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Lompoc Parks and Rec Annual Skateboard Competition is a community event and fun for all ages! We have been partnering with Lompoc Parks and Rec since 2000 on this competition featuring Best Run (skate jam format) and Best Trick in six different age groups. Registration starts at 10AM with competition to begin shortly afterwards by age group, youngest to oldest. Prizes will be awarded for first through third place in all categories and there will also be opportunities to win some great raffle prizes throughout the competition. Lompoc Foursquare Church will be joining the fun again as well!
We are so very thankful and grateful for everyone that makes this competition possible each year including the skateboarders and the spectators, Lompoc Parks & Rec staff, Lompoc Foursquare Church, Robby-our emcee, and our judges. Without all of these wonderful people this great event wouldn’t be possible.
So bring your skate, helmet and pads or perhaps your lawn chair and some sunscreen Saturday, August 20, and we’ll see you at College Park for some fun!
It's Baaacccckkk! Best Run~Best Trick-College Park Style!
Lompoc Parks and Rec Annual Skateboard Competition is a community event and fun for all ages! We have been partnering with Lompoc Parks and Rec since 2000 on this competition featuring Best Run (skate jam format) and Best Trick in five different age groups. Registration starts at 10AM with competition to begin shortly afterward by age group, youngest to oldest. Prizes will be awarded for first through third place in all categories and there will also be opportunities to win some great raffle prizes throughout the competition. Lompoc Foursquare Church will be joining the fun again with snacks and water!
We are so very thankful and grateful for everyone that makes this competition possible each year including the skateboarders and the spectators, Lompoc Parks & Rec staff, Lompoc Foursquare Church Elevate Youth Group, Robby-our emcee and our judges. Without all of these wonderful people, this great event wouldn’t be possible.
So bring your skate, helmet and pads, or perhaps your lawn chair and some sunscreen Saturday, August 28th, and we’ll see you at College Park for some fun!
Together We Can Restore Our Earth-Make Every Day Earth Day
The first Earth Day was celebrated 50 years ago on April 22, 1970. It was founded by Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator from Wisconsin, after he witnessed the impact of a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. At that time it was the largest oil spill in US history and still ranks at number 3, behind only the Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez oil spills. It was Mr. Gaylord’s vision to have a “national teach-in on the environment” and energize the public to protect the environment by addressing water and air pollution concerns. Over 20 million Americans participated in that first Earth Day celebration uniting many in a common cause that had been previously fragmented over several specific environmental concerns.
This year, Earth Day celebrations will focus on restoring our Earth and the steps needed to continue on a new path. As we are returning back to activities put on hold with the pandemic, it is imperative that we explore and acknowledge how we have impacted this planet we live on. It is time to reflect and think about how we want the world we live in to look and to function. It is time to discuss ideas of how change might look for everyone and how it can happen, even if only one step at a time. It is time we come together in cooperation.
Some of these discussions may be challenging, some of the choices difficult but it is necessary to make the time, to have the discussions, to become educated and make the choices. The reality is, we have been blessed to live in this world we have been gifted, with its many natural wonders and incredible resources. With that gift, we have also been given a responsibility. The responsibility to take care of it so that our grandchildren’s great-grandchildren will have a place to call home. No matter where you are we ask you to join us in this effort because you can make a difference with your choices and together we can save our beautiful home we call Earth.
There are three days of virtual events planned to begin these discussions and explore some of the issues beginning on 4/20/21 at EarthDay.org and sbearthday.org. Locally, the Lompoc-Vandenberg chapter of AAUW is hosting a panel discussion of the impacts of climate on our valley on 4/22 via Zoom at 6:30PM. We invite you to attend at least one of these many opportunities via the links below, to learn more about how you can make a difference for Mother Earth because together we can.
Sources-
https://lompocvandenberg-ca.aauw.net
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrc-igrzooG92GTZo5trXMbyc4hhLtLeEH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill
Still Dreaming Big Lompoc!
Dreams. Cotton candy fluff or a concrete reality? For Lompoc skate park, aka College Park, it is a dream that became literally a concrete reality over 20 years ago. A dream first dreamt in the late 1970’s (and perhaps before then) but discarded as impossible, became more probable with the advent of SB994.
Today, while virtually unchanged from when it first opened to the casual observer, the park is beginning to reveal its age. Many of the edges are showing the wear and tear of daily use and the concrete in some places is crumbling. The skateboarding community has talked of having lights added to the park for many years and when the park was built there was discussion and hope that it would be enlarged in the future, offering more recreational opportunities.
We now have the opportunity to make those long ago and not so long ago wishes come true. But we need your help. The City of Lompoc is currently seeking a grant to rebuild the skate park, to expand its usage, possibly add lighting and other amenities. Now is the opportunity to dream as your input is sought. How would you like to see the skatepark? What changes or additions would you like to see at College Park? Two possible renditions have been put together based on input from the community to date but the City is still looking for additional input before submitting the final grant proposal. Currently, the concrete part of the park is approx. 9500 square feet and both of these renditions increase the footprint of the skateable part to 14,000 square feet as well as adding additional features.
There are two Zoom meetings to discuss these plans, the first one this week Wednesday, 12/2, at 6PM. The next meeting will be on Thursday, January 14, at 6PM. A link for more information including a link for the next Zoom meeting and survey is below.
Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this process so far but we are still dreaming!
