Its not a real skatepark .. and I am sorry that people don’t understand the sport enough to know that .. especially Andrew Black .. a real skatepark would be used and enjoyed and perhaps have some sun shelter as Moncton does … its important to understand the blatant lack of regard for the project for a concrete skatepark goes back at least 30 years plus .. to Duncan – one of the guys behind the Frisbee Golf Park could fill Bruce Wark in on the details of his attempts in his youth to get a park .. and more recently Mark Iglioriote an avid skater, artist instructor, father and advocate for the youth — there was a few summers with skatepark supervisors hired and paid well to hang out with the youth there .. there was Ethan Sears – son of former Mayor Pat Estabrooks group that made a great presentation to town council and mayor in the summer of 2013 – they even had matching tshirts and showed enthusiasm for a REAL SKATEPARK BUILD but most have grown up and left town .. so its just got to be a project LED by an adult who lives here .. me .. mother of two teens who grew up skateboarding and longboarding in this town so I pushed the project as best I could despite being blocked by the Town on facebook since 2015 for asking a question… hence the “Sackville Uncensored” to push against censorship around here in a small town that prides itself of being “community minded” and “inclusive” I can assure that it is not a true description… https://sackvilleuncensored.blogspot.com/2019/04/skateparks-not-monuments-for-sackville.html"
" Rima Azar says:
Wow—blocked on FB for asking a question?
Regardless of your question (no clue what it is and I do not care to know), I am just VERY worried about any practice of censorship in any place.
What kind of societies do we want to foster? Places where all the people think the same (or at least pretend to) places where some would pretend to be morally superior to others who do not share their views? Why can’t we hear all the voices, especially those we do not agree with?
Why don’t we trust the citizens’ intelligence in reading those comments and deciding what to think about them? To ignore them or to learn something from them?
Just to give you a silly example, you may be someone who does not like short or petite people. Should I feel “unsafe” by this and go hide in our basement? Should I accuse you of “petitephobia” or “petitetism” (for racism :))? Should I demand that you stop asking questions about short people?
And to be serious now, it was Easter last weekend (today for Orthodox Christians). On this important day for my family in Beirut, I shared a link of a funny video of a British Comedian called “The practising Atheist” with one of my sisters living there. We both laughed a lot and decided that we like this guy (note: I do believe in God in my heart, contrary to her).
For God’s sake, where is people’s tolerance (of diversity of opinions)… and sense of humour?"
Mount Allison University's Academic from Lebanon Rima "Bambi" Azar began a blog in Sackville New Brunswick in 2019 -
link is here: July 2019 – Bambi's Afkar
and here's her 2022 article about local artist Mr. Christian Corbet:
