| Article from Barrietoday.com |
| Your eyes weren’t deceiving you if you thought you saw Jennifer Jones cruising around the local area, be it at local golf courses, curling rinks, or partaking in the minutiae of daily life. |
| Jones is generally accepted as the greatest female curler of all time, one of the country’s most notable female athletes and an icon in her sport in both her home province of Manitoba and Canada. |
| Jones has lived in the Barrie area with her family for several years. In fact, she sounds an awful lot like so many transplanted locals who now make the area home. |
| “I’m a very proud Manitoban,” Jones tells BarrieToday, “and it took me a while (to decide to move here), but I have to say that we live in pretty much the best area to live. |
| “You have the lakes (of cottage country) nearby, Toronto is just an hour so down the highway. … It’s a great place to be and to live.” |
| Jones, 47, and her husband, fellow curler Brent Laing, have two daughters. Their life is a dizzying whirl raising two kids, keeping sharp on the ice, and keeping up with professional obligations. A trained lawyer, Jones works as a legal advisor and Laing has a senior role with World Financial Group. |
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| Life is busy, especially in a pandemic that has added extra layers of preparation and caution. Jones has been able to stay in game shape using the Alliston Curling Club as her base. |
| “They have been great to us and (managed) to keep great ice in since COVID,” said Jones, who occasionally uses the Barrie Curling Club to train/practise in so-called normal times. |
