Gushue's gold brings Rock to a standstill
Newfoundlanders bask in Games glory

The party's on with no end in sight
Feb. 25, 2006. 01:00 AM
STEPHANIE PORTER
SPECIAL TO THE STAR


ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.—Let the parties begin.

Memorial University student Jason Crowley expressed the well-lubricated adoration of Canada's gold-medal curlers — four of whom hail from Newfoundland and Labrador — that energized the St. John's campus bar yesterday.

"Listen, the last time they closed the high schools for a person was when the Pope came," Crowley said, shaking a plastic beer cup. "So today, Brad Gushue is up there with the Pope."

Pope John Paul II visited St. John's in 1984. Yesterday, kids from kindergarten to Grade 12 were let out of school at noon to watch the curlers go for gold.

The streets of the capital city, silent for 2 1/2 hours and eight ends, jumped to life immediately after, filled with honking horns and flapping flags. The lively pubs of downtown St. John's were off to an early start.

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Lead Korab couldn't wait to get to return to St. John's on Tuesday for the party he knew would still be going strong.

''I think St. John's is totally going crazy, the schools, the homes, the bars,'' he said.

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