JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005 Lake Placid Celebrates 25th Anniversary 1980 Winter Olympic Games Challenges and Forecast: An Industry Roundtable Volume 7, Number 4 January/February 2005 CONTENTS Publisher Ice Skating Institute Challenges and Forecast . .6 Editor Lori Fairchild An Ice Arena Industry Roundtable Editorial Advisors Peter Martell Patti Feeney Low-E Ceilings: Print Production and Benefits, Costs and Tips . .14 Advertising Sales Manager by Rob McBride Carol Jackson Art Director Member Spotlight: Cindy Winn Livingston Polar Ice . .18 Contributors Rob McBride Lake Placid Jim Thompson Celebrates . .20 by Lori Fairchild The ISI EDGE (USPS 017-078, ISSN 1522-4651) is published bimonthly; January/February, March/April, May/June, July/ Synchronized Team August, September/October, November/December; by the Championships Ice Skating Institute, 17120 N. Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 140, Entry Form . .28 Dallas, TX 75248-1187. Annual Subscription Rate is $24.00 per year. 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What would you like to see added ISI INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS to its pages? We need your comments appointments Executive Director in order to give you the best possible U.S. Speedskating has named John Sirig- Peter Martell ice arena industry publication. Please nano managing director of marketing Managing Director, take a few minutes to take our online development, and has hired Melissa Scott Member Programs & Services reader survey, and your name will be as director of public and media relations. Patti Feeney National Events Coordinator & entered in a drawing to win a $100 gift Skating Program Director card. Go to www.skateisi.org, under Hockey Co. names sales VP Barb Yackel publications, and select ISI EDGE. The Hockey Co. has appointed Jamie Administrative Assistant Kathy Chase Coughlin vice president of sales for Controller & Trade Show Manager ISI coach’s book now available North America. Coughlin previously Karen Schaffer served as vice president of sales and Membership Coordinator marketing for Igloo Vikski. Kimberley Russelle Advertising Sales & Print Production Manager Skating community mourns Carol Jackson Sponsorship Sales Manager Giuliano Grossi Stuart Sedransky Giuliano Grossi died Sept. 2, 2004 at Marketing Coordinator the age 74. The former Italian Junior Emily Silva Men’s figure skating champion and Information Services Coordinator Italian national figure skating champi- Jeff Anderson on runner-up was the 1952 Olympic ISI OFFICERS alternate to Carlo Fassi President Jim Lange and a skating partner of Jean-Darcel Michel 1st Vice President Mike Paikin Sonja Henie. He went 2nd Vice President Gerry Hart Rikki Samuels Treasurer Jim Hartnett on to star in, direct and Secretary Margy Bennett Immediate Past President Boyd Wietecter ISI coach Rikki Rendich Samuels is the choreograph Holiday on author of the recently released Kids’ Ice, and coached both DIRECTORS ISI and USFS programs. District 1 Katy Hayden Book of Figure Skating: Skills, Strategies, District 2 Robyn Bentley and Techniques (Citadel Press/Kensing- Among his students was Giuliano Grossi District 3 Richard Arenella ton Publishing Corp.). Samuels, who Scott Hamilton. District 4 Jeff Doucette District 5 Shane Douglas lives in New York, is a former Middle District 6 Carol Burns Atlantic Senior Ladies Champion and a Where were you in 1981? District 7 Jack Vivian District 8 Jimmie Santee four-time national competitor. She The Ice Skating Institute is trying to District 9 Dan Smith coaches ISI students at Sky Rink at locate skaters who participated in the District 10 Char Martin District 11 Liz Folger Chelsea Piers and teaches seasonally at first ISIA Recreational Team Champi- District 12 Jenise Jensen Rockefeller Center. onships (now known as ISI World Recre- District 13 Janice Forbes District 14 Paige Scott ational Team Championships) in 1981, District 15 Donald Bartelson Canlan completes rights offering in San Diego. ISI has a special celebration District 16 Cindy Solberg Hockey Spiro Giotis Canlan Ice Sports Corp. has closed the planned for next year’s competition in Builders & Suppliers Doug Peters rights offering it announced on Sept. southern California, which marks the Instructors David Santee 25th annual event. If you participated in Commercial Rinks Andy Deyo 27, 2004. Canlan received gross pro- Public Rinks Al Tyldesley ceeds of $8,671,087 from the rights the 1981 competition, please contact Schools, Colleges, Universities Vicki Korn Patti Feeney at [email protected] or PSA Representative Gerry Lane offering, and issued 173,421,743 com- USFS Representative Homer Hagedorn mon shares to shareholders upon the (972) 735-8800. ISIAsia Representative Raul Gomez MAMA Representative Trudy Ivory exercise of the rights. This represents 93 MIAMA Representative Russ Rose percent of shares available under the Send people and product announce- MIRMA Representative Judy Sniffen offering. Canlan intends to use the net ments and photos to [email protected]. WIAMA Representative Jim FerrellLifetime Honorary Member Carol Zdziebko proceeds of the rights offering to make Look for rink news on ISI EDGE Online, the initial payments required under at skateisi.org. 4 ISI EDGE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005 Challenges and Forecast An Ice Arena Industry Roundtable Edited by Lori Fairchild he beginning of a new year is a natural time for evalu- regardless of their size, age, location or ownership. The chal- ation and forecasting, and the ice arena industry is no lenges that received the most attention and concern were: Texception. ISI recently asked 10 arena managers from increasing competition, rising energy and insurance costs, across the country about their challenges, concerns and personnel issues and a negative industry image. vision for the future. While their responses are uniformly In addition to identifying challenges, the participants sobering, these ice arena professionals remain both deter- were asked to share their recommendations for solutions and mined and optimistic. what they see on the horizon for the ice arena business. The When asked “From exercise provided a strong reminder of the value of commu- your perspective, what nication between association members — sharing knowledge are the three greatest and experience benefits the industry as a whole. challenges facing ice knowledge arenas today?” the Sharing thoughtful responses Increasing competition ranged from “being GLATFELTER: The greatest challenge that faces the ice and experience reactive instead of arena industry today is the emergence of other entertain- proactive” to “main- ment sources. We are competing with other entertain- taining pro shop sales ment/recreation activities for that entertainment dollar. It’s benefits the and revenue in an important to stay up on the trends that kids are into. I’m ebay discount mental- always looking for new ideas, and I got many at our last ISI ity.” Notably, there conference. were several common industry as a whole. threads of opinion between all of the JENSEN: We may be “the only game in town” as far as ice facilities represented, skating is concerned, but people can choose to recreate much The Participants ©www.ArtLightStudios.com Bob Bebber Cyndi Glatfelter Tom Hillgrove Bob Hlebinsky Cindy Jensen General Manager General Manager President Facilities Manager Skating Director Sun Microsystems Raleigh Iceplex Rink Management Mt. Lebanon Recreation & Ice Center Manager Ice Centre Raleigh, N.C. Services Corp. Center Lane Events Center-ICE Westminster, Colo. Privately run facility; Mechanicsville, Va. Mt. Lebanon, Pa. Eugene, Ore. Public facility; triple-sheet single-sheet Ice skating facility Public facility; standard Public facility on county management company rink and studio rink fairgrounds; single-sheet 6 ISI EDGE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005 The Participants