The Peach Kings: the town's team since 1922

The Grimsby Peach Kings play in the Provincial Junior Hockey League (PJHL), South Conference, Bloomfield Division, at the Peach King Centre (162 Livingston Avenue) — maroon, white and gold, founded 1922, with league championships listed most recently in 2024 and 2025 and Clarence Schmalz Cups in 1940, 2003, 2004, 2011 and 2012 in the club's published record. The name itself carries the town's tender-fruit heritage. The 2026–27 season is under way on published standings surfaces — the club is current, not heritage-only.

Fixture discipline, stated once for the whole page: no dated fixture is emitted as a feed event from a pattern. League-adjacent records document early 2026–27 home dates at the Peach King Centre (September 25 against Streetsville, October 2 against Port Dover) and an upcoming home date on Friday, October 9, 2026 against the Glanbrook Rangers, consistent with the club's Friday-night home pattern. Those are documented at league-adjacent grade, not staged records — confirm any given night on the PJHL's or the club's own schedule before you drive, and note Lincoln's Blades appear in the same listings as opponents, never as Grimsby captures. The minor-hockey feeder layer is the Grimsby Minor Hockey Association (Kings), OMHA-listed, on the same pads.

Curling: four sheets and a full published season

The Grimsby Curling Club, 277 Kerman Avenue (905-945-2688), is a private, member-run community club whose own place record states four sheets of ice, an 80-person licensed lounge and 350+ members — club-stated figures, printed on that basis. Its heritage is flagged, not settled: the club's Curling Day in Canada page speaks of 75 years of curling and its 2026–27 list closes with a “75th Anniversary Finale” on December 31, 2026, while a club-history description traces curling in Grimsby back to 1908 — a sport's local roots and a club's anniversary are different claims, and neither year is printed here as the club's founding year.

What is settled is the season, from the club's own events list (grimsbycurling.ca): registration ran through September with Try Curling sessions September 27–October 3, 2026; then Sponsorship Night (October 15), Open House Week and a Curling Crash Course (October 16–18), Learn to Curl (October 18), a Halloween Bonspiel (Saturday, October 31), Curl For Kids Sake (November 7–8), a Half Day Learn to Curl (November 28) and a Holiday Spiel (December 12), with a full 2027 winter list behind them (club spiels, a Juniors Bonspiel on February 13, 2027, a Family Day Fun Spiel and a Grand Finale on April 10, 2027). Those dates are the club's own published list, documented here — the feed staging of the headline pair (Learn to Curl, Halloween Bonspiel) is the closer's pass from that same surface. Leagues run from Little Rocks and U18 juniors to social and competitive play.

The youth and club bench

Soccer, baseball and the facility associations, at the grades their records earned: Grimsby Town Youth Soccer Club ran a full dated 2026 summer house league (Mini Kickers and age divisions at Southward Park, schedules via PowerUp) — with the West Niagara amalgamation proposal flagged as in transition, never asserted complete (see the families page). The Grimsby Baseball League (18 Oakes Road North on its records; divisions 5U–18U at Southward, Sherwood and Murray Street/Centennial diamonds) — its softball pointer goes to Stoney Creek Little League, a Hamilton organisation named as a pointer only. The Town's Peach King Centre reopening release names the Grimsby Basketball Association, Grimsby Volleyball Association and Grimsby Pickleball Association as facility users — existence at Town-release grade; no league fixture calendars were captured for them. An adult Grimsby Hockey League surface exists on a league-hosting platform at existence grade only. Lacrosse, slo-pitch and martial-arts league layers were not verified on a league surface this pass — documented gaps, not absences proclaimed.

And one name/seat split worth knowing: the Grimsby Plate Meet — the Tinchasers license-plate collectors' swap meet, a long-running autumn fixture that ran for years in Grimsby halls — holds its 22nd annual meet on Saturday, October 24, 2026 at the West Niagara Agricultural Centre Fairgrounds in Grassie. Grassie is in West Lincoln, so the 2026 edition is a Grimsby-named event at an out-of-town venue: recorded here for completeness, counted as West Lincoln's seat, never as a Grimsby record. No Grimsby-seated car show or recurring cruise night was verified on any surface read.

The town's run, and a school run that raised real money

Jerry's Peachbud 10K / 5K / 1K is Grimsby's mass-participation fixture, on its organiser's own surface (Niagara Running Series): the 2026 edition ran Tuesday, June 30, 2026 from Central French Immersion Public School, 5 Boulton Avenue — the former Grimsby Secondary building — with the 1K Peach Pal Kids run at 6:30 p.m., the 5K at 7:00 p.m. and the 10K at 7:30 p.m., chip-timed, expressly part of the Town's Canada Week festivities. It is past at build; no 2027 date is derived from the pattern (the organiser publishes it in spring). One venue-name variant is flagged in the records — the series page's location line shortens the school's name — and no single entry price is printed, because the registration page's figures are window-and-distance specific. The Terry Fox Foundation's own impact report singles out St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School in Grimsby (225 students; $16,742 raised) for a school run — a Grimsby school run is real and evidenced; no Grimsby community Terry Fox run site was verified, and that line is held open rather than declared negative. No Grimsby parkrun, Coldest Night, Run for the Cure or Relay for Life edition surfaced at search grade — held open the same way.

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