By Thomas Scott
The Eastern Shore Community Centre received $12,000, and the Lawrencetown Youth Arena received $8,050 from the Rink Revitalization Fund in January. Eastern Shore Community Centre general manager Dale Stevens said the funding was used to purchase a dehumidifier.
Thirty-three rinks in Nova Scotia received money from the Rink Revitalization Fund to provide repairs and upgrades, with overall total funding of $978,483.
The dehumidifier will help control condensation and vapour on the glass and the humidity of the building, Stevens told the Cooperator, especially in months such as October, March, and April, and will make the air quality better inside the rink.
“It'll get used when the weather is such that we need it,” Stevens said. “These things cost a lot of money to run; they're fairly large electric units. They cost a fair bit to run, but we will run it when necessary, and hopefully, as a result, we get lower humidity in the shoulder seasons.”
Stevens said he hopes the rink will have paving work complete in the parking lot this year.
Affordability is a big deal, said Stevens. “In my mind, a lot of the things that we do with the facility we do in an effort to keep costs down so that we can offer the facility at an affordable rate. We've always managed to do that. We're quite proud of that actually,” Stevens said.
“There's been a lot of money spent on the rink over the last decade, and the building is approaching 50 years old, but it's still very functional and very dependable,” Stevens said.
The Cooperator contacted the Lawrencetown Youth Arena but did not hear back.
