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Welcome
Welcome to the official site of the Rockcliffe Hosers! This site provides all of the information that Rockcliffe Hosers, Rockcliffe Rinks Supervisors, and residents of Rockcliffe Park and surrounding areas will need, to care for and enjoy the seasonal rinks in Rockcliffe Park.
The Rockcliffe Hosers are a group of Rockcliffe dads ( and one Mom) who gather nightly in Winter as crews of 5-6 to flood the Rockcliffe Park rinks on the grounds of Rockcliffe Park Public School. The Rockcliffe Rinks Supervisors are a group of high school students who earn community volunteer hours by providing supervision at the rinks.
The site will also be the main portal as your Rockcliffe Hosers advance plans to develop the rinks site into a better recreation offering complete with a new sports pavilion. Stay tuned!
If you are a Rockcliffe Hoser or a Rockcliffe Rinks Supervisor you must LOG IN to access information and schedules. Please use the Contact feature to contact the site administrator, Brian Montgomery or to offer feedback or comments.
Thank you for visiting Rockcliffehosers.com! Check the site regularly for news, updates, blogs and updates to the rinks development project.
Hoser's Blog
February 13th, 2012 @ 21:00
Visit YouTube for this video on the Rink Project
January 14th, 2012 @ 18:32
Let's all thank the Denison family for the hard work they did during Christmas to lay down the base ice at the boarded rink. I hear they did 17 hours! Anyways many thanks from the community - we had base ice earlier than most rinks and the City did not put out their official Base Ice call until Dec 29th. Here are some notes on the rink and events: 1. The rinks are open and kids are skating. Later this week I hope to have supervisors unlocking the rink trailer every afternoon. 2. We have a brand new hose reel! 3. A quick and efficient way of getting the water out of the hoses and making your job easier is to thread them over top of the soccer goal post. Trust me, it really will make the job a lot easier. 4. The Jubilee garden Christmas lights should be up this week. Please flood the Jubilee Garden rink every night. 5. Guy Robert plows snowfalls more than 5cm - snowfalls smaller than that, we're shovelling! 6. Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Rink Project Launch Party at the Irish Ambassador's house on Friday January 27th. Cocktails, apps, Dan Dunlop's band and disco later in the evening! You do not want to miss this party, and there is a finite supply of tickets (150?) so use the contact feature on the website to tell me if you want tickets and I will flip your request to the party fundraising crew. 7. We had a film crew filming a promo video for the Rink Project last week and they got some great shots and interviews. Some of your kids really want you to donate to the rink. You should listen to them. We can exploit the young as well as anyone! 8.Hoser shinny is Wednesday nights from 830pm - 10pm. Bring your hockey playing kids if you like. Thanks once again for your effort at the rink!
November 22nd, 2011 @ 17:24
Welcome to the 10th year of the Rockcliffe Hoser!
The boards are up and we are just waiting for Mother Nature to behave. We need snow to dump on the rink and then we can flood on top of the snow. Still waiting for the trailer as well.
Hoser Pub Night looks like Thursday December 1st. We are likely to bust through the 120 level in numbers of Hosers! Thank you!
January 24th, 2011 @ 17:44
Even more Hoser press.....this was the night of last week's Shinny and a Carleton journalism student did a multi-media piece on us
January 22nd, 2011 @ 08:40
More Hoser press! http://www.cbc.ca/intownandout/2011/01/22/rockcliffe-hosers/
Charlie Sezlik and I met the severely underdressed CBC reporter , Rebecca Zandbergen of In Town and Out, at the rink on Thursday morning for a flood. I'll post the audio clip when it goes on their site.
January 18th, 2011 @ 11:41
Here is some Hoser press
March 2nd, 2010 @ 21:08
That's a wrap on the 2009-2010 Rockcliffe Hoser flood season! All remaining floods this week are cancelled The hoses and shovels are stored away; the trailer is locked up and the ice is melting in a hurry. The city turns off the power this week and then they cart the trailer away soon after that. A great big thank you goes out to all of this year's 105 Hosers for a great hosin' season. We had pretty good ice in somewhat challenging conditions this year. Hopefully everyone enjoyed flooding with their mates and that everyone got out for a pub night or two. We will have a Pub Night sometime in late March when everyone is back from March break. Also, I would like to thank the Ashbury College student rink supervisors who helped keep the rinks safe and clean. As well, a shout out goes to Guy Robert who does his usual great job plowing. And as usual we should all thank Brad Denison for this year's edition of the The Brad Denison Base Ice. Stay tuned for details of the Rink Development Project - ramping up this Spring after a hiatus. Thanks again Hosers! El Presidente Hoser
January 25th, 2010 @ 21:09
The Hoser schedule is working very well and until the latest warm weather we have been flooding 7 nights a week. Many thanks to all the Hosers for their great work. The rinks are currently under a lot of water due to today's rain. It is due to get colder this week and this week's crews will need to break up the inevitable shell ice that will form before flooding again. It is due to get colder on Wednesday.
December 15th, 2009 @ 22:23
Well here we are in a new flood season. 12 new Rockcliffe Hosers have signed up this year - a new record! This takes us to 113 Hosers for the 2009-10 season - also a new record! Many thanks to Hosers who recruited new Hosers, it makes the job easier.
We are waiting for the call from the City to put in Base Ice but the weather has not cooperated - there is a little cold snap coming but apparently they need a few days of consecutive -10 evenings to call for Base Ice. It looks like the temps will be higher next week and through Xmas so we're pretty sure that Xmas skating is a longshot this year. Just as well, though, as my Base Ice guy is currently skiing in Revelstoke.
Visitors to the rink site will notice that the boards are up but that the inside supports are still attached so we can't flood yet. The City takes out these inside supports. The trailer has arrived and this year they got a little lazy and made the trailer sit very close to the entrance driveway...sigh....also, as of last night the stairs to the trailer are not fixed to the trailer so a few things have to happen before we get fluddin'. Lastly, we need heat to the trailer.
New for this year, we will experiment with Saturday and Sunday morning floods. I know, I know, whiskey at 10am is a totally different thing, but with this number of Hosers we have the opportunity to get even better ice. Let's try it!
Cheers, and bottoms up to a great year full of flooding and pub nights!
January 28th, 2009 @ 21:36
The site is finally finished....I think. There may still be a few bugs but 23 days after the planned roll-out, it is now live. Thank you to the Hosers for being patient while you have waited for the schedule of your flood times. A big call out goes to Christine Stevenson on my staff who has patiently worked with our web designers to produce a surprisingly complex finished product. I had no idea how much was involved to get the site working the way I wanted it. Yes I know, I could have just continued on the same way as I always have where I email out the schedule in a spreadsheet etc. but this way has so much more possibilities going forward.
I, and you, will use this site to announce community events ( I get many calls per month to announce events, school news, products etc to my Hoser email list - but I only bother the Hosers with community events ) ; we will use it to inform on how the rink development project is going, we will use it to sell logo-ed Hoser swag; you will use it to explain Hosing to rookie Hosers; they will use it to explain where they are going on four cold winter nights at 9pm and many Pub nights until well past 9pm; their wives will use it to check out the Hoser-cam at the rink ( just kidding, there's no Hoser-cam); kids will use it to check out rink conditions; supervisors will use it to check out their schedules; the schools will use it to figure out conditions and trailer status; and in a purely selfish way, I will use it to direct Hosers to change their own contact info, change their email address info, check their crew info and event info. Along the way, revenues from the site will be donated to our very own Rockcliffe charity: The Friends of the Village of Park Foundation and through them, back to the rink project! So thank you for visiting the site - I'd like your help - please send me your own blog prose. We'd like to hear Hosing stories and tales; problems and victories ( the hosepipe breaking off inside the school classroom at 1am a few years ago comes to mind) This blog can become a venue for the stories of our rink. Happy Hosin'!
Great Big Hoser
