Fort St John’s Pomeroy Sport Centre is getting fall-ready, with the recreation facility’s ice rinks re-freeze earlier this week, and city-run recreational skates at the rink beginning on August 19.
The city’s summer ice schedule begins on Tuesday, but private rentals are available to be booked as early as August 17, while private users are subject to the same equipment guidelines as regular skaters, including mandatory helmets for children under eight years old and skates being the only permitted footwear on the ice.
To join in the rink’s inaugural public skate this Tuesday evening from 6-8, residents must pay the city’s drop-in fee, which is $6 for adults and $3.50 for youth and seniors.
Petronas, an oil and gas company, is offering two free skating periods at the Pomeroy for residents – everyone is welcome, but as always, children under eight-years-old must have a guardian, who is over 16, on the ice with them.
The global company’s division in Fort St John is hosting their free event on August 24 – the first window for skating that Sunday afternoon will be from 1:30-3:30, and the second two-hour free skate session will begin an hour later at 4:30.
The Pomeroy Sport Centre is home to two NHL-sized ice rinks, the city can remove the ice from these rinks to host events in the vast empty space when the ice is gone – but as of August 12, the space was refrozen.
These rinks cool down the third-floor walking trail, the city’s recreation department recommended people who are taking a stroll bring a sweater with them. For the left-lane trail runners, the cold air may be a welcome reprieve.
