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Film fest helps Rhinebeck build permanent skate park - Daily Freeman

Posted: 22 May 2010 12:04 AM PDT

By Ethan Barnett
Freeman Intern

Times are changing for local skateboard communities.

The Rhinebeck Skate Park Committee has scheduled a skateboarding film festival fundraiser on Saturday at the Rhinebeck High School Auditorium, 45 North Park Road, Rhinebeck.

An assortment of local and professional skateboarding films will be shown to raise money for the construction of the Rhinebeck Skate Park in Thompson-Mazzarella Park. And 1979 National Skateboard Champion Steve Olson is scheduled to make a guest appearance.

The skate park is planned out to be a 10,000-square-foot custom concrete facility in Rhinebeck — aiming to be the first of its kind in Dutchess County.

Colin Riley, 34 of Poughkeepsie is the organizer of the event. "I've been working with Rhinebeck officially since January of 2010," Riley said via e-mail. "The town and village of Rhinebeck is very supportive of the skate park project."

Riley added, "Kids from everywhere are excited about the Rhinebeck skatepark. If it is done right, it will be a definite tourist attraction."

Featured films will include:

• "Beauty and the Beast 2 - The Honeymoon's over," presented by Girl/Anti-hero films;

• "The Get By," an HBO production;

• Local video montages by Bakwoods productions and Jeremy Jordan of Shade Films.

Jordan, of Kingston, has been around the skateboard community for about 18 years.

"It's going to be about a 10-minute-long skateboard montage of some old footage that I already used for my last video ("Surreal"), and some new footage will be in it also ... plus some high definition clips as well," Jordan said via e-mail.

"These things usually take a long time, mostly because of the large amount of money it takes to build and the time to raise the funds. It's nice when the town pays for it, but that usually it's not the case," Jordan said. "I do think the Saugerties Park had some influence on the Rhinebeck community. I have heard they been planning on getting one for a while now, but I guess they are really trying to do it now. I think Rhinebeck would be a great location for one. They get a lot of visitors around there, and I feel it would bring a lot of people to the Rhinebeck area."

Photography slideshows will also be shown from locals Glenn Probst and Bill Tomlin.

Tomlin, of Millbrook, has been shooting photography for over a year now and is the owner of Topic East Coast Skateboard Magazine. "I get excited anytime I hear about a skate park that is being built," he said via e-mail. "It means there will be a new crop of kids who get to enjoy a pasttime that most will never know anything about. There will be a place for kids to stay out of trouble and form lasting bonds with their friends. More people need to realize that providing legal a place for skateboarding is as important to the community as a baseball field, which you would be hard-pressed to find any kid using in the dead of winter, by themselves, which is quite the contrary for a skate park."

Tomlin also said he has "been shooting (photos) for a bit over a year now, Skateboarding is the main subject of my photography."

Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission is $10.

For more information, call Colin Riley at (845) 242-3176 or send an e-mail to thechraveler@gmail.com.

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Rapist Arrested for Attempted Kidnapping of Girl in ... - San Diego 6

Posted: 20 May 2010 12:42 AM PDT

Girl Evades Kidnapper

NATIONAL CITY - National City Police have caught a convicted sex offender who tried to kidnap a 13-year-old girl at knife-point.

Leonard Earl Scroggins, 32, was spotted by an alert National City police officer Wednesday night who recognized the suspect's Nissan Quest as it drove past him at 18th and Highland. The officer chased Scroggins to Kimball Park where the suspect abandoned his car and tried to flee on foot before being caught near a skateboard park.

Scroggins was the subject of a manhunt after being identified as the suspect in several crimes. About 9 p.m. Tuesday, Scroggins allegedly confronted a 17-year-old girl in the 500 block of Oxford Street in Chula Vista and demanded money, CVPD Capt. Gary Wedge said. The victim "sidestepped" the would-be robber and ran off, according to Wedge.

Less than an hour later, a knife-wielding man matching Scroggins' description approached a woman in the 500 block of Anita Street in Chula Vista, grabbed her and tried to pull her into a vehicle. The victim resisted, prompting a struggle during which the assailant stabbed her at least once in the arm, the captain said.

The woman broke free and fled. She was treated at UCSD Medical Center in San Diego for non-life-threatening wounds.

Shortly before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Scroggins allegedly stole a young woman's purse in the area of East 30th Street and B Avenue in National City, then fled in a silver Nissan Quest.

About 90 minutes later, a man grabbed 13-year-old Guadalupe Perez from behind and put a knife to her throat near Q Avenue and East 16th Street in National City. The girl, who suffered a cut finger in the assault, managed to elbow the abductor and run to a nearby relative's home.

Guadalupe told San Diego 6, "I was walking home from school, and I felt this man grab me from behind."

Police say the eighth-grader fought off the six-foot, 245 pound convicted sex offender from Napa county.

Guadalupe Perez bravely talked about her frightening ordeal as she walked home after school. "He told me get in the car or he's going to cut me."

Scroggins put a knife to the girl's throat. The blood on her hands shows the cut she took.

"I kind of grabbed it like this with my hand, so I could get it far away from me as possible. So, I threw it like that -- so, I hit him with my elbow...and I yelled...and he left," Perez explained.

National City police say Scroggins is a wanted parolee, and there's an open case againist him in Napa. On the Meghan's Law website. it shows Scroggins was convicted of rape by force.

Lt. Keith Fifield with National City Police said Scroggins was supposed to be wearing an ankle bracelet. "He did have a GPS on him last night which he has apparently cut off and removed."

The victim of the purse-snatching was able to give the police Scroggin's license plate number which led to his arrest.

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Girl's Skateboard

Saturday, May 22, 2010