Skate park info

There’s no denying that sometime down the road, Columbia will have a skate park.
Just when and where is still a little bit up in the air, depending upon who you ask.
At Monday’s four-hour marathon borough council meeting, the future home of the skate park was discussed. The discussion came as the result of an other move by the council to ban the use of skateboards, skates, etc., not only in the downtown business district, but Routes 441 and 462 as well.
“I understand that we are locked into Rotary Park,” said Councilman Vern Detz. “I only caught wind of this recently.”
If the site of the skate park is indeed Rotary Park, it was news to the council. One reason was because a site on Commerce Street under the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge, near Rotary Park was deemed unacceptable by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

For more, read this week's Columbia Ledger