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G2G Inc. hosts annual barbecue, meeting in Blyth
An annual event
Peter Smith of Blyth Culture and Arts Initiative 14/19 and the Canadian Centre for Rural
Creativity was one of the guest speakers at the Goderich-to-Guelph Rail Trail's annual
barbecue and meeting held in Blyth last week. This was the second meeting of its kind after
the first-ever barbecue and update meeting was held last summer in Milverton. Other guest
speakers included Blyth's Doug Scrimgeour and Lynne Godkin, secretary of the International
Plowing Match scheduled for September in Walton. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
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route he could think of.
He also said that the group is hard
at work improving the trail
experience and constructing bridges
to reduce the number of detours.
Cerson also marvelled at the
Outdoor
service
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Happy birthday to Emily Josling,
who celebrates July 20 and Hayden
Hallahan, July 25.
Happy anniversary to Deb and
Fred Hakkers, who celebrate July
24.
Winners from the July 11 Shoot
party are: first, Marie Stewart;
second, Ethel Walker; third, Jewell
Plunkett; most shoots, Theresa
Machan, three.
The next shoot party is on
Tuesday, July 25 at the Blyth Trinity
Anglican Church Hall at
1 p.m. Come out and give it a try.
The hall is air conditioned. Shoot is
every second and fourth Tuesday of
the month.
Blyth celebrates its 140th
anniversary from July 28-30. Come
out and enjoy the many events
planned during the weekend. Come
join the Blyth Ministerial
Association on Sunday, July 30 at
10 a.m. in the Lions Park for a Blyth
community worship service.
Following the service there will be
an old-fashioned picnic, so bring
along a lunch for your family and
join in the fun and games.
number of volunteers who are
working on a regular basis to help
bring the dream of the trail to
fruition. He said that while those
who regularly attend G2G events
know people like Chris Lee, Paul
VanderMolen and himself, there are
between 300 and 400 volunteers
from end to end on the trail who
have been working to make the G2G
happen. That group varies from
service clubs like the Lions in Blyth
or Milverton to property owner
volunteers along the way to Doug
and Lynda Wilson, who were in
Blyth that night, who were among
the first to travel the trail from end to
end.
Lee said the online mapping of the
trail has also been coming along
well. The mapping has been a great
tool for the trail and the most
difficult aspect of the process, he
said, has been keeping it updated, as
progress is being made daily on the
trail.
The next two large projects, he
said, will be the installation of the
Blyth Brook bridge, which was
funded with the help of Huron
County, and the installation of a
number of access -point gates along
the trail.
Lee also heralded the accessibility
of the trail, saying that users with
many different needs will be able to
use the trail once completed.
On that note, Lee said, volunteers
are working towards the trail being
the first-ever active transportation
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corridor to bring visitors directly to
an International Plowing Match
(IPM) site. In September, he said,
there will be shuttles that will bring
those who hike or cycle along the
trail from the Walton trailhead to the
IPM site at Jack Ryan's farm just
south of Walton.
Furthermore, Lynne Godkin,
secretary of the 2017 IPM
committee, told the audience this
year's IPM will be the first-ever
fully -accessible match and the G2G
Rail Trail will play a big part in that.
The organizers have appointed an
accessibility committee for the
match, which is being chaired by
Seaforth's Charlene O'Reilly, the
daughter of George and Ruth
Townsend.
Doug Scrimgeour, chair of the
Blyth Greenway Trail committee,
also spoke, saying he and the
committee have been working on the
trail for nearly 25 years to provide an
active transportation trail to Blyth.
It was Scrimgeour and his wife
Diane Radford who first envisioned
using the abandoned rail bed for a
trail through the Blyth area and they,
alongside many other volunteers,
have worked for over two decades to
help make that happen.
Peter Smith, project manager for
Blyth Culture and Arts Initiative
14/19 and from the Canadian Centre
for Rural Creativity also spoke,
communicating the importance of
the trail to those viewing the
community from the outside.
Smith told those in attendance
about a recent event where various
project leaders from Blyth
connected with decision -makers in
Ottawa for a special Blyth -centric
event and the amount of interest
garnered by the trail was huge.
The fact that the G2G Rail Trail
could connect Blyth (and a dozen
other communities along the trail) to
over half a million people in the
Guelph area was a major point of
interest for federal politicians, Smith
said.
Next year's annual barbecue and
general meeting, which will be the
third in the trail's history, will be
held on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 in
Elmira along the Kissing Bridge
Trailway.
For more information on the trail,
visit www.g2grailtrail.com.
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