Issue 8 ? Saturday, February 6, 2010 ? An Offi cial Publication of the Canadian Curling Association. A ?Jones? for glory ?Peg quartet just one win from a Scotties three-peat after punting P.E.I. ? Straight thru to Sunday Page 2 ? Team Bernard pays a visit Page 11 ? Ontario crew tops ?Tobans Page 16 Team Canada, with Jennifer Jones at the helm, put the boots to Prince Edward Island 8-5 in Friday night?s Page 1-2 playoff meeting at the Essar Centre. Sponsor of the day ...

Page 2 HeartChart Straight through to Sunday! Jones gang wins Page 1-2 playoff game for the first time since 2005 Larry Wood HeartChart Editor It was The Champ and The Kid on Friday night at the Essar Centre, and the champ prevailed. Defending champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg moved to within one victory of a three-peat at the Scotties Tournament Of Hearts by defeating Kathy O?Rourke?s Prince Edward Islanders 8-5 in the Page One-Two playoff battle. The win avenged a Wednesday-night loss Playoff Schedule Today 1 p.m. ? Page Three- Four Playoff: B.C. vs. Ontario 7 p.m. ? Championship semi? nal: P.E.I. (Page One-Two loser) vs. Page Three-Four winner Sunday 2:30 p.m. ? Championship ? nal: Canada (Page One-Two winner) vs. semi? nal winner handed to Jones and her team of Cathy Overton- Clapham, Jill Of? cer and Dawn Askin by an Island out? t that features 21-yearolds Erin Carmody and Geri-Lynn Ramsay delivering the fourth and third stones respectively. This time, last-rocker Carmody failed ...

Saturday, February 6, 2010 COAST TO COAST: TSN?S Brian Mudryk gets the scoop during in-game interviews with Ontario?s Krista McCarville, left, and P.E.I.?s Kathy O?Rourke, top, as playoff action began Friday at the Essar Centre. PRIVATE/INTIMATE SPACES ? STATE-OF-THE-ART AV EQUIPMENT ? LCD PROJECTION WITH ROOF TOP SCREENS HIGH DEF. 5.0 SURROUND SOUND ? DVD/CD/MP3 CAPABILITIES ? NATURAL AND ADJUSTABLE LIGHTING Osoyoos caters to all occasions. The rich beauty of this South Okanagan paradise, combined with a capacity for over 400 people, makes Osoyoos the perfect choice for your next important gathering or event. YEAR-ROUND VENUES WITH UNIQUE DESERT/CULTURAL/ABORIGI NAL EXPERIENCES Offering spousal programmes, golf, spa, wine, cultural & historical tours! Pursue the experience at destinationosoyoos.com Page 3 ...

Page 4 HeartChart Loyalists help to ?fan? that competitive fire JIM CRONIN HeartChart Columnist Curling fans come in all shapes, sizes, and age and noise levels. Some prefer to sit quietly in their seats, intently watching the end-to-end action, while others are a bit more ? amboyant, painting their faces, wearing funny wigs and energetically ringing giant cowbells or hand clappers. However, the one thing all curling fans have in common is undying loyalty to their team, particularly when it?s a national curling championship like the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts here in Sault Ste. Marie. Throughout the week, looking around the Essar Centre, it?s been easy Healthy and Vibrant Communities to spot the individual fan clubs with their provincial ? ags draped over the seats, their provincial team colour jackets and hats, and their spontaneous eruption of cheering and clapping when their team made a particular good shot. It would be hard to hand out an award for the most boisterous fans ...

Saturday, February 6, 2010 Another totally subjective Top 10 list LARRY WOOD HeartChart Editor The problem, of course, is choosing the criteria when assigned to select the Top 10 Scotties tournaments in history. Do you go for the top-10 spectacular last-rock shots to win? Or the top-10 most attended affairs? Or the top- 10 most competitive jousts? Or the top-10 warm-weather venues? Or the top-10 party-centrals? Or a mixture of all of them? Whatever the case, the HeartChart has burrowed deep into the memory banks of its editors and assorted spies to produce the follow- CIMCO Refrigeration welcomes all participants and fans to the... With over 4,500 ice surfaces installed worldwide, CIMCO is proud to be recognized as the world leader in the design, engineering, manufacture, installation and servicing of artificial ice rink systems. ing Top 10 Scotties. Dissenters may line up to the right . . . in orderly fashion. 2009 Victoria Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg became the sixth skip to claim bac ...

Page 6 HeartChart Fan fave Scotties? Little Softie, a.k.a. Paul Strandlund. Top, Nova Scotia skip Nancy McConnery gets some down-home Bluenoser support. Middle, New Brunswick coneheads out in force. Above, green is the colour! Local women?s hockey t eams show some colour. A love affair with Jennifer Jones? defending champions. salute fans to the The Team Canada rink makes fast friends with a young autograph seeker at the Essar Centre. ...

Saturday, February 6, 2010 Friends from coast to coast to coast Robin Wilson rates her top 10 Scotties tourneys Robin Wilson For the HeartChart The Scotties Tournament Of Hearts has been an incredible ride providing memories to last a lifetime. Most important are the friendships made over the last 29 years! We?ve come a long way since our ? rst tournament in 1982. And I?m extremely proud to have been a part of the growth of women?s curling in Canada. Robin Wilson has presided over 29 Scotties Tournaments. Choosing my top 10 virtually is impossible because every event was special in it own way. Each year we?d raise the bar and each year we?d exceed it so that the Scotties just kept getting better and better. To my many friends in cities and towns right across Canada, my pals on the 29 media benches, the guys and gals at CBC and TSN who have always been so incredibly supportive, the CCA team that I?ve been privileged to be part of, the awesome curlers who were at one point my peers and a ...

Page 8 The Party Line ? Your guide to what?s goin? on It?s Your Turn to Be a Rock Star! Tonight? performing live, onstage? at 10 pm? in the HeartStop Lounge? it?s you! Picture yourself singing Karaoke backed by a live band and you have Rockstar Live. Just like Karaoke, you?ll have the lyrics right in front of you. The difference is, you?ll feel the power of the music from the professional rockers in ?your? band! Rockstar Live gives you the chance to share the stage with musicians who have toured and recorded with the likes of Moist, David Usher, Helix and Killer Dwarfs. Thursday, February 4 Neil Conway - ticket number 10870 - won $3,056.50 Take a Free Ride your guide to what?s goin? on Hit Us With Your Best Shots! Picture Perfect is the ?fan?s eye? view from the Soo. When you?re capturing your favourite memories from the Scotties, send them in? they may just show up in The Party Line. Email pictures to: partylinepics@curling.ca Pictu re Perfect (Please note: Cameraphone images may not b ...

Saturday, February 6, 2010 It?s Simply HeartStop Lounge MC Stuart Brown and Roger Powell, Manager of Talent and Production test the table in preparation for the Cool Curling playdowns. Amarula Cream liqueur is proud and honoured to be the Official Spirit of Championship Curling and Diamond Sponsor of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Amarula Cream is a carefully crafted, cream liqueur based on spirit derived from the African Marula fruit. Amarula Cream is the world?s second largest selling cream liqueur. It is fresh and smooth, with a creamy consistency complemented with tones of vanilla and caramel. Amarula Cream is best enjoyed over ice or as the perfect complement to coffee or hot chocolate and in a wide range of cocktails. We wish all competitors the best of luck and all patrons an enjoyable week! Good Curling!! Sponsor of the Day Page 9 Meet the Sweet Sixteen The Cool Curling playdowns get underway today at 4:30 pm in the HeartStop Lounge. The field of 16 will be pared down to th ...

Page 10 HeartChart Hearts are trump this week, thanks to Soo?s volunteer spirit Jim Cronin HeartChart Columnist Sandra Randa, the local chair of the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, has no plans to put her feet up after the closing ceremonies on Sunday. As a matter of fact, Randa, who has been working day and night for the past two years on this event, will be among the volunteers at the Soo Curlers club bright and early Monday morning helping with the heavy lifting as the HeartStop Lounge is dismantled and the building is returned to a curling rink. As she looks back over the last two years of the Scotties project, she credits the 450 volunteers who put in thousands of hours with the success of the event. ?Many of those volunteers, maybe 30 per cent, are curlers, but wanted to be involved in supporting this national event,? she says. And many of those volunteers took time off their regular jobs to devote themselves to making the Scotties a success. Randa also gives credit to the Ca ...