The Adventures of Trefor the Curling Rock is a brand new book about curling aimed at 6 – 11 year olds. Author Kim Perkins claims it is likely the only fictional curling book on the market to target this age group.

“I believe young people are the future of our sport. I wanted to write a book about curling that would showcase, in a kid friendly way, how fun and exciting our sport is. My hope is that Trefor will help to hold the interest of kids already involved in curling by offering them a fun character they can relate to. I also hope kids not involved with curling might think the book is interesting and decide to come see what curling is all about,” said Kim Perkins about her new book.

The Adventures of Trefor the Curling Rock is about a young curling rock trying to find his place in the world. The main character, Trefor, yearns to discover what other games are beyond the walls of the curling club. One day he heads outside to find out. While on his adventure he attempts to play hockey and tennis and also gives diving a whirl. Unfortunately Trefor is not terribly good at any of these sports and decides to go back to curling. Back at the club he discovers what is truly important to him.

Perkins is offering a promotional item called a Broom Charm with each book (online and at participating stores). Broom Charms are silicone bands, similar to the popular LiveStrong bracelet. They fit around the handle of a curling boom, come in many different colours and feature sayings from the book. Perkins is also working on a new line of Broom Charms unrelated to the book.

For more information about The Adventures of Trefor the Curling Rock and Broom Charms please visit www.trefor.ca.

Compete-At, the leading innovator of sport event management software, released a free curling time clock today designed specifically for curling events. The time clock software can be downloaded to most PCs via web browser and used by any club for playdowns, bonspiels, and other curling events. It can be downloaded at http://www.curlingclock.com/.

Compete-At’s curling time clock is a stand alone program that includes features such as setting the team colors, displaying who has control of the hammer and showing how many timeouts are left. Additionally, corrections to times can be made, warm-up and time-out periods can be set, and much more.

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Casino Rama is pleased toannounce the second annual TSN Casino Rama Curling Skins Game on January 10and 11, 2009, airing live on TSN and TSN HD. The event features a star studdedlineup in which Women’s World Champion Jennifer Jones will compete against the reigning Men’s World Champion Kevin Martin and former World Champions Glenn Howard and Randy Ferbey for $100,000 in cash prizes.

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As strange as it sounds, Brazilians are getting serious about curling.

While you pick yourself up off the floor, you should know that Brazil has issued a challenge to the U.S. for one of the two Americas spots to the Ford World Men’s Curling Championships next spring in Moncton, N.B.

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Robert Rounding sulked through much of his first eight years in Texas.

The native Canadian had taken up curling in 1988 only to leave it behind when he got a job transfer to Houston. One day, he found a Web site that introduced him to the Curling Club of Houston.

Galveston County Daily News – Full Story