View of the mini ramp and quarter pipe
Sylvan Lake’s new skatepark will open this Friday afternoon IF the landscapers can get the sod around the skatepark finished in time. They were busy moving dirt yesterday and everyone is optimistic that skaters will be able to use the park this weekend. For more information, check out the Skateparktour.ca story, or to plan your weekend road trip, go to the Skatepark tour page.
Photo Thug has some great old photos of Dwight Pineau posted:
Our friends in the Medicine Hat Skateboard Association and Edmonton Skateboard Association sent us this video of them helping build a home for a family in Mexico. It’s inspirational that these guys took the time and effort to do something positive like this. Steve Berra and Chad TimTim make appearances as well.
Friend of CASE, Lyndon Strandquist sent us these gems scanned from some old magazines. All photos by Ian Snow:
Did you know that Calgary band The Browns had a song in the game Tony Hawk’s Underground (THUG)? It’s called American Werewolf in Calgary and it goes like this: