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Jeff Ament rebuilds Havre skate park

The city of Havre is getting a major addition to its skatepark compliments of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament.

Mayor Tim Solomon said the rock musician, who hails from Big Sandy, has donated $50,000 for a new skate bowl at the 9th Street park.

Work is being done at the facility now, he said at the City Council meeting Monday.

Ament brought in his own people to do the work, but the city's Parks and Recreation Department is helping out, he said.

The mayor's announcement was greeted with a round of applause..

Ament was a skating fanatic when he was young, but there was no place to skate in his hometown.

So, once he had the funds, he built a skate park in Big Sandy in 2010. A skate festival is held in the town annually.

He then built a skate park in Browning.

Solomon said he plans to build skate parks in other Montana towns.

"It's great of him to do this," the mayor said.

Ament played with grunge bands in Seattle in the early 1990s. He formed Pearl Jam and it skyrocketed to the top of the rock music charts.

 

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