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By Curtis Galbraith

Curling

Curling update: Grand Slam resumes, International flavour at Slave Lake Cash

Nov 5, 2019 | 4:30 AM

Pictou, Nova Scotia is hosting the second Grand Slam of Curling event of the season this week.

Play at the Tour Challenge starts today.

Team Gushue, with Beaverlodge’s Geoff Walker at lead, will open play in Draw 1 at 4 p.m. Alberta time today against Kingston, Ontario’s Scott McDonald.

Former Grande Prairie resident Kevin Koe will lead his team into its first game at 9 a.m. Wednesday our time against Winnipeg’s Mike McEwan.

On the women’s side, Team Scheidegger, which includes Grande Prairie’s Cary Ann McTaggart and Kristie Moore, starts play Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. Alberta time against Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg.

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Amber Holland is filling in at skip while Casey Scheidegger awaits the birth of her second child.

Team Karsten Sturmay, which includes Dawson Creek products Tristan Steinke and Jason Ginter, is on the men’s Tier 2 side of the draw.

They also start Wednesday against the Chad Stevens rink from Truro, Nova Scotia.

Chinese rinks coming to Slave Lake

There will be some international flavour in the third stop of the Peace Curling Tour this weekend.

Two teams from China will be among the more than 20 rinks playing in the Slave Lake Petroleum Association Cash Spiel Friday through Sunday.

This will be the first time Slave Lake has hosted a Peace Curling Tour event.

The Tour has two more stops, Dawson Creek and Fort St. John, before the Tour Championship in January in Sexsmith.