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Ritchie Rink Team
The league is looking to make changes on how it manages rink safety, ice maintenance, and coordination of volunteers. RCL volunteers put in hundreds of hours (typically more than 400) to prepare rink and flood, shovel and maintain the ice, provide communications, and daily open/turn on lights/close the space.
The Rink team is made of a coordinator, two communication coordinators, and about six key holders, and the rink crew that either removes snow and does flooding.
First step is to check that your membership is active. Next step is to register as a volunteer. Then visit the roles and help where you can!
For more information about how we maintain our rink visit our RINK TEAM page.
Help is appreciated!
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Rink Communications
Looking for two people who may not be the type who can clear snow or assist with flooding but can help coordinate the communication needs for the rink and skating area. The league is looking to make changes on how it manages rink safety, ice maintenance, and coordination of volunteers. A one-hour overview or training session will be provided. Communicating with rink crew may be necessary from time to time and the league is looking into investing in digital signs so updates can be timely and done remotely at the hall.We are looking for people who can:Provide updates on facebook community pages on the rink status (open, partially open and closed due to snow, temperature, or maintenance). Post updates to Ritchie and Hazeldean member sites.Take pictures and build fun videos on snow moving and flooding.
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Rink Coordinator
Do you enjoy herding cats, organizing schedules and connecting people with what they need to be successful?We're looking for a coordinator to help us finish this season and plan for next season.🌟 what to expect:Liaise between the Programs Director (the board), Rink Lead and volunteers. Schedule rink key holders and snow shoveler and arrange for volunteer orientation, provide updates on openings/closures. Post updates about rink hours for opening and closures.
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Rink Key Holders
Looking for four-six people who may not be the type who can clear snow or assist with flooding but can help coordinate the opening of the gate, turning on the lights at sunset and closing the gate at the end of the evening. The league is looking to make changes on how it manages rink safety, ice maintenance, and coordination of volunteers. A half-hour overview or training session will be provided; volunteers will be assigned keys or code and agree to code of conduct. Any league membership will be required for insurance coverage. Note in comments what you can commit to (days of week, am, lights or pm - details below).TasksOpening Gate: Daily opening is at about 9am where the temperature is below zero but not below -20. Complete a quick inspection of ice to ensure safe and ready. If snowing, wait until snow stops and when outer area is cleared. If outer area is cleared but not the rink is not, close the rink (using the pushers that have closure sign at player bench gates) but keep gate open.Lights: Daily, turning on of rink lights at sunset (~5pm). If temp is dropping below -20, leave lights off and close up gate. Light switch is inside the equipment room.Closing: Daily at about 9pm, unless rink crew is on ice scrapping/flooding. Complete a quick check inside to ensure no one is there, check for garbage/belongings.
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Rink Shoveling Call List
If you’d like to join the rink crew and help with snow removal, we can add you to our call list. We wait until all the flakes fall from a snow event before we start shoveling and ask for 30 mins to 1 hour of help.For more information about how we maintain our rink visit our RINK TEAM page.Help is appreciated, if you can.
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TBD: Weekend morning flood crew
Currently inactive - requires a lead before setting up the crew. tbd
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Friday evening flood crew
Andy is the crew lead. Crew will start by scrapping inner rink, while skating can continue in outer court area, then closes the area from skating (at about 9pm) and sets-up flooding for inner rink. The outer rink can be scrapped, depending on number of volunteers or deferred to weekend morning crew, the following week. Outer rink area does not need to be flooded weekly.
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