You Are What You Eat Ice Carnival in Standard
Manny Everett
Times Contributor
All the hours of practicing and hard work came full circle as the Learn to Skate, Canskate and Star Skate students performed their various routines at the Annual Ice Carnival in Standard on March 3.
Parents, grandparents and community members alike were brought down memory lane as some of the songs used were not necessarily the music from today. Charlie Pride’s “Burger and Fries and Cherry Pies” was definitely a favourite.
The youngest skaters of the afternoon ranged in age from 3 to 5 years old, and it was their first year on the ice. Aiden Ellis, Riley Ellis, Etta Elphick, Abbey Everett, Madison Gates, Katie Ings-Harder, Quinton Mavor and Ryker Sundgaard skated to two numbers. The first had them dressed as strawberries and the second as chocolate ice cream cones.
The Stage 2/3 group consisting of Brendan Abercrombie, Leah Cavanagh, Jocelyn Gauthier, Addison Hough and James Reagan were dressed as watermelons and their second number as bananas.
Going on with the same theme the Stage 2 group, Cole Admason, Serena Clark, Hailey DeGroot, Kaden Gauthier, Isabel Jensen and Ashton Mavor had their feathers flying with the Chicken Dance, and then skated as fish.
Two of the more senior skaters, Julia Lomond from Grade 3 and Marissa Dumonceaux from Grade 9, both from Standard School, are in a Star Skate Element program and both girls had solo numbers in the afternoon.
Stage 3 skaters Megan Cavanagh, Rosina Christensen, Mya Dumonceaux, Chloe Gregory and Genesis Marucha were the kindergarten to Grade 3 students who performed to Charlie Pride’s song “Burger and Fries and Cherry Pies” and also danced on the ice as cans of Orange Crush. All the costuming for the participants were made by parent volunteers and were fabulous.
Power skating students Matthew Adamson, Brody DeGroot, TJ Dumonceaux and Brodie Ellis showed off their various stroking skills as pizza and broccoli.
Kennedy Adamson and Nicole Ellis are both Star Skate students that started skating at a very early age. Both girls are able to do jumps and spins at competitive levels.
Guest dance skaters Sue and Dylan Bullick came from Settler, Alberta to take part in the Carnival and wowed the audience with a ChaCha. The fluidity of their dancing partnership and confidence on the ice was a great example to all of the young skaters.
Sonya Kostrup has been Standard’s Skate Club coach for over the last decade and she also participated in the carnival with her two adult students Christina Adamson and Wendy Barrientos. Kostrup enjoys her students and has also been teaching her young son over the last number of years in this same Canskate program.
As always it was a fabulous event and a wonderful opportunity for the students to show off their hard work.