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14th Street Skate Park Hosting Car Show & Cookout by Ryan ZumMallen | Archive | 07.22.10 |
+  10:20am | A car show and skate jam will be held this Saturday at the Michael K. Green Skate Park on 14th and Pacific Avenue from 12:00-4:00pm, featuring new Fire Department Chief Alan Patalano and Formula Drift co-founder Jim Liaw to bring several Long Beach organizations together and provide a positive opportunity for the neighborhood to celebrate.The event is hosted by the Department of Parks, Recreation & Marine and will feature Formula Drift cars, custom cars, fire trucks, hot dogs cooked by the Fire Department and free giveaways and prizes. The surrounding streets will be shut down to create a true neighborhood block party atmosphere. It's the second such event at the park this summer. In June, Police Chief Jim McDonnell spoke to skaters and members of the local community about public safety, and they welcomed him to the newly-renovated skate park that bears the name of a young local skater who was bound for stardom before being struck down by a stray bullet several years ago. A documentary was born from the death of Michael K. Green, aka Blacc Mike, and it debuted at the Art Theatre in May. "The purpose is to keep the kids involved and keep reminding them the skate park is special," said Mike Donelon, former Long Beach City Councilmember and unofficial mentor to the local skaters. "It's their park and they take care of it, a pride of ownership type thing. Our message is stay in school and out of gangs. Most importantly this is a fun, laid back event for the neighborhood." Local organizations and companies that have signed on in support include the Long Beach Rescue Mission, Long Beach SKATE, Etnies and the Tony Hawk Foundation.
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Paul The Richard Green Park, 14th Street Park, has been a worthy project. Look at the crime map on [a local news outlet].com. The area from 4th to PCH in an east/west strip through the city, is ripe for clean up. More parks, senior single family homes just waiting, public transportation, an excellent hospital, etc. From the 710 to Redondo. What are you waiting for Long Beach? No RDA or more high density, just start with public safety, and that will start the ball rolling. A.G. This is absolutely a great project. It's just really sad that people that have worked for so many years to improve the park had to learn about it from LBPost. It would have been nice to have been invited to participate in the event or even to have been received a flier about the event before today. Mike Donelon A.G. Sorry my fault. We have keep BBLB, Council office, and neighborhood kids informed as to what we do. This event was organized solo by myself. The flier was approved by all recently and I work as fast as I can and by the seat of my pants to make sure we cover all our bases. My apologies.
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