[Mpls] Iced out

2001-12-26 Thread Steve Brandt

It's quiet out there.  Too quiet.
My neighborhood's ice rink isn't ready yet.
How about yours?

Steve Brandt
Skating on thin ice in Kingfield
  
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Re: [Mpls] Iced out

2001-12-26 Thread dsndrs

We're told that Pearl Park won't open for skating until Jan. 1 (because
the ground wasn't frozen earlier).
Dick Saunders
Diamond Lake


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Re: [Mpls] Iced out

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Riese

According to my friend Tim Rosener who is working at Matthews Park this
year again, the rink at Matthews will open officially on Saturday(?) All
day he was putting layers of water on the field. He said we could skate
on it but, it's kind of choppy. 

I can't wait to get back out there and put the broken leg blues to rest.
Rollerblading is fun but, nowhere near as precise as ice skating. I'm
excited to skate outdoors on ice again.


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Re: [Mpls] Iced out

2001-12-26 Thread Annie Young

Mother Nature is not cooperating with having the ice rinks open... sorry
some things cannot be controlled.  We're ready - Mother Nature does not seem
to be.

Annie Young
Citywide Park Board Commissioner

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Subject: [Mpls] Iced out


 It's quiet out there.  Too quiet.
 My neighborhood's ice rink isn't ready yet.
 How about yours?

 Steve Brandt
 Skating on thin ice in Kingfield

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Re: [Mpls] Iced out

2001-12-26 Thread Annie Young

Well - let me put  my hands up for you to put nails in them - but I have a
hard time every day finding the cost of opening /or closing our rinks as a
very serious budget consideration as each day carries on.  On the ice story,
we (the Mpls Park and Recreation Board) find the most useful period of time
to have ice up and running is during the Holiday School Break and
Holiday/celebratory season.  There are many different holidays celebrated by
the over 80 nations represented in Mpls so at some point it becomes Winter -
90 days give or take at the beginning or end.  It cost us money to set these
up - maintain them, run them, security and all that---
and then there is the question about rinks on ball fields which really
doesn't happen too much anymore but never-the-less   maintaining ice - tell
me about it?
Now,  before all of you sports/hockey folks yell at me - please
tell me, how am I suppposed to justify cost versus use and efficiency? For
something that is not very many days of the year.
And then should we talk about ice fishing - when the ice is thin -
Please do not go out on the lakes yet.
Responses welcome,
Annie Young
Mpls /city wide park Board Commisioner
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To: Steve Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Iced out


 We're told that Pearl Park won't open for skating until Jan. 1 (because
 the ground wasn't frozen earlier).
 Dick Saunders
 Diamond Lake


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