Montour Trail-Letter

Volume 13, Issue 2

March/April, 2002

For the fifth year in a row, a group of hearty Montour Trail supporters volunteered to help staff the IKEA Christmas Tree Sale. The sale was held December 6-9, 2001, in the always windy IKEA parking lot at Robinson Town Centre. The Trail profits when tree customers choose to have their tree put through a wrapper machine (powered by human force), and pay the Trail $3 for the service. The wrapper machine is very high-tech – completely powered by human force – and volunteers will tell you that some of those wide trees take lots of human force.

The Trail gained $2,114 through the effort this year? You do the math; that is a lot of tree wrapping.

Thank you to all those who volunteered. Many did duplicate shifts and the Saturday crew withstood an all day rainstorm.

Special thanks go out to John Hooton, Peg Kester, Carl Palka, John Wasco, Ned Williams, Debby Hoerster, Meg Hoerster, Jesse Forquer, Diane Forquer, Gayle Seymour, Tim Killmeyer Barbara Rudolph, Barb Tunador, Dennis Pfeiffer, Pete Merther, Dick O?Neill, Amy Reichmann, Kevin McDermott, Leslie McDermott, Roger McElhaney,Joe Nugent, Marci Nugent, Joe Atria, Gara Kramer, Laura Nagel, Tim Lang, Matt Hufnagel, Matt Karg, Bill Barnes, Art Harding, Sheila Harding, Bruce Barron, Eileen Beucher, Angie Young, Mike Forbeck, and anyone else we may have inadvertently left out.