Be ready to lace up the skates for outdoor skating in the summer months, not just winter.
City leisure Services Director Bill Samborski announced Monday a new artificial ice surface will be built on Rotary Plaza in front of the CUplex.
"There will be wonderful skating through the hot summer months," said Samborski at the meeting.
It will be a synthetic ice surface that will be built onto cement that will allow for skating to be available year-round.
"There's no maintenance, no flooding. It's pretty cool," Samborski said.
The ice rink is coming about, said Samborski, thanks to a generous donation from the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs CDC fund.
The City is checking into getting as big a size as they can for the money available, which is $62,000.
"I'm not aware of anywhere in our province that provides that opportunity to its community," Samborski said.
Samborski said the surface will not likely be installed in time for Festival of Trees, but will be there "as soon as we can."
There had been talk about setting up an ice rink at Rotary Plaza for a while. The City looked into flooding the area for ice skating, and Mayor Ian Hamilton said administration had been talking about "making skating available there in some fashion."
"It's certainly welcome news and I think it will be a great uptake in the community to use that facility." Hamilton said the new synthetic ice rink will be a "good healthy thing to promote in our community, and healthy communities are prosperous communities. "
