Thank You Eagle Scouts!
Four Scouts Complete Projects in City Parks
We had a great week as four Boy Scouts completed projects for their Eagle Awards in our parks! Thank you Scouts and everyone who serves in our parks. Volunteers in our parks help beautify and keep taxes down. Details on each project:
Jacob Lee
Jacob coordinated with the North Ogden Parks, Trails and Lands Committee to furnish and install 8 new solar bollard lights along Cherry Way Trail near McGriff Park (Phase 2). With his fundraising efforts, he installed $1400 worth of lights along the trail to help light the pathway for those who run and walk. This will be especially helpful as it gets darker. This is part of a multi-phase project to put these lights all along Cherry Way Trail (3100 N to Mountain Road).
Dallin Cook
Dallin just finished furnishing an installing an information kiosk at Wadman Park. This kiosk features a bench at the bottom, and a plexiglass covered signboard to hold park information, maps and event and activity flyers. Dallin coordinated with Weber Pathways so that this kiosk is congruent with those at the trailhead at 2750 N Mountain Road and also the one at the BST trailhead on the North Ogden Divide road. We hope to see a kiosk like this at each of the parks and major trailheads in the city in the future.
Caleb Richardson
Caleb did his Eagle Scout project as part of our ongoing efforts to beautify and improve Cherry Way Trail – specifically the section between 750 E and 900 E. This trail abuts residences at its borders, and weed maintenance requires manual labor. Our Parks crews often mow areas of Cherry Way trail, but this particular section is very steep and has many large rocks and the weeds along this quarter mile stretch of the trail system have to be managed with hand-trimmers. This is a very labor intensive process and requires a lot of time and effort. Caleb organized a group to come in and remove the large rocks to help smooth out the trail and make it possible for our crews to use mowers instead of hand trimmers.
Talon Smout
As mentioned in the project above, weed control along Cherry Way Trail is done manually by pulling out the weeds. The puncturevine is the most noxious of the weeds, with seeds that can stay dormant in the soil for upwards of 15 years. The weed grows too low for mowers to get at, and we do not use chemicals on the trail because of the proximity to neighboring residences. The only way to remove this weed is to pull it out. Talon organized a group of 20 people to remove weeds along 1.25 miles of Cherry Way Trail from 575 E to 2850 N, and it looks much better than before.
