skateboard park is a pretty good thing to build on Make A Difference Day: Now kids can pop an ollie without playing in traffic.

And rusty junk doesn't belong in any waterway, so it's good that volunteer divers pulled old car bumpers from the river.

And it's great to collect books, food and clothing for those in need. And to wire a grade school for the Internet.

And it's good news that young people raised $7,000 for a future teen center.

But none of that is the very best part of Make A Difference Day in his town, says Racine Mayor Jim Smith. The best part is how attitudes change when people 7,000 total, blacks and whites, city residents and suburbanites, old and young pull together on things that matter to them.

"That's the wonderful part," Smith says, looking back at four years of Make A Difference Day projects. "It's the pride our community has in helping one another."

$10,000 award from Paul Newman goes to Youth Action Sports to create activites for at-risk youth.