{"id":8094,"date":"2025-01-03T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2025-01-03T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:19:09","slug":"volunteers-vital-to-success-of-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/01\/03\/volunteers-vital-to-success-of-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials-in-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers vital to success of Canadian mixed doubles curling trials in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8096\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8096\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5448-1024x616.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5448-1024x616.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5448-768x462.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5448-1536x924.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5448-2048x1232.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Porter-Lowe, Terri Longmire and Meredith Innes are three of the more than 100 volunteers at the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in Liverpool this week. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To put on a big event like the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in a small community like Liverpool takes a lot of volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organizers have recruited more than 100 people from Queens County and elsewhere to help put on the week-long event, which wrap up with the final draw on Saturday at 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">QCCR spoke to some of the people making sure the curling trials at Queens Place Emera Centre run smoothly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8094-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/volunteerscurlingjan325.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/volunteerscurlingjan325.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/volunteerscurlingjan325.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To put on a big event like the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials in a small community like Liverpool takes a lot of volunteers. Organizers have recruited more than 100 people from Queens County and elsewhere to help put on the week-long event, which wrap up with the final draw on Saturday at 2 p.m.\u00a0 [&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":[2711,356,2779,390,2775,2753,39,2263,2776,241,351,2778,2774,1626,2777,686],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-canadian-mixed-doubles-curling-trials","tag-al-doucet","tag-bridgewater-curling-club","tag-curling","tag-donna-keans","tag-kim-thorbourne-whalen","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-championship-host-society","tag-meredith-innes","tag-nova-scotia","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-sandra-porter-lowe","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-terri-longmire","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","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=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}