The Westbrook Soccer League kicks off its Summer Street Soccer program tonight (6-8p) at the Cornelia Warren Four Season Rink on Lincoln Street. Below are six interesting facts about the rink:
- The Cornelia Warren Four Season Rink is named after Cornelia Warren (1857-1921), one of the paper mill owner S.D. Warren's five children who was well-known for her support for social justice and for her generosity as a philanthropist.
- The rink was dedicated to the City of Westbrook in August 1994 by the Cornelia Warren Association, a foundation that began in March 1925 with a $125,000 endowment from Warren.
- The Cornelia Warren Association spent about $35,000 on the construction of the rink.
- The rink is constructed on a site well-known to Westbrook's ice skaters and hockey players dating back to the 1940s.
- The off-season use of the rink was intended to be roller-blading, a fast-growing sport in the U.S. in the early 1990s, when the idea of the rink was conceived and the structure was built.
- The rink's surface is made of macadam and was painted white to reduce the heat absorbed by the sun. The rink's boards are four feet tall, and they were built by students from Westbrook High School's vocational program.
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