You’re watching wsbt first before if your kids are in grade school chances are they have gone to a lot of birthday parties and some of those parties have probably included roller skating tomorrow the new mission a roller skating rink opens in mishawaka and south bend tribune columnist Heidi
Prescott has all the details on this Heidi we’re hearing people are already booking events and they’re not open yet that’s right Jennifer birthday parties all are already on the calendar even a November wedding reception the rink is inside the old regal bowling alley that’s on the city’s south side on West
Eighth Street south bend native Steve Phillips has been renovating the building for about a year now it looks nothing like it did before he took out the bowling lanes and installed 16,000 square feet of maple hardwood skating floor it’s huge he’s also added arcade games a karaoke machine lots of TVs and
Of course what skating rink would be complete without laser lights and a disco ball no you have to have all of that sounds like a ton of fun it’s a they’re gonna have a restaurant there too so what are the plans there for that what kind of food do they have it yeah
Starlight pizza will open inside the rink on Halloween that’s the ranks grand opening the owners using the original starlight recipe from the old location on Western Avenue in South Bend I also want to mention that the South Bend roller derby girls will be making this their new home and there’s also a
Separate room in the facility for bingo and other events for seniors church groups it’s much more than skating oh it’s going to be packed full of fun very busy Heidi thanks so much and you can read more about this new rink in Heidi’s column on Sundays in the south bend
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