Turns out, hockey is something of a big deal in East Grand Forks, and the infrastructure that creates and maintains the ice at the Civic Center – the city’s main ice arena – is outdated.
East Grand Forks officials' plans to renovate two of the city's ice arenas are still on a distant horizon. While they work toward that, city staff plan to use grants, prize money and, perhaps, "leftover" sales tax revenue to pay for a small chunk of those renovations beforehand.
East Grand Forks City Council members are set to vote next week on a $22,500 contract with Construction Engineers, a Grand Forks-based company, to further refine construction costs and other work on the city's longrunning plan to improve its parks and recreation facilities, most notable the aging VFW Memorial Arena and the East Grand Forks Civic Center