Tom Patrick
March 3, 2008, The Molokai Times
Molokai Skate Park officially opens!
No more jumping the fence for skaters, bladers, BMXers, or anyone who wants to tempt fate with some wheel-based acrobats. Molokai Skate Park officially opened Feb. 29. Located next to the Mitchell Pau‘ole Center in Kaunakakai, the park is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and is free to use.
"I am an avid boarder. I had to discontinue when they started to put wheels on it," joked Danny Mateo, Maui County Council vice-chair, during his speech at the grand opening. "We came together to recognize people like the Surfing the Nations group who came and helped us. We were strangers the first day and when you left we became family."
After visits in August and October, members of the charitable organization Surfing the Nations returned two weeks ago...
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