Don't kid yourself, though, that adding a rink will raise your home's resale value.
But instead the council went for a project that will include a rink open to the public.
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For a program long on hockey history, dating to the early 1970s, the Golden Griffins have been short on success and a rink to call their own.
Blondy was like a skater up his own river, a frozen ribbon the rest of us might have glimpsed through trees, from within a rink where we circled to tinny music.
When my husband and I arrived last December, the peaked roofs were blanketed in snow and hung with icicles, and the lodge's guests were embarked on winter sports: snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and skating on a private rink (complete with a warming hut serving Cognac and cigars).
Ten competitors beat the previous record, set by a Canadian rink, by 11 and a half hours.
It is an economically vibrant city replete with a medical school, a hockey rink, and most importantly a robust military establishment.
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Norman Dingemans, Arun District Council's Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration, said a bowling alley or a skating rink would not attract as many people as a cinema.
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The manner of Rossi's triumph was only overshadowed by the way he risked life and limb to usurp his young team-mate for pole position on Saturday on a saturated ice rink of a circuit that had already caused nine crashes.
Mountain Village has a feel like Beaver Creek, with plazas and a skating rink and heated sidewalks.
Mr Harrer, a champion skier and, since his village boyhood, happiest on snow and ice, built a skating rink below the palace.
At 100mph, he says, Deuce loses whatever grace she once possessed and starts to handle more like a forklift careening across a skating rink.
Cardiff Council pledged to put up a temporary rink in Cardiff Bay, which was due to be ready for 21 October, but now November seems the earliest date.
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Another park impresario made it worse: In 1959, Robert Moses filled in the lake, and left Lincoln to gaze at the rear fence of a skating rink for 52 years.
Zombie wants to film most of the movie in Philadelphia and will try and find a suitable rink to recreate the old Spectrum, site of their biggest wins, but since razed to make room for an entertainment complex.
The Venice-themed complex features gondola rides down an indoor canal, an artificial sky, a 13-screen movie theater, a theme park, skating rink and a bowling alley.
The Devils have had to travel back and forth from a Bristol ice rink for training, while other conditioning work has had to be held at a leisure club in Cardiff.
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Since their previous home was demolished, the Devils have had to travel back and forth from a Bristol ice rink for training, while other conditioning work has had to be held at a leisure club in Cardiff.
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Over the next few years, she said, he was cited 15 times in total, including on allegations that he stole a scooter, sold a motorbike that was reported stolen, fought with a rival group at an ice rink and insulted a teacher.
But a court heard visitors were greeted by a muddy field, fairy lights dangling from a tree and a broken ice rink.
The bass player Garry Tallent, the organist Charlie Giordano, and the pianist Roy Bittan horsed around on a roller-rink tune while they waited.
Similarly, Genentech, the South San Francisco-based biotech giant, held its holiday shindig at a baseball stadium, where employees skated on a temporary ice rink.
Confirming Plymouth Pavilions ice rink will close next year, the city council said Central Park's new Life Centre could not accommodate a full size rink.
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Similarly, Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ), the South San Francisco-based biotech giant, held its holiday shindig at a baseball stadium, where employees skated on a temporary ice rink.
Since there is already a world-class speed-skating rink in the neighbouring province of Alberta, the Richmond rink was designed to be converted into a multipurpose community centre after the festivities conclude.
We have to come to the rink with a new attitude and get through this.
The water that drains away creates an instant skating rink, a moat of flat ice.
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In February, the Detroit Red Wings hockey team set up an XtraIce rink for a one-day hockey festival.
Her spins were solid, though they were all done in the same side of the rink, a choreographic no-no.
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