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
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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. I f something
comes a vailab le, we are d efin itely
open to it .”
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