1.   Santee recently hired a landscape architect to begin drawing designs for a skate park.

2.   The new skate park was designed to be safe and will be operated that way, he said.

3.   The skate park is crammed with ramps, bowls and railings for users to perform tricks on.

4.   With no skate parks in the area, he had an idea about what could be successful.

5.   At the empty lot here where the skate park used to be, there has been talk lately about how court decisions sometimes bring confusing results.

6.   Audley said his decision to close the skate park was made reluctantly after the Supreme Court ruling, because Fairfield could not afford the risk.

7.   A student at Georgia Perimeter College, he was instrumental in convincing Roswell and Gwinnett County officials to fund public skate parks in those communities.

8.   After hearing the music at the skate park, some boys from a group home have attended services there.

9.   But for many towns, getting a skate park built is a study in controversy.

10.   But here in Fairfield, the discussion hit home only after the town carted away the ramps at the South Benson Marina skate park.