Bangor University students recently volunteered to clean up graffiti at a skate bowl near Beach Road.
The skate bowl was built as a memorial for Darren Frost, a teenager from Bangor, who died in a cycling accident in 2011.
A group of skateboarders from the University, who use the skate bowl themselves, decided to cleanup the graffiti, which included obscenities and swastikas, under an event called ‘Bangor Skate Against Hate’.
Eighteen students attend the event and spent several hours cleaning up the graffiti, using anti-graffiti spray paint and washing up liquid.
Founder of the group Bangor University Skate, Max Ansell, told student newspaper Seren: “This has happened many times before. There’s no CCTV around the bowl, which could be one of the reasons why kids do this and will most likely keep doing it.
“In previous cases of graffiti, the bowl had always been cleaned by skateboarders and old friends of Darren from the area around Bangor. The team wanted to take over the workload for a change to show their support to the Bangor skate community and pay their respects.
“We hope that with our cleaning initiative, we can draw attention to the fact that skateboarders are the only ones maintaining the bowl, which at the same time, is a memorial that needs to be respected and looked after.”
Photo: Seren
