{"id":5049,"date":"2011-08-17T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/first-annual-long-beach-bmx-state-park-jam-and-contest-at-houghton-park\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:25:00","slug":"first-annual-long-beach-bmx-state-park-jam-and-contest-at-houghton-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/first-annual-long-beach-bmx-state-park-jam-and-contest-at-houghton-park","title":{"rendered":"First Annual Long Beach BMX State Park Jam and Contest at Houghton Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:19am | <\/strong>Ninth District Councilmember Steve Neal and “Action, Sports, Kids, Long Beach” (ASK LB) will be hosting the first Annual \u201cLong Beach BMX Skate Park Jam and Contest\u201d at Houghton Skate Park on Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The actual contest will begin at 1:30 PM.<\/p>\n

The Skate Park Jam and contest will showcase local Long Beach skateboarding talent as they compete for prizes.<\/p>\n

Event co-sponsors include the Tony Hawk Foundation, Etnies and Long Beach Parks, Recreation, and Marine. Long Beach Firefighters Association, Local 372, will be on hand to provide hot dogs and refreshments. Skate Dogs Skateboarding Company will also provide skateboarding lessons from kids from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. <\/p>\n

Proceeds raised by the event will be used to the repair and refurbishing of the Houghton Skate Park and Mural. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to partner with ASK Long Beach on bringing an exciting program to North Long Beach youth,\u201d said Councilmember Neal in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be our first event at Houghton. We are excited about getting our youth involved in their community and helping us raise dollars for much needed repairs to the skate park,\u201d says Mike Donelon, Long Beach Skate Park Program founder and Executive Director of ASK Long Beach.<\/p>\n

For more information, please contact district9@longbeach.gov or call (562) 570-6137.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ninth District Councilmember Steve Neal and ASK Long Beach will be hosting the first Annual \u201cLong Beach BMX Skate Park Jam and Contest\u201d at Houghton Skate Park on Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The actual contest will begin at 1:30 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}