An ice little sum to give
Hamilton Ice Rink celebrated their 50th anniversary by raising cash for charity.
A dinner at the Radstone Hotel in Ashgill made £5000 for Maggie’s Lanarkshire.
And Lanarkshire businessman Les Hutchison topped it up to £10,000.
Marion Craig, board director of Hamilton Ice Rink, said: “The evening was a great success, with curlers attending from all over Lanarkshire.
“With the assistance of our speaker Andy Cameron, we were delighted to have raised £5000 for Maggie’s.”
The cancer charity is based in the grounds of Monklands Hospital but serves the whole of Lanarkshire.
Mr Hutchison has offered to match donations to Maggie’s up to the value of £50,000. For more information email ruth. zokas@maggiescentres. org or call 01236 771191.
Members of the ice rink are enjoying their anniversary celebration. The rink at the Low Parks was opened on September 29, 1967, by WH Robertson-aikman.
Building had started in August 1966 and in March 1967 refrigeration experts were on-site, with the opening of the £170,000 building seven months later.
The ice rink was the beginning of a “super county playground in a Strathclyde Park, which was to be a government-backed scheme to provide boating, golf, caravanning and ponytrekking for leisure-time Lanarkshire,” according to the Hamilton Advertiser at the time.