Sikeston Skatepark

Our Shinning MomentO

President / Founder Cindy Taylor (on right) & Vice President Cheryl Brown. Minutes before the final inspection was finished for the opening of the skatepark.

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Who We Are

In July 2007 I founded the Sikeston Skatepark Committee, we had adults and 80 skateboarders going to our town council asking and begging for a skatepark. We held fund raisers, events, raffle, set up booths for donations and raised over $15,000 in the first 6 months. Our City, Sikeston MO granted us a skatepark if we could get the Park Board to donate us the land. We then went and begged them for the land. We were granted the land it was not an easy decision, we had to choices to pick from with the citizens input we were granted a corner lot  in the Sports Complex By November of 2007 we had enough money to lay our 50x80 concrete skatepark pad. We were promised via a local business a match of our $15,000 unfortunately his company crumbles and he ran off out of the States.The skaters become discouraged, but Cheryl Brown and I never stopped trying. We stayed in very close contact with the City and Park Director. In 2009 the city matched our $15,000 we sent out bids to skate companies to build us a park for $15,000 however, the designs we were given were not enough to keep the skaters happy, so we agreed with the City to hold off till 2010 with hopes that the City could donate another $15,000.We are happy to announce that in January 2010 the city agreed to a total of $30,000.00 for our skatepark, February they released the money the Park Director, along with the Skate Committee sent out bids and in April we all agreed upon American Ramp Company to design our park and we officially opened for business June 17th 2010.We are now planning a grand opening (we are hoping September 2010) and we are seeking donations for our grand opening. It can be clothing, boards, wheels, trucks, tech decks, movies, stickers or anything your company would like to donate.We are planning to have a skate competition; the donations that are given will be used to buy trophies & door prizes we will be gladly to accept items to give away for the prizes that day as well.