"Youth (issues) will be one of my key points during the campaign," MacDonald said. "This skatepark stuff has been difficult. It's an outright shame the youth have had to wait months. They need it.

"We need to be challenging our youth both physically and mentally." MacDonald said the skatepark is a good first step towards the city doing more to directly engage this demographic.

Scott MacDonald is a candidate for City Councillor and sits on the Recreation advisory committee.

Quoted from The Sentinal -Review, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada 8/17/2010