{"id":8030,"date":"2024-12-28T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2024-12-28T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T19:40:22","slug":"meet-the-ice-maker-curling-canadas-greg-ewasko-in-liverpool-for-mixed-doubles-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/12\/28\/meet-the-ice-maker-curling-canadas-greg-ewasko-in-liverpool-for-mixed-doubles-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the ice maker: Curling Canada&#8217;s Greg Ewasko in Liverpool for mixed doubles trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8032\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8032\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gregewasko-1024x627.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gregewasko-1024x627.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gregewasko-768x471.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gregewasko-1536x941.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gregewasko-2048x1255.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Ewasko is the head ice technician for Curling Canada. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials are set to begin in Liverpool at Queens Place Emera Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The competition runs from Dec. 30 to Jan. 4. It will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/12\/12\/whos-who-in-curling-to-be-in-liverpool-for-canadian-mixed-doubles-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 teams vying to represent Canada<\/a> at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Tickets are still available at Queens Place or <a href=\"https:\/\/mdctqpec.ticketpro.ca\/en\/pages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through Ticketpro<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Practices, which are open to the public, began on Saturday. And the opening ceremonies are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Sunday at Queens Place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But before all of that, specialized curling ice had to be installed at Queens Place, with help from some local volunteers. QCCR spoke to the man who made it happen, Curling Canada\u2019s head ice technician Greg Ewasko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s part of that conversation below.<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8030-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/curlingicedec2824.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/curlingicedec2824.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/curlingicedec2824.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials are set to begin in Liverpool at Queens Place Emera Centre. The competition runs from Dec. 30 to Jan. 4. It will see 16 teams vying to represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Tickets are still available at Queens Place or through Ticketpro. Practices, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2711,2265,390,2277,2750,2752,2751,39,1699,2663,351,1626,686],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-curling","tag-curling-canada","tag-greg-ewasko","tag-ice","tag-ice-maker","tag-liverpool","tag-mixed-doubles-curling","tag-olympic-trials","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-sports","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}