Location

50 Amoro Drive. North of Highway 401, and north of Rexdale Blvd. Take Westhumber Blvd. east from Martin Grove Road or west from Kipling Avenue. Go south on Amoro Drive. See Satellite map
Phone: 416-394-8478

Schedule

See Schedule tab

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor D. Ford

Sunnydale Acres Rink Profile

Compressors 100 hp plus 20hp and 7.5 hp glycol pumps

Rink change area: Spacious and clean. There are narrow windows that face the ice but there is no clear view unless you are standing right next to them. There are rubber mats on the floor, but they don't cover the whole surface. There are no mats in the washroom.

Staff: A rink operator is on duty Monday- Friday 3-11pm. On weekends there are two shifts 7am-3pm and 3pm-11pm. Total of 9 ice maintenance shifts a week. During public skating hours a rink guard is present.

Maintenance: The ice is cleaned at the discretion of the operator. When the operator isn't there, it is cleaned by a roving crew that services 3-4 rinks. There is a tractor at the rink which has its own garage.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2011-2012

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 8 hours (supervised), 1:30 (unsupevised) a week , during prime time.

Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 14 hours a week (supervised), 8:15 hours (unsupervised) , during prime time.

*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends

Cost to run this rink.

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Comments about this rink: e-mail us at rinkissues@cityrinks.ca.

Opening and closing dates:

Opens: Nov 24, 2012
Closes: Mar 10, 2013

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

Sunday Nov.25, 2012 (entry by Jutta)

Nov.25 12 noon: ice is coming along

This rink was supposed to be open yesterday, but even though it was still closed, it was a nice surprise to see it in such good shape. The foreperson even speculated that the rink might be able to open this evening. Never in all the years since this rink was on the "early" list did it look this good -- only one day late.

There was a bit if back-and-forth about why the ice wasn't ready on time, with the usual "we had bad luck with the weather" rationale. The foreperson said they had been flooding between 6pm and 2 am (which is better than daytime floods) but again, only since Wednesday. He said, "you have to admit we're doing better than we've ever done," and I said, "no you're not. You should have started the ice earlier in the week and flooded overnight."

But he was right, they have improved a lot. Yes, all the rinks should return to flooding overnight during start-up. It's the "industry standard." But on the other hand -- Sunnydale is ahead of where it was in the last few years, by a country mile.

It was sad to see on the city's website that Sunnydale never did open today. But maybe tomorrow. And I wish I could show them our 6-minute video. How good the ice is depends on the amount of water you put down during the dark hours....

See Diaries tab

Views of the rink

Dec 08/07 - Sign still shows times Click on picture to enlarge it.	Feb 3/08 - Times on sign have been covered up Click on picture to enlarge it.
The rink change rooms are full during the "hockey in the neighbourhood" program

From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to Sunnydale Acres Rink page on the City website, then click on Skating.

For up to date listings of open rinks (not the same as scheduled openings), see Current Conditions on the cityrinks.ca Home Page

If you notice a different schedule at your rink, please let us know mail@cityrinks.ca
See also the City of Toronto Outdoor Rinks web pages.

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

Sunday Nov.25, 2012 (entry by Jutta)

Nov.25 12 noon: ice is coming along

This rink was supposed to be open yesterday, but even though it was still closed, it was a nice surprise to see it in such good shape. The foreperson even speculated that the rink might be able to open this evening. Never in all the years since this rink was on the "early" list did it look this good -- only one day late.

There was a bit if back-and-forth about why the ice wasn't ready on time, with the usual "we had bad luck with the weather" rationale. The foreperson said they had been flooding between 6pm and 2 am (which is better than daytime floods) but again, only since Wednesday. He said, "you have to admit we're doing better than we've ever done," and I said, "no you're not. You should have started the ice earlier in the week and flooded overnight."

But he was right, they have improved a lot. Yes, all the rinks should return to flooding overnight during start-up. It's the "industry standard." But on the other hand -- Sunnydale is ahead of where it was in the last few years, by a country mile.

It was sad to see on the city's website that Sunnydale never did open today. But maybe tomorrow. And I wish I could show them our 6-minute video. How good the ice is depends on the amount of water you put down during the dark hours....

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Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Dec.4 2011

Late afternoon: Rubber mats are out. New boards all around the rink -- it looks finished, but no sign of ice-making. No staff on site. The change room doors are full of graffiti. Inside the change rooms are full of paint supplies. No sign of any work actually having started inside.

new boards

view through the locked front doors

Dec.10 2011

The city's website said this rink was planned to open for the season today, but at 10.30 this morning it was still listed as closed.

According to this youtube video of MLSE "Team Up" crew, these projects are called "rink builds," although of course the rink was already there. Sunnydale Rink was completely repainted inside two years ago. It opened late that year, too, because of unfinished capital projects "state of good repair" work: RinkDiary2009-2010.

The new rink boards look very good, and so does the new rubber flooring. There was a certain amount of duplication, as well: the MLSE crew repainted the inside again last week, and rebuilt the existing staff desk.

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Diary 2010 - 2011, Diary 2009-2010, Diary 2007 -2008