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VOLUME 64 | ISSUE 50
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2, 2023
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Evergreen officially hails the Evergreen Lake North Trail BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Pumpkins everywhere King-Murphy’s inaugural Halloween walk p2
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King-Murphy Mountain School third graders Lily Bourassa, K.J. Crawford and Sawyer Doss check out some of the pumpkins that lined the school’s pumpkin walk to celebrate Halloween. The school invited the entire community to join in the fun. PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST
The wait is finally over. The Evergreen Lake North Trail is open, a project with a detour that was completed in fewer than 120 days, under the $5.4 million budget and with stakeholders on many levels joining together to make the project happen. The Evergreen Park & Recreation District, which spearheaded the effort to create the new two-tiered trail, hosted a ribbon cutting and celebration on Oct. 24 to commemorate the occasion that has been seven years in the making. “This has been a labor of love,” Cory Vander Veen, the rec district’s executive director, told nearly 75 people who attended the ribbon cutting at the trail. “This has been much needed for years. It will improve and connect Evergreen. It’s so exciting to have it completed.” Liz Cohen, the rec district’s grants and strategy manager, thanked the many stakeholders who had a hand SEE TRAIL, P6
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