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With Halloween now over the Youth Council is looking forward to the Holiday Season and the New Year. First off the Langdon Youth Council is sorry to announce that due to builder unavailability the Sk8 park has been delayed until the spring. Once the ground thaws we will be eager and ready to start pouring cement. A big thank you goes out to all of those who have so far helped out with this project. With out all of our great volunteers and donors this project could not be possible.

To be better connected to you the LYC is started a mail out list. If you would like to receive up to date information on programs and events, please email lycprograms@langdonyouthcouncil.com. We will be sending out monthly calendars and reminders of upcdoming events. We believe that this new initiative will be a great way to stay connect with the youth and parents of Langdon.
 

Finally The Langdon Youth Council is pleased to announce that they will be holding Christmas Day Camps this Holiday Season

Christmas Day Camps
When: December 22 and 23 from 8:30am-4:30pm. Pre and Post Care also Available
Cost: $35.00 per day
What: Register your kids, ages 6-12. for two days of Holiday crafts, seasonal games, and festive fun. Over the two days we will create Holiday Decorations, Christmas gifts and engage in Winter themed activities. It is the perfect occasion for the kids to get geared up for Christmas and the New Year!!

Langdon's 125th celebration would not have been complete without a little skate boarding. On Sunday July 17th, 12 boarders came out in full force ready to show off their talent. Tricks included ollies, board slides, manuals, kick flip, sex change, and action all over the dip-pity-do. Teens competed in one of two categories, 13 or under and 14 or over. In the younger category First place prize, a visionary skate deck and $25.00 gift certificate to Rippers, went to Colby. Second place, a LYC Sk8 deck, went to Beau. Coming in third and winning a Circa Backpack was Brett. In the older division first place, a Visionary deck and $50.00 gift card to Rippers, was won by Dylan. Second place prize, being a Visionary deck, went to James. Finally third, a LYC Sk8 deck was won by Patrick. The competition was close and in the end everyone that entered the competition went home with a prize. Thanks to the generosity of sponsors we were able to make sure that no one went home empty handed. Thanks again to Visionary, Rippers, Circa, and the LYC for sponsoring this great event. A big thanks also to everyone that came out a supported all of our competitors. It was great to see so many people out for one last ride on the Langdon lumps. The LYC is already looking forward to next years competition on our brand new Skate park!

So that time has come again to ask for some donations for a fundraiser we are having in Langdon. The first one is a silent auction and the other one is the second annual Langdon Skateboard competition. If you have anything to donate please contact Sarah.

P.S. We are also in the process of making our own skateboards that we will be selling for $50 each. If you are interested in buying one please let me know.

Sarah needs the youths input on changes and ideas. Come to the next skate team meeting or call Sarah at 681-4999 for more info.

For those of you that don't know, the youth in Langdon have been working hard for the past year and a half in order to obtain a new outdoor skateboard park. This dream is slowly but surely becoming a reality with hopes of building in the spring. There have been a number of great fund raisers including: selling pizza, posters, stickers, and t-shirts. A silent auction, skate board competition, bottle drive, dances, movie nights and a coin count. The youth have put a lot of effort into these events. They have also done a presentation to the Alberta government and the MD of Rockeyview in order to receive grant money. So far we have $93,000 in our skate park account and have also received another grant for $55,000.

We picked a company called Spectrum to design and build the park. We have submitted all the features the youth want in the park and are expecting a plan as early as next week!!

With all of these positive things happening, we still need a few things to complete the dream of a new skateboard park. We need volunteers to help with digging up the old tennis courts, getting the surrounding area ready for building, and to donate building materials such as rebar, concrete, gravel, dirt and landscaping items for the area surrounding the new skateboard park.

If you are interesting in helping the Langdon Youth Council in anyway, have any ideas or want any information about the project feel free to contact Sarah Coulson at info@langdonyouthcouncil.com or 681-4999.

Summer in Langdon has come and gone way too fast!! It was packed full of fun activities such as go-karting, skateboarding, water fights, mountain biking, movie nights, survivor Mondays and crafts to name a few. Over 300 youth attended the events for July and August. <more>

On April 28th Terri Finnegen, Zorian Klomochko and Myself took 11 boys to Strathmore for a Skateboard competition. The event was held to raise money for a new outdoor skateboard park in Strathmore and promote the sport of skateboarding. It was hosted by the Strathmore skateboard team called Epic. They did a really good job and everything went smoothly. Zorian and myself judged and did music while Terri turned into team photographer.

We had 4 of our Langdon Skateboard team members compete in the competition. They were Lanny S, Tyler H, Evan L and Colby G. They all skated well and tried hard with a lot of people watching. Out of around 20 people in the younger age category, Colby placed 3rd, won some prizes and even won some money for being one of the only ones wearing a helmet!! Good job!!

I would like to thank Team Epic for inviting us to the event, treating us with a BBQ and hosting an awesome skateboarding competition. Congratulations to all the winners.

Come out during Langdon Days for the 1st Langdon skateboard competition being put on by the Langdon Skateboard Team. Contact Sarah for more information 681-4999.

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The Langdon Youth Council Skate Team was assembled with the goal of helping the Youth Council prepare an addition for the Langdon skateboard park next year. Langdon has a lot of youth that participate in and enjoy skateboarding. The Langdon youth council did five skateboarding trips this summer, which were all not only full but had waiting lists. The skateboard park is already enjoyed by so many youth and since it is a safe, healthy activity for them to be involved in, the Langdon Youth Council decided to take on the task of building an addition and to get the youth involved in the project. <more>

Thanks to The Dimwitted Heroes (fun and entertaining as always!) from Camp Chestermere for hosting the Jam Night in April, and to all the jammers who came out to play. Thanks also to Aaron and Roland from Studio 9 for coming out to do the guitar and drum workshops that afternoon.