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But that was not the end of the bad luck. Council heard Monday that a boiler failure hit the facility in February coinciding with minus-40 temperatures around the same time. In a presentation to council, the city’s fleet and maintenance manager, Seton Winterholt, reported that on Feb. 9, the boilers at Northland Power Curling Rink failed and needed to be replaced. According to his memo the issue involved two Viessman Boilers, which supply heat for hot water, provide in-floor heating to dressing rooms and coil heating in air handling units. River City Plumbing and Heating was called in and determined the cause was condensation in the combustion air intake of the boilers, which dripped directly onto the control boards and, in Winterholt’s words, “fried the controls.” That knocked both the boilers out of commission.
For the Battlefords a case could be made that it was our worst year ever worse than even the cryptosporidium and oil spill years and not just because of the COVID-19 pandemic that prompted shutdowns, economic devastation, and no shortage of loss of life in the province and world. It was a year in which one event after another ended up postponed or called off. It was also a year of devastating tragedy: the loss of a beloved Battleford NHL player, a tragic local murder-suicide, and ongoing and notorious criminal cases in the local courts. But look on the bright side: at least North Battleford isn’t the “Crime Capital of Canada” anymore, ending a long streak at the top of the Crime Severity Index this year.