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“MY GOAL IS TO MAKE IT AT LEAST

TO WORLD’S, MAYBE EVEN THE

OLYMPICS.”

Julia Esakof, 13-year-old igure skater

ed the luxury of bleachers around the “What I like is teaching kids, teach-
rink for a few years after it opened.
ing people, how to skate,” she said.
Interest in igure skating grew, she And at 82, that’s no small feat. Car-

said, and in 1993 Carol founded the ol sufered a concussion in the spring
Whiteish Figure Skating Club, which of 2012 after slipping, so she’s taking it
is now a member of the U.S. Figure easy these days, but refuses to stay of
Skating Association, and has put on an the ice. One doctor said she should give
annual performance ever since.
it up, Carol said, but another said it was
“I’ve skated in every show for 20 up to her.
years,” she said.
“At the end of it, I decided I’m going
Goodwin said Carol’s dedication to for it,” she said.

the program and to skating is second In town where there wasn’t even
to none. She free skates three or four an indoor rink, there are now Olympic
times a week, and will gravitate to- skating dreams, thanks to Carol.
ward anyone looking like they’re hav- “She started the igure skating
ing some trouble and give them some club here when it was an outdoor rink.
pointers.
Some clubs struggle, but she kept it
Carol said one of the most reward- going,” Goodwin said. “Without her,

ing experiences she’s had was seeing a there probably wouldn’t be a club.”
young man struggling to skate, ofering For more information on the
to help him, and then learning he was Glacier Skate International Train-
a military veteran who had just got- ing Academy and the Whiteish Fig-
ten out of service in Iraq and wanted ure Skating Club, visit www.glacier-
to cross learning to skate of his bucket skateacademy.org.
Continues
list.
[email protected]
Julia Esakof, 13, practices with the Glacier Skate Academy at the Stumptown Ice Den.
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