American Tobacco Trail Workday Saturday, March 22 7:30 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, March 22*, at Thomas Brooks Park on Green Level Church Road 
at 7:30 a.m. We'll be volunteering with the Cary Duathon 
<http://www.fsseries.com> that day. If you are joining us on March 22, 
you'll need to sign up under the Volunteers link 
<http://fsseries.com/volunteers/volunteer_signup.php>, as soon as you 
can, so that race organizers can be prepared for you.

Please join us for this special volunteer workday, *Saturday, March 22 
*at 7:30 a.m. at the Cary Duathon <http://www.fsseries.com> at Thomas 
Brooks Park on Green Level Church Road at 7:30 a.m.*
*
Our goal is to help out with the race. The Triangle Rails-to-Trails 
Conservancy (TRTC) is the charity for the race. We'll invest any funds 
that we receive from the race back into the ATT to make it better.

Last week, Nan and Shivani Garg, Aneesha and Vanita Sehgal, David and 
Nick Davis, Drake Stillman, three others, Frank Bennett and me cleared 
brush, downed trees, cut and pulled briars, picked up the little trash 
there was, emptied the trash cans and did other maintenance tasks on the 
American Tobacco Trail south of Massey Chapel Road. We accomplished a 
lot. Thanks to all for the great work!

As always we will work with the race until about noon or so. However, 
talk to the race organizers on race day to verify this with their needs.

*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!

*Again note* that this week, we'll be volunteering at the Cary Duathalon 
to be held at Cary's Thomas Brooks Park on Green Level Church Road. *If 
you plan to volunteer, you do NEED to sign up on their Volunteers link 
<http://fsseries.com/volunteers/volunteer_signup.php>. *

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, March 22* Cary Duathalon 7:30 a.m. Thomas Brooks Park on 
Green Level Church Road. There will be a five mile run, 31 mile bike, 5 
mile run. This takes the place of our regular workday. The race 
directors require you go to www.fsseries.com <http://www.fsseries.com> 
and sign up under the Volunteers link 
<http://fsseries.com/volunteers/volunteer_signup.php>.

*Saturday, March 29* Chatham Workday 9 a.m. New Hope Church Road Access 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> *NOTE: This is a change 
from last weeks' calendar! *

*Saturday, April 5* Durham Workday 9 a.m. Fayetteville Road Parking 
Access <http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM>

*Saturday, April 12* Chatham Workday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line.
*
Saturday, April 19 *Earth Day Celebrated Probably Chatham Workday 9 
a.m.  See directions in today's email.

*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.

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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