Inaugural Cornhole Season a Huge Success

What a fantastic inaugural season from May 1 to July 31st. It wouldn’t have happened without our amazing advertisers: Allen Insurance, Drummond Motors, Campbellford Wholesale, Snapshots, Barretts, Thompson’s, Master Submarine, Peculiar Platypus, Stapley Towing, Exhaust Plus. Bob Mark New Holland, Focal Brewing, TransCanada Nissan, The Wine Barrel 2, Vantill Tree Care. 

With their support, we began the cornhole season $500 to the good before even throwing a bag! No Club money was used to launch this new endeavour. The mission of this start up was to bring additional funds to the Club, make use of the empty ice surface and hopefully alleviate the need for so many rentals. It was a bonus to have so many non-members enjoying the leagues.

We were able to run two separate leagues - a morning league and an evening league, with both full from the start. A huge plus was the fact that over half of the players were not members of the Club, so we were able to show off the facility and encourage new memberships. On that note, at least two players are now signing up for curling this winter!

Everyone enjoyed the leagues and it was obvious from the cheers, groans and shouts during play. The season was capped off with a bbq and fun tournament. A survey completed on the final day cemented the success of the league. Everyone was happy with the format, social aspect and league day/evening offerings.

The cornhole committee of Jerry Reid, Eunice Stapley, Bob Hemming and Jackie Igleheart worked tirelessly to get this off the ground and are very confident that with some additional marking and focus for next season, there should be another evening league filled. The inital forecast of $10K in revenue was met, with the bar taking $4K and the entry fees and draw brought in $6K. 

 The committee can't wait to get started for the 2024 season!