P: BC’s best wheelchair curlers compete in Langley – Langley Advance

array( '1.head' => 'BC’s best wheelchair curlers compete in Langley – Langley Advance', '2.body' => array( '1.section' => array( '1.div' => array( '1.header' => array( '1.div' => 'Langley played host to the BC Wheelchair Curling Championships last January, and again this year. The action gets underway first thing Friday morning and wraps up with the finals Sunday morning at Langley Curling Centre. (Black Press files)', '2.h2' => 'BC’s best wheelchair curlers compete in Langley', '3.p' => 'A three-day provincial championship gets underway at Langley Curling Centre on Friday.', '4.ul' => 'Jan. 3, 2019 2:30 p.m.', ), '2.div' => array( '1.p' => 'Langley is ready to host the provincial wheelchair curling championship starting tomorrow.', '2.p' => 'Langley Curling Centre will be the site of a number of B.C.’s best wheelchair curlers this weekend for the 2019 BC Wheelchair Curling Championship.', '3.p' => 'Three teams will be competing from Friday, Jan. 4 to 6 for the title of best in B.C.: Richmond’s Team Neighbour (Darryl Neighbour, Bob MacDonald, Gary Cormack, Janice Ing), Quesnel’s Team Duddy (Alison Duddy, Frank LaBounty, Ellis Tull, Vince Miele), and Kelowna, Langley, Marpole and Richmond’s Team Austgarden (Gerry Austgarden, Rick Robinson, Tracy Boyd, Marney Smithies).', '4.p' => 'The three competing skips are all former B.C. and Canadian champions.', '5.p' => 'Neighbour, Duddy, and Austgarden have all won the BC Wheelchair Curling Championships various times during the past 14 years.', '6.p' => 'They also have experience playing together on the same team, most recently winning the 2015 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship along with Frank LaBounty.', '7.p' => 'In addition, Neighbour is a two-time world champion (2009, 2011) and he, Austgarden,and Cormack have all won Paralympic gold (Austgarden and Cormack in 2006, Neighbour in 2010).', '8.p' => 'Round-robin play begins on Friday Jan. 4 at 9 a.m.', '9.p' => 'The finals take place on Sunday Jan. 6 at 10 a.m.', '10.p' => 'This season, Curling Canada is piloting a 14-team Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship. The 14 teams will include those from 10 member associations committed to sending a team (of which B.C. is one), a host team, and the top-three-ranked teams from 2018.', '11.p' => 'As B.C. won bronze at the 2018 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship, B.C. will be sending two teams (the top two teams from the 2019 BC Wheelchair Curling Championship) to compete at the 2019 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship in Boucherville, Que. from April 26 to May 1.', '12.p' => 'Live scores, schedules,and standings from the 2019 BC Wheelchair Curling Championship will be available at playdowns.curlbc.ca.', '13.p' => 'The event is free for spectators to attend at the George Preston Recreation Centre, 208th Street and 42nd Avenue in the Brookswood neighbourhood of Langley.', ), ), '2.div' => array( '1.div' => array( '1.div' => 'Kerryann Lewis now faces first- rather than second-degree murder in the death of Aaliyah Rosa.', '2.div' => 'Farm Country Brewing is currently under construction and is planned to open in summer 2019.', '3.div' => 'Members decide which courses and activities are offered at the Brookswood Seniors Centre.', '4.div' => 'Funding to get SkyTrain to Langley City could come from not undergrounding Vancouver’s extension.', '5.div' => 'A Maple Ridge letter writer is critical of Hillary Clinton’s comments about the shutdown.', '6.div' => 'At issue is a BuzzFeed News report that about negotiations over a Moscow real estate project', '7.div' => 'Young Vancouver goalie makes 36 saves to turn away Buffalo', '8.div' => 'Kelowna fire crews responded to a blaze at Pope’sGallery of BC Art & Photography on Friday', '9.div' => 'Automated vehicle demos are being offered, as the two cities plan pilot projects with the shuttles', '10.div' => 'Celestial event happens only three times this century', '11.div' => 'The fire at the 150-year-old Murray United Church in Merritt was considered a possible hate crime', '12.div' => '58-year-old Stuart David Duff was last seen on Jan. 6, 2019.', '13.div' => 'Wayne Belleville was shocked to see a letter addressed to him from his shooter, Ronald Teneycke', '14.div' => 'Tribunal rejects bid to recoup ICBC costs after crash deemed 100-per-cent his fault', ), '2.div' => array( '1.h3' => 'Most Read', '2.ul' => array( '1.li' => 'Young Vancouver goalie makes 36 saves to turn away Buffalo', '2.li' => 'Farm Country Brewing is currently under construction and is planned to open in summer 2019.', '3.li' => 'Kerryann Lewis now faces first- rather than second-degree murder in the death of Aaliyah Rosa.', '4.li' => 'Statistics Canada says inflation accelerated to two per cent in December', '5.li' => 'Veteran shark diver doesn’t think the general public should recklessly get into the water with the giants', '6.li' => 'Cornelius earned his first senior cap for Canada in September 2018', '7.li' => 'MP Mark Warawa has devoted several years to public service.', ), ), ), ), '2.div' => array( '1.div' => 'Explore Langley Advance', '2.div' => array( 1 => 2019,', 2 => 'Langley Advance and', ), ), ), )