IT’S all happening at the newly-revamped Tamworth skate
park this weekend.
Today, the skate park will transform
into a hive of activity with the official open day of its
new facilities.
For the past six months
Tamworth Regional Council has been working on the park
and have installed a new “BMX park” thanks to $100,000 in
Federal Government stimulus funding.
Council Youth Services coordinator Steve Blanch told
The Leader the open day would begin from 9am with
professoressional riders from the Colony BMX team visiting
the park for the day.
“We’ll have a couple of
competitions on the day and entertainment by some bands
provided,” he said.
“Youth In Search will also provide a barbecue lunch.”
The skate park revamp had also been assisted by local
Kris Faulkner of Xtreme Cycles.
Kris had drawn up his own vision of a skate park design
several years ago.
He said there had been an overwhelming response to the
design with skateboard riders happy “they had their ramps
back.”
Open day: From left, the Youthie’s Stephen
Blanch, Xtreme Cycle’s Kris Faulkner and TRC’s
Gary Johnson helped create a new BMX section of
the skate park for the benefit of local kids
such as Ollie Knight, on the bike behind.