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Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 (651) 982 -2440 Fax (651) 982 -2439 www.ci.lino- lakes.mn.us Date: February 21, 2012 To: Park Board From: Lino Lakes Recreation Supervisors — Brian Hronski and Tanya Mozingo RE: Department Updates • Skating rinks and warming houses are closed for the season. We opened up on Friday, January 13th and closed on Saturday, February 18th. We were open a total of 28 days and it was easily the worst skating season in many years! • Men's Five Player Basketball's regular season finished with the Corporate Raiders winning the regular season title. The play -offs are underway and the finals will be held on Wednesday, March 7th. We have 5 teams playing in the league this season. • We had another good number of children participating in our Snack and Skate and Hockey Skills programs this winter. We just had enough ice to make it 6 weeks. We had 24 participants in the Snack and Skate program and we had 4 participants in the Hockey Skills class. • The winter session of Soccer Mini Camp has been a success. We have a total of 17 participants signed up in 2 different soccer classes. The class is held every Monday night at Golden Lake Elementary and lasted 6 weeks! • Floor Hockey Mini -Camp just ended this week and we had 22 total participants signed up over 2 sessions. This class was held every Tuesday night at Golden Lake Elementary. Lino Lakes is offering open adult volleyball on most Fridays from December - the end of March! We have had record numbers this season as we have been averaging 27 participants per night so far this season. The open volleyball is held at Centennial Middle School and is from 6:30 - 9:45 PM. Remaining dates for the season are March 2nd, 9th, and 16th. • Spring /Summer adult softball registrations have started and the deadline to sign up a team to play in the 2012 Lino Lakes Softball League is Monday March 19th. • Youth instructional classes, such as Tae Kwon Do, dance and Toss, Kick and Catch had a great turnout for winter programs and we expect many participants to continue with these programs into the spring and summer. • Zumba® has continued to go strong. We have added a second session at Centerville Elementary on Monday nights in addition to Wednesday nights at Rice Lake Elementary. • In December we held our annual Secret Holiday Shop where over 140 children shopped for gifts for their family and friends. We also held our annual Breakfast with Santa with over 90 people attending this popular event at the Lino Lakes Senior Center. • Santa ended up writing 250 letters this holiday season!