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Pee® 2 Portland Observer, January 14, 1982 METROPOLITAN St. Johns Fair Share solves skating dilemma by Bonnie Seal For Kimo and Arianne Tiehgelaar, ages 16 and 1.7, roller-skating is a fa vorite pastime. Like a large number o f other youths in St. Johns, they would like to have a chance to skate year-round, but for years, the near est public skating rink has been over an hour away by T ri-M e t. and win ter weather conditions often p ro hibit outdoor skating. Starting at the end o f January, there w ill be at least one night a week when Kim o and Arianne and their peers w ill no longer have to board tw o buses in an h our-long hike across Portland to skate. The James John School gym w ill be open for ro ller-skatin g on Friday nights through a mutual agreement between St. Johns F air Share, the Portland Park Bureau, and James John School. Sarah Tiehgelaar, president o f St. Johns Fair Share, estimated the gym will hold between 25 and 40 skaters, and said there w ill be a m inim um charge, probably fifty cents, to help with the maintenance o f equipment. According to Ms. Tiehgelaar. the opening o f the gym to roller skaters culminates a year-long effort on the part o f St. Johns Fair Share to es tablish roller-skating in the area. The idea fo r a skating fac ility originated with Fair Share member Verdeen E k h o ff, who, in the past, had served as a volunteer at a skat ing facility at Portsmouth School, which closed several years ago. "T h e re were so many people we had to turn them away,’* she recalls. "T h e re ’s nothing for kids to do in the winter time. The only activities in this area are the pinball machines and the movie theatre.” Fair Share circulated a petition and collected over a thousand signa tures supporting the fa c ility . The group held a public m eeting, and sixty persons attended. L ate r, the organization sponsored a Skate-a- Thon in Colum bia Park, and man aged to collect over S200 in spite o f bad weather and the fact that half o f the participants did not collect their money. According to Ms. E k h o ff and Ms. T ieh g elaar, this showed strong com munity support for the project. Eleven d iffe re n t sites were con sidered, but all were eith er too small, had too may posts, or were already being leased for other pur poses, said Ms. Tiehgelaar. The target site for the project had been the St. Johns Racquet Ball Center. According to Ms. Tiehgelaar, the racquet center lost S 10,000 last year. "The tennis courts are too ex pensive for the people in St. Johns, and there is not enough interest in tennis here,” she said. The group felt that the space would be o f more use to the people o f the community if it were turned into a skating rink. Rich Gunderson, recreation divi sion manager for the Portland Park Bureau, said the tennis courts are not losing money, and that use o f the tennis courts is "over and above expectations in that a re a .” H e ex plained that the present tennis court surfaces would not be appropriate fo r skating, and there would be a large cost to re-surfacing the floor, and that the build in g had only enough fire exits fo r the 21 to 25 people it is now expected to hold. C hanging it in to a skating area would bring in a larger number o f people, and require more fire exits. Surplus cheese available to low-income persons Surplus A m erican pasteurized cheese - about 10 train car loads - will be available for distribution to low income individuals and families in early February. E lig ib ility c rite ra i fo r cheese is sim ilar to that used in the Low Incom e Energy Assistance Program. To be eligible, individuals or families must have incomes at or below ,2 5 per cent o f the poverty level according to guidelines established by the federal government. A three-member fam ily would be eligible if its income wre $8,838 per year or less; a single in d iv id u a l would q u a lify i f his incom e were $5,388 per year or less. C en tral referral telephone numbers will be published later in January. The group considered eleven other sites, but they were either too small, had too many posts, or had already been leased, said Eckhoff. A fte r continual negotiations with politicians and park bureau execu tives, it was determined that the gym at James John could be used on Fri day nights during the w in ter months. " O u r original intent was to have something that could be open three nights a week, and we would have liked to have found something the size o f a skating r in k .” A t this p o in t, M s. T ie h g e la ar claim s the group’s main objective is to "prove that there is interest.” Both Ms. Tiehgelaar and Ms. Ek h o ff said they are pleased to get the use o f the James John gym, but ulti mately hope for a site that will hold a larger number o f skaters. They plan to continue looking for other sites. " W e are not looking at just the racket center. 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