But where will I work on my triple axle?
Submitted by Famous Whitewater on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 10:53.
It looks like Gateway Ice Center is in full-on blitz mode, trying to save itself. According to its Web site, the center is used by 60,000 people a year, by groups like the Police Activities League, Special Olympics, Fresno Junior Hockey Club, Ice Skating Club of Fresno and the Fresno State Bulldog Ice Hockey team.
It is a great place to be in Fresno in August, when the temperatures hit triple digits.
But the center could be closed by May.
What about it? Should the city take over the center?
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Not that Ferguson
"Fergie" was Jeff Ferguson, not Bill.
National Skating Month
January is National Skating Month.
As well written by Pam Dawson, Chair of U.S. Figure Skating Parents Committee:
"We are making your skater a champion for life. So, what can skating do for you? Through skating, your child can:
• Acquire an appreciation for an active, healthy lifestyle
• Develop self-esteem, self-confidence, self-discipline and self-reliance by mastering and performing skating skills
• Learn to manage stress, perform under pressure, and test emotional and physical balance
• Develop social skills with other children and adults
• Learn about managing success and disappointment
• Learn about playing fairly and being a good sport
• Learn respect for others
While pursuing self-improvement and achievement, skaters transcend themselves and become better people or CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE. The life lessons learned through skating outweigh any material rewards they might receive. Our role as parents is to be supportive of their dreams."
Save The Ice
This is a 'letter to the editor' from Tuesday's Bee. It's probably former Falcons goaltender "Fergie":
A city of Fresno spokesperson was recently quoted in The Bee: "We're not in the rink business." OK, however, our city has financed a chicken business, a tortilla factory and a baseball stadium, which sits empty most nights. What could be more beneficial to our kids than participating in youth sports, thereby gaining improved health, self-esteem and, at the very least, staying out of trouble due to dedication to their sport?
I submit either we pay for this now, or we'll pay a lot more for it later, as idle youth with time on their hands often gravitate to more risky activities. Take away the thing they love most in life and see what happens.
Boys, girls, men, women, Special Olympics, Police Activities League, churches and youth groups all use our local facility for hockey, figure skating, public skating and broomball. If this rink closes, do you really think the Falcons will stay here if they have to drive to Bakersfield or Stockton to practice?
City leaders want to tell all of the above "Find another sport," yet they pay a consultant $200,000 to improve our image. Just a suggestion: Start here. Not in the rink business? We should be.
Bill Ferguson
Fresno
Well said Bill. Not only all that, but, do we really want STOCKTON and BAKERSFIELD to have something over us?
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does the city have money coming out of it's ears?
no.
should the city take over every business that isn't making it?
if edward's theater was going under, would the city save it?
although, i could see a similarity between the ice center and rotary playland. both fit a niche, both serve people. but, playland is a historic site for fresno. and, it's in a public park.
well, i might think of them in a similar fashion if they (private owners) hadn't built Ice-O-plex right next to the previous ice skating rink, thereby putting it out of business. karma, anyone?
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