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The Center Ice Figure Skating Club in North Canton, Ohio, hosted a Christmas show titled Holiday Lights on Ice, which featured


daughters and their mothers performing together. Coach


Kamryn Lorenzen recruited the moms and choreographed the routine. The participants wore Christmas tree costumes and sweatshirts that lit up. “As you can imagine, there was a lot of laughter and great memories made for both the moms and daughters,” Carol Lung-Paskoff , chairman of Holiday Lights on Ice, said. “The routine was a hit. We are planning a father-daughter routine next year.”


Ice dancer takes lead role in Apple suit An ice dancer from Marshfi eld, Massachusetts, served as


the lead plaintiff in a $351 million antitrust lawsuit against Ap- ple Inc.


Barbara Ragan Bennett, a member of the Skating Club


of Lake Placid, represented 8 million iPod customers in a case that alleged that Apple attempted to maintain a monopoly on digital music from 2006 to 2009, according to a story on Bloomberg.com. An eight-person federal jury in California ruled in favor


of Apple in mid-December, saying the tech giant’s iTunes soft- ware update was a product improvement and didn’t harm the class of 8 million iPod customers. According to the Bloomberg story, Bennett purchased


an iPod nano in 2006. After buying the product she discov- ered that she couldn’t always fi nd the “rare music” she enjoys, including tango and Hungarian, for sale on iTunes. She was forced to buy CDs of the music and copy it onto her computer before synching with her nano. “It was very cumbersome,” she said in the Bloomberg sto-


ry. “It cost me money and limited access to music for me.” Bennett, who is a consultant,


became the lead plaintiff before closing arguments when two pre- vious lead plaintiff s were dismissed from the case after Apple ques- tioned whether their iPod purchas- es qualifi ed them to be representa- tives in the class-action case.


The lights, the excitement, the purpose Cool Sports, home of the Icearium in Farragut, Tennessee, hosted the


fi rst CARES on Ice Challenge in support of the Provision CARES Founda- tion and Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation. Under the direction of Nadia Kogeler, Nikki Ronayne and other local


coaches and team managers, 30 skaters took the challenge on the morn- ing of the “Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice” show (Dec. 6). Teams of up to 10 skaters performed some of Hamilton’s famous rou-


tines that morning, then made their way to the Knoxville Civic Coliseum to perform for Scott Hamilton as well as the guests of the “Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice” show. The concept and the purpose of this event was simple: to promote


Barbara Ragan Bennett


the “Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice” show, which is a fund-raising event for the Provision CARES Foundation and Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation; and to give local skaters the opportunity to be a participant for a great cause, and do so while enjoying their passion of fi gure skating. “Over the past year, our skating community (both hockey and fi gure


skating) has lost dear skaters and parents to cancer,” said Kogeler, general manager of Cool Sports. “This event, performance, and partnership with the foundations is an opportunity to honor those we love and miss. What better way to share in the celebration of life than through fi gure skating.”


Photographer captures special moment at Eiff el Tower An Associated Press photographer happened upon a fairy tale moment at the Eiff el Tow-


er’s Christmas ice rink on Dec. 16 when he snapped a picture of a Virginia man proposing to his girlfriend. With ice skates on, real estate agent Jon McAchran dropped to a knee and proposed to


Ashley Marie Kimberl, who happily accepted. McAchran presented Kimberl with a sparkling diamond engagement ring. “It was a surprise, as our fi rst date was on an ice rink in Virginia,” she is quoted in the AP


story. 42 FEBRUARY 2015


PHOTO BY NADIA KOGELER


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