Mission Statement
To educate our community about the benefits skateboarding can have on our youth’s individual mental and physical well-being. By providing a state of the art skateboard park to improve their safety as well as empowering youth with positive alternative choices.
🛹 WE OFFICIALLY HAVE A GROUND BREAKING DATE!!! June 2023!!! WE DID IT!!!
But, we still need your help!
Kevin Peare Memorial skate park!
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Do you have Christmas shopping to do? Please consider doing your gift card shopping at Settlers Green! While supporting our Nonprofit!
GivingTuesday!!
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Settlers Green partners with a local nonprofit every year for GivingTuesday! On Tuesday, November 29, purchase a Settlers Green Gift Card in any amount, and Settlers Green will match it with a donation to the nonprofit.
This year, Settlers Green has tapped the Kevin Peare Memorial Skate Park as the beneficiary. The KPMSP is a local nonprofit that is raising money to build a community skate park. Scheduled to break ground in June 2023, the skate park will be located on Hemlock Ln. in North Conway. We look forward to making a contribution toward this great addition to our community.
Two ways to buy on GivingTuesday:
We encourage you to purchase a gift card online. All online gift card orders are mailed.
You can also purchase a gift card at Customer Service from 9am-4pm on GivingTuesday.
Gift cards work at all retailers, services and restaurants at Settlers Green (that includes Streetside) as well as REI and Black Cap Grille at Settlers Crossing. This is a one-day event and Settlers Green will match up to $2500 in gift cards sales as donation to the nonprofit.
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement that was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Christmas ornaments to support the Skate Park!!
Christmas Ornaments
Christmas Ornaments Green Red or Black
$7.00
Art show Skateboard Deck
$5 upcharge because they charge us ! ( sorry!) Skateboard Art show due back 12/30/22
$35.00
The Kevin Peare Memorial skate park Committee has been raising funds to build a free skate park for the Mount Washington valley for 5 years. The skate park will be in memory of Kevin Peare, a Conway Native who passed away in 2017. His love of skateboarding and teaching it to anyone who wanted to learn, spearheaded this project. It was his dream to have a skate park in his hometown and a safe place to practice the sport. After Kevin’s passing his older sister Caren Peare reached out to the Tony Hawk Foundation (now The Skate Project). Alec Beck the Director immediately contacted her back, He has been guiding the group on how to build a skate park.
Director Caren Peare has created an after school program curriculum “Skateboarding 101” Working with Project Succeed .
We are so excited to be doing skateboarding 101 again!!! We are officially kicking off our school year with Pine Tree Elementary!! Huge thank you to Project Succeed for allowing us to be apart of your after school program again! Carrying on Kevin’s love of teaching others how to skateboard. Children are taught safety first . Then they are taught to build a skateboard , then finally learn to ride it. They leave the program with the skateboard they built. This will be something the group will continue once the skatepark has been built. They also are planning on offering classes and summer programs or camps.
Three Conway Native women getting it done!
Erin Russell, is a recipient of the Mount Washington Valley
Volunteer of the year award!
Ground breaking for the skate park is now slated for 2023!
Fact sheet
✓ Phase one
Get Town’s approval Fiscal agent Fundraising Site selection.
✓ Phase two
Site approval Fundraising / Grants Design prep & site details
<— (Currently in this phase)
◦ Phase three
Fundraising / Grants
Design part 1 & Design part 2
Final design & approval
Material list / donations
◦ Final phase build a skatepark! Groundbreaking is anticipated for 2023 The Kevin Peare Memorial Skate Park Will be a “Skate at your own risk”, free to the public, State of the Art Skate park. 70 ft by 100 ft or 7,000 sq ft Cost to build is approximately $53. a sq ft.
Designer: Pillar Design Studios / Nicole Licari Robertson
Builder: Artisan Skateparks / Andy Duck
*Both on a list of recommended builders from The Skatepark Project / Tonk Hawk Foundation
Project Manager Caren Peare
KPMSP Director Caren Peare
Anna Peare Asst to Director / Treasurer
Board Members:
Erin Russell Board chair
Kerri McAllister Secretary
Greg Mossman
Tessa Narducci
The Professional Designer and Builder have been chosen
Nicole Licari Robertson from Pillar Design Studios personally visited the park in Spain and designed it. Artisan Skate Park Builders. The skate park will be a State of the Art concrete skateboarding park, 7,000 sq feet. It will be free to the public and be owned by the Town. The group will stay on to oversee maintenance.
Other news, We have become their own non-profit 501(3)C. (N32) We have raised over $75,000 by grassroots fundraising and donations. Holding family friendly and affordable fundraisers. Each January we have The Skateboard Art show at the Conway Public Library, once a year they have The Battle of the Bands and The Wicked Rides car show to name a few. They sell KPMSP merchandise like t-shirts, hoodies, ball caps and stickers and they have donation cans in these businesses around the Valley. Headlines , First Stop, Revolution Records and Leavitt’s bakery.
Congratulations to our fearless leader Caren Peare! On being nominated for the Volunteer of the year award !
The day of Kevin’s celebration of life, his sister Caren said “I want to build a skate park in Kevin’s name” Since that day she has fought tooth and nail to do so. Literally blood, sweat and tears has been put into this project. 5 years later the skate park, in Kevin’s name is on the horizon! We still have a ton of work to do. But, leading the charge and still fighting to have a safe place for the children of the Valley to skateboard..is Caren.
CONGRATULATIONS
So Proud of you! WE LOVE YOU!
We gave him everything to set it up: So he could use his 🛹 skateboard.
We love what we do ❤
#letsbuildaskatepark
#kevinpearememorialskatepark
Below is our committee members teaching Skateboarding 101 at Conway Elementary, Project Succeed after school program. The children learned to build a Skateboard , decorated it , were taught safety and finally learned to ride! They were able to keep their boards and equipment . If you would like to see this program in your school reach out to us ! Goskate4kev@aol.com
This is why we need to skatepark! No child should ever have to skate in the street!
Kevin Peare Memorial Skate Park 