Seems there are more and more skateboarders out on the street.
There is a skateboard park over by the pool, but it is old and has big problems. Not many kids use it because it has become dangerous and people get scraped up often.
The city is probably going to tear it down.
There is a move to organize the skateboarders and help them raise money for a new skateboarding facility. Skateboarding is very popular, so lots of kids are into it.
There are a lot of them in the downtown area, which also looks kinda dangerous as well.
But there are people trying to help them help themselves.
Tearing the old facility down, or moving it or whatever they do to it, is on the agenda this week.
Tonight is worksession and the regular meeting in Tuesday.
Not sure that the windows committee will meet this week, with the regular meetings going on and all that. So maybe next week. They only have a couple weeks before their deadline.
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Ark City generally gets the national trends 5 to 10 years late, and popularity of pop-culture fads also stays in Ark City about the same length of time.
Tony Hawk is a "has been", the national skate-board craze is over, so you will see it go away in about 3 or 4 years. It will cease being an issue.
That is very incorect, skatebording is not a fad, it is part of growing up like yoyos and rollar skates, check out wichitas skatebord park, there are national championships all over the country.
you sound very negitive in your comments and a nay sayer to development for activeities for our children.
Not all children are lame ducks that must join a team sport, some are individuals who must compete on there own.
I was a compatitive skate border and i never heard of Tony Hawk, i hope your not someone of importance who has anything to say that someone will listen too
Surprised you are a competitive skate boarder and haven't heard of him. I guess nothing much filters through.
Sometimes, though, it's better to spend time in school learning to spell and less time in competitive sports.
How could you be a competitive athlete and not be able to spell the name of your sport?
Don't worry, I'm not important. Nobody listens to me.
You have a very good point, I must be more professional in my writing here on the blog,, sometimes I forget how important the trivial things are to those who ridicule others, often times when we walk though life we find faults with others before we look in our own box of cheerios.
I see my box is empty now so you can go ahead and stomp on the dreams of others and I will sit here wishing I was half the human being you are, thanks for reminding me what I am.
you arnt affending me. I just own a used book shoppe.
Not knowing who Tony Hawk is, is like saying you are a competition bicyclist and not knowing who Lance Armstrong is.
Skate boarding is like yoyos, but nobody is asking the city to spend tens of thousands of dollars for a yoyo park.
Someone should do a cost benefit analysis on this or it will wind up like the $250,000 walking trail that is used by maybe 10 people. The city should consider future demand for the need and what the park will cost and who will use it before committing any further money to the project.
National statistics put about 90% of all skateboarders under 18. If there are sufficient stakeholders to justify it, maybe it could be a change order modification to the $6 million high school stadium complex. There is probably enough fat in that project to construct a couple of decent half-pipes there and not even feel it.
the city isn't putting any money towards it.
they are trying to help the kids raise the money themselves.
maybe blend it in with the stadium. You could do something decent there.
I THINK THE OLD FOOTBALL FIELD WOULD MAKE A GREAT PAINTBALL COURSE. YOU COULD ALSO USE PART OF IT AS A NEW SKATE PARK, SINCE THE CITY WON'T BE USING IT FOR ANYTHING ELSE.
sounds like a good idea
go for it ... make it happen
"The video will cost $30,000, with $15,000 needed by April 15 in local donations. The remaining $15,000 will be held in escrow until the video is completed, edited and approved by Cowley County."
What a giant ripoff. If you paid for production costs, you could get every rapper, hillbilly and rocker in the world to shoot videos here.
Record companies pay for videos and spend millions to promote them. Why do they need 15 grand? What is wrong here? Who really gets the money? It is certainly not a community promotional idea. It is a big con game. Watch out.
hmnmmm what does a skateboarder have to do with a 30G video ?
what video are you talking about? Having all those rappers and hillbillies here would be good for business. what is wrong with that?
They're asking for 15 grand to shoot a video in AC. See the paper.
ok, but its not the skateboarders .
Maybe if we can support welfare for a country performer, we could better use the 15 grand for skateboarder's park.
Kids today, skateboarding and changing values: today's paper,4/2, frontpaged two young ladies who had twins on the same day. It then jumped to page 3 with a 1958 mention of a similar event. Note that the 1958 article mentioned Mr. & Mrs. X in both cases as well as employment. Where are the Mr.'s on the front page? One assumes a lack of page space to include the family or lack of it. Also - a week or so ago the front page had an major article highlighting the marriage of two challenged individuals who had risen above circumstances. I was starting to mist over until I came upon the part where "and then they became intimate after he stayed over during a storm". Who, if anyone, is your taste meister? There is more relevance and indications of how we have declined in those two articles than in any about skate board parks. I would have written to the paper but: a. it wouldn't have been published or b. it would be and embarass some people (hopefully)
There is more relevance and indications of how we have declined in those two articles than in any about skate board parks.
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It is a good point.
(we would run your letter if your name was attached :) )
times have changed.
in the article about the two people who had risen above their situation, i just didnt make the connotation to the word "intimate" at the time ...
i would have taken it out if i had.
but you are right about times changing.
now "relations" outside of marriage are accepted as normal ... not even anything to be embarrassed about i guess.
it is writ :
in the last days people will call good evil, and evil good.
Where are the Mr.'s on the front page? One assumes a lack of page space to include the family or lack of it.
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I guess you would be happier if these babies didn't make it into the world? I think it was an interesting article on twins being born on the same day -- maybe it's not the best situation for them to be born to single mothers -- but hey I give them credit for taking responsibility instead of taking the easiest way out.
I was a single mother when I had my first child and my son is 18 now and will be graduating this year.
leave hank and mary alone they are good people if more were like them we would not need to lock our doors at night
Yeah, because our moral compass was so much better in 1958.
Let's see black people were routinely lynched and many of the southern states didn't recognize the 15th amendment,therefore, stripping blacks of their right to vote. Also, there was a little thing called segregation.
Oh, and there were never any babies born out of wedlock in the fabulous 50s. Everything was great and we were such a better society then.
There is no way you can convince me that society is worse today than it was in 1958 because of babies brought into the world without their parents signing a piece of paper first.
I'm a single mom.. Maybe their husbands did what mine did, Left AFTER I got pregnant... He decided that after TRYING to have a baby and getting pregnant that he didn't want those strings and we parted ways, He has no involvement in my childs life. But now if those girls went out and had an abortion you would be up in arms about that, Right? So either way the girls can't win. Oh and JJ, You don't resemble Bob Dylan, But you do look like BTK. Just a joke.
Stacy: You just havent heard me sing :)
i wasnt meaning to be critical of anyone with anything i wrote on this .
Yes, you really shouldn't pass judgement if you don't know their situation.
Babies being born is a happy occasion -- how do you find fault in that?
Try to tell the adult son or daughter of a single parent whether divorced, separated or widowed that they and their parents are immoral and they will give you the news. It's none of your business you old self-righteous judgmental snob.
Worry about getting your own life perfect. Then, if you have any time or energy left over after that why not volunteer to help those who aren't yet perfect. A lot of single moms could use a little babysitting or maybe help some with the gutters or mowing the yard.
At least that how it was with my (single) mom after my dad died. She never got much help, but I do remember she got a lot of useless vindictive gossip from narrowminded busybodies. Some of which was from relatives. In 1958. Nothing has changed.
everyone in Kansas looks like BTK
I was starting to mist over until I came upon the part where "and then they became intimate after he stayed over during a storm".
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Hey i just checked. I got to thinking about it and realized it didnt sound familiar. .. the story does not say that.
The story says the "eventually became intimate"
(and that could mean many things)
THEN it says he stayed at her place for the night ...
just wanted to clarify what was actually printed.
j
Seems I may have picked a scab. Dear readers, look for the meaning of what you read. My comments about the front page spread were meant to show how times and mores have changed. You have attached the label of unwed mother, single mom, etc to these folks, and made them negatives, not I. I work in an environment of several hundred men of all ages and races. A common factor in talking to them is that the majority of them do not come from intact, two-parent homes, nor did they leave one behind. Say anything to you? My parents divorced in 1945. Until my mother remarried ten yars later, I was "the child of a broken home" and both of us suffered socially from the stigma. That experience made me value marriage and we have maintained ours for 39 years. Our son was raised with that ethic and followed my request that he not make me a grandfather until he had made me a father-in-law. Yes, he was a skateboarder, not just a poser. He thrashed with the best of them and didn't even have a pair of Sketchers.
I wish the young ladies and their beautiful childred all the happiness in the world. I don't know their circumstances nor do I really care - that is their business. The article merely struck a chord with me and I wished to respond. Yes I am old, sort of, judgemental, aren't we all, and a snob only in that I really don't like Ranch dressing on everything.
Cathy
i think you and i were both misunderstood ... i knew what you meant, which is what i meant too.
some poeple are awfully sensitive :)
jj
I tend to think you do care, Why else would you find JJ's blog and post about the young ladies?
Evil is good! MMMWWAHAHAHAHA (Mine is an evil laugh!)
"You have attached the label of unwed mother, single mom, etc to these folks, and made them negatives, not I."
If the shoe fits!
" Maybe their husbands did what mine did, Left AFTER I got pregnant.."
Unless you are using the word "husband" loosely, it is the operative word.
No matter what he did after, he was your husband, and your childs father.
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