I'm a 12-year-old student that reads your paper quite often. Well, today I picked up the paper to get the 411 on the new skate park. Not to my surprise, I found some were excited about the new pool and opposed the skate park. Their reason is it's too dangerous or they feel the tax increase is going to scare away the industry. I read the paper a lot and see all the drug cases that happen, and I think, "What if that was me or my friends that are the druggies in the paper."

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