Neighborhood-minded skate boarders in Cambridge are hoping to carve out a safer area to apply in Hespeler.
A gaggle generally known as Hespeler Wants A Skatepark has been internet hosting occasions all through the summer time to assist grind out help to construct a skatepark nearer to residence, a trigger they’ve been championing for years.
“It helps communities grow. It helps kids learn. It helps bring people together,” Hespeler Wants a Skatepark member Ian Cools informed on Aug. 31 in the course of the group’s final jam occasion of the season.
Cools stated it may be laborious for a lot of children within the space to get to a skatepark as a result of there isn’t a direct public transit hyperlink, leaving a few of them to be taught their expertise on the street.
“You’re not allowed to be skateboarding on the streets and [it’s] not allowed in a lot of parking lots. So in Hespeler there is no place where kids can skate legally,” Cools stated.
Skateboard fanatic Derek Pigozzo has been passing down his expertise to his kids. He says he remembers a time when he would skateboard on public streets as a result of there was nowhere else to go.
“It’s much better if we have a place that’s actually designed and built for people to skateboard on,” Pigozzo stated.
“There are just a lot more hazards. Every crack in a sidewalk can be deadly – you could fall on your face. Every crack on a sidewalk is a potential fall. I’ve done it!”
