Good Evening Fellow NCTr's:
The Student Conservation Crew that spent the weekend with us has headed home, leaving us with 400 yards of brand-new, high-quality sidehill trail at Gamelands 285 and the Kirkwood Farm. Those high-school-age volunteers did a great job and worked just as strongly in the rain today as they did in the sunshine yesterday. My thanks goes out to Josh Nard of the SCA in Pittsburgh for the offer of help, Laura and Cheryl the crew advisors (who worked just as hard as the crew did - maybe harder), and all six of those young men and women. Outstanding! They did the difficult part of this one- mile extension and we'll finish off the remainder over the rest of the season.
Also want to appreciate the Wampum Chapter folks for going out and working with them on the trail and for preparing and serving Saturday dinner at the campground. Thanks to Doug Turner, Lee and Eleanor Fairbanks, Dennis Garrett, Rick Ostheimer, Gail Blakely, Bill Majernik, and Dorothy Buquo for all of the support. We also had a chance to meet a newcomer to the Wampum crowd, John Vlah, who handled a pulaski like a pro and built some awesome stone steps on the new section on Saturday. Appreciate him coming out!
I have a Picassa album of pics from the last two days here. I'm sorry but I missed a couple of people in the photos.
As to the tire update - The tires we retrieved from the wetlands at Gamelands 285 a couple of weeks ago are gone off to where all tires that are cleaned up go. Gone! Thank you to Doniele Andrus and Jerry Zona for hauling them away on Friday. Six pickup truck loads I am told. AND . . . . a thank you goes out to Gail Blakely who was able to secure additional donations, from people in the Wampum area, which added to what we already had collected, got us even on the total cost of the disposal. It appears that "persons unknown" added a few tires to our pile out there. Better to the pile I guess than down over that hillside (or any hillside). Thanks again to everyone for their help with that cleanup.
And, Bob Cody reports that he has the DR mower tuned up and running like a top as of this afternoon. Let those weeds grow, we're ready for them now. Thanks Bob!
An excellent weekend! Thanks for all you do to support the trail.
Dave Brewer
Trail Work Coordinator
The Student Conservation Crew that spent the weekend with us has headed home, leaving us with 400 yards of brand-new, high-quality sidehill trail at Gamelands 285 and the Kirkwood Farm. Those high-school-age volunteers did a great job and worked just as strongly in the rain today as they did in the sunshine yesterday. My thanks goes out to Josh Nard of the SCA in Pittsburgh for the offer of help, Laura and Cheryl the crew advisors (who worked just as hard as the crew did - maybe harder), and all six of those young men and women. Outstanding! They did the difficult part of this one- mile extension and we'll finish off the remainder over the rest of the season.
Also want to appreciate the Wampum Chapter folks for going out and working with them on the trail and for preparing and serving Saturday dinner at the campground. Thanks to Doug Turner, Lee and Eleanor Fairbanks, Dennis Garrett, Rick Ostheimer, Gail Blakely, Bill Majernik, and Dorothy Buquo for all of the support. We also had a chance to meet a newcomer to the Wampum crowd, John Vlah, who handled a pulaski like a pro and built some awesome stone steps on the new section on Saturday. Appreciate him coming out!
I have a Picassa album of pics from the last two days here. I'm sorry but I missed a couple of people in the photos.
As to the tire update - The tires we retrieved from the wetlands at Gamelands 285 a couple of weeks ago are gone off to where all tires that are cleaned up go. Gone! Thank you to Doniele Andrus and Jerry Zona for hauling them away on Friday. Six pickup truck loads I am told. AND . . . . a thank you goes out to Gail Blakely who was able to secure additional donations, from people in the Wampum area, which added to what we already had collected, got us even on the total cost of the disposal. It appears that "persons unknown" added a few tires to our pile out there. Better to the pile I guess than down over that hillside (or any hillside). Thanks again to everyone for their help with that cleanup.
And, Bob Cody reports that he has the DR mower tuned up and running like a top as of this afternoon. Let those weeds grow, we're ready for them now. Thanks Bob!
An excellent weekend! Thanks for all you do to support the trail.
Dave Brewer
Trail Work Coordinator
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