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Northern Ontario curling playdowns a success in Little Current

January 31, 2024

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ISLAND RINKS BATTLE IT OUT—Hometown heroes, the Chandler Rink out of the Little Current Curling Club and the Assad Rink out of Copper Cliff (with two members of the Gordon family on the roster) met on the ice for a sudden death duel to see who would go on in the tournament in the Saturday morning flight. Jordan Chandler and his crew came out on top, but the Assad Rink took the loss in good form, losing by one point in the extra end. SEE STORIES AND PHOTOS ON PAGES 3, 4 and 5.

photo by Michael Erskine

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Michael Erskine

Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is a staff writer at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.