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Tony Hawk Foundation donates $10K to skate park

By David Bell
Today's News-Herald
Published Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:11 PM MST

Lake Havasu City’s skateboarders and bike riders must be on Santa’s nice list this year.

David Bell/News-Herald Photo Sam Stebila flies his bike into the air without using his hands at the skate park at Rotary Park. Efforts to develop a new, larger sports park got a big boost this week. The Tony Hawk Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to the Tinnell Memorial Sports Park. A local foundation that requested anonymity matched that with another $10,000.

The Tinnell Memorial Sports Park Committee was notified this week that the park was selected to receive a $10,000 grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation.

“I found out about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday,” Tinnell Committee Chair Rachelle Duncan said. “I knew they were deciding yesterday, so I was waiting all day to hear. First thing I did when I got the e-mail was shoot it out to everybody supporting the effort all along.”

The Tinnell Sports Park is one of 10 receiving a $10,000 grant in the fall cycle of the Tony Hawk Foundation. Three projects �” Greensboro, Ala., Eureka, Calif., and Yakima, Wash. �” each received $25,000 grants.

The Tinnell Sports Park was the only Arizona project to be awarded a Tony Hawk grant.

It’s the latest in a series of good news supporters of the sports park received this month. A local foundation that has requested anonymity donated $10,000 to the project last week, and the Tinnell Committee was awarded an $8,000 prize package from the group Straight From the Hip. FOR FULL STORY, SEE TODAY'S-HERALD.

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WETHEPEP'S wrote on Dec 15, 2007 1:23 PM:

" YAH, can i get a woap-woap...this is a perfect place [lhc] for a real skatepark .the way i se it -this is one absolute positive way to back our local youth,and keep them off the streets and doing what they want-to ride!LETS ALL HELP TO BREAK GROUND!! "

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