On March 9, 1990, a line of vehicles left the Village of Arborg.

We were heading to the 1990 Interlake Regional Precision Competition in Stonewall, Manitoba. The final competition of the season for our 16-member Arborg Junior team.

The Stonewall Figure Skating Club hosted the competition that warm, spring-like day. It was the finale of a successful season for the Arborg Junior, Juvenile, and CanSkate teams. It also was the Arborg Junior team’s swan song. After searching high and low, merging skaters from three clubs, and pulling skaters out of retirement, our Junior team of sixteen would dissolve after this competition.

None of us were entering the Interlake Regional Precision Competition with an sigh of relief. We were tired, it’d been a long season, especially for skaters balancing singles and precision.

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