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Remember to wear your Helmets and Protective
gear at all time.
Keep your boards updated and check
wheels regular.
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I know a lot of you kids
are looking at your photo's here. Please can you THINK and wear
protective padding and HELMETS. You cannot replace your head if
you crack it open!
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MaesG Kids Create own longed for skateboard area
Once
again this week the local paper had the distressing news that the
proposed Skateboard Park that was discussed and proposed for the Beach
Road, Bangor area was a no go. People are up in arms again as they
probably think of house prices falling if groups of children are seen
enjoying themselves on the arena instead of breaking into cars or
daubing graffiti on walls. It is always a case of " not in my
backyard" isn't it? But the saddest thing about this is that
two years ago MATRA put in plans for a Skateboard park to Gwynedd
Council all applications were duly sorted and correct. Then mysteriously
when it is time for the Skateboard decision to be made MaesG plans
"are lost" along with all the applications. ...Now you hear
of things like this on Quincy and other such TV programs, but the
plot thickens. You will have heard me mention how Caernarfon has a
state of the art boxing club whereas MaesG with 7 Welsh Champions
has a garage and no help, now Caernarfon is having its own State of
the art skateboard park to go with it. Is there any wonder mutterings
are heard about turning to Conwy Borough from Gwynedd.But not to worry,
our kids are ingenious at making do, so please enjoy some photo's
taken this weekend of local kids, some who by now had gone home so
there were quite a few more. While looking at their happy faces maybe
you will appreciate that they are where they are and not out along
the streets looking for mischief but wouldn't it be so much better
if they could be in a proper controlled safe area that was an arena
all of their own. You only have to ask the kids what they want and
they want a skateboard park. I suppose you can choose what you want
really. Youth who have nothing or nowhere to go so they are going
to look for places like the Memorial area, or the one these kids are
now using in these photos. Or you can give them somewhere to go and
not have to worry so much about delinquent youth causing problems
because of boredom the choice is yours.Enjoy the photo's and remember
your childhood, didn't you used to enjoy sitting on cardboard or a
tin tray skimming down some hill near home? - I know I did!
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While this
article is rather tounge in cheek there is a very serious side
to it. The children and youth on this Estate need an deserve the
Skateboard Park they should have had 2 years ago. It is obvious
to anyone with a grain of sense that what they are now doing is
life threatening. Who wants to be responsible for the first child
to fall badly.We as onlookers can warn them, but the Gwynedd Council
and powers that be can build them somewhere safe otherwise this
new habit will not go away only increase.
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Click
group photo only for larger image.
If
Communities First money is made available to the Maesgeirchen Partnership
for a skate-park, our Partnership should insist that it is constructed
solely out of concrete.
A trip to Parc Coed Helen skate-park in Caernarfon will show the
steelwork starting to rust after only 2 months use.
Inspection of the steel will show that most it has not been galvanised,
a skate-park so near the sea and subject to a salty environment
should be fully protected from the ravages of salt laden air.
The edges of some of the ramps are starting to sharpen, it is inevitable
that one day some poor kid is going to get a very nasty
and
very deep cut.
Bumps and bruises are a way of life for skaters and BMX'ers, with
the appropriate safety gear the chances of serious injury are considerably
lessened, but nothing they wear can stop deep lacerations to face,
arms ,or legs by razor sharp metal edges
So, to the youngsters of Bangor, and to their parents, do not be
fobbed off by the Council asking you what you want, then telling
you what you can have.
Your child deserves better that to be cut to ribbons because steel
is cheaper than concrete !
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