SKATEPARK EXHIBITION

Eveleth Horizons organized a skateboarding exhibition to celebrate the opening of the new skatepark (the skatepark has been moved). The event had broad support from many sectors of the community.

Thanks to:

• Public works director Mike Wiskow who whelped with the logistics and ensuring that the skatepark was ready for the event
• Eveleth Merchants who voluteered to pay for rental of tents - due to all the recent rain, we were very nervous that it would be a wet exhibition. Thanks to the Eveleth Merchants for their generous support - the day turned out to be beautiful!
• Super 8 Motel and Snap Fitness for your donations of door prizes
• Mesabi Recreation for your donation of stickers.
• Mojosaurus, a local band, donated their talents to provide the event with music
• Italian Bakery for your donation of the cake - it was beautiful

• Parks commission members Connie and Barb who gilled hotdogs and assisted with the making of S'mores
• East Range Academy of Technology and Science who provided videographers
• Teery Hartikka of Public Access Channel who agreed to put the event on television
• Officer Brandon and Officer John from the Eveleth Police Department who came to cheer on the kids and help with the event
• Skater Curtis who came up with the rules
• Laurie Kuoppala for judging the event
• the parents and friends who came to cheer on the event
• Tanner, Austin, Matt, Garrett, Dakota, Tyler, Logan, Raven, Nate, Cody, Hunter, David, Brad, Curtis, Nick, Ryan, Cale, Brady, Nathaniel, and Mike. All of you are amazing.
• Stef J. from Horizons and councilor Kuoppala who worked so hard to make this exhibition a reality and a tremendous event.

The event included both skateboarding and skooters:

Councilor Liz Kuoppala gave it a try:

Please enjoy the pictures below, showing these talented youth in action:

Everyone had fun and plans are in place to continue working on demonstarting the skills of skateboarders. The plan is to set up a skateboarding association. If you are interested in joining, please contact Horizons at 218-305-4456 or eveleth.horizons@gmail.com . We will send you a registration card.

Thanks to all who made this such a success.