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Minor sports to get Snyder arena rate-hike exemption Two-tiered pricing to apply only to adult users, council decides in budget compromise Steve Kannon
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St. Clement Catholic Elementary School students Emily Green, Samantha GraceSiopiolosz and Avery Leis warm up with some hot chocolate during their day-long Olympic challenges Feb. 5. The students were divided into groups or ‘countries’, and participated in games such as hockey and tug-of-war.
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inor sports groups have won a reprieve from higher rates at the Dan Snyder Arena, as councillors this week came up with alternative funding methods in approving the 2010 budget. Rather than charge everyone a premium to use the larger arena in the Woolwich Memorial Centre, the township will exempt minor sports teams from paying the additional $18 an hour. The decision means an $8,500 hit Opinion...............08 Business.............11
to this year’s budget. Prime time ice rental rates at all three arenas – the Snyder pad, the Jim McLeod Arena and the Woolwich Township Arena in St. Jacobs. – will rise 3.5 per cent to $181.41 an hour from $175.24. An additional premium will take the cost of the Snyder arena ice to $199.11 for all other users, including the Elmira Sugar Kings Junior B hockey club. The compromise came following last week’s public backlash against the > SEE RATES ON PG. 02
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