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“They worked really hard from October to March, and were just bouncing off the walls excited for the carnival,” said Shomachuk.

Special guest skaters were Alex Polishuk from Mannville, and Colton Foreman from Sherwood Park.

Watching and celebrating the youth’s progress, Shomachuk said family from all over the place attended including aunts, uncles, grandparents, and community members.

“We are very thankful for the commu - nity support. It was wonderful; we had a lot of sponsoring and people buying raffle tickets, 50/50s and prize tickets which help our club to pay for events as well as the ice and coaching fees. Thank you also to the parents for their support throughout the whole season; it’s because of them that we have a club. Thank you to the board, and to our coach Nicole Ford (from Irma, who also teaches in Wainwright). She does a great job and can test up to Level 5 which is great because now our children don’t have to travel to other towns to do testing,” said Shomachuk. “Skating is a skill they can use in the future when they get older; it’s great for keeping active and getting exercise, for balance, and keeping time to music.”

The Mannville Skating Club will be celebrating their 50th year with Skate Canada in a couple years, and she said the club was going even before they joined Skate Canada. She has been involved for the past eight years and said the children are so excited, they are starting to plan next year already.

With guest consignor KC Stock Farm