Grandmas Rally to Save Outdoor Hockey Rink

Four grandmothers in a Duluth, Minn., neighborhood organized a meeting at Lower Chester Park on Saturday afternoon to warn residents about a community organization that could dismantle the outdoor rink and nearby warming house where U.S. Olympian and NHL star Tommy Williams once skated. Plans are to turn the site into a greenhouse.

"We learned that the whole complex is scheduled to be demolished," Beverly Berntson, one of the concerned grandmothers, told the gathering of a few dozen people, according to a report in the Duluth News Tribune. "While the four grandmas brought this event about … we're not the likely leaders in this effort (to save the rink). … The opportunity is here, but the commitment has to come from you."

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