On CHRISTMAS Eve 2020, fire trucks rushed to the Chuck's home in Manton, Michigan. But it wasn't because of a Christmas nightmare. Far from it.
Winters can be1 this far north, especially in the full swing of COVID-19. Scott Chuck knew something had to be done to bring some2 to the 1, 555 people calling Manton home.
Chuck, 51, owns a house with a yard. When he was three, his father built a(n) 3 in their backyard, where Chuck and his buddies would spend4 hours playing hockey. That, thought Chuck, is what the children in this community need.
One problem: Chuck had no5 how to expand the ice-skating rink that had been abandoned for years and was6 too small for his intention. Luckily, there's YouTube. After watching a video, he was7 a 3,000-square-foot shallow pool in his yard, and buying logs to create the walls. Now he needed the ice. That's where those fire trucks came in. It took 12 of them to spray enough water to8 the pool. Then he waited for Mother Nature to do9 .
It wasn't long before Chuck's back yard became a Manton hot10 . The smell of grilled hot dogs in the air, the sparkle of lights over the ice and the laughter of children playing hockey11 everyone.
But the kindness didn't stop with Chuck. When12 got out that he'd spent S1, 400 out of his own pocket to build his rink, neighbors, even strangers, donated $3, 000 to13 the costs and more.
For Chuck, the rink was always14 about kids playing merrily. It was about 15 even the darkest times.
