Would further extend east-west trail corridor to within six miles of Maine border. Mass. In use, ballast and sand surface. Received 97 Trails Fund grant for repair and maintenance. Bring work gloves, good boots, and one crowbar per family, if available. Spike lifters will be provided Watch the Valley News for details and the location of various work sites along the Canaan section.
Event is scheduled rain or shine.
The grant dollars will be matched by in-kind contributions of volunteer work hours and the donation of equipment and materials by trail enthusiasts. Three Grafton County groups applied for the two-year grants and all were approved. A fourth town, Enfield, continues trail improvement work with money obtained last year. 97 projects are follow-ons to extensive progress made in'96, when nearly twenty tons of scrap steel was collected for sale, brush was cut and stacked, several hundred ties removed, and one bridge decked. Canaan First grant to Canaan inaugurates conversion of 8-mile section.