As early as it may seem, this is our last week of skating at the Etobicoke Speed Skating Club. We’ll be skating Tuesday and Thursday, and then that’s it until December 2010.
Our end of the season fete will be on Thursday night. After we come off the ice at 8:15 pm, Ken and Eva will be treating us to pizza. If you’re able to bring any goodies, I’m sure they’ll get eaten too!
Please remember to return your club skates to the skate locker on the last evening you skate.
In other news, this was the first weekend in over a month that the ice at Grenadier Pond hasn't been skate-worthy. The ice has been truly awesome. Thanks go to Neil, Jim, Dave and Dolly for their yeoman shovelling to maintain the oval that we've been enjoying.
it seems totally ridiculous that our City doesn't capitalize on the Pond as a tourist attraction during WinterCIty Festival! Instead they post "Ice Unsafe" signs and ask the police to waste their time kicking people off the Pond when there's a foot of solid clear ice.
Now that the Olympics are on, I've been getting a number of inquiries from people interested in speed skating. I expect there'll be several new faces this week, and quite a few new skaters joining us next season.
That's all for now, the third period of the Canada-USA hockey game is starting!
