{"id":137352,"date":"2023-01-23T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=137352"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:23:18","slug":"terrace-legion-branch-13-gears-up-for-67th-bonspiel-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/terrace-legion-branch-13-gears-up-for-67th-bonspiel-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace Legion Branch 13 gears up for 67th Bonspiel weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terrace Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13 is gearing up for a big weekend which includes one of its biggest fundraisers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President of the Legion Agnes Taylor says that the Legion Bonspiel is an important annual fundraiser for the organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A portion of the money received in registration fees goes towards the dinner, breakfast, and prizes that are offered throughout the weekend, but,\u00a0 after that, the Legion normally sees between $3,000-$5,000 raised, Taylor says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year will see 32 teams throwing curling stones down the ice. Taylor says is the highest turnout they\u2019ve seen in a while. Traditionally h<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eld at the end of January, the bonspiel had one last run with 25 teams before COVID-19 restrictions were put in place in 2020. They made a return in 2022, but with just 16 teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registration is open to any team, whether competitive or recreational.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bonspiel events start on Friday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. with an opening ceremony from the Legion Colour Party, and curling commences shortly after at 7 pm. The tournament ends on Sunday, Jan. 29.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with the bonspiel, the Legion will also be hosting their meat draw and music bingo on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrace Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13 is gearing up for a big weekend which includes one of its biggest fundraisers.\u00a0 President of the Legion Agnes Taylor says that the Legion Bonspiel is an important annual fundraiser for the organization.\u00a0 A portion of the money received in registration fees goes towards the dinner, breakfast, and prizes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":137358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,204],"tags":[22708,17753,9280,22709,2699,22707],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137352"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137376,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\/revisions\/137376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137352"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=137352"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=137352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}