Associated Press

U.S. curler Chris Plys will appear on a new reality show and try to win some cash to get his family to the 2010 Olympics, including his ill father.

Plys, an alternate on the men’s curling team for the Vancouver Games, will be part of “Bank of Hollywood” on the E! network. The eight-episode show, produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions, is scheduled to debut Dec. 14. Celebrity judges will award their own money to the participants seeking it, with a minimum of $2,000.

The 22-year-old Plys, who won the world junior title in 2008 and was the youngest …

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Ever since Nicole Joraanstad graduated from Kentridge High in 1999 and moved to Madison, Wisc., she hasn’t had many reasons to return to the Northwest.

She picked the University of Wisconsin to study business, her parents – Gary and Debra -moved to Mississippi then Ohio and Joraanstad spends her spare time curling.

But in February she earned a reason to return to the Northwest when her team won the curling national championship for the fourth year in a row.

This time the national championship came with a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, making her – and her …

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