‘A Night at the Oscars’
IM Skating Club to offer three performances of its annual show this weekend
- THE IRON MOUNTAIN Skating Club will present its annual show this weekend. Performances will be at 1 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mountain View Ice Arena in Iron Mountain. Members of the Basic 4 Class are, from left, Addie Holsworth, Charlotte Holsworth, Sophia Richardson, Elsie Adams, Aliyah Pyke, Maribelle Adams and Anna Umbriaco. (Amy DeRidder Photography photo)
- THE IRON MOUNTAIN Skating Club has three seniors who will perform in their final skating show this weekend. From left are Madde Hemgren, Abby Ruble and Hailey Greenleaf. (Amy DeRidder Photography photo)

THE IRON MOUNTAIN Skating Club will present its annual show this weekend. Performances will be at 1 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mountain View Ice Arena in Iron Mountain. Members of the Basic 4 Class are, from left, Addie Holsworth, Charlotte Holsworth, Sophia Richardson, Elsie Adams, Aliyah Pyke, Maribelle Adams and Anna Umbriaco. (Amy DeRidder Photography photo)
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Iron Mountain Skating Club will present its annual show this weekend at the Mountain View Ice Arena in Iron Mountain.
“Our Stars on Ice: A Night at the Oscars” will be performed at 1 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. During the shows, the skating club will have flower sales, plus 50-50 and raffle drawings.
About 67 skaters will take part in the show, from the youngest Snow Plow Sam students to high school-age, said parent volunteer Ginnie Adams, who is in her second year with the club.
“It is completely volunteer program,” she said. “You pay for ice time and the coaches, and the organization keeps the show running. There is a lot of parent involvement. Parents provide props and make decorations for the performance.”
They are at the high end for numbers with 80 students in the club, she said. Students start at Snow Plow Sam levels that teach kids to skate; go through basic skills levels one to six; then can take free style and dance classes.

THE IRON MOUNTAIN Skating Club has three seniors who will perform in their final skating show this weekend. From left are Madde Hemgren, Abby Ruble and Hailey Greenleaf. (Amy DeRidder Photography photo)
“They have a lot of new beginners,” she said. Her older daughters, ages 11 and 8, started the program last year and loved it. Her youngest, 4, took part in a six-week Snow Plow Sam program this year.
The club’s three seniors — Madde Hemgren, Hailey Greenleaf and Abby Ruble — will skate in the opening number to music from the movie “Top Gun.” This will be their last ice show.
“My group of skating girls is like a family,” Ruble said. “I will miss them a lot. I’m glad I got to spend 14 years doing what I love.”
Greenleaf said skating has always been her happy place.
“Figure skating has been a major part of my life and the ice rink has seen me at my best and at my worst,” she said. “I have learned so much more then just how to jump and spin, I learned communication skills, resiliency and work ethic that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.”
The Snow Plow Sam 1 and 2 group will perform to music from “101 Dalmatians.” Snow Plow 3 and 4 and Basic Skills 1 combine to present “Can’t Stop This Feeling.” Other performances include: Basic Skills 2, “Hakuna Matata”; Basic Skills 3, “I See The Light”; Basic Skills 4, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”; Basic Skills 5, “What Have I Done”; and Basic Skills 6, “Fame.” The Freestyle group will skate to music from “Saturday Night Fever.”
There will also be extra numbers featuring the seniors, the competition group, the dance group and the You & Me group.
Parent volunteer Bonnie Greenleaf, who spent 13 years with the club, calls the show great, from the youngest to the oldest.
“I like to see the progression from littles to the seniors. They all started as littles and how they’ve become better skaters,” Greenleaf said.
“I think the little skaters numbers are always my favorites,” she said.





