Oakbank family builds official-size curling rink to sweep away pandemic blues By: Rosanna Hempel
OAKBANK A local family is sure to be the envy of Manitoba’s curling community.
OAKBANK A local family is sure to be the envy of Manitoba’s curling community.
On Sunday night, they threw their first rocks across the homemade curling sheet they built inside a repurposed storage barn on Van Ryssel Farms.
When CurlManitoba postponed 18-year-old skip Aaron Van Ryssel’s under-18 provincial qualifier bonspiel in the face of code-red restrictions last month, his parents, Faith and Jeff, hatched a plan to keep him sliding and sweeping.