ice making team to look at what else we can do to work on our ice

  • 2 nd pebble being done (at different temperature with different head)

  • Rocks have been retextured

  • Discussion of how often to texture the rocks

• New Business:

  • Men’s Spiel:

    • Prizes are done

    • $300.00 anonymous donor

    • 12 teams are registered

    • Leaderboard being redone with new TimbRMart logo

    • New trophy

  • Club Wine:

    • Don believes that all stipulations are completed for AGCO and is awaiting final permission from them

    • 88 bottles of each red and white

    • Don to post the alcohol content of the new wines in the bar

  • Annual Meeting and AGM:

    • Saturday April 7

    • Will plan club executive for next year

  • Club Rocks:

    • Trefor granite (from Wales) rocks with a blue hone inset, are the current rock of choice. Guaranteed for 25 years.

    • Handles can be changed out as well.

    • Don to put feelers out to the club with options for fundraising

  • Suzanne:

    • Questioned how to cut people off when they’ve had too much (at Bonspiels)

    • Will post a sign in front of the bar

• Next meeting: March 20, 2018 at 7 pm. Typically, 3 rd Tuesday of the month (not Dec and Jan) until March 2018.