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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Man Helped Spearhead Moriarty Skate Park

By Laura Nesbitt
Mountain View Telegraph
      Vincent Trujillo was an ambitious, hard-working young man who loved his sisters very much.
       On March 11 while he was taking photographs and enjoying the outdoors in Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs with his friend from boot camp, Zach Tatum, Vincent fell 35 feet onto his head, in between a rock crevasse.
       “It took two hours before emergency workers found him,” said his mother, Juanita.
       Zach stayed by Vincent's side the whole time.
       “He did everything he could for my son,” Juanita said.
       In 2004 Vincent had helped build a kicker ramp and two rails in Moriarty Pipe and Iron with other young people who hoped to build a skate park. But the idea fizzled when summer came and school let out, and some of the young people moved away from the area.
       Earlier this year Vincent's sisters, Andrea and Val, gave up their Saturday mornings to learn how to weld and build the park.
       “He was all excited. He was proud of them,” Juanita said.
       On the Saturday before Vincent died, he brought his sisters to the newly completed Moriarty skate park, the project he had helped to initiate four years ago, to admire the jumps that they had helped weld along with other young people, Juanita said.
       At a Moriarty City Council meeting on Tuesday, Larry Irvin, city councilor and MPI co-owner, said Vincent's family wanted to plant a tree in the 19-year-old's name at the skate park.
       Juanita said that Andrea and Val plan to weld benches for the skate park and donate them in their brother's name.
       Vincent was an organ donor whose donations have gone to people in Colorado and Arizona.
       “It makes me feel pretty happy because his heart is still beating,” Val said about her brother's donations.
       In other city business, councilors discussed the possibility of building a bicycle park perhaps west of the skate park.
       Irvin said that no bicycles are allowed at the skate park and this is a problem.
       “Basically we'd like to do what we did at the skate park,” Irvin said.
       For anyone who is interested in giving input on a possible project, contact Irvin at 832-9488.
   

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