Dear Editor,
I learned to skateboard last spring, and I like to skate a lot. But I have to go to other towns to be able to skate. I tried going to the Suffield skatepark behind the town hall, but it wasn’t safe because it was in bad repair and had been badly patched. Just like no one wants to play on a broken playground, no one wants to skate in a broken park. Redoing the Suffield skatepark would provide a place for people of all ages to hang out and skate or scooter. It would be accessible from sidewalks so you could walk down to the park, even from school.
There are so many different kinds of tricks of varying difficulties. Even if you are new to skating you can have a lot of fun learning. And if you have been skating for a while there are still nearly endless tricks you can learn. When you are trying to learn a new trick, you have to keep at it even if you fall off or if it takes a long time to learn. But when you finally get the hang of a trick, it’s really satisfying. With an outdoor park you can skate from early spring to late fall, so it’s available for use most of the year. As it is, no one will use the park, but if Suffield replaced the old park with a modern skatepark it would be a popular place for the whole town.