Representatives of nine community groups attended the all-events registration at Broda Sportsplex on September 10.
“It was very, very well attended,” said Kev Sumner, Kamsack’s recreation director. Representatives of the various groups said they had a really good response and everyone is looking forward to the fall season.
“Lots of kids were running around and seeing the groups indicated that there’s a nice mix of things to do in Kamsack, for young and older people,” he said.
Attending the registration were: John and Lisa Neima, representing the Kamsack air cadet squadron; Colleen Koroluk, the Heart and Home Quilters Club; Rachel Martinuik, the Kamsack Karate Club; Tracie Kazakoff and Julie Gareau, Kamsack Minor Hockey; Darren Kitsch, the Music Together Class; Christie DeBruyn and Chantel Kitchen, Sadok Ukrainian Dance; Kelly Salahub, Skate Kamsack; Amanda Burback and Loretta Erhardt, Togo Figure Skating Club, Valerie Ritchie, yoga, and Sumner, Kamsack recreation.
Everything is in order for the opening of the Broda Sportsplex rinks for winter recreation on October 14, Sumner said. Before that, two major events will be held: the Team Penning exhibition on Saturday, and the 17th annual Kamsack Indoor Rodeo on September 25 and 26.
Sumner remarked at how well town staff had worked in order to haul the dirt into the skating rink in eight hours. It is necessary to cover the concrete floor in the rink with several inches of dirt in order to hold the team penning and rodeo.
Mark and Gwen Foster began their second year as the rink managers on Tuesday and Greg Podovinnikoff has agreed to once again be their consultant for making the ice in the curling and skating rinks.
“We did a lot of work at the facility during the summer,” he said. Jack Erhardt was hired to paint the bleachers, the walkway and behind the goal in the skating rink and did the mezzanine floor.
A new cement pad was installed in the area under the back door where the rodeo contestants and livestock enter and leave the building, new screens were placed on doors to help dry out the building in spring and summer, and the asbestos was removed from old storage tanks, he said.
All the sports banners were taken down and cleaned and will be replaced and new flooring was installed in the curling and mezzanine bathrooms, he said, adding that a “geothermal guy” tested the facility’s system, tightened connections that had leaks and fixed the problems where pipes had frozen.
“We had a lot of little things done,” he said. “Although we did a lot of work, there’s always more to do.
