Outdoor Skating Rinks: Outdoor Rinks

Farmers Market Dept: The Dufferin Grove Park activist has locked horns with city staff before over delayed openings at free outdoor skating rinks and says they haven t proved their case. This year, 14 of the city s 51 outdoor rinks are to open Nov. 27, the rest on Dec. 4, according to The Star. It worked and we did no damage to the rink at all, says Mason, 63, a member of Friends of Dufferin Grove, a community group dedicated to ensuring the 5.7-hectare park, with its year-round farmers market, is lively and accessible to all and if New York City can have outdoor skating ice rinks open in October, says Jutta Mason, she s not buying arguments Toronto s argument that it s not cold enough yet to open 14 outdoor rinks as scheduled on Nov. 20. Last year, she and other volunteers flooded the Dufferin Grove Park s rink at Dufferin and Bloor at night on their own That s the easiest time to make ice, when there s no sun at all and had the rink open Nov. 21, a week earlier than the city planned. As reported in the news.
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