Skate park banking on local generosity

It’s difficult to say how Tony Weeg’s appeal for contributions toward the cost of building Berlin’s skate park will go, although this area’s generous nature suggests that donations will be made.

How much the total might be and how long it will take to get to a number of some significance is impossible to predict, especially during the holiday season when disposable income will be disposed of with less than the usual self-restraint.

Once the holidays are over, and the annual post-Christmas reconciliation of household budgets has taken place, people, businesses and organizations will have a better idea of what they can do.

To be sure, the coastal communities can do and have done plenty, as was evidenced this week by a report from the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore on the results of this year’s edition of “Giving Tuesday.”

According to the foundation, the 10th annual “Shore Gives More Giving Tuesday” and the 145 area nonprofits that benefit from it took in more than $1 million during the 24-hour online drive.

That’s more than great. In fact, that’s three times what the fundraiser collected last year.  Also bear in mind that the first year of this event back in 2015 collected just $4,285, showing that fundraising sometimes requires a building process.

That’s likely the path the skate park campaign will take, starting off slowly and then gaining momentum as time passes

 Again, it’s far too early to forecast how the skate park plan will be received by potential donors. Also to be determined is how people view their own prospects in the year ahead, as they are called on to support various endeavors.

The only certainty at this time is that the one thing this area does have in abundance is people who are willing to  give — and give generously —when they believe in the cause.