Clay Millican cannot grind, slide or go vertical on a skateboard, but his sons can. That’s why he went to bat for a skateboard park in his hometown of Drummonds, Tenn.

Last weekend, the Munford Skate Park opened to the joy of 50 children including Millican’s sons Cale and Dalton. The grand opening was the result of a campaign that began when a child sent Munford Mayor Dwayne Cole an e-mail asking why the town didn’t have one.

Clay Millican cannot grind, slide or go vertical on a skateboard but his sons can. That’s why he went to bat for a skateboard park in his hometown of Drummonds, Tenn.

Last weekend, the Munford Skate Park opened to the joy of 50 children including Millican’s sons Cale and Dalton. The grand opening was the result of a campaign that began when a child sent Munford Mayor Dwayne Cole an e-mail asking why the town didn’t have one.

Millican joined the lobby and that’s when things began to happen.

"I have looked forward to this day for many months, if not many years," Cole said in an article on CommercialAppeal.com, his local newspaper. "We had a committee of skaters who got together and helped design this park. Our idea was, we didn't want to build a park that looked good to me; we wanted to build a park that skaters wanted to skate in."

Millican handed the mayor a check for $24,518 last Saturday from fund-raising efforts headed by the committee he co-chairs.

"My wife did most of the work, and I am the one who is getting most of the credit," Millican said. "I have won a lot of races and world championships, but I am more proud of this than anything else."