Centennial Arena in Swan River is facing some issues in keeping the ice surface cold.
The arena was built in 1968, what they are experiencing with the age is a loss of brine which is used to go through the lines under the cement floor and keep the floor cold enough to freeze the ice surface.
As long as they can keep the brine levels up and make ice they’re okay. If it gets worse and they can’t create ice, they will have to look into other facilities for their hockey teams to use.
They don’t have a solution to the problem yet. They want more professional help to look into the problem before they figure out a solution.
Swan River Mayor, Lance Jacobsen, hopes they can make it through the hockey season before they need to fix the problem.
They might have to wait until April or May to get the ice removed so they can do investigations to find out where things are going wrong.
