Palouse Road
Runners Bench for the Latah Trail
A Challenge to the Club
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The Board now extends the challenge to the membership. Two PRR members have offered a total of $1000. The Board is asking for donations to raise the remaining $1500 for a bench with the Palouse Road Runners name on it. PRR members and their families will be heavy users of the Latah Trail, and the Board believes that this is a great opportunity for all of us. Check the PRR home page for the current total for this fundraising effort. Remember, most of the $2500 goes for improvements on the trail, not just to buy a bench. Therefore, your contributions will have a double impact. Please make your tax-deductible donation payable to the Latah Trail Foundation, for the suggested amount of $25 $50 $75 Other and mail to the Palouse Road Runners The PRR Treasurer will hold all checks until we have sufficient funds, at which point all checks will be sent to the Foundation for the privilege of having a bench named for the Palouse Road Runners. Monies in excess of $2500 will be given to the Foundation for trail development. The membership will be notified when the solicitation goal has been met. The Latah Trail runs between the Moscow & Troy city limits. The adjoining trail within the City of Moscow is called Paradise Path, which ends just east of the Mountain View Road cemetery. Two miles of the Latah Trail proper have already been paved at the Troy end. The paving schedule for the remainder is not finally established, but the entire trail should be paved by the fall of 2005. Enhancements such as interpretive signs, restrooms and the PRR bench will be added when paving is complete. Thank you for your support of the PRR. Alan Place July 2004 Update from the Latah Trail Foundation Paving from the Moscow end of the Latah Trail is tantalizingly close. Latah County has received bids necessary to begin paving this summer. Unfortunately, the lowest of those bids exceeds the amount allowed by the Idaho Transportation Department, and the County was left to come up with the difference by June 28. We are pleased and relieved that the Commissioners found room in their budget to meet that immediate need, but they need our help. The Latah Trail Foundation would like to reimburse the County for $5,653.20 expended for that purpose, then surpass it to provide a buffer for contingencies and to extend the paving and prep work as far as possible this summer. We are asking for your donation. Thanks to the generosity of trail supporters like you, the Latah Trail Foundation recently provided $17,452 in matching funds for a State Parks grant to pave the second mile of trail from Troy City Park. On June 21, following a successful spring fundraiser, the Foundation contributed $10,000 to the County for two new bicycle-pedestrian bridges already completed near the west end of the trail and an additional $22,000 to defray Phase I construction costs. The plan for this summer is to open up new bicycle-pedestrian routes by paving approximately one mile of the trail from Moscow to Mill Road and compacting a rock base over approximately three more miles, to Buffalo Hump. With completion of Phase I, users will be able to walk, run, or roll from Moscow’s Paradise Path to Carmichael, Lenville, and Mill Roads and Palouse River Drive. With endorsement from the Board of County Commissioners, the Latah Trail Foundation recently launched a campaign for naming opportunities along the trail and for the first time, we are able to offer recognition to donors who contribute the following:
$75,000+ Wallen Rd. covered bridge (1) |