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• http://www.tohic.com Matthew

  We’ve been trying to get a Skate Park built in Bar Harbor since the late 1980′s,  My generation failed to get it done,  But the new group of kids and parents are so close,   Lets not let something as petty as fencing,  or the YMCA stop it from getting done.    First off, Who cares what the Y thinks,   It’s not their land, They get enough from the town,  they have no say,  if someone comes into the Y and complains about the skatepark,  it’s simple,  the employee simply says “It’s not our property, call the town of Bar Harbor”    

  Second,  The Fence…   Glen Mary has a fence,   Park St Playground has a Fence.  The issue of a fence should not be the deciding factor in getting it done.

  Third,  Supervision, and the depth of the bowl…   As a former skater, I would have hated having to have a ‘life guard’ on duty,   and would have even said that a 7 foot drop in the bowl is too shallow,  we used to skate pools with a much deeper drop than that…  However,  as a Parent & former skater,   I know the injuries that can be sustained (I’ve got the surgical scars to prove it)  and I know that sometimes you want to just skate alone,  and if you get hurt in that 7 foot deep bowl, that cannot be seen from the street,  you could be there for quite a while until someone finds you.

  But these are all issues that can be hammed out between the Town of Bh,  and the MDI Skatepark Assoc. and should not stand in the way of it moving forward,  if both sides are willing to give a little bit,  then Bar Harbor could finally have the Skatepark we’ve all wanted for almost 25 years.

• Anonymous

  Litigation in the making.