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National Skating Week 2003
Its Great to Skate in Cleveland :: Jan 18-26 2003 (p2)

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We tried something new this year and believe it gave the rinks a tremendous boost. We had a mailing with Valpak coupons offering free skating and lessons sent to 200,000 homes (approximately 20,000 per rink) and listed the participating rinks with their dates and times. This coupon was good for the entire family. The money for this project with the rinks and the Cleveland Skating Office was paid for with funds from Cleveland Championships 2000. Our rinks reported between 200 and 1000 skaters with the average being 350, or as one Basic Skills director put it "we had about a billion people". The sign-ups for the Basic Skills classes were huge thanks to USFSA and National Skating Week. Everyone is looking forward to doing this again next year. The facilities come up with new ideas every year and we can't wait to share the new ideas for 2004. The Cleveland Skating Office and our Learn-To-Skate committee would like to thank not only the Cleveland Championships 2000 Trustees but also all of the clubs that participated this year: Brooklyn FSC, Euclid Blade & Edge, Garfield Hts. FSC, Mentor FSC, Pavilion SC, Shaker FSC, Strongsville SC, West Shore FSC and Winterhurst FSC. We also want to thank our area coaches that so graciously gave of their time to help promote skating in Cleveland.