Although the Nov. 15 deadline that would decide whether or not the North Shore Winter Club would toss out curling to make way for hockey has passed, no official decision has been made yet.
In October, the club announced it would transform the curling rink to accommodate hockey instead in April 2015 if 360 curlers did not sign up for a limited athletic membership by last month's deadline.
David Long, general manager of the private North Vancouver club, said they're still "looking at it," but could not give a timeline of when a decision is expected.
When the club announced the deadline, it argued that it was subsidizing public curling at the expense of its members due to an agreement it has with the North Vancouver Recreation Commission. The agreement, from the late 1990s, provided a space for public curling at the club when the commission decided to replace the curling rink at Harry Jerome Recreation Centre with the Flicka Gymnastics Club.
If the club decides to oust the curling rink, it would effectively end public curling on the North Shore as no other facility exists for it.
The athletic membership offered to the more than 500 registered curlers on the North Shore included an initial fee of $900 and a monthly rate of $113.
- with files from Andy Prest
