The Fredericton Curling Club (FCC) has a new home. The club has moved into the Fredericton Coliseum located on the Fredericton Exhibition grounds at 365 Smythe Street in Fredericton. Until the spring of 2007 the City of Fredericton had operated the Coliseum as an ice arena for public skating, hockey, ringette and other ice sports. The City had decommissioned the ice making equipment so the FCC had to do quite a bit of work to get the Coliseum ready for curling. More information can be found at the FCC website.
So why did the FCC move into the Coliseum? After a fire destroyed the FCC building a few decades ago the FCC joined with the Fredericton Golf Club to form the Fredericton Golf and Curling Club. A curling rink was added to the clubhouse at the Fredericton Golf Course on Golf Club Road. This year the curling rink needed expensive repairs. This led the golfers and the curlers to separate and triggered the move to the Coliseum. I hope the FCC can continue their long tradition of curling in Fredericton (since 1854) at their new home.
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