1. Helping kids out
2. Doing seminars for kids
3. Doing clean ups like at 2nd Street park
4. Being runners at the Rotary Auction
5. Doing information and updates on the Sk8park to different groups
6. Being committed to this project
7. Going though this long process of getting a sk8park, and doing it the right way and almost all by ourselves
8. Setting up booths and thing for Communities for Children
9. Helping and participating in parades.

Through all of this we have gained respect from city officials, representatives, businesses, and a lot of other people around.

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Sk8park Committee Members

Some of the really devoted committee members that have been helping out almost the whole way are:

Chris Ballesteros Brent Hall Kathy Leen Barbra McDade Kyle Jennings Ashlee Detour Jenn Collins Jimmy Collins Jesse Toner Alex Clifford Tracy Willete Josh Bragdon Daren Click names to see profile's	Chris Ballesteros	Brent Hall	Profile's
Jesse Toner	A picture of the sk8 commmittee after the 2nd St. Park cleanup		Ashlee Detour	Kyle Jennings
Kathy Leen Jenn Collins	A picture of the sk8 committee of 2000 at the Bangor Pulic Library.			Tracy Willete

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Fundraising

Fundraising has been a big part of the Bangor Sk8park. For as soon as we started meeting as a committee, we realized that we were going to have to start fundraising as quickly as possible. Our first fundraising venture was to put out collection jars at willing businesses around the Bangor area. We have been steadily collecting these jars for about two years around every week or so, at the following businesses.

The New Moon Cafe	Papa Gambino's	Tesoro's Pizza
Bagel Central	The Grasshopper Shop	The Hop
Dana's Grill	Frank's Bakery	Subway on States St.
The Internet Cafe	Miller Drug Store	Bangor Floral
Center Street Variety	The Brown Bag

We then decided that we still would need more to reach our goals. We did not know the exact amount of money we need to raise then but we figured it was around 30,000 dollors. Over the next year we organized bottle drives, car washes, applied for grants and bills, and set up sk8park booths at various events such as October fest in Downtown Bangor to help raise more money. We got a big break in may of 2000, when the Bangor Noon Time Rotary decided to donated 50% of the proceeds from their annul auction to the Bangor Sk8park. This was great news for us and it built up our hopes even higher. After this we got in touch and began working with Eastern Maine Charities as an official non-profit 501 C3. Which is great because now they can take care of our hard earned money and also most businesses or organizations will not donate anything to you if you are not a non-profit organization. With this cooperation we started to work on sending fundraising letters to some 400 businesses around the Bangor area. This was a great idea but, I think we put this together to late because it was around summer vacation and many people were not around and many businesses had already given their donation money away to other organizations and groups. So this event came up as a little disappointment, with all the time and work we put into it. We then began to make new sk8park t-shirts and decided to start to sell them as another source of fundraising. They were a pretty big hit when we first made them and we sold a pretty good amount. If you want information about ordering your own Bangor Sk8park T-shirt Click here.

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Right now the Sk8park is up and running and is open from 6:00a.m. to sunset. The rules are as follows:

1. Helmets and padding are strongly recommended.
2. Children ten and under must have adult supervision.
3. Only Skateboards and roller blades are allowed.
4. Place litter in the trash barrels.
5. Glass containers are not permitted on the park.
6. Pets are not permitted on the park.
7. No drugs or alcohol allowed.
8. No Smoking.
9. Music is allowed as long as it's tasteful and not too loud.
10. And SKATE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

We are about 75% of the way to getting all of our estimated $50,000 sk8park. With more donations and more fundraising it shouldn't be too much longer before the Bangor Sk8park is 100% up and running for everyone to use and enjoy. For the time being, there are no fundraisers or events scheduled for the Sk8park, but stay tuned because we expect some in the near future, to raise enough money to build the rest of the park.

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Small . . . . . .$12.00 Medium . . . $12.00 Large . . . . . $12.00 X-Large . . . $15.00

These t-shirts were printed for us by T-Rex Imprinters on Hammond Street in Bangor and we would like to thank them for supporting us and helping us get our sk8park. If you would like to purchase your very own sk8park t-shirt click here and email Chris Ballesteros, or you can contact Eastern Maine Charities on State Street in Bangor.

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The design and layout was made and designed by Chris Ballesteros who is a sk8boarder and has been in the sk8park committee for about 2 years. He took all the things that he could think of that would make a sk8park fun and other designs from other well made parks and put them all together to form the Bangor Sk8park with the exception that it had to be relatively low budget. The city of Bangor paved and gave us a 15,000 sq ft amoeba shaped pad of tar to place the ramps on, which is directly behind the Paul Bunyan Statue. The sk8park consists of:

We decided that with the first part of the money we had, we would begin to order the ramps for the sk8park so it could be open for the summer of 2001. But we only had a portion of the money needed to purchase all the ramps, so we bought the miniramp, both tabletops and some funboxes. We figured that the fastest and best quality way to get the ramps were though a company called Big Daddy. We experienced some difficulties with them but we finally have the ramps and they are all ready for sk8ing. And as soon as we receive the rest of the money needed to build the rest of the park we are going to hire a contractor to build and put to together the rest of the ramps to fit our custom design perfectly. Please, if you want to help in any way, with anything, you can call Eastern Maine Charities or email Chris Ballesteros by clicking here and he will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.

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Make a Donation

Thank You

Over the two years that we have been working on this sk8park project we have had many volunteers and supporters, people from all around Maine. We the Bangor Sk8park Committee would like to thank all of the people and groups who have helped us. With out your help the Bangor Sk8park would not have been a reality.
Thank you to:

The Bangor Noon Time Rotary Barbra Mcdade Gunns Sports Shop The Bangor City Council Bangor Parks and Rec Bangor Parks and Rec Bangor Parks and Rec Tesoro's Pizza Tesoro's Pizza Dana's Grill Subway on State St. Miller Drug Store Broadway Redemtion Center Center St. Variety Fred's Hardware The Northern Border All the Donations The City of Bangor

The City of Bangor Eastern Maine Charities Christy's Tracy Willete Epstein's Real Estate Mike Crawley Papa Gambino's on State St. Bagel Central The Hop Frank's Bakery The Internet Cafe Bangor Floral Unitarian Universalist Church The Brown Bag in Bangor Acadia Hospital The Downtown Business Assiociation All the Committee Members Sk8park Contributors and Supporters

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Links

Check out some of these links to a couple sk8board related Websites. Enjoy!