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Working Red Deer hard for Curling Classic success LOCAL SWIMMER BACK INTO TRAINING AFTER WINNING MEDALS IN L.A. BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF There’s no off-season for one of Red Deer’s most decorated swimmers. Not long after Elliott Moskowy returned with three gold medals and a silver from the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles, he delved straight back into training – four days at the pool and two days in the gym. It’s a way of life for the competitive swimmer who has been making waves in the pool for more than 11 years. Competing in the Worlds was a dream come true for the 24-year-old. “It was unforgettable,” said Moskowy. “It was breathtaking. I say it was the high point of my entire history as a competitive swimmer.” Moskowy qualified for the Worlds last August after the Canada Summer Games in Vancouver. His impressive medal collection includes five gold medals from the Alberta Summer Games in 2010; four gold medals and a silver medal from the Canada Western Summer Games in 2011; six gold medals in the Special Olympic Spring Games in 2013 and two gold medals and three silver medals from the Canada Summer Games in 2013. This year he took home two bronze and a silver from the Western Summer Games in Wood Buffalo. “I just love the adrenaline that I get when I swim,” said Moskowy. “I love the thrill of the race and it makes me feel like I am improving with new lesson and practice and every new accomplishment that I make in my races.”

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Grace MacInnes of Team Gushulak releases her stone as Sandra Comadina, left, and Jessie Sanderson take over during the Red Deer Curling Classic at the Pidherney Centre on Saturday. The classic drew in teams from across western Canada, as well as China, Japan and Switzerland. See related story on Page b2.

RDC english instructors release novels BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Two Red Deer College English instructors have released novels that could not be any more different. In Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother, firsttime novelist Hollie Adams writes about a woman who is dealing with the loss of her mother from cancer. Poet Jenna Butler writes in her first book of essays A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail about her experiences on a small farm. The two English instructors will launch their books together at a RDC reading from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov.18. Adams held a book launch on Friday at Sunworks. Butler will have a reading at Sunworks in late-November. Adams’ novel stemmed from a short story in a creative writing class at the University of Windsor about 10 years ago. She began working on it when her own mother had a cancer scare. Adams said her mother is cancer free today. After she finished the short story, she was encouraged to develop the story further into a novel. “I was writing about a character whose mother was not cancer-free and had to deal with that,” said Adams, 28. “My mother didn’t want to talk about it. So I started thinking about how I would deal with that. Thankfully nothing really tragic had happened in my life at that point. I had no idea how I would react. I imagine I would have reacted in a very strange way which is how my character reacts to the death of her mother. She didn’t want to deal with it. She refuses to grieve.” Adams, in her second year at RDC, said her novel is a comedy that deals with death and grieving and would appeal to young adults. In her collection of 18 essays, Butler steps away from her genre to write about her life of “going back to the land.” Butler, 34, is the author of three poetry books. She has received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award, and the James

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Author and Red Deer College English instructor Jenna Butler with her just published book titled Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail A Profession of Hope. Patrick Folinsbee Prize for her work. Butler and her husband bought a small off the grid farm north of Barrhead where they spend their summers and run a market garden. Butler, who hails from England and her husband, who is from Holland, wanted to connect to the story of the land. “Our parents are not farmers and we didn’t inherit farms,” she said. “We wanted to join that group of small farm movement. We literally started with a quarter section and an axe. Now we have our market garden and we are going to be getting into livestock

in the next few years. We just started keeping bees. It literally has been learning everything as you go. She said her essays are about building home from the ground up. Butler teaches creative and eco-criticism in literature. Her next book, expected to be out next year, is about women and beekeeping. For more information on both authors and to purchase the books visit www.newestpress.com. Both books are available now at Sunworks. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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