October 2015

Skate Regina News

Issue No. 1

Dear Skaters and Families;

Welcome all to our very first newsletter! We certainly hope you will like our rubrics, news, tips and introductions. For those who have been with us for years, you know how new this is to us. In fact, we all know how we are trying to be more modern, more proactive, and more present in your children's success in skating.Modernizing our website was not an easy task and yet, we are overcoming issues every day. This has greatly helped our team to come together around core issues: how early we should plan for our seasons and better analyze our numbers to that effect, prioritize where we want to be, what we want to do and really: who we want to be.Becoming more efficient with our hard earned fundraising money also means asking less from you all, for a better use of it. It also means presenting and justifying how it should be spent. Our club has evolved a lot in the past few years: more sessions, new programs, and more choices of arenas throughout town.We have not changed our fees in years, we help out our skaters ready to drop out for financial reasons and reach out to the communities at large such as the Heritage Community Center.At Skate Regina, we believe strongly in our community obligations and strive to live up to them all.On behalf of our Board, our coaches and team of Program Assistants, I wish us all a safe and joyful skating year!

Arié BaumSkate Regina President

In this Issue:

Recipe of the Month

Coaches’ Corner

You’ve Been Spotted

October Calendar

Skater Spotlights

Coaches’ CornerOctober 2015

October is here!

Welcome everybody to another exciting winter season at Skate Regina. It’s great to see so many returning faces and a special welcome to all of our new skaters.

As most of you will be lacing up your skates for the first time or for the first time in a while, let me give you a little glimpse in to what we have in store for you this season and some helpful tips to get you started on the right foot.

I would first like to introduce myself. My name is Vicki Schultz and I am the new Skating Director here at Skate Regina. My husband Dave and I just moved to the city in April and we are so excited to be a part of this wonderful club.

New Programs for 2015/16

CanPOWERSkating: This year we are so excited to bring our members some new programs as well as revitalizing some of our existing programs. You’ll notice two sessions of CanPowerSkating on our calendar. Skate Canada developed the only Nationally Recognized Power Skating Program in Canada which requires coaches to attain a separate certification/education. There are 6 levels to the program and we are going to begin by dividing skaters in to Junior (Level 1) and Advanced (Levels

2-6) for their 45min sessions. By offering this program, we will be able to build on the skill development our young skaters are learning at the CanSkate level and continue working great technique through their hockey/ringette years. Requirements for this program are full equipment, sticks and helmets with cage/full visor.

Junior Prep: We are restructuring the STARSkate Group program and are now calling it Junior Prep (the focus is to prepare group lesson figure skaters for our Juniors/private intro where skaters have semi private and private lessons). We’ll have more information on this program in the coming months but for now, it will be the first step for skaters who are interested in figure skating but are continuing to develop the fundamentals of skating.

As a reminder for parents of all programs, please dress your skaters appropriately for the ice conditions. It’s going to get cold out there so please ensure that they all have warm mittens and are dressed in layers. In our experience, layers are the best option as ski pants can be quite restrictive (especially for those in our Pre-CanSkate and CanSkate) and it can affect their ability to stand up. If you would ever like to speak with one of your professional coaches, please talk to us before or after your session.

We will be communicating with you via email so please make sure that we have your most recent email address. We will be posting monthly calendars on skateregina.ca to help make sure you’re all up to date with rink/ice changes.

As always, feel free to contact our administrator at 306-586-4898 or at skateregina@myaccess.ca

We are so excited to spend the winter with you and your skaters! Together we’re:

Building Excellence in Skating

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You’ve Been SpottedOctober 2015

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Skater SpotlightOctober 2015

CanSkater: Tayden Hutton

Age: 3

How long have you been skating: Only a few weeks

How often do you skate: Once a week

Memorable moment: Skating all by myself

Favorite skating move: All because I want to be a hockey player

Favorite place: the rink to skate and Wal-Mart and soccer

Other sports/activities/hobbies: soccer and ball

StarSkater:Reese Derow

Age: 9

How long skating? 1 year

How often do you skate: twice/week

Memorable moment: landing my first waltz jump

Favourite move? Double toe loop because I am just learning it

Favourite place: DisneyWorld

Other sports/activities/hobbies: musical theatre/soccer/swimming

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Skater Spotlight

October 2015

CanSkater: Vienna Kilbride Age: 5yrsHow long skating: 2 days (since September 2015)How often do you skate: Every time I have lessons.Memorable Moment: Falling A LOT and the girl who helped me know how to get up.Skating move: Zig-Zag because it's fun.Favourite Place: My house.Other sports/activities: swimming, singing, crafts, Kindergarten, watching Scooby- Doo

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Skate Regina:

P.O. Box 1331

Regina, SK

S4P 3B8

(306)586-4898

skateregina@accesscomm.ca

www.skateregina.ca

Skating Director:

Vicki Schultz

Recipe of the Month October 2015

No-Sugar Pumpkin bread2 heaping Tbsp raisins (25g)

3 prunes, chopped (25g)

2 dates, pitted and chopped (25g)

4 figs, chopped (65g)

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 Tbsp honey

½ cup low-fat buttermilk

1 egg

1 ½ cups whole wheat flour

½ tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp pumpkin spice

1/8 tsp fresh ground nutmeg

1 ¼ tsp baking soda

Cooking spray

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat the inside of a loaf pan with cooking spray.2. Add the raisins, prunes, dates, and figs to your food processor, along with the pumpkin, vanilla, honey,

buttermilk, and egg and blend until smooth. Pour into a medium size bowl.3. In a separate bowl, mix together the wheat flour, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin spice, nutmeg, and baking

soda.4. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet, and fold together. Mix only until it is incorporated, so that you

don’t over mix.5. Transfer the mixture to your bread pan and bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean from the

middle of the loaf. Cool on a baking rack and store covered in the fridge.

http://www.popsugar.com/fitness/-Sugar-Pumpkin-Bread-Recipe-20050745

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October Events CalendarOctober 2015

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