Jenny came into town on Friday to help her friend with babysitting, she was still there on Saturday morning and we had lunch together. I went by Reservoir Park and noticed the building was gone, the side fencing at that end of the rink had been taken down to allow for its removal. On Sunday morning we were in Rothsville for week #8 of the Sunday league, I commented to Don that I had seen the end fencing removed and he told me the entire span went down later on Saturday. One of the guys who helped remove the building asked about the fence, when Don said it would undoubtedly be destroyed when the rink itself was the man offered to remove it and make use of it himself (makes sense to me, why junk something that is in perfectly good shape if it can be salvaged). On this day Township defeated Ephrata and Warwick won over Hillside, the regular season ends with week #9 on the 26th. I was back in town by 1:00 or so, after a quick turnaround I picked up Jenny at her friend's house and took her home. From there we traveled about eight miles west of Quarryville to a public park in the southern end of the county. Jenny's friend and her daughters had left their house when I picked up Jenny, they were at the park setting up for the middle daughter's birthday party. Shania (pronounced "shuh-NYE-uh") is five years old which is hard to believe, I've known her since birth but it's all just a reminder that time stops for nobody. Her mother selected this particular site for the party because it has a playground and a "splash-pad" right next to the picnic area, I was familiar with where it was but I rarely travel in that direction otherwise. The party wound down around 5:30 or so, after I had Jenny and Helen home I came back to the city and stopped by the soon-to-be-former rink. It's strange seeing it without the building and the fence (which went up in 2003) and the dek surface itself which was laid down in 2005. Just about everything salvageable is gone, the place is nothing but an empty shell at this point. We played on that rink in that park for forty-two years and when it is gone there will never be any reason to go back. Take care, thanks for reading.
