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Originally Posted by Jayems
Almost all of it is for rinks.
$40 mil to upgrade existing facilities
$14 mil for 2 new sheets of ice at south fish creek
$20 mil for 4 new rinks at COP (2 hockey, 2 training)
Few more, don't have my info in front right now.
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There's a new facility going in in Saddleridge. IIRC, it's going to be more like Cardel Place.
There's no doubt that we need new facilities in this city. In the past couple of years, we have lost two rinks (Fairview and Bowness). That affects everyone...Hockey, Ringette and Figure Skating. We felt a big difference last year.
I play Ringette and in the last two years we have had three teams lose their ice completely due to a trickle down from minor hockey. Two of those teams had their ice time for 15+ years.
Every year, we have 2-3 teams that keep getting their ice time bumped back. One team was at 8:30 two years ago and now they're at 11:00, again a trickle down from minor hockey.
At this point, most of us count ourselves lucky to still be able to get ice to play.