News Photo by Julie Riddle Rubber bands on their shoes for safety, members of the new Thunder Bay Curling Club grimace with intensity as they steer a granite stone during a curling match Sunday afternoon. The club, which brought the ancient sport to Alpena this fall, will begin a full season in January, with inexperienced members welcome. At the Northern Lights Arena Sunday, about 20 adults concentrated on sliding and guiding stones in a chilly ice rink, the quiet broken by the scritch of brooms and the occasional celebratory whoop.

News Photo by Julie Riddle

Rubber bands on their shoes for safety, members of the new Thunder Bay Curling Club grimace with intensity as they steer a granite stone during a curling match Sunday afternoon. The club, which brought the ancient sport to Alpena this fall, will begin a full season in January, with inexperienced members welcome. At the Northern Lights Arena Sunday, about 20 adults concentrated on sliding and guiding stones in a chilly ice rink, the quiet broken by the scritch of brooms and the occasional celebratory whoop.