Elise Stolte: ‘I was exhausted today.’ Ice rink makers unsung heroes at community leagues

I’m not a poet. But if I was, I’d write an ode to the community rink maker.
It takes 100 hours a month on average to maintain an outdoor ice rink. That’s hard work in the bitter cold. When temperatures plunge and most of us huddle indoors, that’s when the rink makers haul out the water hoses. There’s nothing like water vapour to make a cold job colder.
And many of those cold fingers belong to volunteers.
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