San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club year-round as well as various educational activities such as Learn-to-Curl sessions. In September 2017 the SFBACC announced they had signed a lease agreement for a building in Oakland with the intention of building California's only dedicated curling center. The facility will have five curling sheets and is expected to open in the fall of 2018. The SFBACC has hosted the Golden Gate Bonspiel annually each spring during Memorial Day weekend since 2008. The tournament is held at Solar4America Ice at Fremont. The club teaches Learn-to-Curl events throughout the year to expose new people to the sport. During the Winter Olympic
A Winter Book the book. Stories in "A Winter Book" include "Squirrel", in which a woman's isolated life on an island is shared for a time with a squirrel, and the last story, "Taking Leave", in which two women realise that they have become too frail to spend their summers on the island they love. "A Winter Book" is arranged in three sections, "Snow", "Flotsam and Jetsam" and "Travelling Light". Introduction by Ali Smith Snow Flotsam and Jetsam Travelling Light Afterword by Phillip Pullman A Winter Book A Winter Book is a collection of twenty short stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published