Many thanks to ALL that participate.

Participating with labor, monetary donations or even a pizza pie or a peach pie are all appreciated when trying to keep this very important project alive!!!

A very BIG thank you to everyone who has participated and donated! To follow is a special note of thanks from the chairpersons of the project, Dale and Joan Weston:

All,

Valarie Kranz has generously created and offered to manage a blog of the Nichols Park Pond Project. She has posted some great pictures of the trail construction that occurred the past two weekends. If you haven't been to see the trail yet, you are way behind many members of the community. One siting on the trail was of 15 people, another later in the day was of 16, including those fishing. And, that was on Monday, the day after we completed laying the stone dust on the trail! If we ever doubted that the community was ready for this project, that doubt has been completely dispelled.

http://nicholsppp.blogspot.com/

Many thanks go out to the following volunteers who managed to do the impossible--create a full perimeter trail in 4 days! To paraphrase Kevin Hodges, if people had any idea how much fun we were having, they would have all been there!

Albert Smith, our two-timer who participated in the '64 project and is still here helping again

Eric Cooke Craig Kranz
Doug Thornton
Chris Miller
Lee Haefele
Paul Winch
George Oakes
Buddy Oakes
Doug Henry
Paul Zoltowski
Kevin Hodges
Chris Garland
Dan Garrison
Dick Smith
Roy Schreiner and 5 boys, 1 girl from the Tioga County's Alternative to Incarceration Program
Dale Weston
Brent Weston
Joan Weston
Valarie Kranz
Barbara Schwender
Tim Schwender
Leanna Bond and Bobby from the Key Club
Hazel Saikkonen

Equipment support was donated by
Arvo Rautine
Kevin Perry
Albert Smith
Dale Weston
Dennis Laninger's General Contracting
Rock Oak Lumber

Energy for the strength to carry on was provided by
Parkview Pizza
Valarie Kranz
Eric Cooke

Please forgive any omissions and let me know about them. I was a little busy and may have incomplete notes. There is no-one that should be forgotten from these memorable weekends.

Please keep your eyes open for an announcement of a meeting soon. We need to reconvene to celebrate our progress and define our next tasks. The end is in sight!

Thanks,
Joan