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Skating rink opens for holidays in Dawsonville
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Lloyd Freeman, pictured at his ice rink on Wednesday, owns The Ice Rink at North Georgia at the North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawsonville. The rink will be open until early January. - photo by Nick Bowman
Lloyd Freeman has gone out of his way to ice over the parking lot at North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawsonville. But he’s not a jerk — he’s an entrepreneur, and he’s offering folks in Northeast Georgia a chance to go ice skating at The Ice Rink at North Georgia. Freeman and his wife, Kari, opened the rink in late November and will be open through early January. Chances are you’ve had ice skating on the brain once or twice in the past week as Georgia was hit first by a snowstorm and then by one frozen night after another. Sitting in his ticket booth after dark on Wednesday, hands stuffed into his jacket pockets and breath fogging in the cold December air, Freeman said he’s been aiming to open an ice rink in Dawsonville for the past couple of years. In his day job, Freeman owns a mattress store in Buckhead.