Yes, it's true, the
skateplymouthstate.com Ice Arena-Wednesday night, 6-8pm, ever-popular and well-attended three dollar Cheap Skate weekly skating event is indeed dead. Very sad to say, but the Cheap Skate is definately dead for now, however there are some halloween rumors fluttering about the very new, large and spacious PSU Ice Arena that the GHOST of the Cheap SKate is indeed alive and might just reappear, on a regular basis, sometime soon!
A little background information here:
For the first three Wednesday evenings in October 2010 of its short-lived life held at 6-8-pm, the two hour public skating event attracted about fifty ice skaters, out on the ice, which included about 25 adults and 25 children.
Then it happened, suddenly and unannounced, the Cheap Skate was placed on a "permanent vacation" until further notice.....if you know what I mean...
For about a week, some of the front desk - cash register supervisors said that the Arena was looking for a time slot to revive the Cheap Skate.....so does anybody know....is that just a line like a puff of ghost-like smoke....or will the Cheap Skate really return....meanwhile....off in the large and mostly empty spaces of this very brand new 14-million dollar ice arena....the ghost of the Cheap Skate is out there LURKING....you can acknowledge its' presence.....the Cheap Skate is definately gone but not forgotten by the fifty-plus weekly Plymouth skaters who were quick to attend its' first month inauguaral incarnation...
Will it ever return...will it ever return...will the $3 Cheap Skate ever return? (sung to 'Charlie on the MTA' by the Kingston Trio) It will circle forever on the smooth clear ice at the Arena as people come look'n to go skat'n....but are turned away unhappy when they learn of its' fate, that the Cheap Skate may never return......oh, poor old Charlie!