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Photo courtesy Aquatera Community Skating Oval Facebook page
By Erika Rolling
Community

Stakes already in ground for Aquatera Community Skating Oval

Oct 13, 2022 | 1:05 PM

Organizers have started to get the Aquatera Skating Oval ready for winter skating.

It is located between the Eastlink Centre, Hansen Lincoln Field, and the Charles Spencer High School overflow parking lot,.

Stakes have been pounded into the open field where the oval will be this skating season says coordinator Bryce MacLennan.

MacLennan has been a member of the Peace Wapiti Skating Club for 15 years and is currently the Equipment Manager for the Club.

He says more progress will be done once the snow flies.

“Then we can go out and do some grading to get some inner and outer banks and then once the temperatures drop we can go out and start flooding it.”

“In previous years, we get it ready right around Christmas or just after New Year’s,” says MacLennan.

For now, in the vacant field, MacLennan says if people can stay away from it, it will help them immensely.

He notes in the past people have walked their dogs on it, played hockey, taken the stakes out, and a plethora of other activities which has affected the quality of skating.

“If we get a snowfall and the stakes aren’t there… it makes it difficult to see under the nice sheet of snow where our ice is.”

The Aquatera Community Skating Oval Facebook page says it strictly prohibits hockey sticks and pucks on the 400-metre skating surface.

Aquatera floods resurfaces and clears the skating oval over the season.

Photo courtesy Aquatera Community Skating Oval
by Erika Rolling