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Wayland Community Turns Out to Build Ice Rinks

Wayland Patch 12/19/11: Wayland Community Turns Out to Build Ice Rinks. Saturday morning about 50 volunteers showed up at Wayland's Cochituate Field wearing work clothes and carrying tools to lay the groundwork for two ice rinks that will now open as soon as Mother Nature cooperates. "This is a tradition coming back," said Board of Selectmen member Joe Nolan. Nolan, who grew up in Wayland, said he remembers the basketball courts at Cochituate Field being flooded and used as ice rinks when he was a kid. It has been many years, however, since that took place. Warmed by coffee and donuts from the Dunkin' Donuts across the street, volunteers nailed together the boards for a 100-foot-by-100-foot rink and and 150-foot-by-50 foot rink. By the end of the work period, the square rink held its first few inches of water.

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