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MASSIVE TRAMPOLINE CENTRE
City teen struck with bat
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Justin Marti, facility supervisor for Extreme Air Park’s new Sapperton location, gets some air on the trampolines in the 42,000-squarefoot warehouse. The new facility includes trampolines, zero gravity basketball, vertical volleyball, 3D dodgeball, a foam zone, a halfpipe area and laser tag. The trampoline park is part of a burgeoning worldwide trend, with about 700 such facilities now found around the world. The Sapperton facility is located at 109 Braid St., building E.
Mother says: ‘He’s lucky he didn’t suffer internal damage’ By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@newwestrecord.ca
A New Westminster teen is recovering after being attacked by a stranger with a metal baseball bat in the West End Friday. Four youths were walking home on Eighth Avenue by 20th Street at about 8 p.m., according to police, when a soccer ball belonging to one of them hit a passing vehicle. The vehicle stopped, and a man got out of the passenger side and allegedly chased the youths with a bat, police said. One of the youths, a 14-yearold, was struck with the bat and had to be taken to hospital, according to police. “This is a gross overreaction on the part of the motorist,” media relations officer Sgt. Jeff Scott stated in a press release. The 14-year-old had stayed behind to explain the soccer ball had gotten away from the group by accident and that he hadn’t kicked it, according to his mother, Mary Carnrite. “This man didn’t care! He beat my child with an aluminum bat!!!! All because of a soccer ball...,” Carnrite wrote in a Facebook post. The man hit her son in the upper arm, the hand and the chest Continued on page 8
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Growing bigger, bouncing higher By Grant Granger
ggranger@newwestrecord.ca
Planet Lazer had no intention of leaving its little spot on Braid Street. But it had to go. The landlords had bigger plans for the building.Turns out, so did Planet Lazer’s owners, and the new facility has customers jumping for joy. The extreme laser tag business moved across the street into a warehouse so huge a gigantic trampoline facility was added. It’s called Extreme Air Park, and it has 160 tram-
polines strung together over 42,000 square feet. It opened Aug. 29, joining three others in Greater Vancouver. Customers can play zero gravity basketball, vertical volleyball and 3D dodgeball on the trampolines. It also has an air zone, a foam zone and a half-pipe area. A massive viewing area overlooks it all, and, oh yeah, laser tag came across the street too. “It is a pretty massive warehouse. It’s probably bigger than all the other locations,” said facility supervisor Justin Marti, who noted the New West facility is different than the
others in another aspect. “It’s one trampoline floor that’s connected to each other.There’s no walkway that isn’t trampoline. It’s just one massive floor of trampolines. “This one we used all the space we could to fit as many trampolines in there as we could.” According to a 2016 Los Angeles Times article, the trampoline park concept originated in Las Vegas in 2004, growing to about 700 facilities around the world by last year. Continued on page 8
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