Skate Esterhazy had pinned their hopes on a fundraiser with comedian Big Daddy Tazz to make up for losses due to Covid-19, but the event, planned for September 6, had to be cancelled because of poor ticket sales.
The fundraiser was planned for Camp O‘Neil at Round Lake, with comedian Big Daddy Tazz performing to a drive-in audience.
“Initially we wanted to do a drive-in bingo. It was going to happen a few times a month consecutively for however long possible, but with the whole COVID-19 thing, we were not able to get a license for that,” says Meranda Pangracs, President of the board of Skate Esterhazy.
“We were just kind of brainstorming and another director of the board (Chantelle Hruska) got a hold of the comedian (Big Daddy Tazz). He was willing to work with us because obviously due to COVID-19 he is not really getting any shows. it just kind of all came together.”
The fundraiser was especially important since the fall school at Skate Esterhazy had to be cancelled.
“For the last 42 years we’ve had a fall school in the month of September. This year due to COVID-19 we had to cancel. We are not getting the funds from those registrations. So far, our regular season is still going ahead. It will start in October and go to the end of March,” says Pangracs.
Skate Esterhazy offers a range of programs like CanSkate and StarSkate.
“We have lots of hockey players and figure skaters and lots of people who just want to know how to skate,” says Pangracs.
Skate Esterhazy hopes that people will come out and enjoy the night.
“We want to get the community involved and for people to get to know Skate Esterhazy and we want people to come out and take a break from all that has been going on and laugh a bit,” says Pangracs.
