{"id":91,"date":"2013-11-26T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monadnockcurling.org\/?p=91"},"modified":"2013-11-26T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T12:59:50","slug":"congrats-to-keene-ice-on-the-unanimous-keene-city-council-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/2013\/11\/26\/congrats-to-keene-ice-on-the-unanimous-keene-city-council-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats To Keene Ice On The Unanimous Keene City Council Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keeneice.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-92\" alt=\"Keene Ice logo\" src=\"http:\/\/monadnockcurling.org\/files\/2013\/11\/keeneice.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>CONGRATULATIONS to the team at <a href=\"http:\/\/keeneice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keene Ice<\/a> for the\u00a0<b><i>unanimous<\/i><\/b>\u00a0vote of the Keene City Council to proceed with executing the development and operations agreements between the City of Keene and the Keene Ice organization! \u00a0This is a\u00a0<em>huge<\/em> step forward and means that if the fund-raising all works out we should see a brand new ice arena here in Keene opening as soon as next September &#8211; awesome news for those of us who love winter sports!<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was there at the meeting and was delighted to hear Councilor Mitch Greenwald mention during his report about the previous week&#8217;s Finance Committee meeting something along the lines of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;<em>there was even a guy there from a curling organization&#8230; that&#8217;s something even we could do [pointing to another councilor] given that we can&#8217;t skate&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>EXACTLY!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curling is a sport that is accessible to\u00a0<em>all<\/em> ages&#8230; young, old, and everywhere in between. \u00a0And while you obviously may play better if you are in athletic condition, you certainly don&#8217;t <em>need<\/em> to be. \u00a0I&#8217;ve played on teams with people of all ages and physical conditions.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t bend your knees you can deliver rocks with a special stick. \u00a0There are even leagues of wheelchair curlers. \u00a0Pretty much\u00a0<em>anyone<\/em> can play curling!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <a title=\"Our Vision\" href=\"http:\/\/monadnockcurling.org\/vision\/\" target=\"_blank\">why we want to bring a dedicated curling facility to the Keene region<\/a> &#8211; to provide another winter sport option and to make Keene a true center for winter sports activity!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How You Can Help\" href=\"http:\/\/monadnockcurling.org\/get-involved\/\" target=\"_blank\">WILL YOU JOIN WITH US and help us spread the word<\/a> about bringing curling to the Monadnock region?<\/p>\n<p>P.S. And yes, we\u00a0<em>are<\/em> talking to the Keene Ice folks because there does appear to be a place in their plans where they\u00a0<em>might<\/em> be able to add a couple of sheets of curling ice! \u00a0Stay tuned&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONGRATULATIONS to the team at Keene Ice for the\u00a0unanimous\u00a0vote of the Keene City Council to proceed with executing the development and operations agreements between the City of Keene and the Keene Ice organization! \u00a0This is a\u00a0huge step forward and means that if the fund-raising all works out we should see a brand new ice arena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-keene-ice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45Z85-1t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/monadnockcurling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}