Showing posts with label tantramar skate park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tantramar skate park. Show all posts

Apr 25, 2025

Tantramar Skate Park Project - Newline Skateparks - A Project for the Active Living Youth!


Who builds great Canadian skateparks? Newline Skateparks build great skateparks.. a great skatepark is a work of art .. a sculpted fabulous creation!

Bill Gurney's business card was passed on years ago to Matt Pryde at Parks & Rec. Town Hall.

Check out the page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/newlineskateparks/

Maybe Sackville N.B. should build something really amazing in 2025? A new concrete skatepark!

Great pubs don't make a town.. nor do great bookstores.. but great skateparks do ... great skateparks put a town on the map for tourists and adventure seekers.. they make a really great town out of an ordinary town and they make life for the youth living there a whole lot more exciting, fun, enjoyable, social and liveable.  Great mayors, like the one in Kentville Nova Scotia, town councillors, CAOs, staff, tourist managers and parks and rec. leaders also know this truth - those with eyes to see.. and ears to hear.. where they listened to their local families and teens and groups who want to create something worth taking pride in and showcasing in their region.

Kentville Skatepark.. https://www.facebook.com/KentvilleSkatepark/

Our town can do a lot better than this for our youth.

We've been partnered with locally-based Tantramar Landowners since 2015 to promote this park and get the word out by posters and word of mouth to others.
Healthy lifestyles are important and active living for our local youth - this matters.. so I plant needs and I generate interest and public involvement - these things do not build themselves but with enough helpful advocates for the good, we'll do it.
The fact that this concrete skatepark project has been advocated for since the 1980s tells me its time for the people who live here and raise their children here to say its time to do this -- we are not just consumers and shoppers.. we are also active-living advocates.. healthy active children are happier.


Photography by The INDIE Media Eastcoast - Blind Forest Books, York Street, Sackville, N.B.

Photography The INDIE Media Eastcoast - Thunder & Lightning Pub, Bridge Street, Sackville, N.B.

Photography by The INDIE Media Eastcoast - Kentville Graveyard, Nova Scotia, Canada 


Dear Frank, if you're reading this blog.. I'm interested in getting stuff done too.. you're not the only one my guy.  "WE gotta fix that." You said it.



Apr 19, 2023

"Tantramar Skate Park Project" for the town youth, since 2013 [reposted]


Long-time Town Councillor Bruce Phinney advised me a while ago that the 'unnamed clique here' refer to me a "low class", unimportant, "trouble maker" .. 

I say fuck you to that clique...

thanks Bruce for the intel...... Facebook is no longer available... why?  https://www.facebook.com/tantramarskatepark/

Builders are gonna build... see b
log:  Tantramar Skate Park Project



Originally posted 5/27/2019

Talking up this project tonight with Erica Butler..
So stay tuned.  Butler moved here in 2020 so she's not aware of the history of advocacy and how far back it goes.. not just with me.. but with others like Duncan in the 80s... concrete skateparks make great towns... so let's do it! What is stopping us?
#Tantramarshire
#ConcreteSkateParksAreReal!





May 7, 2020

Youth Skate Park Project versus Million Dollar Retention Ponds for Technocrats

The Town of Sackville will spend millions on new signage, plant pots, painted rainbow crosswalks, and ponds, as well as any number of other frivolous things... unfortunately, a great skatepark project is consistently ignored in a town with not a lot for teens to amuse themselves with as active youth require little supervision but a great venue would be much larger than the asphalt chunk on Dufferin St. and it would be made of concrete.  I'm an long time advocate for this project; a liberty project... you might have seen the signs around and about.

Jamie Burke new CAO needs to start this project or resign from his position.
There is plenty of money in the piggy bank Jamie... I know you think most people are ignorant of how you run the books in town but there is money in the CAFR being hoarded that should be used for this overdue youth project in our town.
http://tantramarlandownersassociation.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-cafr-swindle-biggest-game-in-town.html


Page is no longer available on Facebook due to censorship since May 2019.

Here is what an actual cool concrete skatepark looks like... pretty sweet eh?


I got slandered by 'community' snitches on their gossipy local facebook page here and I will tell you something about these people.. they are absolutely psychopathic, ruthless and degenerate.

Why do I persevere?  Because I don't let the haters get to me - I stay in the creative flow.... Tantramar Skate Park a youth project we can all support and be proud of.

Working for the global village is bullshit.. put Canadians first... that's what I promote as its what makes the most sense.... unless you're a vacuous virtue-signaller with no interest in local quality of life for youth.


Jamie Burke now CAO and the cronies of MP Dominic Leblanc have done absolutely nothing to help advance this project for this Beausejour region.


Apr 21, 2019

Dominic Leblanc's Tantramar Skate Park [ Facebook, since 2015 ]



Tantramar Skate Park Project --- for the youth, for tourism, for fun, for freedom..
TELL YOUR FRIENDS... Join us .. we're making something pretty amazing happen in a sleepy little eastcoast university town... we're making history.

Since the 80s youth have been trying to get the attention of the town council and mayor about a great concrete skatepark project.. isn't it time they actually listened to the young and the active and the freedom loving skaters?  I think it is.

https://www.facebook.com/tantramarskatepark/


Apr 6, 2019

"Kata List Productions" based in the beautiful Tantramar - New Brunswick Canada


Posters, artivism, blogging, videos, project promotions and more:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Kata-List-Productions-223994368192181/
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYB5MfBCPbvkws3NuQtLrQg

Working low-budget.. working hard to counter the fake narrative... working ethically... and working to make life better in the Tantramar and beyond... voluntaryist, blogger, photog! Part of the "Indie Media Eastcoast" hub.


Nov 25, 2018

Tantramar Landowners Association : By-Election event.... this week.

Tantramar Landowners Association : By-Election event.... this week.: Five people running for Megan Mitton's vacated spot on town council. Thanks to the super hardworking and efficient reporter Bruce Wark ...


I'll be voting for the town councillor most likely to get involved in this project.

Nov 8, 2018

Sackville Schools 2020 .. Big Spenders Big Time Crazy



The Town has three public schools which is great but admittedly the middle school is in rough shape and could be bulldozed... perhaps in its place a great skatepark youth centre, adventure outdoors recreational zone, expanded dirt bike park, fitness circuit, jogging trail, etc....  - since its over 2 acres at least .. but that still means we are up with two good schools built relatively recently... that aside speadheading this initiative are Kata/Katalin/Agnes/Katko? who is a newcomer [ Happy to report that Agnes has completed all course requirements and is now a certified Forest School Practitioner through Forest School Canada / Child and Nature Alliance of Canada! Thank you toRenaissance Sackville for providing funding. Also, thanks to Mavis for being such a great advisor! We look forward to a time when Wild Wonder is able to be able to offer year-round forest school programs in the Sackville area! 🦊☀️🌲 ] with an mta.ca professor [ and 'community organizer' ]  Michael Fox working hard to 'astroturf' / fake popularity for their cause/project online, such as this:


Katalin Koller So many wonderful ideas. Good luck! It would enrich everybody’s life in the community !

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Kata Koller Onward and upward!

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Laura Reinsborough It's so encouraging to read what was quoted from the Superintendent: Ingersoll said the school district is seeing more and more communities like Sackville that want to be closely involved in the future of education.

"People really want to have a say i
n not only where their school is but what does a school look like, and how does it fit into the community," Ingersoll said.

... definitely leaves me to think they have more than buildings on their minds..... they'd like to 'make-over' education in their own "utopian" image of what the students should be learning [how very typical].. the elementary school and the highschool could both be enlarged and no fuss made... but this is probably not good enough for the dreamers and the big time spenders in this town.. they're looking for 'community' buy-in .. they're laughable and they're promoted by the Mayor Higham [a consummate meddler] and Sackville Tribune Post.


Local newspaper doesn't lift a finger to help to promote "Tantramar Skate Park" project.. zero thanks Katie & Scott .. you're really something .. the 'community organizers' must have you muzzled tight because I know that you know about the skatepark kids' project.. you've just chosen to ignore its value.. which is unfortunate... I'm always amazed a very small group of people control the news.

There are far too many social engineers and control freaks in this small town.. that's why nothing really cool and really fun ever happens here.. there's just a whole lot of nobodies telling the rest of the nobodies how to think... lame.


The ongoing hype and coverage for Sackville Schools 2020 continues because its an effort by the social engineering locals to drown out the work being done by me at my blogger since 2011... I've never received the community seal of approval although I've been successful and the local school has removed the toxic rinse. I'm concerned there are 'social justice' agendas at play that people might not be aware of [including the decolonization propaganda]


I know they think they're all doing this really cute dreamy visioning thing .. since they banned me early on for asking them questions .. I just don't appreciate these ivory tower dreamers wasting taxpayer money on their fantasies.... perhaps the new Premier PC leader Blaine Higgs will laugh at them as well .. I hope the Superintendant doesn't think these people represent most sensible taxpayers.

https://www.sackvilletribunepost.com/news/local/future-of-sackville-schools-another-option-to-consider-256474/


Oct 31, 2018

Sackville's Lazy Town Employees: Pryde & Cole

I've been promoting and helping to push forward a project since 2013.. the youth here presented before Town Council and Mayor that summer.

Since then the town hired Matt Pryde.  Matt is a pleasant fellow but has no ability to get a project promoted or planned.. his partner in crime is Todd Cole - an equally unhelpful character.. my guess is together they probably make enough money that in 3 or 4 years of their combined pay a new skatepark project could be built.. from what I have witnessed they should be fired and their salaries put towards this concrete build.

Youth don't ask for much.. they should be able to enjoy a venue that is decent.

Planning takes effort and it takes a passion for doing something constructive.

"Tantramar Skate Park" project is a well thought out and exciting idea.

Plan, do, enjoy.  Since I have spent countless hours promoting this project, putting up posters, talking to citizens and making a real effort for a bunch of youth who are so often overlooked it is heartbreaking I will would propose that Sackvillians take this idea seriously and make an effort to build something of a legacy here...

Other places do it.. why can't we?

Mr. Cole likes to ignore this and Mr. Pryde thinks it is some sort of joke.  Its not.


I recently discovered Matt's new project is another child's playground this time in the Silver Lake park area ... so far the town has 're - done' a park in the centre of town for $500K and now another $100K plus for another playground make-over on the other side of town.. imagine that? Going out of their way to ignore " TSP ".

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Left a comment at local Bruce Wark's facebook page on this matter recently:

"Matt Pryde at one point made a plea to Kraft Canada for money for a great skatepark to the tune of $250K but for some reason he appears to have abandoned this project in favour of something else.. I do have to ask why Matt Pryde has been so unhelpful on this project.. he arrived from Nova Scotia after the youth here presented in 2013 before mayor and council in the summer... Matt wrote: ".. Dufferin Street Skate Park - Kraft Heinz Project Play ://kraftheinzprojectplay.com/.../dufferin-street-skate-park/
Aug 9, 2017 - The Grand Prize winner will receive $250000 towards a recreational facility ... Sackville, New Brunswick, a town of 5,500 people, has a long and proud ... the Southeast New Brunswick portion of the Trans Canada Trail passes" .. removed content.. probably the money spent on the new "welcome to new brunswick" sign would have paid for a brand new playground.. its not a shortage of money; just their ideas on how to spend it that baffles me.. the 'greater good' is not necessarily what we think it is.. huh? taxpayers' money is spent arbitrarily and its difficult to determine which level of govt is the messiest at balancing the books.. as you know .. and no one else seems to really gives a rat's ass about covering .. since 2013 or so there has been a call for a real concrete skatepark... Tantramar Skate Park .. but Matt Pryde chuckles at me when I bring up this project .. I have zero respect for the people at the town hall, esp Phil Handrahan, and never attend the meetings at the town hall .. so I appreciate that you cover it so well."


The new highway replacement 'welcome' sign doesn't say welcome anymore... imagine that? Wonder how much it cost?




Sep 6, 2018

Tantramar Skate Park - Facebook ... grassroots project for the youth, since 2015

Youth presented to town council & mayor in 2013 about a new skatepark [concrete] and they were completely ignored.. I support their project & promote it.
I just don't have a huge budget for posters... so I try to create / recycle / reuse .... #fitness #active #tourism #culture #fun #youth #outdoors #skate



 

Apr 14, 2018

Tantramar Skate Park - youth project - facebook .. check it out since 2015

Yikes.. looks like Sackville Commons has finally got involved
in a youth park idea .. just not the skatepark venue build ..
what is the 'commons'? its a hub for 'social engineers' and meddlers..



chalk "Tantramar Skate Park" around town ...
a good way to let others know...


So while the 'community organizer' in the middle on this photo was helpfully meddling & nefariously acquiring the town's old fire hall for Lafford Realty in a sweet but shady little deal in 2015 some of us grown-ups were planning a youth centre/skatepark project and we have quietly continued on .. although we don't tend to get in the newspaper for some odd reason .. imagine that?  Meddlers love to get to your kids and 'indoctrinate' them with their 'social justice' and 'social enterprise' and  'social engineering' schemes.. they can't leave alone the minds of youth... weird.

Mature parents know that a venue skatepark build is a great investment in youth.. no 'meddlers' needed....

Check out here ... link to facebook page  .. youth presented before town council and the mayor in 2013 for a new venue .. since then .. not much has changed... we hope to change that with "Tantramar Skate Park" project .. could be amazing.. as it stands just a half pipe addition will be added after five years of advocacy.  Sad.


Nov 12, 2017

Tantramar Skate Park ~ Facebook... youth project, tourism, fun, freedom, sport, culture

Advocating for a few years on behalf of the youth of this town who presented before town council and mayor in 2013 and were completely ignored in favour of many other ridiculous expenditures and wasteful projects that didn't benefit enough people to warrant their costs .. a lot of common sense is missing here... that's why I promote a skatepark .. and no .. I don't get excited about windfarm projects or rainbow crosswalks... why would I ... seriously?  In the past five years I have watched local government grow their bureaucracy, build a $14million palace for themselves and generally ignore any good ideas from the public who pay taxes and live here .. the youth to me matter a lot .. so I will push on and persuade them to be a constructive bunch of bureaucrats .. instead of a bunch of assclowns with their heads in the sand...







A great skatepark could be paid for in no time .. this town is not short of cash .. obviously .. will get this done --- without or with your help dear readers --- I have no respect for Ron Kelly-Spurles, tourism dept, Matt Pryde, parks & rec, nor Phil Handrahan, CAO -- I find their behaviour, lack of action, apathy and censorship of me unacceptable.. and to them I give the middle finger, happily.