News from neighbors
Overland Trail plan unveiled
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, May 16 — After several months of development, the master plan for the Overland Trail Expansion Area Project was unveiled at a City of Sterling Parks, Library and Recreation Board meeting Monday.
Confluent Design created the master plan, which the board unanimously recommended be accepted as an addition to the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Funding for South Platte River trail master plan came in part from a $30,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant.
“I think they did a pretty good job of getting all the information and melding it together with what the public wanted to see out there,” said Wade Gandee, PLR director.
“It’s pretty cool,” Tracy Glissmann added. “I really like what they did with the sugar beet stuff; I thought that was really kind of a different idea.”
The plan shows the sugar beet hill will eventually become an area for biking and sledding. Gandee said they will probably have to haul in some kind of dirt to put on top and they will need to do some work with some old drain pipes that are there.
“They did a really good job of really diving into old reports of how people are dealing with that in Colorado, because there are a lot of these pits around,” he told the board.
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Successful Critter Swap held despite gray skies, drizzle
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, May 17 — Pete Snyder of Imperial, Nebraska, wanted to start a Critter Swap event locally so people wouldn’t have to travel so far to show, sell, buy or trade their live critters.
Snyder’s first Critter Swap got its start successfully last Saturday even though the weather turned cool, overcast and drizzly.
Some of the owners who provided critters for the event were Mary Pate from McCook, Nebraska, who brought several rabbits for purchase.
Ray Sinclair of Champion, Nebraska, raises poultry, waterfowl and exotics. Sinclair and his family brought chickens, ducks, rabbits, pigeons, hedgehogs, an 11-week-old Great Pyrenees pup and some hatching eggs to the Critter Swap.
George Jenkins is a rabbit breeder from North Platte, Nebraska, who also attended the event. Jenkins raises several varieties of rabbits he has purchased from all over the U.S. during his travels to animal shows. He said he currently has around 150 rabbits and “buys their feed by the ton.”
“Another reason I wanted to start a Critter Swap locally was to make animals available for kids in 4-H for their projects,” Snyder said.
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