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Read our Trail Council 2010 Spring and Summer Newsletters
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Report any trail maintenance issues to maintenance@butlerfreeporttrail.org
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Sept 3 6pm group rides EVERY Friday (weather permitting) at 6 pm in Butler, going in a group get you used to the flow of things (tips from experienced riders) and makes it very easy and enjoyable. City lot across from Pizza Joe's. Again, good ride, good people, good conversation and good food. Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Bike Rack is this Friday (Sept 3rd) 6 pm at the city parking lot across from Pizza Joe's. Come join us for the ceremony, a ride after and some good food and conversation
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group ride into Saxonburg for the Arts Festival on September 11th, if anyone is interested please let me know. I am going to look for an easy road route into Saxonburg. If I get enough interest, I'll schedule a time to meet. Email president@butlerfreeporttrail.org
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Sept 25 8am Group ride from Freeport to Butler for lunch and back. 8 am Laneville trailhead at Old Mill Rd. Please let me know if you will be attending. Email president@butlerfreeporttrail.org We will head up to Main Street for lunch, if anyone wishes we can stop at the Farmers Market before returning to Freeport. A great way to support your local businesses. If you plan on attending, please e-mail me so I know approximately how many to expect. Don't forget your pannier for all your goodies.
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Oct 16, 2010 - Register for the 5th annual Buffalo Creek Half Marathon

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Butler Freeport Historic GeoTrail Twenty historical caches have been placed on the trail. Each cache box contains a passport (please take only one passport)or (download one here BFTHGT passport ), visit each cache and obtain the keyword, when you have filled your passport contact president@butlerfreeporttrail.org to purchase your custom, trackable geocoin or it will be available at local events. A $10 donation is requested, we are using this program as a fundraiser to place historical kiosks along the trail. If you would like to learn to geocache, please attend the event, there will be experienced cachers to show you how To obtain coordinates for the historical caches, you must register at www.geocaching.com
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Proposed Bike Routes in the City of Butler
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Please report any ATV sightings on the trail
with detailed description, time of day, date, and where on trail
to president@butlerfreeporttrail.org This will allow us to help
the game commission officers to patrol the trail.
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We are pleased to announce the approval of a $195,000 DCNR grant for completing the trail into Butler. The scope of the project will be cut short because of the arsenic contamination found near Father Marinaro Park, our original planned trailhead. Our trail is responsible for $10,000 cash and almost $15,000 in in-kind services. After remediation of the arsenic contaminated areas, the trail will be completed as originally planned and Fellowship Crossing will be built. Another public meeting will be in mid-Sept. We will post the date when we know it. Construction on the unfinished trail segment will start late summer or early fall.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2009
The Butler Freeport Community Trail remains undaunted in its group effort to finish the connection to the city of Butler. Despite yesterday’s news that arsenic was discovered in the area of bridge construction, the trail council, in conjunction with Buffalo Township, which owns the trail, plans to complete the link with an alternate trailhead, said Chris Ziegler, trail council president. “We want to move as quickly as possible to move the trailhead to a different location, because we know it will take time to remediate the site,” said Ziegler. To clear the way for the bridge, which is to be named Fellowship Crossing, trail council volunteers cleared trees, brush and vegetation from an old railroad spur which ended at Kaufman Drive in the city of Butler. The trail was to end at this point, with a planned parking lot and trailhead, but yesterday’s discovery has placed these plans temporarily on hold, Ziegler said. The trail council had obtained steel beams and other materials to complete the bridge project and were awaiting approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection before proceeding with construction. The trail council was working from plans created by a trail volunteer – a retired PennDOT engineer – who incorporated the old bridge stones and sharp slope of the Kaufman Drive approach into his plan. “It is an excellent plan, and we are confident it will become reality,” Ziegler said.
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Butler County Commissioners awarded nearly $70,000 in grants for nine park renovation projects. Our trail was funded $6,000 towards an $8,000 stormwater management project that includes installation of catch basins and creation of stormwater containment areas along the trail.
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Trail Bulletin Boards are for approved trail notices and information.
Please do not post business cards, flyers, etc.
Contact Chris Ziegler, our trail council president
for advertising rates or permission to post trail related notices,etc.

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Trail Projects Worksheet
Fill out and submit a Project Worksheet
before beginning any projects on the trail
This will allow the trail council to approve and
ensure your project meets our trail standards.
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