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18 Onward continued from Page 7 Tucson Ice, the only truly public sheet of ice in all of Pima County. That March issue also mentioned steps were being taken toward possibly building a new facility in Tucson’s <strong>No</strong>rthwest Catalina Foothills. But despite the struggles in Tucson to keep its lone rink open, hockey, in some form or another, seems to fi nd ways to endure in outer parts of the state. The minor league AA level Sundogs draw a feverish crowd nightly to the Tim’s Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, while a new inline rink recently opened in Lake Havasu City. Things are a bit trickier in Flagstaff, however, as the game is surviving despite only a single sheet of ice as well and a feigned interest from local youths. “We are actually very fortunate in that [the rink] is not privately owned,” Flagstaff Youth ockey Association registrar Camie McCracken said in comparison to Tucson, which for years housed a single rink that was anything but profi table for its owners. “It is a city-run rink, and the youth program and the fi gure skating program have fi rst dibs on the ice.” But having just one sheet still poses its dilemmas, she added. When Denny Lauritsen took over as president of FYHA in June, the fi rst thing he pushed was to increase participation and attention to the house league. “For a town this size, we should have way more hockey players than we do,” McCracken said. “We have the cheapest hockey program I’ve ever known of. Our travel teams cost $500 a year. That’s a fi fth of some programs in the Valley. “Our house program is $300 for the year, and we rent equipment for $40 a year,” she said. “You think about that, and it’s $5 an hour on the ice. You can’t get a babysitter for that.” McCracken said the dilemma, however, comes from that time-tested issue in Arizona’s outer banks: just one sheet of ice in a town of nearly 60,000 residents. McCracken noted that local adult leagues, high school teams and the <strong>No</strong>rthern Arizona University Ice Jacks all have to share the same sheet - the same one used by FHYA; the same one that also houses fi gure skating and holds mandatory public skate sessions. “The high school is upset at us because we’ve pushed them to 9 p.m. at night, then that means the men’s league is at 10:30 and it kind of dominoes from that,” she said. “We want more kids, of course, but where will we put them?” ❂
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