Fundraising effort launched to restore community rink
A popular hub for pick-up games in the winter is showing its age but efforts are underway to provide the outdoor rink north of Prince Albert with a new lease on life.
The Peter Pond ice rink, the last remaining of its kind in the Rural Municipality of Buckland, is in need of new boards and the cost to install the planned puck board is roughly $17,000 with labour. RM of Buckland Reeve Don Fyrk told paNOW council has given money annually to the rink committee for upkeep and maintenance but explained the cost of this project was just too much.
“We’d love to do it but at the same time we have to be responsible,” he said.
So what council has agreed to do is match fundraising efforts up to $10,000. Ellen MacNeill is one of two board members on the rink committee and explained the structure was initially built over 50 years ago, and the boards are rotting.