Superior Community Skatepark Association - A Good Cause in the Soo
Posted in General by CujoAugust 15th, 2006 - 6:15 PM
To begin with I never was a skateboarder and I probably never will be but that doesn’t deter me from thinking that this group is trying to do something good for the Sault. It is unfortunate though that a lot of the “old school” people here just aren’t open minded enough to support this initiative.
For those who don’t know (and those who read from out of town) the Superior Community Skatepark Association (SCSA) is a non-profit community group which was developed to focus on the needs of Sault Ste Marie and Algoma area skateboarders. Their main goal is to try to get a real skatepark built for local skaters and their main donation initiative is the 3002 skatepark construction fund where they are trying to get donations of $300 from 300 local businesses/people. With that donation target reached the skatepark would be able to be developed. I don’t know where they are with their goals currently but hopefully they have made some headway.
With just being involved with Buskerfest through blogelation which is mainly organized as a fund raiser/awareness event for the Sault Youth Council who’s main goal it is to keep youth in the Sault I think the SCSA ties in nicely right now as we all should be apart of this mindset. These two groups share similar goals in trying to create something in town for the youth market, something to try to keep people here and possibly attract people here. As someone who prefers to stay in the Sault I think these two groups definitely deserve any support we can offer them.
Travis from the SCSA actually contacted me as he saw one of our blogelation ads and he was interested in our cause. This gave me notice that the SCSA actually has a blog of their own where they are trying to raise their funds and use it as a way to get their word out as well. So if you have the time check out their site. I’ve noticed a couple of donation buttons on the page as well as some Google ads dispersed throughout as well so if you can help out any way possible I’m sure they’d appreciate it a little bit.
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August 15th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
I’m a little confused… $300 total from 300 businesses doesn’t sound like enough to build a skatepark. You mean $300 each from 300 businesses, right?
August 15th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Okay, duh. Sorry, Cujo, I missed the gist - LOL! 300 times $300 is right there in front of my face, I’m just too damned tired tonight…
August 15th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
No no, I think I can see the confusion. I wrote this one quick as I had a baseball meeting to get to HAHA. No proof reading on this post. Hmmm… I’ll try to fix it.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
I was a skateboarder. I have a vintage board from the early 70s that belonged to my cousin Christie. The wheels are HUGE. I couldn’t do anything but coast on it so we’d tie a skipping rope to my little sister’s bike and hold on tight. Weeeee I want to do it again!
August 16th, 2006 at 11:37 am
I remember one time I looked at a skateboard….then I fell down. Ominous warning heeded.
August 16th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
They should of used all the concrete from the Memorial Gardens and used it for the skate park.
August 16th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Well clearly nobody who reads my blog really are skateboarders but I still think we can help out in some way.
And Darcy, I think they need some of the money for securing location etc. Not sure how good chunks of concrete would work for it for ramps and whatnot maybe it would have been good for a paintball park battlefield type look.
August 17th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Well you cut the concrete into different sizes.
I dont know im not a steel worker. Im sure there is some process where you can melt the concrete down and then remold it.
Maybe I should of taken a shop class at high school.