Last updated: 28th July 2005

DOUGLASS NEIGHBORHOOD URBAN WALKING TRAIL: FIRST STEPS

25th July, 2005

Children participating in the CARE (Columbia Art-Related Experience) Gallery's summer work experience program have started to create the Douglass Neighborhood Urban Walking Trail. The teenagers spent three days this week painting footprints around the proposed trail - a 1-mile loop along Ash St., Garth Ave., Worley St., and Providence Rd.

The City of Columbia is providing ten marker posts that will be installed by PedNet volunteers in the fall to create a marked and measured trail for neighborhood residents. According to local community leaders Almeta Crayton and Wynna-Faye Elbert, there would be great support, especially among seniors, for a program that challenged them to walk a certain distance over a certain period of time, possibly as a team effort. Inactivity-related disease (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc.) is prevalent in this community.

In the photograph at left, St. Louis artist Eric Repice supervises teenagers creating stencilled footprints along Ash St.

For a Columbia Missourian article about the project, please visit www.digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=14790.

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