A presentation on Saturday by the Creston Museum will help mark the local curling club’s centennial.
Museum manager Tammy Bradford says the club was organized in December 1925 and played its first matches in January 1926 in the Fall Fair building. A dedicated curling rink was built later that year. But Bradford says Creston was a relative latecomer to the game.
“What’s interesting is how late, compared to other communities, Creston started curling,” she said. “We’ve got curling going on all around us 20, sometimes 30 years earlier than we see it happening in Creston. So one of the things we’re exploring is just why that was.”
Bradford said they are also looking at certain club traditions that were there at the beginning and continue today.
“Some of the stuff that takes place off the ice, some of the friendly and not-so-friendly rivalries that have taken place on the ice, and also some interesting leading-the-way trends for the curling club, as far as ice sports in Creston goes,” she said.
Bradford said curling’s popularity in Creston has ebbed and flowed, but it has always been a leading winter sport, second only to hockey.
Saturday’s presentation is at the museum starting at noon. Admission is free for museum members and $5 for non-members.
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