Decades of Waiting is Over For Skaters in Lincoln • booeyboys // heartlandpulsene Two weeks ago, Lincoln opened a new skate park years in the making located in the downtown Haymarket area. Lincoln’s new skate park is the largest between Denver and Des Moines, making the park a new hub for skaters in Lincoln and the surrounding Midwest. Wolow Gatluak, Johnny Gatluak and Treyson Russell, a popular group on social media known as the Booey Boys, have been a driving force bringing the skating community together in Lincoln through their content and hosting monthly events. The three have been skating since they were teenagers, they and hundreds of others have been awaiting a new skating hub in Lincoln for decades. “The first skate shop I went to when I was five had a donations box on the counter that was for a new skate park,” Booey Boys member Treyson Russell spoke on the project. “This community has been waiting and working on this project since before my time.” Today, the skating comm...