The opening ceremony for the Barre City Skate Park was an occasion of monumental proportions! Everyone from the Mayor of Barre, to City Parks and Rec Workers, to local shredders were in attendance. Anyone who happened to be passing by was immediately sucked into the vacuum of amazingness that was happening!!
The ceremony began with Parks and Rec Director, the unbelievable Stephanie Quaranta, giving a speech to the crowd about our campers and the project and just how proud she was of it (and rightly so). We then presented all the campers with an official certificate of completion of the Barre City Ramp Camp Program as well as some hard earned goodies! We even gave out a couple specialty counselor designed decks to some of our outstanding campers who went above and beyond the call of duty on a daily basis. Then our very own Alex and Mikey said a few words about the camp, the ribbon was cut and the part was on!!
Everyone got a good chance to check out all the Ramp Campers hard work, as well as let them show off some of their new skills!! I saw too much good shredding to give a play by play but I assure you everyone was KILLING IT!!!
The hot dogs were hot, the watermelon was watery, the beats were tasty (courtesy of WRUV 90.1′s own DJ John Moses) and everything was all good in the City of Granite. Even the Times Argus was there, you can check the story here: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20100731/NEWS02/707319947
All in all it was amazing. The campers deserve a world of credit for their dedication to the project, it is something that nobody will ever be able to take from them. Keep checking back, I hope to continue working on the Barre City Skate Park and I have a feeling Ramp Camp may continue just a little bit longer. As always, check the pics below and remember
skate or die
-J
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