American Tobacco Trail Workday Saturday January 5 9 a.m.

[Bill Bussey]

Hi Volunteers for the American Tobacco Trail,

This message is to remind you of our American Tobacco Trail workday, 
tomorrow
*Saturday, January 5*, at 9 a.m., north of the Chatham-Wake County line 
at 9 a.m.

*Note: This is a change from the calendar sent last week! *

Please join us, *Saturday, January 5 *at  9 a.m. at the north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line in Chatham County.

*Directions:
*
 >From I-40 Exit 276, Southpoint Mall-Fayetteville Road, go south - away
from Durham - toward Jordan Lake.

Go past the mall on your right and 2.4 miles all the way to the end of
Fayetteville Road. Here, Fayetteville Road intersects NC 751 at a light.

Turn left at the light. Go 6.6 miles, passing O'Kelly Chapel Road at .75
miles and New Hope Church Road (see Exxon convenience store on left) at
4.2 miles. At or near 6.6 miles is Lewter Shop Road on the left. See the
sign for Jean's Berry Patch (now Pumpkin Patch). Turn left onto Lewter 
Shop Road.

Go approximately 2.5 miles or so. See a place with small auto/truck size
trailers on the right. Immediately beyond his place is the Chatham/Wake
County line. The road changes texture at the county line. About a 1/4
mile beyond the county line, you'll see White Oak Church Road on your
right. Continue beyond to the first left past White Oak Church Road.This
is Farrell Road. If you cross the ATT and construction beyond, you've 
gone too far.

Next:  See *Farrell Road* below.
*
Directions from Cary:

*From Cary take High House Road to NC 55. On High House, cross NC 55 at 
light moving west. High House changes to Green Level Road. Go 
approximately 2 miles to the first major crossing with 2 way stop 
intersection. Those coming from right and left stop. Turn right onto 
Green Level Church Road and drive approximately 3 miles. Pass Green 
Level Church on your left and Brooks Park on your right. Cross the ATT 
(you'll see bike and pedestrian crossing signs) Turn right at the first 
right past the ATT onto Farrell Road. If you come to the intersection of 
White Oak Church Road on your left, you've gone too far.

*Farrell Road: *

Turn left onto Farrell Road. Go about 3/4 mile. Pass the Turtle Farm
subdivision entrance on your left. The trail will be on your right. 
Continue on to where the paved road turns to gravel. Park on the left 
side of the road before the road turns to gravel.  I'm sure our cars 
will be parked there so you'll see them. We'll be working on the trail 
to the east of there. We don't want to park in or near the driveway 
where we'll be working, so we'll walk a few hundred feet in.

Our goal is to work on some drainage ditches and trail in this area. 
We'll be doing more work on the trail in this area. We'll also be doing 
some hauling and toting of logs and brush that was cut a couple of weeks 
ago. We'll spread and compact dirt dug from some of the ditches worked 
on as well. There will be plenty to do.

Last week, Devang Pandya, Tuisi Patel, Roger "Animal" Truitt, Jim 
Suiter, Frank Bennett, and me continued work on a drainage ditches in 
this area. The crew dug another 25 feet of ditch, which will allow the 
trail to drain better in this highly used area, just north of the 
Chatham/Wake County line. Roger completed work on a ditch that he had 
been working on for several weeks too. Thanks for the super work by all.

The weather is supposed to be seasonable on Saturday morning, so please 
dress accordingly.

Feel free to contact or call Bill Bussey <mailto:billbus at gte.net> 
919 545-9104 or Frank Bennett <mailto:FJB675 at hotmail.com> 
919-851-3992 as late as 8 a.m to verify a go or no go. However, if you 
aren't comfortable with the forecast,  use your 
best judgment and join us or not as you prefer. Please dress 
appropriately and bring plenty of water!

We'll work till about noon or so.

*Do note* that if you are volunteering for school *Environmental Service 
hours*, and you say you will work for 3 hours, you need to be prepared 
to work until noon, or a little after because we need to plan for our 
work and cleanup of our work. If you need to leave earlier, you need to 
let the workday leader know ahead of time. Thanks!

As always,bring work gloves, full shoes or boots, long pants, and other
clothing appropriate for the weather. Bring water and a snack if you
like. Be prepared for briars because you will be in the woods.

You will need to sign a waiver and participation list.

While you don't have to bring any tools because we do have some tools,
we do have a wish list of tools if you'd like to bring them.
 
If you have one, bring a round or pointed end shovel. Also, we can use 
one or more short tined rakes.

If you have a cutter style mattock, please bring it.

Feel free to bring a small hand pruning saw if you like.
 
We can always use a pickup truck which you don't mind hauling brush,
logs and trash on the trail, please contact Bill Bussey 
<mailto:billbus at gte.net> 919 545-9104 or Frank Bennett 
<mailto:FJB675 at hotmail.com> 919-851-3992 so we can make plans.

We'll work till about noon, and probably a bit after.

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.

Please let Curt Devereux <mailto:cdevereux at nc.rr.com> 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 anytime 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, December 29*

*Saturday, January 5* Chatham Workday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. See directions above. *Note:  This is a change 
from last week's calendar!*

*Saturday, January 12* Chatham Workday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. See directions in this Workday post

*Saturday, January 19 *Durham Workday Fayetteville Road Access 
<http://triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> 9 a.m.

*Saturday, January 26* Chatham Workday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. See directions in this Workday post
*
Saturday, February 2* Chatham Worday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. See directions in this Workday post

*Saturday, February 9* Chatham Worday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. See directions in this Workday post.

*Saturday, February 16 *Durham Workday Fayetteville Road Access 
<http://triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> 9 a.m.

*Saturday, February 23* Chatham Worday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. See directions in this Workday post.

*Other Notes*
 
You can print out our latest ATT map *right now* at 
http://www.triangletrails.org/ATT.HTM . Click on both links under the 
thumbnail for both sides of the map.

Don't let the thumbnail fool you. This is our new color ATT map done by 
Wayne Horton of Winston-Salem.
*
Update on Your Help Now to Keep the ATT I-40 Bridge Moving
*
Over 100 users and supporters of the American Tobacco Trail contacted 
Durham City Council a few weeks back requesting them to use 2/3 bond 
funds to help fund the completion of the ATT in Durham, including the 
I-40 bridge and the four miles of trail south of I-40. TRTC maintains 
and manages three miles of this gap area.

There were concerns that these funds should be used instead for water 
projects, ADA compliance projects, and projects in other less affluent 
areas of town. However, at their December 20 work session Durham City 
Council voted to use 2/3 bond funds to fund the remainder needed for the 
bridge! This is great news!

Thank you to all who contacted City Council members. It DID make a huge 
difference!

If you would like to thank the City Council, please do so.  You can send 
an email to all Council members at: council at ci.durham.nc.us

You can also call (919) 560-4396 and leave a voice mail.

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 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.

Thanks for your help and support in building the American Tobacco Trail.

Happy Trails,

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