The Evergreen Community Outdoor Ice Rink is closed! It has been closed for quite sometime due to the COVID-19 outbreak and will remain closed until further notice to help with social distancing. Please share this and tell your neighbours. If you see people using the rink, that does not mean it is safe. Do not engage, but call 311. 
Thank you, and we look forward to next season.

Hope everyone is enjoying the community rink and is excited for the Winterfest tomorrow!
We are expecting the end of season for the rink to be in the beginning of March when it becomes warmer and the ice becomes unsafe. Please continue to respect the tarps and others as you enjoy this community offering!

Happy New Year! We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season and getting some time to skate. Here are a few items that have been left at the outdoor rink if they are yours or you know who they belong to:

The rink is ready for skating! 

Lets all respectfully use the rink and keep it in good condition for all to enjoy! If you can volunteer to help with the rink please email [email protected] with "Ice Rink" in the subject line. 

Happy skating!

The ice rink is ready or hopefully ready soon for the winter of 2019-2020!

Volunteer help is needed for regular maintenance. Clearing snow, ice repair, side boards etc. If you can help, please email [email protected] with "Ice Rink" in the subject line. 

We also need to raise money to buy replacement liners, pay for water flooding and the PortaIce service of the rink. If you can help with this please also contact [email protected].

Looking forward to a fun winter of skating and shinny!

Learn to skate and Winterfest are being planned for February 2020!

We are currently flooding our outdoor ice rink.  The ice is not consistently thick enough to handle skaters so our maintenance rope is up across the benches.  Please stay off the rink until we take down the rope.  Unfortunately, overly anxious skaters have already damaged the liner which is making our flooding effort more complicated.

The straight line you see in the lower right corner of the picture below is a tape line where our dedicated team of volunteers put together two of our liners.  This is a strong indicator the ice is not thick enough to handle skaters.

Our flooding efforts are weather dependent.  We typically require -8C or colder overnight to perform flooding.  Environment Canada is predicting warm weather for most of next week so it may be another week or more before we are open.

Your dedicated group of volunteers spent approximately 30 hours setting up the rink tarps on Monday and Tuesday of this week.  We should be able to start flooding once the weather becomes more winter like.  Although nobody likes a long winter, it is great for outdoor rinks!  Please stay off the tarps until the rink is ready.  Thank you.

You may be able to see the rolled tarps at the edges of the rink.  The late season wind storms last year almost did the rink in.  The tarps were heavily damaged and nearly blew off the site!  This year, we have rolled the tarp edges around boards and screwed the boards into the ground for the entire perimeter of the rink.  Hopefully this will keep the tarp in place until we can flood.

Did you know an Alberta Government through a Community Initiatives Program "CIP" grant has a been a major contributor to our rink over the last two years?  Once the initial grading was performed, the CIP grant enabled us to complete the grading and lay down 6 inches of top soil over the entire rink.  In 2017, we brought in 30 truck loads of loam to cover up the exposed clay.  Brian's Bobcat also came through with a huge donation of services which enabled us to extend the grant funding to partially cover our expenses this year!  Hats off to the Alberta Government and Brian's Bobcat!  This project would not have gone forward without their generous contributions.

We finished up the grade with another truck load of top soil spread by hand just before school started this year!  All together, your rink volunteers have put in over 400 hours of hard work in mostly cold weather since December 2016.

Anyone up for a winter of fun and camaraderie?  Please email [email protected] if you would like to help out.  We do have a fire hose and a gas powered snow blower with heated handles!  Appropriate winter gear is definitely required.
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