American Tobacco Trail Workday Saturday April 12 9 a.m.

[Bill Bussey]

Hi Volunteers for the American Tobacco Trail,

This very late 
message is to remind you of our American Tobacco Trail workday, tomorrow
*Saturday, April 12*, at the Chatham-Wake County line in Chatham County 
at 9:00 a.m. 

Please join us for this workday, * * tomorrow, *Saturday, April 12*, at 
the Chatham-Wake County line in Chatham County.at 9:00 a.m.

*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. The driveway will be immediately left of the 
mailboxes. If you arrive late, walk down the rightmost driveway down to 
the trail. 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 down that driveway.

Our goal is to work on expanding some drainage ditches and trail in this 
area. We'll also spread and compact dirt dug from some of the ditches 
worked on as well. There will be plenty to do.

The weather is looking sketchy as far as rain is concerned. The forecast 
is currently calling for rain on Saturday morning. we'll be at the work 
area at 9 a.m. unless it is raining hard. However, use your best 
judgment regarding your participation and your comfort in rainy conditions.

Last week, Frank Bennett, Curt Devereux and me dodged the rain and cut 
briars, hauled downed trees, limbs, did some kiosk maintenance and 
emptied our trash can on the ATT near the Fayetteville Road Parking 
Access. This heavily used stretch of trail is looking much better, 
particularly on these beautiful spring days! Thanks to Frank and our 
friends who participated.
 
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 and ticks because you will be in the woods.

Ticks are now out and are pretty bad this year. The best repellent are 
those formulations which include Permethrin as an active ingredient. You 
apply these repellents to clothing. You can find these generally 
anywhere. For more information, check out this link 
<http://www.wildernetwork.org/deet_vs_permethrin.html>. However, we've 
found the best way to avoid tick borne illness is to remove ticks as 
quickly as you find/feel them.

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 some, bring a pair of loppers. 

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.

*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!

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 * 
<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.  

*Saturday, April 26* Chatham Workday 9 a.m. Just north of the 
Chatham-Wake County line. 9 a.m.*

Saturday, April 26 *American Tobacco Trail Hike in Wake and Chatham 
Counties 2 p.m. Bill Bussey will lead a hike for Active Chatham on the 
ATT in Wake and Chatham counties. Meet at White Oak Chapel Road Parking 
Access <http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM>  All are welcome.

*Saturday, May 3 *Durham Workday Scott King Road Access 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> 9 a.m.
*
**Other Notes

Late Breaking News on ATT I-40 Bridge!

*There will be a community meeting to discuss the concepts for the ATT 
bridge over I-40 on *Tuesday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the 1st floor 
City Council Chambers at City Hall in Durham*. This is the follow up to 
the first meeting held in Durham back on November 5, 2007.

Please make plans to attend if you can. The preliminary plans will be 
presented by the consultants for your input.

At the November meeting, we filled the room to overflowing. Wisely, they 
have moved this meeting to the City Council chambers. Please come help 
fill this room and find out more about this project, which is among the 
most important greenway projects in the region.

For more info, contact Carl Bush, III Senior Engineer at 
Parsons-Brinkerhoff at BushC at pbworld.com . You can check out more info 
on this project at the Durham CIP website 
<http://www.durhamnc.gov/cip/ProjectView.cfm?vAcctNo=292>.  We'll have 
more information on this later.
 
*Also...

* 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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