Marble sculpture adorns Alberta's first accessible outdoor rink in Calgary

A marble sculpture that took more than two years and 1,600 hours of work to complete is now adorning Alberta's first accessible outdoor rink. The sculpture is called Creating a Champion and features a parent and child wearing skates and hockey equipment in front of a net. And it's big. Sculptor Bill Harvey started with a block of Vancouver Island marble weighing close to 10,000 kilograms and the process of chiseling it into a finished product saw more than half of the stone removed. "It was a ma