Each winter since 2015, the Saskatoon Highland Dancing Association has hosted a community kilt skate. This year, like others before, the photos from the event feature young children at the beginning of their dancing career and the beginning of what we hope will be a lifelong love of skating.

On a cold, windy Sunday, February 13, they fortify themselves with cookies …

…and hot chocolate.

They bundle up warmly. Well, sometimes… (Nice mitts!)

And they get together with their friends from the dance school.

It’s not just the kids who have a chance to catch up with friends.

It’s an event that brings the whole family together.

In 2016, Saskatoon earned the title of Kilt Skate Capital of Canada. We hope that many of the young ones and parents who skated then at the Cameco Meewasin Skating Rink returned again this year at the Clarence Downey Speed Skating Oval.

And we hope that the annual Great Canadian Kilt Skate will flourish in Saskatoon for many years to come.