Curling Canada awards 20 scholarships to youth

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Curling Canada has awarded 20 scholarships, including to Sudbury's Justine Toner, who will study nursing at Queen's University, and North Bay's Riley Winters, heading to Laurentian U. Both received the Fran Todd All Heart Scholarship for embodying curling's values.

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