By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY
Senior Writer
On Saturday, May 4, the Crestline Skate Park will begin its summer season with its first Game of Skate event since last fall.
This will not be your usual Game of Skate competition, but more of an exhibition of local skateboarders strutting their stuff and performing their best tricks the best they can to honor the memory of then 16-year-old Daunte Symonette. Daunte was said to be a more than capable and well-respected skater who tragically passed away on May 7, 2021, from fentanyl poisoning.
According to Daunte’s mother, Regina Brown, her son started skateboarding at the age of 10 and attended Rim schools, including Grandview and Lake Arrowhead Elementary schools, as well as Mary Putnam Henck Intermediate School. During the COVID pandemic, he was home-schooled.
At a Game of Skate last summer, Brown told the Alpine Mountaineer, “Daunte was a good kid, he went to church, he was in Scouts, took karate lessons and was involved in sports. He even protected kids who were bullied at the skate park,” she said, adding that another boy at the park gave Daunte what he thought was a half of a Percocet pill, but which turned out to be fentanyl.
A spokesperson for Skyforest-based Rim Family Services said last week that Brown is sponsoring the event to raise awareness and to save children’s lives.
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