Every parent of a teen or preteen son or daughter should see Dolls with their child or children as a means of opening the doors of communication about an issue that doesn t know or care about a generation gap. It is well worth the time and money invested in seeing it. It is probably very obvious that I am not a professional theater critic. Hopefully this group will have other opportunities to perform this play again and again. Skate Park in Veterans Park Skateboarding is the biggest youth sports need in our community.
Skateboarders are everywhere, but have no accepted place to practice except their own property.
They are being kicked out of parking lots, receiving tickets and having their boards confiscated. This is not a backyard sport. Except when used for transportation, we want to get skateboarders off the streets, out of parking lots and into a place of their own. SPAS, the Santa Paula Association of Skaters, was organized in January to add momentum to the skate park plan development by bringing together skaters and parents. We researched options and issues, advocated in the general community and publicized progress.