Re: Skate Park

["Kacey" <kaceyk@moscow.com>]

My point is not that I don't like the skate park.  My point is that I would
not allow my children to go to the skate park.  It is a dangerous, both
mentally and physically, place for young children.  I am sure many other
parents would not want their children in such an enviroment.

-Kacey



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hoffmann" <escape@alt-escape.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: Skate Park


> At 03:21 PM 4/16/2001 -0700, Kacey Krehbiel wrote:
> >I agree with you, we can find good at bad places....
>
> Kacey,
>
> Don't forget that the reverse is true:  We can also find bad in good
> places.  I take it that you are saying the skate park is "not your
> thing."  Well, that's fine.  But I don't think you are doing anybody a
> service by insinuating that it is a bad thing, and that predominantly bad
> people hang out there.
>
> I remember suggesting to my little sister that she should take a
> woodworking class in high school.  She said, "I don't want to be in a
class
> with a bunch of burnouts!"  Well, I loved woodworking in high school, and
I
> certainly was no burnout.  Indeed, a lot of stereotypical "druggies" were
> in shop classes, but so were a lot of jocks.  And a lot of just plain nice
> people.  But I didn't go to woodworking class for any of the above; I went
> to those classes because I loved to take a hunk of wood and transform it
> into a cedar chest, or a cupboard, or a smoothly polished bowl.  I enjoyed
> some of those people, and "dealt with" the others, because they were
around
> something that I loved to do.  If you don't like skating, then you don't
> have to go to the skate park and deal with the people who hang out there.
>
>
> Bob Hoffmann
> 846 Mabelle St.
> Moscow, ID  83843
>
> Tel: 208 883-0642
> Fax: 877 495-2279
>