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Nam Nguyen: Growing is Believing

September 23, 2019 By Beverley 2 Comments

Somehow Nam Nguyen has grown to be 5-foot-11, sometime after that bustling childhood, when as a tiny one, he set all sorts of records: youngest to be pre-juvenile, juvenile, novice, and junior champion of Canada. Now he’s 21. At 20, he finally began to find his footing in matters other than physical growth, all of […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Beatles, Blues for Klook, Mary Anglea Larmer, Nam Nguyen, Robert Burk, Stars On Iceue

Hardly Birds of a Feather

August 26, 2019 By Beverley 1 Comment

Ever see the internet photos of the cats curled up with canaries, cozy and all? Fawns and owls cavorting happily with dogs? Chimpanzees stroking kittens? Heifers licking up turtles with long tongues, happy as clams? Count Nam Nguyen, the son of Vietnamese boat people and Keegan Messing, man of the north woods, in with those […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alaska, Donald Jackson, Keegan Messing, Nam Nguyen, North York Summer Skate, Robert Burk, Toronto

Nam Nguyen: In The Driver’s Seat

August 26, 2018 By Beverley 2 Comments

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  Amble into the Scotiabank Pond arena complex for a mid-August Skate Ontario summer competition, and a voice from a corner rings out greetings. It’s Nam Nguyen, and he’s helping to set up the displays for the Figure Skating Boutique booth. Really? Yes, really. The 20-year-old former Canadian champion (2015) has got a job, working […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian championship, Frank Sinatra, La La Land, Nam Nguyen, Robert Burk

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