By Taylor McKinnie, The Inter-Mountain
ELKINS, W.Va. — Supporters of the Elkins Skatepark were in attendance at the Elkins Parks & Recreation Commission meeting Wednesday evening, stressing why the structure should remain in Glendale Park
More than 30 supporters of the Elkins Skatepark sat in during the meeting to express their desire to keep the park, which was built in 2009, in Glendale Park, despite the EPRC’s plan to move the skatepark to property owned by the Refinery Church near North Elementary School and Highland Park, and possibly replacing the skatepark with pickleball courts.
Several people spoke during the meeting’s public comment section to voice the group’s overall opinion that the skatepark needs to stay in Glendale, and that they wish to offer the commission any help they can in keeping the park where it is.
“We think moving it would deprive our children,” Alice Sabitino, a former adult advisor for Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES) and an initial leader of the initial project to build the skatepark, told the commission. “It would be too far for local kids to go all the way to where they want to put it. If there’s some way that we, as a group, can help to keep that park there. To get new ramps, write grants.”
Sabitino began the public comments by explaining the history of the skatepark and the hard work that was put into getting the park built by the community.
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