Mayor George C. Brown Announces Kids’ Skating Clinic at Ice Rink on Public Square for Saturday, February 19th

Mayor George C. Brown has announced a Kids’ Skating Clinic at the Ice Rink on Public Square, for Saturday, February 19th from 1 PM to 3 PM.

The clinic will be hosted by Karel Zubris, who will be offering basic skills for beginners. Participants should bring their own skates, and helmets are suggested, but not required, for kids.

Karel Zubris has been a fixture of Northeastern Pennsylvania amateur sports and ice-skating communities for more than four decades, getting her start at Hollenback Golf course on cold

winter days with her sisters. From then she was one of first skaters to hit the ice at the new Ice-A-Rama in Wilkes-Barre in 1977. From there she joined the Learn to Skate group lessons and taught classes there for over 20 years, teaching at the former Ice A Rama, Stadium on Ice Lackawanna County, The Toyota Sports Plex in Wilkes-Barre and The Rev in Pittston.

Karel was a skating judge for the Keystone State Games for many years and was one of the founding members of the Diamond City Figure Skating Club, where she served as public relations chair. She is a member of the Professional Skaters Association, The Ice Skating Institute, and the United States Figure Skating Association. In 2013, Karel Zubris was inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame and The Plains Sports Hall of fame for her coaching, contributions, and promotion of ice skating in Luzerne County.