American Tobacco Trail Volunteering February 24 Please Respond if you can Help

[Bill Bussey]

Hi Volunteers for the American Tobacco Trail,

This message is to remind you of our American Tobacco Trail workday, 
this *Saturday, February 24**  *In place of our usual workday, we'll be 
volunteering with the Carolina Godiva Track Club to help with their  
Coach Bubba Race <http://www.coachbubba.com/> which uses the American 
Tobacco Trail for a significant portion of the 20 km and 4 mile races. 
The race organizers plan to make a donation to TRTC for improving the 
American Tobacco Trail from race donations and proceeds.

Meet in front of the Mellow Mushroom Restaurant at 410 Blackwell Street 
on the ATT (south) side of the American Tobacco Campus.* *

Please join us,* Saturday, February 24* at *7:30 a.m.* or earlier to 
help with the Coach Bubba Race <http://www.coachbubba.com/> at the 
Mellow Mushroom Restaurant at 410 Blackwell Street on the ATT (south) 
side of the American Tobacco Campus.* *Those that volunteer will get a 
neat race cap, plus food and drink!

*Here is the scoop. *Race organizers need several folks to help with 
early race day set up. Those will need to arrive at the Mellow Mushroom 
by *5:30 a.m*. Yaaawn Patrol! Most others are needed at 7:30 a.m. to 
help with the race itself, mainly finish line and post race clean up.

*If you can help out with either of these, please email or call *Bill 
Bussey <mailto:billbus at gte.net> 919 545-9104 *NOW* so I can let them 
know you are helping out, and you can be assured of getting a hat and 
other volunteer goodies. Please let me know if you'll be arriving at 
5:30 or 7:30. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

This should be a lot of fun.The weather should be great! We help the 
Carolina Tarwheels <http://www.tarwheels.org/> in their BikeFest ride 
every September and have a great time! This Coach Bubba Race 
<http://www.coachbubba.com/> helps several good causes should be no 
different. Hope you can join us!

Again, please email or call Bill Bussey <mailto:billbus at gte.net> 919 
545-9104 *NOW *if you can help this weekend.
*
Last Weekend...

*We had a great time and made a lot of progress at this past Saturdays' 
workday where we cleaned and cleared the construction materials, logs 
and brush from our Fayetteville Road Parking Area 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM>.
Thanks to Joan Novak, Paul Novak, Sarah Smith, Kevin Heyer, Charles 
Smith, Rebecca Smith, Camden Feldman, Patrick Carter, Colyn Cornell,  
Spence Foscue, Dilys BowmanDan the Wan Clever, Dave Connelly, Webmaster 
CurtTravelin' Jack Walker James Teske and Frank Bennett for the workday 
last Saturday. We moved a LOT of logs, limbs from the front "lawn" of 
the parking area as well as hauled away a bunch of construction 
materials. Thanks to everyone who helped. This kind of work was sorely 
needed at this facility.

Also, this past chilly Friday, youth and staff from the Three springs 
School in Chatham County joined Bill Bussey to open up and dig drainage 
ditches just north of the Chatham-Wake county line. Those of you who 
have been working in this area knows that this is very hard work. The 
guys did a great job in making a start on the ditch which will help the 
area drain better.

If you or your group would like to work days or early evenings other 
than Saturdays, please let Bill Bussey <mailto:billbus at gte.net> know.

Since we'll be working at a race this Saturday, just wear appropriate 
clothing and a smile. The race should be over by 10 a.m. with some help 
needed till about 11.
Please let Curt Devereux <mailto:devereux at gte.net> 919 919 544-3948  
Frank Bennett <mailto:FJB675 at hotmail.com>  919-851-3992 or Bill Bussey 
<mailto:billbus at gte.net> 919 545-9104  know if you have any questions.

For more information on ATT workdays, please see our Volunteering page 
at: http://triangletrails.org/VOLUNTEERS.HTM

For directions to workday meeting places and ATT Trailheads go to our 
directions page at: http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM*

*Future workdays are still being planned. Here is the tentative schedule 
for upcoming workdays.*

**Upcoming American Tobacco Trail Workdays *  *
**       *
*Saturday, February 24* We'll be volunteering at Coach Bubba Race 
<http://www.coachbubba.com/> with Durham Godiva Track Club.  Please 
email or call Bill Bussey <mailto:billbus at gte.net> 919 545-9104 if you 
will join us in helping out at this race. Race organizers are providing 
/*neat caps*/ for all volunteers who sign up ahead of time!
 
*Saturday, March 3  *Durham Workday  Fayetteville Road Parking Area 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> 9 a.m.

*Saturday, March 10 * Chatham Workday Chatham/Wake County line. 9 a.m. 
See directions above or contact Bill Bussey at 919 545-9104.

*Saturday, March 17  *Chatham Workday  New Hope Church Road Trailhead 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> 9 a.m. *(Note Change in 
location!*

*Saturday, March 24  *Chatham Workday Chatham/Wake County line. 9 a.m. 
See directions above or contact Bill Bussey at 919 545-9104.

*Also, thanks to you we made our goal of at least 25 *MVP cards 
registered in the completely free Food Lion MVP Shop and Share program. 
We needed at least 25 Food Lion MVP cards registered in this program 
because this year 25 is the minimum number needed to participate. We now 
have 27 cards registered.* **Thank You for getting us this far!* If you 
haven't registered your card please do so, because we'd like to have a 
bit more cushion.

In your MS Internet Explorer browser (sorry, Firefox, Mozilla and 
Netscape browser users :-( !) go to: 
https://www.foodlion.com/IntheCommunity/ShopAndShare/

Here you can go to the appropriate links to register your Food Lion MVP 
cards so that the Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy gets some 
proceeds from your Food Lion purchases when you use your MVP card. To 
find the Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, click on "Register MVP 
Cards." You go to a secure web page. Click "Select Organization." A 
"Find Your Organization"window pops up. At the blocks, Select "NC", 
"Durham", "Triangle Rails to Trails Conservancy." That should bring us 
up. Enter your MVP card as instructed. It doesn't cost you a thing!  And 
it really helps us out !

This has been useful in the past for us because we've gotten 
approximately $30 or so from this. Hey, every bit helps! This year we'll 
need to get 25 minimum in the program in order to receive any funds 
disbursements. * While it looks like we have the 25, every additional 
card helps!*

Even if you don't regularly use your MVP card at Food Lion, please 
register it, or apply for one, because every registration - used or not 
- counts. Once we reach the 25 number, purchases from those that do shop 
at Food Lion will count. If we don't get 25, we don't get a check! So 
please register your Food Lion MVP card *now* because we need to get to 
25; and help build the ATT.

If you need help with this, contact Bill Bussey at 919 545-9104 with 
your MVP #, and we'll get it in there.
 
And let me take this opportunity to* Thank You* for all of your help and 
support in building, cleaning and clearing the American Tobacco Trail in 
2006 and into 2007. Thanks to your hard work, expertise and diligent 
efforts, we are making steady progress. Thousands of trail users are 
*now safely using* the sections of the trail and facilities you have 
helped clear, clean and build. We get so many wonderful comments and 
thanks on how well the trail looks when folks use these facilities. 
These trail users are often *amazed* to find out that these improvements 
were done completely by volunteers. Thank you for the great work and for 
volunteering your valuable time to help with this project. Know that it 
wouldn't be possible without the great work of each and every one of you.

Happy Trails,

Bill Bussey
Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
americantobaccotrail at earthlink.net
www.triangletrails.org
919 545-9104 

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