Community-minded skateboarders in Cambridge are hoping to carve out a safer space to practice in Hespeler.
A group known as Hespeler Needs A Skatepark has been hosting events throughout the summer to help grind out support to build a skatepark closer to home, a cause they’ve been championing for years.
“It helps communities grow. It helps kids learn. It helps bring people together,” Hespeler Needs a Skatepark member Ian Cools told CTV News on Aug. 31 during the group’s last jam event of the season.
Cools said it can be hard for many kids in the area to get to a skatepark because there is no direct public transit link, leaving some of them to learn their skills on the road.
“You’re not allowed to be skateboarding on the streets and [it’s] not allowed in a lot of parking lots. So in Hespeler there is no place where kids can …