{"id":66543,"date":"2016-03-23T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66543"},"modified":"2016-03-21T19:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:34:59","slug":"new-park-to-be-unveiled-in-chittenango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66543","title":{"rendered":"New park to be unveiled in Chittenango"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elizabeth Bough Martin<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Village of Chittenango Creekwalk Advisory Committee is excited to\u00a0announce that the grant for the park and trail along Dyke Road has come to a close. It was an excellent project on many accounts, but mostly because of the tremendous number of people who worked to bring it to completion.<\/p>\n

If you have had a chance to drive by, you will see that the park has been transformed from mosquito-filled\u00a0scrub to a system of trails centered by a donated sycamore tree. The whole project is actually two parks\u00a0blended together at the one site.<\/p>\n

At the center of the project is the Village of Chittenango Lion\u2019s Club\u00a0Botanical Park. This park is a series of trails with an American Sycamore at its center, surrounded by park\u00a0benches.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0904\"<\/a>More than 160 native trees and shrubs have been planted in the park in the past 18months. As these\u00a0trees grow, they will create a forest with a canopy of shade. The shrubs have been selected because of\u00a0their benefit to the wildlife population. Several may be interesting to humans too. These include high-bush cranberries, which have been planted near the banks of Chittenango Creek.<\/p>\n

Running adjacent to the botanical park is a section of the Village of Chittenango\u2019s Creek Walk. This trail\u00a0section connects the Valley Acres and Dyke Road neighbors with the village\u2019s downtown. It provides a\u00a0safe place to walk.<\/p>\n

The first phase of the Creek Walk was opened five years ago, in 2010. Another side trail connects Webber\u00a0Drive to Sullivan Park. Pedestrians can walk down Russell Street from Sullivan Park to access Phase I.\u00a0The project to build the Creek Walk and the Lions Botanical Park came as the result of an initial donation\u00a0by the Shapiro family. Through their donation of land, the Village, the Creek Walk Advisory Committee\u00a0and the Lions Club were able to apply for a Environmental Protection Fund grant from the New York\u00a0State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. This matching grant was used to leverage\u00a0funds for the design and construction of the park and trail.<\/p>\n

As a result of the generosity of the members of the community, nearly $75,000 was donated\u00a0to the project. Donations, along with the efficiency of the skilled labor of the village\u2019s Department\u00a0of Public Works brought the project in for half of the original estimate for just building the trail. With the\u00a050-percent reimbursement from the state grant, the park cost the village less than $20,000 total\u00a0in the five-year grant period. That is less than four thousand dollars a year in expenditures.<\/p>\n

The Village Creek Walk Advisory Committee and the Lions Club will host an official park and trail\u00a0opening ceremony Friday, June 10, at 3 p.m. The community will be invited to attend. In the\u00a0meantime, we wish to thank those who helped bring the trail and park vision to reality.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Bough Martin is a member of the Chittenango Village Board of Trustees and the Chittenango Creekwalk Advisory Committee.\u00a0This message is the first in a series leading up to the grand opening ceremony for the Creek Walk\u00a0Trail and Lions Botanical Park in Chittenango, New York. It was such a great project, with so much\u00a0community support that we would like to highlight the history of the project as a way of thanking all who were involved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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