Skate park
Continued from page 2 Thrasher, a skateboarding magazine, were in South Kitsap this week. The magazine is planning a story on the skate park and will bring as many as a dozen professional skateboarders to test the facility. Pro skateboarder Amy Caron, who has competed in the X Games since 2003, is scheduled to appear, along with rollerderby skater Michelle Estrogen. Caron finished third at the X Games in 2003, 2007 and 2008 and won the women’s World Cup Skateboarding Championship in 2002. The grand opening is the first in many events that will probably be held at the park, according to Reynolds-Taylor. She said DiamondBack wants to hold a West Coast bike tournament for Oregon and Washington bikers in August. “I’m sure there’ll be one event every month or so,” she said. Association board member Randall Fisher will provide lessons in skating and skateboard safety as well. According to ReynoldsTaylor, the best part about the South Kitsap Skate Park is skaters now have a safe alternative to streets and parking lots. “I’m just excited to see the kids’ faces,” ReynoldsTaylor said. “The landscaping is beautiful. The designers and the builders did an awesome job designing [a park] that is safe for the community and safe for the kids as
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Friday, June 21, 2013 well.” Patricia Graf-Hoke, executive director of Visit Kitsap Peninsula, toured the skate park with Reynolds-Taylor on June 17. “It appeals to a lot of different age groups and there’s nothing else like it in the West Sound or Tacoma area,” Graf-Hoke said. “We expect this new multi-sport venue to attract visitors and families from around the region and the county who will also have the opportunity to experience South Kitsap and the Kitsap Peninsula region.” One concern, though, is vandalism. The association doesn’t want graffiti “that will damage the skatepark," and asks people to stop or report vandalism they see happening at the park. Ric Catron, parks project manager of the Kitsap County Department of Parks and Recreation, said the skate park was placed near the road as a deterrent to vandals and others who might want to sneak in after it’s closed. All county parks close at dusk. Reynolds-Taylor raised the idea of a skate park because she felt there were no safe places locally to skateboard. The skate park association formed and raised $100,000 for park construction. The association received donations and grants from several organizations, including Fred Meyer, Bank of America and the Tony Hawk
Foundation. The park was designed by New Line Skateparks of
Canada; Grindline Skate Parks of Seattle did the construction. BCRA of
Seattle designed the landscaping. “It’s everybody’s park,”
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Reynolds-Taylor said. “Not just one person’s or one group’s park.”
Kitsap Week Crossword
Crosswords
26. Enjoy
3. Sewing notions (3 wds)
27. “___ on Down the Road”
4. Barbie’s beau
28. Assistant
5. Punished by a fine
29. Check for accuracy
6. The “L” of XXL
32. Cemetery worker
7. Barbra’s “A Star Is Born” co-star
35. “Act your ___!”
8. Feminine side
36. Bang-up (hyphenated)
9. Reduce in worth
37. Battering device
10. Where “Aida” premiered
38. “Miss ___ Regrets”
11. Lookout (2 wds)
39. Boy
12. Misfortunes
40. Main character
13. Pedal pushers
44. “A jealous mistress”: Emerson
18. Bait
45. Channel
23. Affirm
46. “Giovanna d’___” (Verdi opera)
25. Cleanse
47. Having great weight
28. Banded stone
49. Doglike nocturnal African mammals
30. Auspices
52. Plagiarist 54. Immanuel ___, German idealist philosopher 55. Ace 56. Maple genus
ANSWERS
Across 1. Collapsed
57. Yellow substance extracted from flax 60. Butcher’s offering 61. Cleans up, in a way
26. Fraternity letter
31. Makeup, e.g. 32. Apple variety 33. Big laugh 34. O. Henry device 38. “___ bitten, twice shy” 40. ___ du jour 41. Tangled 42. Bright, lively condition, esp. color 43. Be bombastic
5. Synthetic resin
62. A branch of Am. Military (acronym)
10. Hairdo
63. Christian Science founder
49. Dispatch
14. Certain surgeon’s “patient”
64. Shows excessive fondness
50. Suffix with sect
15. One of the Osmonds
65. “Empedocles on ___” (Matthew Arnold poem)
51. Music note syllables (hyphenated)
16. ___-bodied
48. Before the due date
17. Coming in again
52. Cover, in a way
19. “Cast Away” setting
53. Decorated, as a cake
20. Armageddon
Down
54. Jersey, e.g. 58. Altar avowal (2 wds)
21. Units of work 22. Least cooked
1. Scatter
24. “60 Minutes” regular
2. “Gladiator” setting
59. Directly
Old Furniture Roundup
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