'Hockeytown USA' finds new way to entertain itself on skates
Author: Boyd Huppert
Updated: 8:40 PM CST February 25, 2021
WARROAD, Minn. — Kids in Warroad don't arrive in the world with their skates already laced.
But almost.
“I was born to skate, my mom said,” 9-year-old Anderson Myers proudly states as he shoots a puck into an empty net on the Warroad River.
Mere weeks ago, Anderson’s birthright was taken away.
“They said that we can't go skating,” Anderson says.
COVID-19 restrictions may have temporarily shuttered Warroad arenas in the late fall and early winter, but the community, which proclaims itself Hockeytown USA, didn’t take the closures standing still.