It’s something that people are going to enjoy for the next 50 years,” Brownlee said. “It’s not just a project, it brings value to people. Chris Brownlee, project manager for the arena, said the rink was an important one for the company. The outdoor arena was built by Calgary-based Westcor Construction. “I hope this rink is going to get people thinking, and hopefully we will get more rinks like this in the future.” Now Crisp said he’s looking forward to making the Parkdale arena a regular location for games and practices. Players struggle to get their sleds on the ice, or are unable to access player benches or dressing rooms. Trying to play the sport at an arena that isn’t accessible is difficult, he said. “This is good to see! It’s cool to see like all these people out here,” Crisp said as he was warming up for the sledge hockey Winter Classic game, with Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada broadcasting live. Crisp has been playing sledge hockey since he was six-years old. Kale Crisp, 17, is a defensive player for the Calgary Stingers sledge hockey team. “This facility has really blown my expectations.” “There’s nothing better than playing on an outdoor rink in the season, and that’s always been a bit of a barrier challenge,” Halbert said. The association helped with the arena’s design and securing grant funding. DARREN MAKOWICHUK/PostmediaĪlan Halbert, president of the CSHA, said Parkdale arena sets the standard for what an outdoor rink could be. “Ask the question, ‘Have we done enough?’ We have had a simple question that was posed to us turn into an amazing reality where we’ve created a space for everyone.” The Parkdale Community Association, in partnership with the Calgary Flames Foundation, Parks Foundation, Sledge Hockey Calgary, and City of Calgary and Government of Alberta, celebrated the opening of the first accessible outdoor rink in Alberta the Parkdale Community Rink in Calgary on Saturday, January 29, 2022. There was no additional cost to making the outdoor rink accessible, as the entire rebuild was funded through grants, she said.Īffonso said she believes Parkdale’s outdoor arena sends a strong message to other facilities to make their spaces more accessible and inclusive. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.If you've been using KAYAK successfully up until now, try closing your browser and starting again. Please send us a message and we'll try to figure out what went wrong. Probably something about the web browser you are using made KAYAK think you are a bot. They tend to try to cram large suitcases in the overhead bin, and they prattle on about celebrities they know while you are trying to watch the movie. For example, we don't want bots running about trying to book airline tickets. Bots are generally a good thing, but some web pages are for humans only. KAYAK uses bots to search for travel deals. Search engines like Google use robots to build up search results. What is a bot?Ī bot, or robot, or crawler is software that visits web sites and collects data from them without a human present. If you are seeing this page, it means that KAYAK thinks you are a "bot", and the page you were trying to get to is only useful for humans.
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