Montague skatepark opens with memory of fire victims

CBC News | Posted: October 31, 2014 9:20 PM | Last Updated: October 31, 2014

Media | PEI Montague skate park

Caption: A skate park opened to it's first visitors in Montague, P.E.I.

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After six months of fundraising, a skateboarding park in Montague is open for area youth.

Residents in the community formed a committee called Just Being Kids to build better places for young people to hang out.

Image | Mount Edward Road fire

Caption: Brandon McKinnon, Kenneth Irving and Joseph Alison Reeves died in after a fire in this abandoned building in Charlottetown. (CBC)

The inspiration was the tragic death of three boys from area in a fire back in March.

Brandon McKinnon, Kenneth Irving and Joseph Alison Reeves died in after a fire in an abandoned building in Charlottetown.

That inspired 16-year-old Lydia Acorn to make a place for her peers to go.

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