Trail Planning Open Forum News

The heat has sapped the life right out of the ECF blog with no new posts for a couple of weeks but the Blandin Community Leadership Program attendees have been very busy. They unveiled their "Going Forward" project, the Bimose Trail, at an open forum last night. Going Forward projects are things leadership program participants identify as needs in their communities and start to work on while at the Blandin leadership retreat.

Last night two dozen people endured a very warm evening in the community center to hear about the group's progress and begin discussions of whether a trail is needed, where it should go, and how to secure the funds to make it happen. One proposed route for the first phase of the trail is pictured above. A couple of routes for Phase II, from the Max Mini Store to the wayside rest at the Laurentian Divide were also presented.

If you'd like more information about the trail planning process, or would like to join the Trail Planning Group, please call Toni at 659-4271. Trail planning group members are: Tom Kallio, Andy Michalek, Dick Benson, Vi Bellanger, Toni Wilcox, Madelen Schueman and Denny Schueman.