Most people have seen curling played in competition at the Winter Olympics. It’s a fascinating sport with players using brooms to smooth the way for a stone to travel across a rink and slide into a target area. Now the Homewood-Flossmoor Ice Arena is offering residents the chance to learn[Read More…]
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Curling comes to the H-F Ice Arena
Most people have seen curling played in competition at the Winter Olympics. It’s a fascinating sport with players using brooms to smooth the way for a stone to travel across a rink and slide into a target area. Now the Homewood-Flossmoor Ice Arena is offering residents the chance to learn[Read More…]
H-F Park District to host Youth Hockey Day at ice arena
Youth hockey fans have an opportunity for a “puck-tacular day of Youth Hockey fun,” according to an H-F Park District promo, starting at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at the H-F Ice Arena, 777 Kedzie Ave. The event will include raffle baskets, a poster-making station, a food truck and shoot-the-puck[Read More…]
H-F Ice Arena rebirth marked with grand opening celebration
There was a big red ribbon blocking the entrance to the H-F Ice Arena on Sunday, March 12, so Liam Peterson, 11, of Homewood, helped out with the ceremony to mark the resurrection of the facility, standing alongside Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Board of Commissioners President Brent Bachus, bearing witness to the[Read More…]
‘All Skate’ at the H-F Ice Arena: A disaster gives new life to community rink
The H-F Ice Arena is back in business. The $6.8 million renovation work is complete. The grand reopening is scheduled for Sunday, March 12. Disaster struck at the ice arena, one of the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District’s major attractions, in November 2021 after the ice-making system failed. The park board immediately[Read More…]
H-F Ice Arena grand reopening is March 12
The H-F Ice Arena will officially reopen with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 12. The day’s events include open skating from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. Skate rental is $4. Prizes will be given away during open skating hours. Kids ages 5 to[Read More…]
H-F Ice Arena schedules open skating this weekend
After being shut down for 15 months, the H-F Ice Arena will reopen with open skating hours this weekend. The NHL regulation-sized rink will host open skate from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday as part of the ice arena’s soft opening. Crews are still[Read More…]
H-F Parks sets tentative date for ice arena grand reopening
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District has tentative plans for a grand reopening of the H-F Ice Arena, 777 Kedzie Ave. in Flossmoor, on Saturday, Feb. 11. Lyndsay Freeman, ice arena director, gave the park commissioners a glimpse of what she has in store to draw the community back to the ice[Read More…]
Ice Arena filled with concrete for rink floors
The robots did the heavy work, but a 25-member crew from Raffin Construction Co. followed behind to get the concrete slab at the H-F Ice Arena in perfect condition. The park district is using a new system recommended by American Arena. It layers a heating system covered by sand, then[Read More…]
Refrigeration system moving into place at H-F Ice Arena
After months of preparation, workmen are bringing about changes to the H-F Ice Arena. Lyndsay Freeman, ice arena director for the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District, said every step in the process has taken time – from hiring an outside contractor to working with an architect and then going out for bids[Read More…]
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