SISTER LAKES — For 90 years, families in Dowagiac and Sister Lakes have rolled around at the Ramona Roller Rink.

As evidence, owners Harold and Michele Schaus, of Dowagiac, have a wall of memories, featuring old pictures and newspaper articles.

“It’s amazing how many people have come through here,” Harold said, admiring an older magazine article. “And how it really has touched people all over.”

Despite so many happy memories, the rink, one of Sister Lakes’ oldest businesses, is now calling on the community for help. The Schaus, who have owned Ramona Roller Rink for 15 years, have opened a Go Fund Me campaign to help fund the cost of necessary work to the rink, including roof work. The campaign has a goal of $150,000, one half of the total costs of repair and restoration to the building.

“There is some work we want to get done and some work that has to get done,” Harold said. “We would really like to get it back to the way it used to be and some of its former glory.”

In its nine decades of service to Dowagiac and Sister Lakes, Harold, who worked at the rink as a teen before owning it, said he has seen generations of people use the rink.

“How many places can you go to that your kids can have fun at that the parents also went to when they were kids?” Harold said. “You don’t see that kind of thing anymore.”

“We have seen grandparents come in not only with their kids, but their grandkids,” Michele added. “Some are even bringing their great-grandkids now.”

Because of the rink’s longevity, Harold and Michele said they are hoping the community will turn out to support the roller rink with its Go Fund Me campaign.

“We have so many people come in here, some just to stop and look, and say ‘I used to come here when I was a kid,’” Harold said. “If everyone that came in here gave just a little, that would add up to a whole lot. There have been so many people who have been here, I can’t even imagine the number.”

Though the campaign has raised less than $500 in the week and a half it has been live, both Harold and Michele are optimistic that more people will donate, believing that the rink is as important to many community members as it is to them.

“I love the people and seeing how happy the roller rink makes them,” Michele said. “There are a lot of memories and a lot to preserve.”

To donate to the Ramona Roller Rink campaign, go to gofundme.com/restoring-ramona-roller-rink or visit the Ramona Roller Rink on Facebook.

The rink is located at 93103 CR 690, Dowagiac.