For the first time in six years, the Wright Twp. ice rink is expected to be open to the public Sunday.
Following the tragic death of Mountain Top resident Tanner Kahlau in a skiing accident last week, friends, community member and township employees joined forces to make the repairs needed to get the rink ready for use.
âIn three days, we turned this rink around,â said Jared McCune, organizer of the effort to restore the rink. âNo, it is not perfect and nowhere to where I want it to be. But it will be functional.â
Kahlau, 22, was a junior student-athlete at SUNY Fredonia where he was a member of the schoolâs ice hockey team, a sport at which he excelled. A 2016 graduate of Crestwood High School, he was a multi-sport athlete, starring in ice hockey, football, and lacrosse.
Honoring victim of skiing accident
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WNEP) Jared McCune says the ice rink at the Wright Township Recreational Park used to look a lot different than it does now and he remembers spending a lot of time playing hockey there.
“We’d skip school. We’d play all day; we’d be at all night. That’s what we did. We’d play from when the sun came up to the lights went out at night. We lived in this, what we called home. Some of the best memories we will have were made here,” McCune said.
McCune says most of those memories were shared with Bernard “Tanner” Kahlau, another Mountain Top hockey player who was killed following a skiing accident this week in New York.
Honoring victim of skiing accident
The death of a young man from Luzerne County has sparked a volunteer effort to honor him. Friends are memorializing him at one of the places he loved the most. Author: Chelsea Strub Updated: 6:17 PM EST January 15, 2021
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. Jared McCune says the ice rink at the Wright Township Recreational Park used to look a lot different than it does now and he remembers spending a lot of time playing hockey there. We d skip school. We d play all day; we d be at all night. That s what we did. We d play from when the sun came up to the lights went out at night. We lived in this, what we called home. Some of the best memories we will have were made here, McCune said.