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Prince of Wales Rink Profile
Rink change area: 2 changerooms, rubber floors, clean
Staff: Rink operator on duty Mon-Friday 3-11pm, all day Saturday and Sunday. There are rink guards for supervised periods.
Maintenance: Rink uses a tractor to clean the ice. The tractor is housed in a garage. Rink operator says he does 3-4 scrapes a shift. He says he does floods as needed. Ice maintenance - 9 shifts a week.
Public Skating and open shinny hockey:
Shared use: (shinny hockey and pleasure-skating, unsupervised): weekdays 9 am to 4 pm: total of 35 hours
Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 15 hours a week.
Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 7 1/2 hours a week.
City's estimated full operating cost for this rink, per season: $120,983.55
Permit revenue in 2008: $14,421.50
Public funds spent to run this rink, per season: $106,562.05
Amount of public skating during prime time,* per week: 22.15 hours
*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends
To inquire about shinny permits in the West District call 416-394-8514.
Comments about this rink: e-mail us at rinkissues@cityrinks.ca.
Rink Diary 2009 - 2010
Wednesday December 2, 2009
The rink looks wet with areas of cement. Several staff are standing beside the rink, looking concerned.
Friday December 4, 2009
The rink looks even worse than two days ago. I meet an old-time compressor mechanic who offers several possible reasons: that the rink is too near the lake and has warmer groundwater underneath, or that the adjacent apartment building has dirty chimneys and the soot from there drifts down onto the rink, leaving a carbon dust that makes it hard to freeze ice. The one thing he is sure of is that the two days now spent in "staff training," prior to every rink season, were once spent cleaning the rink surface prior to making ice. He says that was a much better use of time. He also laments the fact that the City re-assigned its staff so that the experienced rink operators are no longer at the rinks, and the rink staff now don't really know what they're doing.
At any rate, the standard opening day sign taped on the door is clearly out of date. It says that the rink will open "weather permitting," but since the temperature is not warm and the sun is within two weeks of winter solstice, it seems that the weather in fact has little to do with this.
big patches of cement
wishful thinking
Tuesday January 19, 2010
At 1.55 there were 7 shiny players on the rink, none of them wearing helmets. The change room was open, and I knocked on the door to ask the zamboni driver for permission to tape up the ombudsman poster. However, no one opened the door when I knocked, and I couldn't see him anywhere around the building either. I looked for a bulletin board, but there was none. So I just taped it beside a "skates for sale" poster in the change room.
The change room is painted in the usual Maple Leafs blue. The bottom half of the windows facing out to the rink are also painted over, presumably for the modesty of any hockey players who might be changing.
To see the (2007-2008) report card, click here
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