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Let's Hear It For People Power!
Feb. 1st, 2019 11:34 pm11:13pm: Indeed! I'm pretty sure I didn't mention it last entry, but earlier in the month while driving to the new apartment to drop stuff off I heard some startling news on the radio.
Namely the rink that I ice skate at was going to close down next year!
At first I thought I misheard, they only refurbished the place a little over a year ago, fixing up the pipes and redoing the whole ice surface, adding a gym and all that.
They even had the Australian National Figure Skating Championships there in December (which I sadly didn't get to because I had a terrible panic attack while trying to drive there, but let's not relive that :OP)! Plus the whole reason given by the owners of the shopping centre where the rink is made no sense! They claimed that by demolishing the rink they'd be able to provide better access to the bus and train stations, except those stations are less than 100m away. I mean unless they were planning to have the trains and buses go right through the middle of the shopping centre that's just BS.
Anyway, the skating community was outraged! Without this rink, there's nowhere to skate on the northern side of Sydney. All those kids and adults who take lessons would probably have to give up the sport - or travel two hours or more to get to another rink in Sydney (there's only three others and none of them are Olympic size like Macquarie).
Fortunately, there was an outpouring of support for the rink to remain, even politicians got involved (well it is an election year :OP), I signed a couple of petitions and sent emails myself and then the good news came through today!
The Rink is saved! Yaaaay!
This is indeed very happy news! I don't get to the rink as much as I like because of the issues I have with driving some times and the thought of time ticking down where I'd have chance to go skating was pretty disheartening.
Power to the people!
Anywho, on that good note I shall wrap this up - I have to go to bed - it's been a busy day, I've had two separate visitors to the apartment, my godmother Wendy and my old, old landlord (and Mum's friend). They were both very impressed by the place, which I've been taking good care of so far. Keep it clean, me :O)
Right goodnight all!
Namely the rink that I ice skate at was going to close down next year!
At first I thought I misheard, they only refurbished the place a little over a year ago, fixing up the pipes and redoing the whole ice surface, adding a gym and all that.
They even had the Australian National Figure Skating Championships there in December (which I sadly didn't get to because I had a terrible panic attack while trying to drive there, but let's not relive that :OP)! Plus the whole reason given by the owners of the shopping centre where the rink is made no sense! They claimed that by demolishing the rink they'd be able to provide better access to the bus and train stations, except those stations are less than 100m away. I mean unless they were planning to have the trains and buses go right through the middle of the shopping centre that's just BS.
Anyway, the skating community was outraged! Without this rink, there's nowhere to skate on the northern side of Sydney. All those kids and adults who take lessons would probably have to give up the sport - or travel two hours or more to get to another rink in Sydney (there's only three others and none of them are Olympic size like Macquarie).
Fortunately, there was an outpouring of support for the rink to remain, even politicians got involved (well it is an election year :OP), I signed a couple of petitions and sent emails myself and then the good news came through today!
The Rink is saved! Yaaaay!
This is indeed very happy news! I don't get to the rink as much as I like because of the issues I have with driving some times and the thought of time ticking down where I'd have chance to go skating was pretty disheartening.
Power to the people!
Anywho, on that good note I shall wrap this up - I have to go to bed - it's been a busy day, I've had two separate visitors to the apartment, my godmother Wendy and my old, old landlord (and Mum's friend). They were both very impressed by the place, which I've been taking good care of so far. Keep it clean, me :O)
Right goodnight all!
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