For decades, Victory Memorial Ice Arena in North Minneapolis was home to everything from high school hockey teams to figure skating lessons. But now the vacant ice arena could help north Minneapolis get back on a roll.
PALM HARBOR â The pandemic has upset the lives of many Americans, forcing them to change their daily routines and even the way they live their lives in ways they never imagined.
The same can be said for Karen Silverman of Palm Harbor. But as the virus changed her life, it also opened up experiences that added many new moments of enjoyment.
When the former speech pathologist for Pinellas County Schools found her world shrinking in early 2020, she began to attend birthday parties and her book club meetings remotely through Zoom. One day during the summer she discovered Encore Creativity for Older Adults, which resulted in her singing with a chorale of hundreds of people in a virtual Christmas concert.