Galveston had a ceremony recently naming their skatepark after Johnny Romano, a 10-year-old skater who died last year after fighting leukemia.
“He would be embarrassed we were making such a
fuss over him,” Rhonda Gregg, a family friend who spearheaded
construction of the skate park, told the Galveston County Daily News. “Johnny was a rock star little skater
pro, but he did it just because he loved it.” We were on hand for some photos; check out the slideshow here.
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2009.