Battleford Arena was full of kids and their families dressed up for Halloween Monday night.
It was the family Halloween skate hosted by Skate Battlefords. This is one of a number of events they try to put on to mark holidays or special dates on the calendar, including a Christmas skate.
“We always like to celebrate the different holidays,” said Adele Sperle, board member with Skate Battlefords, who says the organization has a number of programs going on this season.
They started their Canskate program a couple of weeks ago, where the kids learn to skate and improve their ability and skill level.
“The basics are skating forward, skating backward, stopping, turning,” said coach Cindy Timoruski. They also teach how to go fast. She said it is good training for moving on to figure skating and ringette as well as hockey.
That runs twice a week and there are about 30 kids enrolled. The more advanced program is StarSkate and about 20 are enrolled there.
Those looking for more information can go to their website at SkateBattlefords.ca, or to their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/skatebattlefords/.
