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TORONTO STAR, JANUARY 3 1958: "It is true that the parks department operates 58 natural ice rinks for skating and 23 for hockey - or will do so, if and when there is enough frost. For all the freezing weather we get here most winters, the department might as well spare the trouble and expense, and get on with the job of multiplying the number of artificial ice rinks."
(And they did!)
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Trinity Rink Profile
Rink change area: Rink house distant from rink, but with rubber mats (leftover floor tiles after a reno) to allow skaters to walk from change area to rink.
Staff: The staff room has been adapted with an elevated wooden platform to look out in the direction of the rink.
Maintenance: Once or twice a day. Since there's no place for the zamboni trailer to park near the rink, it has to be driven halfway across the park, on a bumpy path.
Public Skating and open shinny hockey:
Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 32 hours a week.
Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 39 hours and 15 minutes a week. City's mandatory helmet policy not enforced for adults.
Good shinny. Not always age-enforced, especially for younger kids. Note: half the ice time is restricted to pleasure skating. Sometimes this means sharing the ice between hockey and pleasure skaters. Women's shinny hockey: Monday nights 8:30-10 (16yrs +). Known all over the city. Find the complete
City's estimated full operating cost for this rink, per season: $120,983.55
Permit revenue in 2008: $2,715.91
Public funds spent to run this rink, per season: $118,267.64
Amount of public skating during prime time,* per week: 38:30 hours
*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends
To inquire about shinny permits in the South District call Nellie Raposo DeMers at 416-392-0361.
Comments about this rink: e-mail us at rinkissues@cityrinks.ca.
Rink Diary 2009 - 2010
Dec.5 2009
10.15 a.m.: ice judged too thin in places
In the morning the rink was closed, because the ice was thin in places. At 6.30 pm the rink gate was open although the change house was locked and no staff were there. The rink had two pleasure-skaters on it.
Tuesday December 8 2009
The ice is fine now, and mid-day there were six guys playing hockey. The building attendant said that this year there are rink guards only during pleasure-skating time. He also said that the water has not been on in the rink house, and so no one can use the toilets. People did use the toilets before they realized they couldn't flush. He was hoping the plumbers would fix the water soon, before the building starts to smell too badly.
good ice now
HyMy the labyrinth painter was here -- this rink has three!
Tuesday December 22 2009
nine happy shinny players
The ice looked good, the shinny hockey players looked really happy, but the building attendant looked a bit worried. Apparently the plumbing had just finally been fixed that morning, and now he would have to clean up the mess -- a daunting prospect.
Wednesday Dec.30 2009
Numbers at 2 pm: 9 pleasure-skaters; 6 shinny hockey players, just leaving. Staff: one building attendant and one rink coordinator.
The rink coordinator was just putting up a poster asking people not to bring pucks and sticks onto the ice during pleasure-skating time. Since the pleasure-skating time was from 11.30 to 4 pm and six youth with hockey sticks were just leaving, it seems likely that the poster may have been directed at them.
The coordinator said that this rink changehouse would close at 4 pm on New Year's Eve and be closed all New Year's Day.
Sunday January 17, 2010
At 3.40 there were 10 pleasure skaters on the ice, and two more sitting inside the change area. The office had a garbage bag taped over the glass in the door, so it wasn't clear if anyone was there. A knock got the door unlocked from inside, and the two rink staff said it was okay to put up a baseball poster and a rink poster. The indoor poster that I had put up a few weeks ago had been removed, so I taped up both posters on the empty outdoor bulletin board.
Monday Feb.1 2010
Sample numbers, at 2.50 pm: there were 14 shinny players on the rink, 1 wearing a helmet, playing a lively game. Two more were arriving. The change room was locked. A new locked glass bulletin board had been put up, which displayed everything every notice that was there before (also the ombudsman poster).
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