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Quinte West - Trenton
(located west of Kingston)

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This park looks amazing. It was designed by Jim Barnum of Spectrum Park Creations in Vancouver, BC. It has amazing lines, and some super cool transitions, including a half bowl, something he tries to slip into all of his parks. You know it will rock if the contractors follow the plan to every specification. Jim has built world class parks in places like British Columbia (Hastings and Whistler), and Calgary (Millenium).

Letter (re: Quinte West - Trenton skate park):

Just wanted to let you know that our new cement skate park is currently under construction and should be down by July 03. It was designed by Jim Barnum of Spectrum and Patrick Morello of PGM Design Associates, Toronto, ON. It is approx. 16,000 sq/ft and is located in Centennial Park, Trenton Ward of Quinte West, Ontario (45 minutes west of Kingston). The park will be a free public skate park and will have lights that will operate until 10pm. It has taken three years of fundraising and hard work by volunteer members of the Skate Park Task Force. A $75,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation helped us in getting off the ground. The rest of the funds have come from the community (Service Clubs, individuals and businesses). We are now planning for a spectacular grand opening ceremony, which we hope to hold on Aug. 16/03. If you have any suggestions that would help in making this event special, we would appreciate hearing from you.
Laurie DeLong

Letter (re: Benefit Show - St. Catharines)

This is Aaron D'Amico, I am a co-founder and promotions agent from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Within our city, there is an ongoing problem where kids are getting arrested for skateboarding on public property. These kids are having their skateboards confiscated, and are being fined, and sometimes arrested. What the city has done, is approved plans to put in a skate park, however there is no funding. We at Cabinhat Productions intend on addressing this need by lending our services, to promoting a show on August 22nd, of punk, and rock performances at the Hideaway in St. Catharines. All of the proceeds will be going towards the building of the skate park in our area. What we are looking for is any help you could give us, whether that be, stickers, clothing, anything at all, we would raffle it off, as door prizes and such, in order to raise more money for the skate park.

Press release
VDZ.ca - June 11th 2003
VDZ and NLS have their west coast crews in the beautiful town of Gravenhurst for the months of May, June, and early July. We are constructing a design/build youth plaza at Centennial Arena in the heart of Gravenhurst. Gravenhurst is in the heart of the Muskoka's Ontario and only 20 minutes drive from "Muskoka Woods Sports Resort" Where NLS is also building 30,000 square ft. of modular steel and wood composite park! Its going to be a long hot summer in the Muskokas!

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On other park news, there are a ton of parks that have opened up. Go the park listings page to see the new additions.

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