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Communities at Work: Smoothing it out

It's large and gray. Sporting four studded tires and the word "Olympia" on the grill, its pilot drags an 84-inch blade across the ice, which is a little more than 1 1/2 inches thick. "You bring that on the ice and even the open skaters stay to watch. People are just fascinated," said Tammy Seela, Parks and Recreation manager. It's safer than it sounds, and the end product is a fresh top layer of ice, ready for skaters to enjoy at the Moffat County Ice Arena. Each of the five members on staff at the arena run the resurfacer machine, but it's not as easy as it sounds. "There's a lot more to making ice than just driving," Seela said.

The resurfacer is kept in an adjacent shed and is driven into the rink nightly before making its way around the course.

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