Even though she has spent most of her adult life in Toronto, where she now lives, Slone spent several of her pre-teen years living in Wolfville.
"I lived here from Grade 2 through the end of Grade 5," she said during a break in the Rogers Hometown Hockey schedule Nov. 28.
"My stepfather (Dr. Tomacz Pietrzykowski) was the Dean of the School of Computer Science at Acadia."
The family home was at 10 Linden Ave, and Slone says she has "lots of good memories" of her time in Wolfville.
"I had a more liberated childhood," she says. "I'd take off for hours on my bike and explore."
The Wolfville school alumna has "good memories of going to the Acadia Cinema to watch movies. I spent a lot of time at the Acadia pool, and learned to skate at the old arena, the one that's now a theatre."
She says she remembers Wolfville as being "a great place to grow up and be a kid."
After leaving Wolfville, Slone began pursuing classical voice training at the age of 12. At 18, she enrolled at Concordia University to study music.
While there, she dropped classical music in favour of acting and rock music.She has also worked as a solo performer as well as an actress.
"I came off the road full-time in 2007 and started working in TV for Sun Media in Toronto,” and then moved on to Breakfast Television at CityTV in Calgary in 2010.
View a slideshow from the weekend here.
Work at the Rogers affiliate led to taking her lifelong love of sports to a gig with Sportsnet in Alberta.
When Rogers obtained the rights to broadcast National Hockey League games, Slone got a peek at a rough sketch of planned programming.
"They were going to be doing Rogers Hometown Hockey, a community-oriented show that moved across the country."
Slone was immediately interested.
"I love telling stories, I love meeting people, and I love hockey. It was a bit of a process, but now I'm here."
She started doing Hometown Hockey while still doing Breakfast Television.
“I got to do probably half the shows last year and, this year, became full-time,” Slone said. It’s "a pretty cool job, with a lot of 'pinch-me' moments. I'm at the desk, I look across and Ron MacLean is sitting next to me. I ask myself, 'how did this happen?'"
Of Maclean, she said, "I really enjoy working with him. He's exactly the same in person as he is on the air. It's an absolute gift to be able to work with him, watch him and learn from him."
Even though she has spent most of her adult life in Toronto, where she now lives, Slone spent several of her pre-teen years living in Wolfville.
"I lived here from Grade 2 through the end of Grade 5," she said during a break in the Rogers Hometown Hockey schedule Nov. 28.
"My stepfather (Dr. Tomacz Pietrzykowski) was the Dean of the School of Computer Science at Acadia."
The family home was at 10 Linden Ave, and Slone says she has "lots of good memories" of her time in Wolfville.
"I had a more liberated childhood," she says. "I'd take off for hours on my bike and explore."
The Wolfville school alumna has "good memories of going to the Acadia Cinema to watch movies. I spent a lot of time at the Acadia pool, and learned to skate at the old arena, the one that's now a theatre."
She says she remembers Wolfville as being "a great place to grow up and be a kid."
After leaving Wolfville, Slone began pursuing classical voice training at the age of 12. At 18, she enrolled at Concordia University to study music.
While there, she dropped classical music in favour of acting and rock music.She has also worked as a solo performer as well as an actress.
"I came off the road full-time in 2007 and started working in TV for Sun Media in Toronto,” and then moved on to Breakfast Television at CityTV in Calgary in 2010.
View a slideshow from the weekend here.
Work at the Rogers affiliate led to taking her lifelong love of sports to a gig with Sportsnet in Alberta.
When Rogers obtained the rights to broadcast National Hockey League games, Slone got a peek at a rough sketch of planned programming.
"They were going to be doing Rogers Hometown Hockey, a community-oriented show that moved across the country."
Slone was immediately interested.
"I love telling stories, I love meeting people, and I love hockey. It was a bit of a process, but now I'm here."
She started doing Hometown Hockey while still doing Breakfast Television.
“I got to do probably half the shows last year and, this year, became full-time,” Slone said. It’s "a pretty cool job, with a lot of 'pinch-me' moments. I'm at the desk, I look across and Ron MacLean is sitting next to me. I ask myself, 'how did this happen?'"
Of Maclean, she said, "I really enjoy working with him. He's exactly the same in person as he is on the air. It's an absolute gift to be able to work with him, watch him and learn from him."
