Hours involved in facility prep for Alberta Cup

Times Reporter   

 

The Alberta Cup has officially come and gone. Hours upon hours of hard work and dedication went in to preparing the arena for the big event, which was held from April 25 to 28. For eight months Strathmore Minor Hockey worked with the Town administration and Family Centre staff to help prepare for the prestigious event. 

In the final few weeks of preparation staff at the Family Centre pulled together even more to give the area a facelift, just in time for the games to officially begin. 

“A lot of scrubbing walls went on down here for sure, scrubbing walls and we got new lights put up,” said Kelly Barrett, Family Centre Manager.

“My staff has been phenomenal, they really (came) together and started cleaning like crazy. We do it because we’re very proud of our facility and we want it to shine.”

The building is 23-years-old, and is showing its age in certain areas, said Barrett, but they did receive a number of compliments about the facility. The staff repainted the parking lot, added new directional decals on the Civic Centre building, scrubbed the entire facility down, and added new lights. One of the biggest complaints that she did receive was there weren’t enough seats. 

The Zamboni was polished by hand to the point it shined like new.   

“I’m thrilled, I am glad they got it, I know they were trying for it and now that we know we’ve got it for two years we can take whatever we missed this year and apply it to next years (event),” said Barrett.

She looks forward to the return of the Alberta Cup next year, and is happy about all of the new events coming in that are making use of the facility.