Members from the Terrace and Terrace-Skeena Valley Rotary Clubs banded together on Saturday, June 2, 2012 to upgrade the Howe Creek Trail. Several yards of gravel were spread on the trail and drainage pipes were installed to prevent the trail from washing out during heavy rains.
A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped with this project, including the young women from Caledonia High School Rugby team who donated a few hours (and muscles) during their Saturday to help out. Kudos to Terrace Rotary member David Oatway for organizing this project.
Edited June 5, 2012 to include David Oatway's comments:
Thanks to everyone who helped to complete this project. The City is very appreciative. We loaded, moved and spread 5 loads (65,000 kg) of gravel, built 3 retaining walls and installed 4 small culverts in 5 hours with 40 workers. To put that in perspective that was roughly 30,000 shovelfuls of gravel, 1000 wheelbarrow trips, 165 km traveled by wheebarrow or 12 km each for the 14 wheelbarrow pushers and we consumed 54 L of water and 96 slices of pizza.
Click here to view more pictures of the upgrade on Facebook.
Click here to read the May 11, 2011 Terrace Standard article, Howe Creek Trail opens.