Monday Morning Madness:

The masters and some of the younger skaters have been enjoying an early Monday morning schedule this fall. Apart from having to get up early enough to be at  the ice by 6:15 am we have all enjoyed this loosely organized session. We get perfect ice, at least one hour of skating, and a great start to the day.

The focus is on conditioning with lots of laps for all. Currently we are supporting 12 skaters but more are welcome. The more we have the cheaper the ice. Currently our costs are running about $6.50 per person per session. We will be starting again on January 9th and running through to the end of March for every Monday morning. We also welcome occasional skaters who don’t want to commit to the full period. The cost for occasional skaters is $10.00 per session.

If you are interested in joining this fun and hard working group comprised of all ages, please contact John Ambrose directly at trevelyn@ripnet.com.

Earn back your Fundraising Fee.

Joe LeBlanc will be at the rink with a supply of Loblaws gift cards for purchase.  Each purchase will be recorded and at the end of the season 3% of the total value of your purchases will be refunded up to a maximum of $100 per family.  Joe can also place orders for gift cards for other merchants. 

Keep this in mind when planning your Christmas shopping.

I have done some work to migrate the web site into this new format which has these advantages:

1. It is much easier to manage than the old site structure
2. Updates are much simpler and therefore can be done sooner
3. It’s easy to see the latest news and announcements on the front page
4. You can subscribe to email updates – you get a single email at the end of the day if there are new news posts (see the Subscribe box on the right hand side).
5. The news items have a comments section that you can use

Let me know if you have any comments, or if you are looking for something from the old site and can’t find it.

The winner of the 50% off new youth membership draw was Allan Bougie.  Congratulations!