Welcome to the home page of the Two Pines Curling Club! Our club was founded in 1912 by a handful of Scottish and Scandinavian families who missed the game from the old country, and who figured a town that's frozen five months a year might as well get some fun out of it. They curled on natural ice on the lake the first few winters, then built a little wooden rink by the depot. We've been in our current building, three sheets of ice and a warm clubroom with a big window, since 1958.

I'm David Wheeler, club secretary. I curled here as a junior in the early '80s, quit when I went away to college, and came back to it five years ago when I moved home. Now I adjust insurance claims by day and throw second stones on Monday and Thursday nights. My wife says curling is the only thing I'll leave the house for in January. She's right. Come try it and you'll see why.

Ice Crew Nights: October 19 to 28

Charlie Larsen, our head icemaker, started the refrigeration plant up last week, and soon it's time to make ice. Making curling ice is a lot of work and it's half the fun of belonging to a club like ours. If you've got a free evening and warm boots, come on down any night from Tuesday, October 19 through Thursday, October 28, starting at 6:30. Here's how it goes:

Pizza on the last night. The season opens Monday, November 1.

Leagues for 1999-2000

Dues for the season

Dues include one league and all the open ice you want on Sunday afternoons. Pay Marcia Johanson, our treasurer, by December 1.

LEARN TO CURL: Saturday, October 30, 1:00 to 4:00

This is the big one. Come out to the club, put on a slider, and throw your first stone. It's free and nobody's going to laugh at you (much, and only because we all fell down the first time too). We'll have members on every sheet to show you how to deliver, how to sweep, and how the scoring works, and we'll finish with a few short games. Chili and coffee in the clubroom afterward.

Wear clean sneakers with flat soles (no boots on the ice, please), warm layers, a hat and gloves, and pants you can stretch in. We'll provide brooms and sliders. Read up on the basics and the lingo before you come if you like. It's not required.

Every year since Nagano we've had a few more people at Learn to Curl. When curling made its debut as a full medal sport at the Winter Olympics in February 1998, a lot of folks around here watched it on TV for the first time and said, "Hey, they have that in town, don't they?" We sure do. We signed up 14 new members last season, the most anybody in the club can remember, and eleven of them are coming back. So come find out what they found out.

The 87th Two Pines Bonspiel: January 21-23, 2000

Our big weekend of the winter. 24 rinks from all over northern Minnesota and across the border in Ontario, four events, games from Friday night until Sunday afternoon, a prime rib supper on Saturday night, and a lot of coffee. Entry is $120 per rink. Eugene Jacobsen is bonspiel chairman and he wants your entry by January 7. See how last year's 'spiel came out on the results page.

Club Officers 1999-2000

How to Find Us

We're on the north edge of town on the road out to the lake, just past the high school football field. Look for the long white building with the green roof and the two big pines by the door. That's how we got the name, and no, nobody's allowed to cut them down.