American Tobacco Trail Workday Saturday, April 19 9 a.m.

Fri Apr 18 13:39:53 EDT 2008

Hi Volunteers for the American Tobacco Trail,

This very late 
message is to remind you of our American Tobacco Trail workday, tomorrow
*Saturday, April 19*, at the New Hope Church Road Access 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> at 9:00 a.m. 

Please join us for this volunteer workday, * * tomorrow, *Saturday, 
March 19*, at the New Hope Church Road Access 
<http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM> at 9:00 a.m.

Our goal is to haul trash, junk, old tires, brush and logs from the 
trail in this area. As I'll be working at my "real" job, Frank Bennett 
<mailto:FJB675 at hotmail.com> will lead this workday.

Last week, Drake and Andy Stillman joined Frank Bennett and me in 
working on "Dilys's and Roger's Ditch" near the Chatham/Wake county 
line. The group did a great job completing this long time worked 
drainage ditch. Thanks to them for their great work!

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.

As always we will work until 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!

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, April 19 *Earth Day Celebrated Chatham Workday 9 a.m. New Hope 
Church Road Access <http://www.triangletrails.org/DIRECTIONS.HTM>

*Saturday, April 26*  We'll set up our TRTC Booth at Chapel Hill Earth 
Action Day 
<http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/parks_&_rec/community_events/earth_action_day/> 
11-4 instead of our regular workday. If you'd like to help us staff our 
booth (no experience necessary!), please contact Bill Bussey. 
<mailto:billbus at gte.net>
*
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.
*
Saturday, May 10 *Durham Workday Solite Park 9 a.m. This may change

*Saturday, May 17* Chatham Workday to be determined.*

Big News!

*The second Community Meeting about the planned pedestrian and bicycle 
bridge crossing of *I-40 for the American Tobacco Trail (ATT)* will be 
at *7PM on Tuesday, April 29, 2008*.  This time the meeting will be 
held in the larger city council chambers on the first floor of Durham 
City Hall (101 City Hall Plaza) in downtown Durham.

This meeting, which will be hosted by the City of Durham Department of 
Public Works (and facilitated by Steven Grover and Associates) will 
focus on a selection of bridge concepts and designs for this long 
anticipated bicycle and pedestrian bridge.

This is your opportunity to get information -and more importantly - 
offer feedback, suggestions, thoughts, concerns, ideas, needs, goals, 
desires and other input to help make this bridge and connecting trail, 
the absolute best it can be.

We hope we'll have a standing room only crowd at this meeting as it 
sends a clear signal to elected officials, the media and public at large 
that there is significant demand for this project and for it to be 
completed as soon as possible.  

Please share this information with everyone you know who is interested 
in the ATT and in improved pedestrian and bicycle access in the region. 
Feel free to post on other lists if you like.

Should you have any questions or input regarding this meeting, please 
contact Byron Brady, PD CPESC, Contract Engineer, City of Durham at 919 
560-4326 x 296 or byron.brady AT durham.gov <mailto:byron.brady at durham.gov>.

If you can't make this meeting, feel free to contact Mr. Brady at the 
above address. Better yet, contact the Durham City Council 
<mailto:council at ci.durham.nc.us> (this address sends your message to all 
of the Durham City Council) and tell them how much you want the ATT I-40 
bridge AND trail built as quickly as possible. You might also ask them 
to attend the meeting as well.

If you have any questions regarding this message, or want to chat about 
the trail or bridge, or don't know who to ask or talk to about your 
ideas or concerns, please feel free to contact Bill Bussey Triangle 
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy 919 545-9104 americantobaccotrail@ 
embarqmail.com <mailto:americantobaccotrail at embarqmail.com> or Dan 
Clever 919 286 3827 daclever@ gmail.com <mailto:daclever at gmail.com> 

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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