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Lace up the skates PAGE 54

With Olympic

Games Arriving,

Curling Interest

Spikes

Five years later, Montana’s irst
curling club remains swept up in

fun inside Stumptown Ice Den

By DILLON TABISH of the Beacon
W
HITEFISH — Every four years, about the time the
Winter Olympics approaches, national interest spikes
around a peculiar game on ice.
The tactical, gliding game of curling, similar to bowling Jack Minnich, president of
and shuleboard and nicknamed “Chess on Ice,” has slid into the Whiteish Curling Club,
America’s winter sports psyche over the past decade. It’s no- pictured at the Stumptown
where near approaching the level of fervor that it has in Can-
Ice Den.

GREG LINDSTROM
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