WINNIPEG -- A trio of outdoor skating rinks in Winnipeg are opening up ahead of the holidays. Starting Thursday, the Riley Family Duck Pond in Assiniboine Park is opening for skating on Christmas Eve for residents. Due to the current public health orders, the warming shelter at the site will stay closed, but visitors can use the picnic tables and washrooms at the site. “Under current public health orders, people may engage in individual or family outdoor recreational activities such as skating, tobogganing, and skiing as long as they maintain required physical distancing and avoid gathering with people outside their household,” the Assiniboine Park Conservancy said in a statement. “Specifically, people must maintain a separation of at least two metres from people outside their household and must not engage in activities as part of a group of more than five people, unless they all reside at the same residence.”