Fenton Chester on Thin Ice

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Created on Friday, 17 October 2014 17:51
Written by Brooke Devine

fenton chesterLYNDONVILLE-This October has been uncommonly warm compared to last years temperature and owners of the Fenton Chester skating arena in a bit of a bind.

 

Currently the arena employees are woking a hard as they can to get the arena ready and the ice one hundred percent frozen for their opening night on October 17th.

The issue is that with all of the humidity, they have to wait longer for the water they lay on the arena floor to freeze into ice. Normally a layer of water gets poured every twenty minutes, now they have to pour every hour.

The arena's supervisors fear that the ice may not be thick enough and provide the ideal ice skating surface. 

"We're going to be on schedule period. I mean  I'm not opening late, it's not how we're gonna do it. Weather the thickness of the ice is perfect or not we'll just have to baby it." said Brian Coderre supervisor of Fenton Chester Arena.

Even with the not up to par ice conditions Coderre , is determined to please the Lyndonville community and open the rink on the date as promised.