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Story Created: Dec 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM CDT

Story Updated: Dec 21, 2009 at 10:52 PM CDT

(December 21, 2009)

SINTON--The long-awaited, state-of-the-art, skatepark is finally open. For the last two years, Sinton skaters have been waiting for this.

As we reported, Sinton High School senior Chandler Nunez started a petition and lobbied decision makers in Sinton to build this $70,000 facility.

Chandler got it done with the help of a grant from the Toni Hawk Foundation,

"Well, it's great and it gets us off the streets and keeps us from getting hit by cars.and we have a place to go where cops won't bother us," said David Aken, a Sinton skater. 

"It's really good they built something because we've been getting kicked out a lot," said Gabriel Mendez, a Sinton skater. 

The skate park is located at Speck Eakin Park in Sinton. It was scheduled to open up last month, but rainy weather pushed it back a month.

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aken said on Saturday, Jun 5 at 12:58 PM

nobody goes there now. its like a ghost park lol

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xtreamgrindz said on Tuesday, Dec 29 at 7:31 AM

Congrats Sinton, or park just got put on the "Back Burner" by the Beeville city council. Good job Chandler and the rest of the sk8ers that were involved in this project.

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skaterrr said on Sunday, Dec 27 at 11:19 PM

the skaters of sinton did. thanks for the compliment.

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skater said on Sunday, Dec 27 at 4:17 PM

who designed that piece of dump...it looks worse than the corpus park

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Gabriel said on Tuesday, Dec 22 at 9:31 PM

haha i was in that :D

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