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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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Kew Gardens Rink Profile
Rink change area: Small and windowless. Sex-segregated. (Really just larger versions of washrooms). Staff room is in a different building, used by the lacrosse club the rest of the year. Lockers available. Patchy rubber mats connect the changeroom to the rink. Phone: 416-392-0739
Staff: they have a windowless office but have made a sign with an arrow showing how to find them. Staff seem courteous and knowledgable.
Maintenance: Zamboni on site, zamboni driver not on site, comes to clean ice,a minimum of 3 floods and scrapes a day, sometimes 5. Building Attendants (BA's) help clear the ice of snow, but there are no large green shovels on site.
Public Skating and open shinny hockey:
Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 36 hours a week.
Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 42 hours a week.
Good game. There is also women's shinny on Mondays from 6 - 8.30. This rink is very big in the neighbourhood, and well-used. Single pad.
Classes and permits only available through central city booking.
City's estimated full operating cost for this rink, per season: $120,983.55
Permit revenue in 2008: $3,687.93
Public funds spent to run this rink, per season: $117,295.62
Amount of public skating during prime time,* per week: 43 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.
Views of the rink
Kew Gardens Rink Right beside Lake Ontario and the boardwalk; lovely |
 new rink office window put in last year |
Rink Diary 2009 - 2010
Sunday Nov 29 2009
The rink is not open but the ice is in. It is in as good shape as Dufferin was on November 21. The rain will have helped.
Tuesday Dec.1 2009
News came that Kew Rink is open.
Sunday Dec 6 2009
7.30: - open no skaters.
Wednesday Dec 16 2009
6pm - 6 skaters of varying ages, little ones with helmets. Across the park there are 4 families trudging across the frozen ground toward the rink with skating bags and children in tow.
Friday Dec.25 2009
2 pm: 4 skaters, no helmets.
Friday January 1, 2010.
Some kids went to the rink to find it locked. One of the kids called his dad, who is the Fixer at the Toronto Star. He wrote a sharp-tongued column about it.
Certainly the Parks Director had assured us that all rinks would be open on New Year's Day, but somehow that message didn't get through at Kew Beach Rink. For more information about the citywide rink issues, our Monday Rink Report covering January 1 is here.
Friday January 15, 2010
Numbers sample 9pm: 8 shinny players, (4 with helmets).
To see the (2007-2008) report card, click here
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