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<br /> S KAT E events this year. And while there
<br /> are no firm plans, officials have
<br /> talked with Ultra Wheels which
<br /> sponsors in-line skating at the
<br /> •CONTINUED FROM 1B Oval and will contribute $12,000
<br /> toward the park — about "going
<br /> • - infield surface — far more than indoors" during the cold months.
<br /> Roseville to get park. of has offered the past two summers., ment on order include a launch
<br /> Plans are to have the park com- box, wedge box, ground rails, a
<br /> for aggressive skaters Pleted by May 14. pair of hips, a pyramid, a beef
<br /> g "There is nothing in the Twin box, a half pipe and two quarter
<br /> Cities we know about that is of the pipes. The its - which can be
<br /> magnitude we're talking about," moved around — are used for
<br /> LINDA OWEN STAFF WRITER • I Roseville Parks and Recreation launching, "grinding," "vert skat-
<br /> Director Bob Bierscheid said. ing" and other moves.
<br /> Roseville officials hope to turn the John Rose"Oval this ' The closest to what Roseville Grinding involves jumping up on
<br /> s skaters, has in mind may be a private Min an object and then sliding down it,
<br /> summer into a magnet for a daring breed of o in-line
<br /> youngsters who think nothing of "dropping in" from the top of neapolis facility, Third Layer, and explained Mills of Power Rollers.
<br /> an 11-foot-high "half-pipe" ramp. I a proposed 10,000-square-foot out- "There are a million different
<br /> The city is i "half-pipe"
<br /> what is 1 door skate park for which a types of grinding," she said.
<br /> largest "aggressive ordering expected to be the Twin Cities' Burnsville nonprofit group is try- "Sometimes they'll jump up and
<br /> g " ggressive skate park," a $60,000 set of ramps and ing to raise money. stall on the coping, do a 180 and
<br /> boxes where in-line skaters can learn and practice such spec- in."
<br /> tacular moves as flips and spins. Aficionados say aggressive skat- drop back in.
<br /> Appropriately, for a facility that boasts the nation's largest ing is on the upswing, with travel- In other moves, "They'll go up
<br /> artificial ice sheet, the Oval is getting "probably the biggest ing competitions and growing pars off the ramp into the air and do
<br /> size" skate park sold by Power Rollers of Fairfax, Va., ticipation among boys and girls flips, 180s, 360s."
<br /> spokeswoman Shane Mills d said. alike.The sport's biggest appeal is The park could also be used by
<br /> It
<br /> spokeswoman an cover 15,000 square feet, or one-third of the Oval's for youth ages 10 to 20,said Bren- skateboarders and -BMX bikers,
<br /> da Aarsvold, manager of Rolling she said. Bierscheid said it is de-
<br /> Soles skate store in Minneapolis. signed for in-line skating, but the
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<br /> • B But the only place for most of city's plans include skateboarding.
<br /> them to skate now is"the streets," Officials are talking to several
<br /> Get ready to roll at the Oval where adults look askance at their groups about how the program
<br /> in the warmer months,in-line baggy costumes and police some- might work, but Bierscheid said it
<br /> skaters will have access -, x times threaten to take their skates will include instruction. "It's a
<br /> to a variety at new • �� , Fa away, Aarsvold said highly structured unstructured
<br /> ramps and fur"t 0, '. , +, -' �f ° x Y+
<br /> boxes at the ' ' "It's not safe and it probably sport, he said. "You can only go
<br /> John Rose Ovaj;% -�• ' does limit them because of (lack on certain equipment when you're
<br /> ` : ' ' of access and instruction," Bier- certified to move on."
<br /> In Roseviltee' 1 ,�� 1 The proposed Burnsville Skate
<br /> ' ' � �R Scheid said. P P
<br /> Park has farther to o before it
<br /> - ..� `�' - ' Roseville officials are so im- can o en this summer, said Dick
<br /> �; ;K, `1 pressed with the revenue potential P
<br /> ▪5 rc , Manley, a management consultant
<br /> �.,- c j.,,,,,.\,, from aggressive skating that the who is shepherding the project on
<br /> ,� ' city has decided to buy the equip a volunteer basis.
<br /> '� % 4 ment and operate the park itself.
<br /> Under an earlier proposal a local The facility will be in Civic Cen
<br /> ' ter Park across from the city's
<br /> youth association would have put- administrative building, n land
<br /> Area of ▪-,,"' • � chased the equipment and shared leased from the city for$1 a year.%detail '� { in the profits. Students in the Burnsville area de-
<br /> " Y„ <k � <: Bierscheid estimates park user signed the park, an engineering
<br /> I . fees will not only pay for the firm and architect donated their
<br /> i -- _ -� . .,4;� `r equipment and insurance over five services and a construction cam
<br /> pput, w "" EountyRd"C ears,but also generate$10,000 to an e
<br /> } r y pany employee will manage the
<br /> Ms.: i' d y," 'ta $14,000 a year in profits during project for free, Manley said.
<br /> "( R O S E V I L L E that time The revenues will help Students so far have raised
<br /> patch the hole in the Oval's oper- about $5,000 of the $25,000 cost,
<br /> E. x County Rd.B2 ating budget, which is'running in which includes $15,000 for materi-
<br /> Source:City of Roseville N '._ 1 ',, the red.• als and $9,000 for insurance, he
<br /> I. f The estimates are based on said. The nonprofit partnership al-
<br /> PIOwEER PRESS 5,000 uses of the park throughout so is seeking public and private
<br /> the summer,he said. The city also sponsors to donate $200 to $5,000
<br /> hopes to land some competitive for ramps.
<br /> SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS
<br /> SATURDAY MARCH 1, 1997
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