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Sports complex, skate park
approved in Idaho Springs after advocacy by youth
BY DEBORAH SWEARINGEN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
When Ben Shay was growing up, there was a small skate park open in Idaho Springs. Still, it didn’t meet the demand of the mountain skateboarding community. at park has since closed, but the push for access to skateboarding has strengthened.
After years of advocacy by area skate enthusiasts, the Idaho Springs City Council on June 26 unanimously approved the master plan that will guide the redesign of the eastern eld at the Idaho Springs Sports Complex and bring a skate park to the community.
“ e numbers show that there’s a huge group of people who would use the park there,” Shay said in the meeting. “ e park plan as a whole just creates so much access for families.”
Shay, the youth involvement coordinator for Clear Creek County’s e new nameplate, or “ ag” of the Clear Creek Courant has been chosen! At the beginning of June, we gave readers the opportunity to vote on the Courant’s new look, and what you see at the top of your paper is the design that received the most votes. is ag will appear at the top of the Clear Creek Courant each week going forward. ank you to everyone who voted! After Colorado Community Media changed our nameplates, we received many messages from people who were concerned that we had abandoned the historical feel of the Courant and had become just another cog in a corporate machine. ese concerns were heard and taken seriously by me, CCM publisher Linda Shapley and our design team, which is why we came up with four new plate designs that incorporate the community’s history. Option #3, the win-
