Jean Mills, Writer & Curler. Also tweeting at @jeanmillswriter. Former Curling Canada Writer/Editor Media & Communications team. YA Author #IReadCanadian 🇨🇦
Ontario, Canada
Joined October 2009
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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
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 ow.ly/XsY650TeQ4P
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! curling.ca/blog/2013/10/11/t…
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. performancemarketingworld.co…
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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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Grassroots Curling retweeted
Have you heard of Triples Curling yet? It's a new version of the game that's gaining popularity across Canada!
Read all Triples Curling and Saskatchewan's success in implementing it at the youth level ➡️ curling.ca/blog/2023/07/13/d…
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)
