MANGAWHAI'S NO.1 NEWSPAPER
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Skate pros give Mangawhai Park thumbs up
Camera crew photos and video shot at Mangawhai will be featuring in the magazine and on the Monster Children website. The two bowls constructed last year are fast gaining international notoriety. One visiting skater was told in a Perth skate shop ‘If you’re going to New Zealand you gotta check out the Mangawhai bowls’. The park, even though only about one-third finished has had feature articles in international skateboard magazines, featured in a music video, and a video by Corona Extra promoting skate-boarding destinations. Most locals would have noticed that further construction has been underway at the park over the past six weeks. Premium Skate Park construction are back continuing work on the park made possible by a Lotteries Grant received late last year. As a result of the grant, construction has begun on the street skate obstacles which surround the two bowls. At the completion of this phase a further 300 square meters of skateable surfaces will have been installed including a manual pad and a number of other benches and grind rails.
“Although the construction of a skate facility of this scale and standard is expensive,” says MAZ chairman Simon Bennett, “when the lon- gevity of around 50 years is taken into account it is one of the most economical investments in our youth that we can make.” He adds the contributions local business provides are very humbling. Craig Jepson of Kauri Coast Concrete donated
“It is acts like this and others that inspire those of us driving this project to box on towards our goal.” Work will soon commence on the railway sleeper boarder surrounding the playground. The current skate pad will be cleared and remodelled into the multipurpose court that it was always intended to be. The walking tracks cut into the park are being well used and en- joyed by many members of the community.
For all park updates and upcoming events go to mangawhaiactivityzone..co.nz..
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