Skate Ojai Update
From the comments...
Wow, what a week it has been. One who has 3 children in Ojai(20-10 years old), works or volunteers with children in Ojai knows how important some positive news is right now.
My youngest son and I went to the Fillmore skate park today with 25 other family and friends to watch the Ojai senior and junior high school skateboard teams (they represent Nordhoff, Chaparral and Ojai Valley School) compete in the National High School Skateboard Association contest today against 20 teams from all over California. The second of three contests and Ojai won: Ojai Senior Team first place, Ojai Junior team third place and Best Trick to J.T. Erickson.
These 11 boys represented Ojai so well, they skated with soul and skill like no others. Please give them your good wishes when you see them in town or drive by our really sad skatepark we currently have in town. They just skated so well! We are all so proud of them.
Thanks and please come watch your Ojai skate teams at Skate Lab in Simi Valley for the last contest!
GO OJAI!
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Comment #2 Posted by: sunday | May 9, 2009 09:33 PM
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are we honoring and facilitating the youth of the Ojai Valley, in encouraging skating and skateboarding on the sidewalks and in parks, etc? honoring the re-greening of our energy and environmental economy?
we need to do this, and to honor and protect the bicyclists as well ... reduce the traffic speeds ... particularly when passing skaters, skateboarders, pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians.
I noticed today that Krotona Institute, for example, bans bicyclists as well as skaters and skateboarders ... the environmental- and health-friendly transportation options.
Krotona's justification was a claim that bicyclists are more litigatious than automobile drivers ... thus they only permit autos.
on the other hand they also said that in today's economic climate they were 'forced' to cater to the "rich" ... the implication being that health- and nature- oriented people are impoverished ...
Comment #1 Posted by: millennium | May 11, 2009 04:31 PM
Of course, we need to support all kinds of safe and sane transportation......skateboarding,bike riding, walking, etc.
But, be real!
Try to imagine skateboarders and groups of bikeriders on Kratona Hill!
Yikes!
( just think of the financial insurance liability , not to mention the disruption of a peaceful invironment. )
Who, when, where did you learn that Kratona must cater to the "rich"?
S.Nichols
Comment #2 Posted by: Sylvia M. Nichols-Nelson | May 12, 2009 07:47 AM
Congratulations Ojai Skateboarders! We are proud of you! Congrats J.T., you've worked so hard for it!
Comment #3 Posted by: Nukebuster | May 12, 2009 04:01 PM