570News - Gary Doyle

Growing up just west of the Thousand Islands makes me miss the area now that I haven’t lived there for 30 plus years. A great place to fish. Summer or winter. When we went ice fishing we never drilled a hole as big as the one left in the ice at the Kingston Memorial Centre. Hours before the Rangers were to make their final appearance in the dilapitated old barn a worker ruptured a brine pipe and voila, instant indoor lake. It cost the Fronts the home date, the Rangers another bus trip to Kingston in December and the City of Kingston a black eye. The rink situation should have been addressed at least a decade ago. The new rink won’t be ready on time, but after walking by the construction site on saturday morning, it should be a first class facility, equpped with all the amenities. Hopefully that means shorter drill bits.