Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday april 15, 2005 province a11 Boarder facility design unveiled $350,000 skate Park planned in St. James by Gabrielle Giro Day w Winnipeg a got some of the most hardcore boarders in the country say a set of internationally renowned skate Board Park designers taking part in creating a $350,000 St. James facility. The project skate Park West has a 32-year Veteran of the Middle school system ? former principal Connie Newman ? joining a set of tattooed and to shirted designers from Surrey . Yesterday with youth scraping pavement in a nearby car lot design plans for the proposed Park were revealed at the heritage Victoria Community club. The 8,000-Square-foot outdoor facility would feature sloped Banks Newman said she does to skate Winnipeg a not Only got one of the for Riding Square ledges called but watching the sport pick up popu harshest climates in the country but boxes to grind on and a set of rails at Larity in the last 15 years convinced the inconsistencies of the surface different elevations for tricksters to her it was an Ideal project for com Here for skateboarding Are really go Down. Unity involvement. Extreme said Trevor Morgan a kids need a place to be included i give to lots of things but if this Boarder who is serving As a projection physical activity or they la end up Park keeps one kid off the Street i consultant and flaunted the req i As Couch potatoes said Newman think its Worth it she said. Site baggy skater to shirt. Skate Park West a steering committee after looking at nearly 30 Sites in there a the cracked Asphalt the chair. They be drummed up $120,000 the United states and Canada new heaving Concrete and the broke toward the initiative so far. Man sought out Van Der Zalm and papers you Don to see anywhere else Newman said she Hopes ground associates after examining a skate meaning people Here Are really Seri could be broken As soon As August of Park they had designed in Saskatoon. Ous about their skating he said. This year for the Structure at the Cor the team has gone As far As Sweden the streets of the neighbourhood Ner of Sturgeon Road and Silver to set up skate Parks and had were sprinkled yesterday with pave Avenue. The Park would include inquiries from obscure military ment jesters of All Ages including 11?facilities for skateboarders As Well bases and far Flung Northern towns year old Jeremy Stahl who Ca Riedas Bax bikers and in line skaters. On consultations for projects. His Board strapped to his Back As he its a place for them youth to for their part the Guys say they re trailed along Ness Avenue. Explore their passion instead of up for the Challenge of designing for it would be totally awesome i heading to the Street and facing All a Winnipeg climate noting the there was a skateboard Park near kinds of safety issues she said extreme variability in temperature Here he said. Proudly wearing Funky red Bowling is nothing compared to the extreme it gives people something to do shoes that hardly fit the stodgy Prin enthusiasm of local boarders. And helps them stay out of Cipal stereotype. Students Shock jolts schools career fair by Gabrielle Giro Day a Grade 10 student at Tec voc High school was taken to Hospital yesterday morning after he received an electrical Shock while examining an exhibit at a career fair. The 15-year-old youth was rushed to Hospital by ambulance after getting a Jolt from a 12-Volt car Battery students said. According to bystanders of the scene the student was fidgeting with wires attached to the Battery when he fell onto the gym floor. He a kind of a joker so i think when he first started slumping against the Wall and blinking a lot people thought he might be fooling around said tristan Pullman a 15-year-old student who designed the display As part of a project. But after 15 minutes of sitting there and not being Able to speak that Well i knew something was wrong he said. Pullman said he then rushed to get a supervising teacher and the display was dismantled. Students and staff were asked to assemble on the High school bleachers while the injured student was removed according to other bystanders on the scene. He was released yesterday after noon after being treated at the health sciences Centre. A local safety expert questioned whether the exhibit had been set up in a Safe manner. If it a Battery needs to actually be in the gymnasium and i a finding it hard to understand that then there have to be precautions taken said Yvonne Thompson a director at the Accident prevention association of Manitoba. There needs to be proper training for people that Are going to be coming in Contact with the Battery. There needs to be signage to indicate this is potentially hazardous and More importantly the understanding Why the Battery was there in the first Thompson said the use of electrical equipment by youth requires certain precautions. Anything that has a potential Hazard ? there is a responsibility on the administration and the teachers to understand what those hazards Are and educate the students she said. A spokesperson for the Winnipeg school division was Able to confirm a Battery was in use in the Tec voc gymnasium but was not Able to comment on the circumstances of the incident ;