Yesterday after school Jony-D and Keith met with about 20 middle school skaters. We discussed the future plans for a skatepark. Jony-D is predicting that we'll have the funds necessary in two years. He said the city is on our side and ready, but WE have to come up with the money.
Keith (me) gave a run down of the money as of October 1st. We need $40, 000 to get this thing started. We currently have $10,686.90 in the Mercer County Civic Foundation skatepark fund and $1,122.72 in the Celina Skatepark Fund checkbook for a total of $11,809.62. This includes all of the money donated through Skate Day admissions, concessions, Beef Jerky sales, T-Shirt sales, "Go Skateboarding" card sales, the Hannah's donation in memory of Nate, business donations, personal donations, Lakefest and Ribfest donations, American Legion and Eagles donations, etc. Money was spent to buy Freshpark quarter-pipes, ramps, boxes and rails because of the complaints that we had nothing good to skate at our Skate Days. Jerky and T-Shirt sales more than paid for the equipment. We think it was a good and necessary investment for Skate Days and ultimately for the park.
In addition to dollar donations, let's not forget that we also receive donations of peoples' time and materials. Jony-D puts in a lot of time coming up with ideas and asking people and businesses for money and donations, the banner, etc. Thanks to Wal-Mart and the First Church of God we have places to skate for Skate Day.
"YOU (SKATEBOARDERS) ARE THE FACE OF THIS WHOLE EFFORT TO RAISE MONEY FOR A SKATEPARK." That's something like what Jony-D said that made perfect sense. Let's remember that people are always watching you everywhere you skate. What they think about you and your behavior is what they think about building a park. Good? or Bad?
MORE TRUST, LESS TROUBLE.
That's our motto.
kg
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sounds good.im going to design some t-shirts that are skate related and hopefully we can market them to people through out the community.and another thing i am doing is i am getting more people up to date with the Celina skate park myspace.networking with people through out mercer county and surrounding area trying to create a nice data base of support.and i have a few tickets to sell but you will have my money once i sell them:)
Awesome effort!
Keep it up.
kg
Hey bud whats going on over at the CMS building, ill be at the skateday with you before the runts get there. and ill call you today. How its the hold card thing going.? i feel bad that i haven't been here lately to help out like i used to. but i have faith and i think that we are deffinatly going in the right direction. ;) ill get at everyone tomorrow.
the school year has already started, and once school is over i wont be around to help out at skatedays so i would like to help in any ways i can while i am still here. i currently in the process of enlisting in the united states marine corps, so unfortunately i will probably not be around when the park does get built. if anyone needs help with anything you can reach me on my cell (419)-953-6621, or through my email address compson_k@hotmail.com.
Yeah.(kitts not really going. ((To lazy)) lol anyways so i hope that all our efforts are really going to be at good cause.
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