— with $200,000 still to be raised
PORT ANGELES — Enough money has been raised to commit to building a skateboard park, organizers say.
“I am happy to announce we have met our first goal on the skatepark,”‘ said Cecil White, president of the Port Angeles Nor’wester Rotary Club.
“We’ve raised slightly over $100,000 of the $300,000 needed for the project’s construction.”
Nor’wester Rotary is spearheading the effort to build the Port Angeles Skate Park in the northeast corner of Erickson Playfield, Fourth and Race Streets, directly across from the Dream Playground.
The need for a skateboard park has been enthusiastically endorsed by youth leaders, the city and Port Angeles School Board.
The service club said earlier this year that it needed to raise at least one-third of the cost before it could commit to a contract with an Oregon-based contractor, Dreamland Skatepark Design and Construction.
White said the club expects construction to start in spring of 2005.
“We still have a ways to go,” said White, “but people have really stepped to the plate on this project, and I’m confident we’ll be able to raise the balance we need in plenty of time.”