Past Donations

2024 - Feb 17 + 18 With the fastest fill-up of registration, our pre-event hope is that excitement will translate to great results for fundraising for Minnedosa Minor Hockey.

2023 - After a forced time-out for 2 years, Skate the Lake and Rock the Lake made a come back. 

2022 - The world wasn't quite ready for us in February of 2022 but thanks to the Town of Minnedosa staff we were able to have most of our minor hockey teams have a practice or scrimmage on the Lake on what would have been Skate the Lake weekend. 

2021 - Skate the Lake and Rock the Lake are cancelled for 2021.  

 While it seems obvious that neither of these annual events could go ahead this year while we are experiencing major public health issues, our organizing committee wanted to make it official.  

This also gives us the opportunity to thank all of the sponsors and participants that have supported our events for the past 14 years. Minnedosa’s Community Childcare Cooperative, Minnedosa Arena and Minor Hockey and The Beach Enhancement Committee have all received funds from Skate and Rock the Lake, thanks to all of the local support we have received.  

It has been great to see so many people turning to Minnedosa Lake this winter for some outdoor recreation. A special thank you to all the snow movers and rink builders who have created trails and rinks! If you are able to make use of the ice they have cleared, please remember to say “thank you” and clean up after yourself so others can enjoy the same great spaces.  

On February 13 + 14, we hope you will take time to go for a skate on the lake or an outdoor rink! We wish you all the best weather that a Skate the Lake weekend can offer (and none of the extreme weather conditions that sometimes mark our Skate the Lake memories). 

We look forward to seeing you at a future Skate and Rock the Lake – hopefully in 2022!  

Thank you Minnedosa! 

2020 - Skate the Lake 2020 featured a windy Saturday am and a show blizzard on Sunday afternoon right before the final. Some upgrades were made to the crokicurl area, thanks to Minnagro and Kingdon Machine Works. Fundraising total for 2020 was $ , which Minnedosa Minor Hockey used to purchase rink boards to divide the ice into smaller scale game ice.

2019 - Skate the Lake 2019 featured 25 adult teams (19 in the men's division and 6 in the ladies), 16 youth teams and 19 teams in the second annual Rock the Lake Pondspiel. Crokicurl was introduced for the first time on Minnedosa Lake. A donation of $12,000 from the weekend was made to Minnedosa Minor Hockey - finalizing the fundraising for the new digital display sign/scoreboard which was installed near the start of the 2019-2020 season (with plans to relocate to the new MREC arena as soon as possible).

2018 - The 12th Annual Skate the Lake saw the addition of Rock the Lake (curling on the lake). The $12,000 donation from the 2018 event went to Minnedosa Minor Hockey towards their planned purchase of a digital score clock / display. 

2017 - Skate the Lake 2017 donated a total of $10,000 to two community organizations: $5,000 to the Beach Enhancement Committee and $5,000 to Minnedosa Minor Hockey for sound system upgrades at the arena and coaching supports. This was our warmest Skate the Lake to date with temperatures of 5 degrees on Saturday, causing some games to be relocated to the arena due to standing water on the ice at the Lake. Sunday was still above zero (1 degree) so morning games were at the arena to preserve ice conditions for the afternoon final games. 

2016 - Our 10th Anniversary Skate the Lake! We are please to announce our largest donation ever - $12,700. For our 10th anniversary we gave a special salute to our gold sponsors (pictured below). Although the weather was a little cooler on Saturday it didn't slow down our pond hockey players. With a total of 49 teams (24 youth teams (11 from out of town); 19 mens, 6 ladies ) our ice maintenance crews were busy keeping the ice ready for all of the games. 

2015 - The 9th Annual Skate the Lake donated $12,000 to support Minor Hockey project at the MREC facility. We were also the proud hosts of a Hockey Manitoba 100th Anniversary event - the largest number of concurrent pond hockey games hosted in the province that day with over 150 minor hockey players participating in the Outdoor Series. 

2014 - Minnedosa Minor Hockey was able to raise just over $11,500 at Skate the Lake 2014. These funds have been designated/ear-marked for Minor Hockey related projects at the new MREC facility. This brings our total fundraising efforts for this project over the last 6 years to almost $40,000.

2013 - In 2013 the Minnedosa Minor Hockey teams and families worked together to raise $7000, which was donated to minor hockey related projects at the proposed MREC facility. 

2012 - $7,000 was raised by the Minnedosa Minor hockey teams and families through Skate the Lake 2012. This amount was donated to the MREC fundraising committee. 

2011 - Once again, Skate the Lake was operated by the families of Minnedosa Minor Hockey. $6,800 was donated to MREC from the weekend. 

2010 - By combining forces with Minnedosa Minor Hockey, Skate the Lake was able to donate $7,500 to the proposed Minnedosa Regional Events Centre

2009 - After Skate the Lake 2009 a donation of $4,500 was made to the Minnedosa Community Childcare Cooperative. 

2008 - In 2008, Skate the Lake was able to donate $2,500 to the Minnedosa Community Childcare Cooperative daycare project, despite having to reschedule due to the extreme weather on the original weekend.