Mission Statement
ALBERTA FLOOR CURLING ASSOCIATION
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To maintain a network of support for floor curling for seniors in Alberta; providing opportunities to participate in safe and healthy physical activity, in a social atmosphere of friendly competition, acceptance, courtesy, and respect.
Alberta Floor Curling Association (AFCA) is a nonprofit society, incorporated in 1988, by its Founder, Aimé Auger, who envisioned that the game of floor curling should be a province wide activity.
AFCA is an entity.
It is the sum of all its member curling clubs and subsequently all these clubs' members. Without member clubs, there would be no association. The association is currently composed of 22 clubs, comprising of approximately 400+ individual members, distributed amongst these member clubs. Each member club hosts 2 AFCA sanctioned tournaments a year.
The sole purpose of the Association is to benefit its members.
AFCA is governed by a Volunteer Board of Directors. An Annual General Meeting is held every September - October. Any member may attend the Annual General Meeting. The Board of Directors up for election are determined at this time and then the Board determines the Executives at their next meeting. Directors have 3 year terms and Executives have 1 year terms.
Association's Objective
To promote and encourage participation in the game of floor curling in Alberta, particularly, but not exclusively, by seniors; seniors do represent 80% of our members! The motto of AFCA is to have fun!!! Play fair and play safe!! Winning is a bonus!
WHY FLOOR CURL ...No ice required!
Floor curlers slide wooden rocks across a freshly waxed floor, and hopefully the rock ends up where the skip requests, just as in a regular curling game. Floor curling is almost identical to the more familiar on-ice curling, but there are no sweepers and an eight-end game usually takes about 45 minutes.
And floor curling provides for a safe alternative to ice curling and it's great for the over 50 crowd in particular. Whereas the fear of slipping and falling might deter some seniors from taking up the sport of regular curling on ice, floor curling provides the same competitive - and friendly - experience in a more accessible form. Individuals who cannot crouch down to throw, or who are in wheelchairs, can use a push stick to throw their "rock", making the game adaptable to each curler's comfort level.
Floor curling is still competitive, it is exercise, and it is an outing. It is a great way to meet lots of people you might not otherwise meet. And the best part of all - it's fun!