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Jean Mills, Writer & Curler. Also tweeting at @jeanmillswriter. Former Curling Canada Writer/Editor Media & Communications team. YA Author #IReadCanadian 🇨🇦
Ontario, Canada
Joined October 2009
Mixed Doubles warmups with some familiar faces… .@GuelphCurling .@kirkmuyres @crockerwalker @RHoman89 (Brendan - what’s your @?) .#curling
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Spent many hours on the @CurlingCanada media bench (aka my kitchen table) covering 🇨🇦 teams around the world. Who needs streaming? The suspense between @worldcurling screen refreshes is awesome! @TeamGushue @TeamHoman
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From my writerly life. I love when writing and #curling intersect! Congrats to the Fergus Curling Club (the oldest continuously operating curling club in Ontario) on your 190th anniversary. @CurlOntario @CurlingCanada
wellingtonadvertiser.com
FERGUS – When the road in front of the tavern that stood at the corner of St. Andrew and Tower streets in Fergus froze over way back in 1834, owner Hugh Black decided the only thing to do was set up...
@WellyAdvertiser Fun Fact: 15 years ago I was asked by the Fergus Curling Club to put together a book celebrating its 175th. Such a fun project! (And does everyone know the sheets at FCC are not numbered 1,2,3,4? Nope, they're 1,8,3,4, of course!) #curling #trycurling
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A million years ago when I wrote stories for @CurlingCanada this was one of my faves. Team Howard's curling camp showed how much Glenn & team loved the game & its people. We'll miss you on the ice, @howardfour!
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The spine-tingling #curling memory that will stay with me forever @TeamGushue Thank you! (And then we all followed it up with that party in The Patch. ).
When @BradGushue asked buddy to sing #OdeToNewfoundland at the medal presentation at #brier2017 #magic
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Fun Fact: 4 #STOH2024 curlers competed against each other at the 2015 Canada Winter Games - Bayly Scoffin (YT), Dezaray Hawes (BC), Karlee Burgess (MB-J) & Kira Brunton (ON-I), who won gold with NO. Yay for 🇨🇦youth curling development! @BryanMudryk @TSNCurling @CurlingCanada
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Sentimentally transported back to my days on the Curling Canada media bench: long days in a cold arena, followed by late nights in a hotel room, getting media prepared & posted. Ten days of bedlam & bad eating. I loved every minute! (Especially the people!)
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An article on Performance Marketing World website analyzes the success of the @bet365 marketing campaign using curling. Okay. But not crazy about the language used: "strange Winter Olympic Sport" & "such an odd little sport." .Sigh.
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We’ve come so far, but what fun to look back, right??.@EinarsonTeam @TeamHoman .@TeamKLawes .@TeamJJonesCurl.@TeamMcCarville .@CurlingCanada.
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RT @CurlingCanada: Have you heard of Triples Curling yet? It's a new version of the game that's gaining popularity across Canada! . Read al….
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Yup. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #curlingislife.
Who agrees that “Curling is life”?. This handle was engraved long before Ted Lasso’s Dani Rojas declared that “Football is life”. #curling #life #schenectady #curlingstone #quote
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In the town where I learned how to curl (in a cozy 2-sheeter), curling history is strong - and makes its way into the weekly paper, too. (Also, you can't make this stuff up. ) #curling #grassroots
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Hey! I remember this event @TeamGushue! (Found this forgotten treasure in my old parka pocket) #1
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Actually I was REALLY multitasking! Yes, @TeamKevinKoe vs @TeamMDunstone was on my other screen, on mute, just out of view … 🥌 #Brier2023 @TSNCurling.
It’s @canscaip meeting night (talking #kidlit non-fiction with @HeatherCamlot @JGCanada @nataliehyde &Lindsey Carmichael) and I am once again #multitasking #knitting #tea
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There’s a storm building out there, but it’s @TeamGushue on @TSNCurling and the thermos is full (just in case - tea a necessity) and the next week is all #Brier2023 so, yeah, I’m good! #OnStorm
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From the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, NS (where @TeamKevinKoe's Tyler Tardi won gold for Canada). Kinda says it all. #CurlingDayInCanada
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My FB memory today: Scotties final in Kingston between ON @TeamHoman and MB @TeamJJonesCurl (2013 versions, of course) in front of a noisy home crowd. #curlingmemories
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Fun Fact: Former 🇨🇦 Youth Olympians competing at 2023 Scotties/Brier include MB Karlee Burgess (gold), AB @TardiParty (gold), BC Sterling Middleton (gold), YT Thomas Scoffin (bronze) & NL Nathan Young (gold - Mixed Doubles). Growing the game from the grassroots! (Photo: IOC)
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