In our first fundraising event, the LKWD Skaters Association raised over $450.00 from our booth raffle at the Lakewood Community Fest on September 7th, 2002. Tickets cost only $1.00 and prizes included decks, trucks, wheels, t-shirts, stickers, bearings, and a backpack. Winners for decks were drawn every hour starting at one and a grand prize drawing was held at 4:45.

Prizes where donated by Alien Workshop, Habitat, Tracker, Orion, DVS, Matix, Seek and West Side Skateshop. Upon setting up, we realized one booth wasn't enough to contain all our material and prizes so we spread out in to the two neighboring booths. This proved handy as one booth could shield our skatepark presentation boards form the wind while the other could serve as our soft-truck trick contest booth.

Many skaters turned out for the raffle and many other Lakewood residents stopped by to learn more about the LKWD Skaters Association. In between drawings we held Skate Trivia contests to test the skaters knowledge of the history of skateboarding. We also held trick contests on the soft trucks board donated by Soft Trucks. Tricks were called out and if the skater could land it within a few tries he or she earned a prize. Prizes for the Skate Trivia and Trick Contest included stickers, lanyards, key-chains, socks, and a belt. At the end of the day a total of about 160 stickers and prizes were given out.

Winners:

• 1 O'clock - Shane Styfurak
• 2 O'clock - Andrew Boutell
• 3 O'clock - Ryan Joyce
• 4 O'clock - Mason Fenton
• West Side Deck - Alex Trahle
• Gear Prize - Adam North
• Grand Prize - Phil Mazzerlla

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Special thanks to Chris Carter and Chris Sullivan at DNA Distribution, Dan Santovin at Climax Distribution, Aaron Hoover and Tim Gavin at Podium Dist. and Brian Jules at Westside Skates for donating the prizes!