FORTH AND ENDRICK PROVINCE
Forth Endrick Province News
Annual General Meeting
The 2014 Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 3 April at Killearn Village Hall. Muriel Holroyd of West Stirlingshire Ladies Curling Club stepped down after her year as President and Ann Hutchison of Forest Hills Trossachs Curling Club became President for the new season. Dougie Telfer of Loch Ard Curling Club became the next Vice President.
Lauren Gray of Balfron Curling Club spoke about her experiences at Sochi as a member of Eve Muirhead's Olympic team. Gill Smith of Strathendrick Curling Club talked about the Royal Club Ladies Tour to Sweden. Buccaneers Curling Club spoke about their first year in the Province. Prizes were presented for the various competitions and details were given of the Province's involvement in National and International competitions.
Various news items
Logan Gray's team won the City of Perth Mecure Masters against several of the Olympic teams.
Lauren Gray was the alternate in Eve Muirhead's bronze medal winning team in the Olympics
Michael Goodfellow, son of Elspeth and Les of Drymen CC, was in David Murdoch's silver medal winning team at the Olympics.
Barbara McPake of Buccaneers CC was in Kerry Barr's team which won the Scottish Ladies Championship.
Barbara's sister and brother-in-law, Judith and Lee McLeary have won the Scottish Pairs Championship
Janette Wilson's team including Norma Brown (both of West Stirlingshire Ladies CC) won the Ladies National Masters title.
Jane McLaren of Strathendrick CC was in the team that won the Low Road at the Henderson Bishop.
Ann Hutchison's team won the Ladies Open at Greenacres.
Scottish Province Championships
Drymen Curling Club were our representatives in this competition at Greenacres. They did extremely well by qualifying from the Round Robin stages into the Low Road semi-final. They were beaten in the Semi-Final 8 shots to 10 by Grampian Province.
Annual General Meeting
The 2013 Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 16 April at Balfron Masonic Hall. Grant Farquharson of Balfron Curling Cub stepped down after his year as President and Muriel Holroyd of West Stirlingshire Ladies Curling Club became President for the new season. Ann Hutchison of Forest Hills Trossachs Curling Club became the next Vice President.
There was discussion about the application by the Buccaneers Curling Club to join the Province and they were formally welcomed as members at the Draw meeting the following week. There was also approval of the revised Constitution and discussion of the revised competition rules which had been applied during the year. Prizes were presented for the various competitions and details were given of the Province's involvement in National and International competitions.