It's apparently been 40 years since anybody organized a community skate in the dead of winter on Oatka Creek in the Village of Le Roy, but that's exactly what Jay Beaumont and Jon Marcello, two of the owners of Smokin' Eagle BBQ & Brew, did today.
Beaumont said he remembered regularly skating on the creek when was growing up but thinks nobody wanted to organize anything after a child was hurt around 1980. Still, there is still a light pole next to the creek and with the help of the highway superintendent, he found out it still works (second photo).
At around 11 a.m. they got a pick-up hockey game going.
