A lot of options when it comes to skatepark in Welland
WELLAND, ONTARIO — When it comes to relocating Welland’s skatepark, there are a lot of options to be discussed. Ideas of where to put it, what it should be made of, and how it can be funded, were all discussed by a group of youths at a public meeting Saturday held at Youth Innovations in [...]
Skatepark rolling along
Sk8 City has come to the Seaway City. After years based away from home, renowned skateboarding legend Claude Regnier has brought the franchise to his hometown of Cornwall. The 50-year-old and Mary-Beth Lavoie, his girlfriend and business partner, are hard at work building half pipes, flat banks and maybe even a spine at 416 Cumberland [...]
Skatepark planning progresses
Backers seek to secure ‘huge’ chance to realize dream Supporters of Pemberton’s proposed skateboard park are firming up design plans for the long-awaited facility and gearing up for a push to secure a chunk of funding needed to complete the project. A workshop hosted last Wednesday (Nov. 4) by the Pemberton Skateboard Society and the [...]
Long-awaited skatepark gets rolling
Eighth Street Parkette will be home to the city’s newest skateboard park. Soil testing of the former Birmingham Street tannery land in June identified “low levels” of metals including arsenic, barium and beryllium, as well as PCBs, hydrocarbons and phenols, report a city-hired geotechnical consulting firm. The finding essentially greenlights the $500,000 project. “There is [...]
