ICE STATION PALMDALE SKATE RINK OPEN FOR THE SEASON THE FREEZE IS ON AT MARIE KERR PARK.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, natives and cold-clime emigrants alike can glide across an ice rink set up under the stars at Marie Kerr Park. The second annual Winter Wonderland features a rink that is about 70 percent larger than last year's to accommodate more skaters. ``The one concern/complaint we had last year was we didn't have enough room for people who wanted to skate,'' said Kevin Younkin of Clear Channel Radio, the sponsor along with Re/Max All-Pro. Winter Wonderland's 50-foot-by-80-foot ice rink, which opened Friday, will be open daily through Dec. 21 at the park, on Rancho Vista Boulevard at 30th Street West. The cost will be $8 for a one-hour session, including skates. Sessions start at 2:30 p.m. weekdays; the last session is 8:30-9:30 p.m. On weekends, the rink will open at noon, with the last session 9-10 p.m. Each session is a half-hour apart, to give time for the Zamboni to smooth the ice. Tickets for each day's sessions will go on sale one hour prior to the first session. Individual tickets will not be sold before the day they are to be used, but group tickets can be purchased in advance and private parties scheduled by calling Kyra Kinsey at (866) 476-2532 (ITS-CLEAR). Beside the rink will be a Santa's Village Santa's Village is the name of several theme parks in the U.S. states of California, Illinois, and New Hampshire, in addition to one in Ontario, Canada. As of 2007, only the theme parks in New Hampshire and in Ontario remain open. offering live entertainment and booths selling food, handmade arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. and other items. Last year's 40-foot-by-60-foot rink could accommodate about 80 or 90 skaters at a time, Younkin said. This rink will be big enough for about 150, Younkin said. Some 5,000 people skated over 11 days last year, he said. This year's event will run two days longer. Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Performing Arts Conservancy will provide the volunteers to staff the rink. Among other holiday events today: --Palmdale's annual Christmas parade with about 120 bands, floats, car clubs, youth groups and other entries will begin at 10 a.m. on Palmdale Boulevard at 20th Street East and run west to 10th Street East. Following the parade will be a holiday festival from noon to 3 p.m. at Poncitlan Square on 9th Street East at Avenue Q-9, featuring holiday music, children's games and crafts, and photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus Mrs. Claus is a folk hero, and is the wife of Santa Claus in many modern versions of the Santa Claus legend. In many current versions of the mythos, Mrs. Claus lives with her husband and assists with the production of Santa's toys, sometimes overseeing their production by . --Metrolink's Holiday Toy Express Train, decorated with 30,000 lights and featuring a musical show, will start at 5 p.m. at the Lancaster Metrolink Station at Lancaster Boulevard and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . The train will pull into the Palmdale station off Sierra Highway south of Technology Drive at 5:45 p.m., and will be at the Acton/Vincent Hill station off Sierra Highway south of Angeles Forest Highway The Angeles Forest Highway traverses the Angeles National Forest and connects the Los Angeles basin to the Antelope Valley by going up and over the San Gabriel Mountains. The highway is variously known as County Road N-3 or FH-59 or the Palmdale cutoff. It is about 25 miles long. at 6:30 p.m. The Lancaster High School Lancaster High School may refer to:
adv. Music Without instrumental accompaniment. [Italian : a, in the manner of + cappella, chapel, choir.] Adj. 1. choir will perform at the Lancaster station before the train's arrival. Palmdale High School's chamber choir will perform at the Palmdale station. Los Angeles County firefighters will be at each station collecting new unwrapped toys for their Spark of Love toy drive. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Above, a few brave souls venture out onto the ice on the first day of the ice rink Friday at Marie Kerr Park; right, Jalyne Gelowicz, 7, of Palmdale gets in some practice on the ice rink. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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