Come to the CASE Annual General Meeting!

Apr 11, 2012 | Activism, News, Politics, Skateboarding

Notice of Annual  General Meeting
7 PM, Wednesday May 2
Community Room
Eau Claire Market
200 Barclay Parade SW

Fuse Fest, August 2011

Every year CASE invites all of our members as well as everyone else in the Calgary skateboarding community and those who support skateboarding, to our Annual General Meeting (AGM). Our AGM is an opportunity for CASE to share  what we have accomplished, what we are working on, and what we have planned.  It will also be a chance for us to answer your questions, and hear your ideas and suggestions about what we can do for skateboarding in Calgary. If you want to get involved in  any of CASE’s efforts, you can check into that opportunity as well as CASE needs more people to contribute, a little or a lot, to help push skateboarding forward in Calgary

We are making progress towards getting  more skateparks in Calgary, and in making our city a more skate friendly place.  The progress is not as quick as we’d all like, but the progress is definite.  We’re making a difference for Calgary skateboarders and we hope you can make in on May 2nd so you can hear about developments first hand!

If you have questions, comments, or need more information before the meeting click “Contact” in the menu bar.

See YOU May 2nd!

Daniel K’s Story

Apr 9, 2012 | By-laws, Skateboarding

As a follow up to our last post regarding city bylaws, here is Daniel K’s story from a recent encounter with the law:

Me and two friends were skating down Stephen Ave. I skated between two people I thought were bylaw officers on bicycles; they never announced they were police. They chased me through traffic and ended up tackling me at full speed from their bikes. [They] split my face open, dislocated my shoulder, and ripped out a lot of my hair. At first they tried to charge me with obstruction, assault, assault on a police officer, running a red light, and skateboarding in a no-skateboarding zone.

As I walked to the police station with them, I got a chance to talk to them, I was able to calm them down. Deflating the situation a little, they ended up only charging me with obstruction, and the tickets I got for skateboarding were never filed.

In the end it all worked out; at first the cops were being a little excessive but also doing there job. So to the youngsters that hate cops almost as much as i do, just remember keep calm, remember your manners, and show a little respect, and chances are they will go lightly.

Reminder: City Skateboarding Bylaws

Apr 7, 2012 | By-laws, Skateboarding

Now that spring is almost/kind of here, it’s a good idea to get re-acquainted with the City of Calgary’s by-laws as they apply to skateboarding.
If you check out this link, you will notice that skateboarding on city sidewalks is legal, provided it’s not in the “Central Traffic Zone” (essentially all of downtown). Skateboarding on any city street is technically not legal.
Skateboarding is allowed on all city pathways, provided you’re not doing anything “unsafe to other people” and not breaking the other pathway rules (speed limit 20 Km/h, pass on the left, etc). You can see the pathway by-laws here.