THUNDER BAY — The restaurant and bar remain open, but a structural issue in the building has frozen action on the ice at the Port Arthur Curling Club.
"We're having an issue on our ice surface with some structural things," PACC manager Don Lammi said Wednesday, adding that the club is waiting for its insurer to send an engineer to conduct an inspection.
Lammi said that, not being an engineer, at this point he doesn't know the details of the nature of the problem and is not authorized to discuss it further.
According to curlers, however, a crack was recently noticed where a structural beam joins the building's east wall, on sheet number eight.
Repairs can't be done without an inspection and clearance from the club's insurance company.
Lammi said the decision to halt curling for the time being was made "out of an abundance of caution."
A notice posted Monday on the PACC's website advises curlers that play is cancelled until March 3.
Lammi told Tbnewswatch the resumption of curling may take longer than that, depending on what the insurer decides with regard to repairs.
The good news for curlers, he said, is that "because we own our own building, if it takes a couple of weeks, then we can extend our season a couple of weeks."
In that event, the season will end at the end of April instead of mid-April.
