It is with a sense of deep sadness that I must announce that this initiative has now disbanded. The same elements that allowed us to move quickly to take initial action came back around to bite us as non-sustainable and …
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Author: Shawn Cupples
A New Home
I’m very pleased to announce today that today Skatetown.org and CK schools signed around an agreement for a Skating Facility at the Jenne-Wright building in Silverdale. This lease represents countless hours of work from both Central Kitsap Schools and Skatetown.org …
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8/18/2019 Progress
We spent a good portion of the week talking with event coordinators, venue/facility owners, insurance companies. No big announcements to make but chipping away at how to take next steps one day at a time. As a reminder you can …
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Sport Court Floor ?!?!
Turning back the clock a little bit to the end of July, I want to take the post today to talk about Skatetown.org buying a sport court from the Rose City Rollers down in Portland, OR. What is a sport …
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Finished the Skate Inspection This Weekend.
A group of volunteers spent this weekend getting through the last of the quad sorting and started on getting them into inventory. This is a key step in moving toward doing our first skating event. Keep an eye out for …
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8/7/2019 Progress
As most of you probably noticed we missed sending out status last week. Between nationals in Spokane and running the largest project we have to date we were stretched a little thin. We are ramping up two additional people to …
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Last Steps in Cutting up The Floor (Day 4)
Publishing this mostly so we have something to look back on as most of this has been said in pieces in other posts. I started the day doing layout with a lazer to make the actual cross cutting go faster …
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Almost Done Cutting The CKHS Floor Into Strips (Day 3)
Had a bit of a late start today on getting started this morning because we were all a bit sore. Doing the cut doesn’t seem like it would be that much work, but at this point I would liken it …
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Floor Removal Moving Forward! (Day 2)
At the end of the day today the floor had the first partial row and second full row fully panel-ized. The hired help we brought in today to with stripping firing had mixed results and won’t be a repeat. The …
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The Floor Removal Has Begun! (Day 1)
A few hours and a saw blade later we now fully understand what exists below the CK floor and as we had hoped it is a floating floor. There is still a full day+ of cutting we are leaving to …
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