I have a preliminary meeting with the Rockfish Valley Community Center on May 5th. This initial meeting will be the first step in SkateNelson and the community skatepark becoming officially recognized as a component of the community center. If all goes well at this meeting, we can then approach the RVCC Board of Directors to [...]

A lot of you have probably found this site already, but for those who haven’t, check out www.skateparkguide.com . Similar to skatepark.org but more definitive. It’s also a bit of an eye opener. After reading a couple of pages on the site, I’ve bumped what I expect we will need to spend from $50k to $200k… [...]

Sorry it has been a while. I attended a RVCC Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday night. The agenda was largely dealing with the upcoming feasibility study that the community center is doing and particularly the initial research of local opinions and desires. This initial research is to determine what the community wants the RVCC to [...]

Margaret Clair, who is a “mover/shaker” at the Rockfish Valley Community Center (RVCC), and I spoke briefly yesterday. She told me she had been forwarded the letter I wrote introducing the skatepark concept to RVCC. She agrees it is a worthwhile project that would fill a need for the teens in Nelson. She has also [...]