Visiting Veneta’s skate park makes it clear Cottage Grove can do same

DANA MERRYDAY/CHRONICLE PHOTO – Action last week at the Veneta Skate Park includes scooters and boards.

What does it take to move a mountain, or better yet, build one? As you travel the Territorial Highway south of Oregon Route 126, you will see a mountain of sorts, the City of Veneta’s Skate Park.

Since I am interested in helping create an improved facility for wheeled sports in Cottage Grove, I stopped there recently and happened…