Some of the workmen from G&B Concrete and Masonry were putting blocks in place on the new park shelter building along Field Street Wednesday. |
Year-round park building takes shape Oct. 29, 2009 For the first time in decades, Antigo will have an ice skating warming house.
The city discontinued offering a warming house after a municipal parks department plow truck fell through the ice skating rink on Antigo Lake just south of the Lake Park shelter years ago. But in a handful of weeks, there will be a heated building to welcome skaters when the ice season of late 2009 and 2010 arrives.
The shelter is being constructed in the 600 block of Field Street, between the new playground complex and the winter-months skating rink.
The city has been working for a number of years to improve the setting along Spring Brook and several derelict buildings were razed.
Two years ago donations were gathered to construct the playground, which has attracted more activity than was anticipated.
“One of the problems is that there have been no place to get warm, no rest rooms and no place to clean up after playing and picnics,” City Clerk Kaye Matucheski explained. The current project solves that problem.
The warming house is another of the gifts to Antigo and Langlade County by Ed Stasek and his late wife Martha, who have constructed memorials, installed attractive signs and built buildings.
Matucheski explained that the Field Street building will have year-around use between the skating crowd and in the spring, summer and fall, those at the playground.
She added that the new facility will make the area even more attractive than it already is, especially during the winter skating season.
“We must certainly thank the Stasek family for their generous gifts to our community,” she said.
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