COEUR d'ALENE - What better time for ice skating than summer?

After three years, one collapsed roof, and plenty of waiting Kootenai Youth Recreation Organization will open its $2.8 million ice rink, Frontier Arena, in June, the nonprofit announced Thursday.

"It's a lot of work, but we figure it will be worth it once people are skating again," said Vince Hughes, KYRO president. "It was going to take a lot to get us to quit, but we never had that in our mind at all."

KYRO secured the final $14,000 donation Tuesday to close out its $800,000 capital fundraising campaign that began one year ago.

OLGS Charitable Trust donated the final amount, and trustees Marc Eberlein and Don Gary presented the check to KYRO after touring the facility, which is 90 percent complete.

"There are a lot of kids in this area that could use something like KYRO," Eberlein said. "It will be a great asset for our community."

The old facility collapsed from heavy snowfall late in 2008. Insurance paid $2 million, but KYRO built the $2.8 million building of its dreams - for now and the future.

It reached out to the community to help bridge the difference, and it got it.

"A heartfelt thanks to the entire community is the best way I can put it," said Skip Fuller, who helped organize the fundraising effort.

"The other thing is the tenacity of hockey moms," he said of the other group who helped organize the fundraising effort.

Opening day deadlines came and went as the nonprofit tried to piece together the financial funding during the difficult economic conditions throughout the year. When the rink, located off Seltice Way, opens in June, skaters, broom-ballers and hockey players looking for lost game time will have plenty of opportunity for North Idaho ice time.

"It was definitely a team effort," Hughes said. "Every little bit has helped keep us marching in the right direction, a big thank you."