On Sunday at 1:00 PM, the Grandview Agricultural Community Centre is hosting a "Paint the Ice" fundraiser, as a way to say goodbye to their ice plant before construction of the new one begins.
Alia Marcinkow, Chair of the Grandview District Recreation Commission, said the event will be a good way to give the old ice plant one last chance to get the community out for a day of fun.
"We kind of thought this would be a great way to say farewell to the old [ice plant] is by painting out rink surface, so for $5 you get paint and a paintbrush, come out and you can draw whatever you want on the ice as a final goodbye to our ice plant here in Grandview," said Marcinkow.
She said the $5 will go directly into the GACC's wallet to raise even more funds for the new ice plant.
"We are getting closer and closer to our goal every day, and we just want to ensure that we reach that goal, so it'll go towards that, and of course to cover a little bit of the cost of supplies," said Marcinkow.
Fundraising for the GACC's new ice plant has been going on for the past 5 years. With the arena recently being named Kraft Hockeyville's Manitoba finalist, the rink received $50,000 towards the ice plant, which was a great boost to the project.
Over the years, the GACC has meant a lot of things to the people of Grandview, including Marcinkow with a personal connection.
"I know we all call it the GACC but it's the Grandview Agricultural Community Centre, and it truly is a community centre. When I first move here, the first place we went is to a senior men's Grandview Comet game and I met people there, and that's where I got to meet lots of people in the community...to me it really shows that Grandview is a hockeyville, maybe just for Manitoba unforuantely not for all of Canada, but it's not just hockey that's bringing us together there, it's truly the building and the people in the community," said Marcinkow.
The construction and installation of the new ice plant is still scheduled for later this year.
