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OUR MISSION
The intention of our mission is to reach out to residents, organizations and businesses in Newtown and surrounding towns, in aiding our fundraising campaign in various ways.
Our goal is to provide skate enthusiasts with a safe place to skate in Newtown. The officials of Newtown are offering us an outdoor land site at Fairfield Hills on which Donate to Skate will produce a professionally-built skateboard park which will then be donated to the Town of Newtown. Parks and Recreation will support and run the skate park.
Skateboarding is a popular, healthy form of recreation for our youth.
In providing the skateboard park to our youth, we believe we will give them positive choices of diversion and keep them off the streets. We hope the skateboard park campaign effort will be an inspiration to any person or group in Newtown for creating other needed recreational sites for our youth, through community effort.
Please consider helping us.
LATEST EVENTS
S.K.A.T.E. Competition
Saturday, June 6th, 11am - 6pm.
Dickinson Pavillion, RAIN OR SHINE.
Food, prizes, tunes, raffle, T-shirts for sale & open skate. Waiver & Helmets required. Waivers available for download, and will also be at the event. (Must be signed by an adult)
$10.00 to enter the contest or join in the open skate. Come for the fun, It's going to be a BLAST!
Vertigo Summer Camp Sign-Ups are Here!!
Learn to skate this summer with awesome instructors in the A/C !!
Space is limited to keep instructors/skater ratios low. Call (203) 775-3993 to get details, or check out the Vertigo website.
Skateboard Scholarship
Patrick Kerr Skateboard Scholarship
One $5,000 and three $1,000 scholarships to students who promote skateboarding.
Created by a Philadelphia mother after her 15-year-old son was killed while skateboarding last June. Applicants are judged by their community activism and an essay on "how skateboarding has been a positive influence in my life."
We're on MySpace!
Check us out at www.myspace.com/donatetoskate
We're on Facebook!
Check it out.
We need your help
Donate to Skate needs all skateboarders and their families to get involved in some way big or small. Contact Lori to volunteer your services.
"Many hands make for light work!"
The Donate To Skate Committee
Lori Capozziello, Chris Capozziello, Mark Tambascio, Erin Heneghan, Kerri Cartelli, Karen and Chris Grosso, and Kerry Ober as webmaster.
Thank you to the Fairfield Hills Committee for giving us one more year of fundraising. We appreciate your generosity!
Newtown Parks and Recreation
Director: Amy E. W. Mangold
Roseanne Reggianno (Asst. Director), Deborah Denzel (Administrative Assistant), Donna Benson (Secretary), Rita Pavia (Clerk)
Parks and Recreation Commission
Edward Marks, Philippe Steimle, Patrick Barczak, Melissa Eigen, Peggy Joe Yochum, Thomas Dinicola.
For kids in Newtown, opportunities abound.
Lots of choices to play sports all year round.
Most of the action takes place on home turf.
Courts and fields, yield zest and appeal.
For a minute let your mind ponder.
Newtown offers many teams mostly everything they need.
However there is a homeless one,
who needs ALL OF US to get the JOB DONE!
Skateboarders must have a safe place to skate.
Let's hurry, folks, it's not too late!
The turf that's required, 12,000 sq. ft.
has been acquired,
but we need to hurry or it may expire.
A skateboard park is what skaters desire.
A home built of ramps and rails
allows every skateboard to swiftly sail.
The fundraising campaign called "Donate to Skate 2008"
need contributions, it's getting late!
A little sum from everyone
is sure to get the PROJECT DONE!
Take a look around.
Skaters unsafely skating in our home town.
I believe Newtown understands the logic
in providing our youth with a skateboard park.
Let's get together, we've got what it takes
to give our skaters a safe place to skate!