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On September 28th we had our ribbon cutting and celebration for the Nature Trail and our new bridge. People gathered at the new east park entrance for a short presentation by Larry Otos, the Director of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, Mayor Jill Boudreau, and Mary Alice Vivian. The ribbon was cut and everyone wasContinue reading “The Nature Trail and Bridge are officially open”

The Nature Trail is done and we could not be more pleased. Friday and Saturday we got back to our excellent volunteer turnouts. We finished the capping of the trail with an hour of daylight left. We knew it would be close, but this was amazing. The session was extraordinary in a number of ways:Continue reading “The Nature Trail is done”

Good news, we see the finish line on this project. The bridge is done, we just have some rock walls to finish and crushed rock to spread. With large volunteer turnouts both Friday and Saturday we’ll finish it just in time for the ribbon cutting celebration on September 28th. We are starting at 9:00AM bothContinue reading “Help us finish our Nature Trail & Bridge project before our ribbon cutting celebration”

We need your help this weekend. It is going to be nip and tuck to meet our schedule. While the bridge is assembled we will need to have a good turnout on Friday and Saturday to stay on schedule for the September 28th ribbon cutting ceremony with the Mayor. This year we’ve been averaging sixteenContinue reading “Join our work party this Friday and Saturday, Aug 24/25”

Here’s a time lapse of our nature bridge being built.

We got a lot done on the bridge on Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th. Here’s Art Tuftee applying the torchdown on top of the glulams. Jerry Granahan drills a hole through the glulam. With the glulams in place and attached to the concrete footings we were ready to begin attaching the railings onContinue reading “Major bridge progress on July 27/28”

Art Tuftee has been our project lead on our Nature Trail and Bridge project. This past Friday and Saturday we moved two 36′ glulams a quarter of a mile into the bridge site. Moving the glulams one at a time, two Dingos carried each end until they got to a sharp turn in the trail.Continue reading “The glulams for the bridge are in place”

The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is hosting a raffle to raise funds for projects like the new bridge we are building in Little Mountain Park. Tickets are $5 and you do not have to be present to win. Please see the details.

We mixed, transported and poured the concrete last weekend and it went exactly as planned. We moved the 36′ White Alaskan Cedar Glue Lams close to the bridge site. This weekend we’ll strip the forms and set and affix the beams. We hope you’ll want to be a part of this important milestone. On FridayContinue reading “Join us for bridge building this Friday and Saturday”