Three boys are erasing the stigma attached to skate parks after they cleaned up smashed glass from the Rutherford park on Sunday.
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The children used their own money to buy cleaning equipment from a nearby shopping centre in order to make the grounds safe.
One of the young men was Jaidyn Winsor, 11, who is at the park most afternoons. “If we did not clean it no one else would be able to ride there,” Jaidyn said. The two others involved were Aiden Law and Kalan Goerke.
There are no bins at the premises due to repeated destruction of property, so the boys were forced to take the rubbish across to a supermarket in a take-away container.
Thy boys received certificates for their efforts from Maitland mayor Peter Blackmore and councillor Henry Meskauskas yesterday.
The three boy’s kind act was discovered by a tip to the Aberglasslyn/Rutherford Neighbourhood Watch Facebook page. It quickly spread across social media, with users quick to praise the boys.