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A Riverside South family can keep the ice but will lose the boards on their beloved backyard rink after an anonymous bylaw complaint.

A 60-foot rectangle of wooden boards has hugged the perimeter of the homemade rink near Canyon Walk Drive during winter months for three years, but the Meekin family was to take them down Monday after their second visit from city bylaw officers.

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The family will be allowed to continue flooding the rink for at least this year, said mother, Nicole Meekin.

The compromise comes after the city notified the family last week that the rink had to be entirely removed because it was built on city property.

Meekin says she is satisfied with the deal because the neighbourhood kids love the rink, especially on snow days like Monday when kids are kept home from school and holed up inside.

“If it had been ready to skate on, days like today are perfect for the rink because of the cold,” Meekin said. “My son would have loved to be on the ice all day today, but instead he was inside sitting on his iPad.”