Sentences with phrase «skateboard parks»

In the era of the Internet, video games, and skateboard parks, building that quality, she said, can be difficult.

You can't help but wonder if some of the kids pushing for skateboard parks in various northwest suburbs will be young and limber enough to climb onto their boards by the time any of the facilities get built.

Resident Roger Mumford said public works staffers first visited skateboard parks in New Lenox and Orland Park.

Skateboarders need proper skateboard parks, instructions and safe equipment before their sport can achieve the stature of other recognized sports, Morrill said.

We've designed and built three huge skateboard parks in Southern California — one of them is the largest in the world.

Five days before the D.C. primary, several hundred supporters gathered in a skateboard park and parking lot in the shadows of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, now home to D.C. United, to hear Sanders speak.

I don't believe that there was enough stuff under the carpet to make a skateboard park at my church, but when a complaint was lodged it went absolutely nowhere — which spoke volumes to my value and worth in the situation.

A dedicated bicycle lane will be included in the planned mini-mall terrace, as well as a skateboard park directly across the street from Capital's bier garten.

The unfenced bicycle motocross facility will sit just south of the existing skateboard park and on the opposite end of the site from the playground, Eby said.

Elk Grove Park District officials are awaiting a $ 200,000 state grant to fund the 13,000 - square foot skateboard park.

Craig Heinrichs, executive director of Lattof YMCA in Des Plaines, said the skateboard park that his organization built last summer has been a great success.

Audubon Park became the site of the proposed skateboard park because it is adjacent to Grove Junior High School, Buczkowski said.

It was just a couple years ago that Kevin Dunn and a small entourage of fellow skateboard enthusiasts would regularly show up at the meetings of the Tinley Park Park District's Board of Commissioners with a single purpose: to lobby for a skateboard park.

The Elk Grove Park District Board has approved a plan to seek $ 200,000 in grant money from the state to build an in - line skating and skateboard park in Audubon Park.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE — The Elk Grove Park District Board has approved a plan to seek $ 200,000 in grant money from the state to build an in - line skating and skateboard park in Audubon Park.

Talk about bad timing — it seems that while the Elk Grove Village Park District Board was in the throes of fending off neighbors» complaints about a proposal to build a skateboard park at Audubon Park, lo and behold, the Youth Commission came out with the results...

The Elk Grove Park District Board on Thursday night approved a plan to seek $ 200,000 in grant money from the state to build an in - line skating and skateboard park in Audubon Park.

Arlington Heights Youth Commissioner Sue Gwinnup said the Des Plaines - based YMCA, which staffs the skateboard park at 660 N. Ridge Ave., is not making money under the two - year agreement.

«We are talking to the Arlington Heights Park District about how to revive [the skateboard park],» Buckley said.

Converting a sand volleyball court is the most recent option the Lisle Park District is considering for a proposed skateboard park.

Teddy Hoffman is psyched about the Glenview Park District's skateboard park, which opens Saturday.

MT. PROSPECT — The 12 members of the newly formed Mt. Prospect Youth Commission on Wednesday night voted unanimously to continue exploring the idea of a skateboard park in the village.

The Mt. Prospect youth commissioners join their counterparts in Arlington Heights in looking to set up a skateboard park.

Or why a state government slow to fund major regional transportation needs would commit $ 100,000 to build a skateboard park anywhere — much less in Albany, a city so broke it couldn't balance its budget without a bailout from the governor this year.

In this remake the track is a figure 8 shape with ramps, dips, bumps, high levels and what looks like chutes to skate down, in short it looks like a kids skateboard park cross adventure playground.

If students feel it was unfair that the city council chose the vacant lot for parking instead of a skateboard park, they can evaluate the records of discussions that took place and make judgments about what information was valid and what decisions were unjust.

After students have a short conversation about how easy the test was, they can move on to even more important conversations about the interesting book they just finished, why their favorite football team will win on Sunday, or maybe even the mayor's support of their plan to build a new skateboard park.

However, some students may be thrilled to write a letter to the mayor that explains the feasibility of how a vacant, 12,328 square - foot lot could be converted into a skateboard park.

The resulting flooding warped the home's beautiful hardwood floors so badly that hallways now more closely resembled skateboard park ramps.

Skateboarders will find their niche at the skateboard park by the Veteran's Hall.

Patrolled at the Birubi Beach end, Kiddies corner near the skateboard park.

A relatively large municipal skateboard park, where pro skateboarder Eric Costello died in October 2005 due to improper helmet use, [10] is near Skypark, the site of a former airport, in central Scotts Valley.

2005 marked the opening of the top ranked Pacifica Skateboard Park.

On the harbor side there is a long bike and rollerblading trail, a skateboard park, a recreation house and access to the beach.

A golf course, tennis facilities and skateboard park are also nearby.

I like to use the analogy to a kids skateboard park, where the ramp starts up slowly, and gets non-linearly steeper until it is vertical at the top and the kid jumps and the parents hide their eyes!

The claimant considered he was entitled to enter part of the land over which a constituent (Keith Marsden the proprietor / tenant of an adjacent indoor skateboard park) who was accompanying the claimant had a right of way (although the claimant admitted that he did deviate from that path).

Not exact matches

Drivers can use the Luxe app to order a valet - who arrive on scooter, skateboard or foot - to meet them at a destination and park their car.

The plate is used for «grinding» — a decidedly teen - based activity that involves sliding down stair rails, park benches, or any available concrete edge in parks and other public spaces, typically on skateboards or with in - line skates.

He rode his skateboard out in the parking lot during recess, trying to do jumps off a tar ramp, scaring the bejesus out of me.»

The Epic Skateboard Team, which has been in existence since the park opened, recently added a scooter team with three riders that have their own team manager to help coordinate entrance and travel to competitions.

There are already skateboard havens at YMCAs in Palatine and Des Plaines, and a small Park District facility in Arlington Heights.

Park that helicopter and let your child do something scary, whether it's climbing high up in a tree or teaching himself to skateboard.

Plans call for placing the mini-golf course on the westernmost portion of the property, between Reber and the end of Naperville Road, and for putting the in - line skating park and skateboard ramps just east of Naperville Road, said Rob Sperl, the Park District's superintendent of plannpark and skateboard ramps just east of Naperville Road, said Rob Sperl, the Park District's superintendent of plannPark District's superintendent of planning.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — The Arlington Heights Youth Commission's Skateboard Committee has begun meeting with community members to discuss the feasibility of building a skateboarding park in the village.

Glueckert asked members of the Skateboard Committee to propose particular park sites where they would like to skate and submit the proposals to district officials.

At a meeting Tuesday night, members of the Skateboard Committee asked Arlington Heights Park District officials if they would designate park areas for skateSkateboard Committee asked Arlington Heights Park District officials if they would designate park areas for skateboard Park District officials if they would designate park areas for skateboard park areas for skateboardskateboard use.

The site for the 20,000 - square - foot skateboard and in - line skate park, on the northeast corner of the Garden Plots off of West Street, is on land that the Naperville Park District leases from the cpark, on the northeast corner of the Garden Plots off of West Street, is on land that the Naperville Park District leases from the cPark District leases from the city.

At the Aug. 15 park board meeting, a group of teenagers requested that the park district consider providing a public park for their sport in the event that the City Council bans or restricts unsupervised use of skateboard ramps.

«Out of all the parks in the area it's one of the best,» said Randy Korwin, an employee and member of the skateboard team from Bad Boyz Toys, an Orland Park sports shop.