{"id":27659,"date":"2023-01-26T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=27659"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:57:30","slug":"russell-welcomes-scottish-curling-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/en\/sports-loisirs\/russell-welcomes-scottish-curling-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell welcomes Scottish curling teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Pierre Leroux of Russell Township has sent out a press release notifying residents that five Scottish curling teams will be visiting the township to compete in the Strathcona Cup next week. The world\u2019s oldest international men\u2019s curling bonspiel, the Strathcona Cup lasts an entire month and takes place once every five years.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s bonspiel brings 60 curlers from Scotland to play against Canadians in curling centres across Canada. The Russell Curling Club was chosen to host Game 28, which will be played on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an incredible honour for our community to be part of this prestigious international tradition,\u201d said Leroux in his email release. \u201cI want to extend a warm welcome our international guests. It is a pleasure to have you here for this wonderful event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five curling teams from Scotland will be visiting Russell Township near the end of the month to compete in the Strathcona Cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-loisirs"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russell welcomes Scottish curling teams - Le Reflet \/ The News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/refletnews.ca\/en\/sports-loisirs\/russell-welcomes-scottish-curling-teams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russell welcomes Scottish curling teams - 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