Medicine Hat Curling Club secures $870K in grant funding, reopening planned for fall 2024

The grant administered by the Alberta government will put just over $871,000 towards the cost of replacing the club’s ice plant and the attached brine line that cool the ice.

Unlike the old brine lines at the club that were set in concrete, the new lines will sit on top of the concrete, a move that is more cost effective.

It will also allow for the ice plant and lines to be portable if the club does move to a new building in the future.

Curling club president Bryden Smith said if everything goes as planned its members will be able to start curling at the club again in the fall of 2024.

“Our general contractor is starting to do some preliminary tasks next week, even doing some construction,” Smith told CHAT News.

“The majority of the work is going to start probably sometime in the spring, depending on how the equipment gets here and those kinds of things,” he added.

“We’re going to look at having the construction, the majority of the work start sometime in the summer. We’re hoping to have it wrapped up by early fall and then transitioning right into a curling season.”

The curling club has raised over $1.7 million between the grant, the sale of the building to the city and fundraising efforts.

Smith said this covers the majority of the upgrade costs and the club will continue fundraising efforts to help cover any shortfall.

The curling club still has negotiations with the City of Medicine Hat on a lease agreement at the facility to take care of.

by Jesse Gill

Medicine Hat Curling Club secures $870K in grant funding, reopening planned for fall 2024

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