Oh! This is sooooo cool! Has anyone posted about the Omaha Skater Girls? [View all]

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I just read this article, and it gave this 65-year-old chill-bumps! I sooo wish we had had this kind of thing when I was a kid!


http://www.omaha.com/living/the-cool-crew-omaha-skater-girls-a-case-study-in/article_4fa5f2f2-7155-59a6-bba3-de75c2742e01.html

The Omaha Skater Girls had assembled, as they have almost every week for the past few months, at the skate park near 78th and Cass Streets. Accompanied by mothers all manner of cool, the girls strapped on helmets, elbow pads and kneepads, then more or less took over the center section of the rolling concrete park.

There was 6-year-old Lyla Smith Hurt, whose interest started this whole thing. She was joined by 6-year-old Raven Connor, the second member of the group, and their fellow Washington Elementary first-graders Renny Maxwell (who had just come from soccer), Josie McLaughlin (known to onlookers as “Fearless” by night’s end) and Millie Jackson (whose helmet looked like a watermelon).

Millie’s older sister, Beatrix, was there, too. At 9, she served as the most senior member of the crew.
The youngest arrived a little later. Four-year-old Gwen Grimm appeared with a new purple-and-black checkered skateboard and Hello Kitty kneepads. She represented in pint-size form the casual enormity of what was happening here — a play date, essentially, but one capable of bringing a stranger to tears.

I'm sorry I won't be around to comment if this turns into a thread...I've got to go to work. I just had to post this.