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| A beautiful walk to help promote river corridor | |
| Apr 25, 2007 | |
| Dave Heun dheun@sbcglobal.net | |
| Daily Herald | |
| Pertains to Fox River Trail, St. Charles | |
| My wife and I had the pleasure last Sunday of walking the nearly 3 miles along the river in St. Charles that will serve as the route for the Bob Leonard River Walk-a-thon on May 12. The fundraising event will aid River Corridor Foundation projects and dedicate a portion of the riverfront as the Bob Leonard Trail. Vern Oie, along with Leonard, who died earlier this year, has been a key figure in creating and promoting the River Corridor group. He was nice enough to ask us if we’d like to walk the route with him and get some insight into some of the ideas and plans the corridor group is considering, many of which Oie claims Leonard "served as the engine" for getting started. The route, which starts and ends at the Pottawatomie Park pavilion, begins by crossing the footbridge toward Salerno’s and loops down Route 31 into the downtown region before taking First Avenue, back across the Indiana Street footbridge and down through Mount St. Mary Park before doubling back to Pottawatomie Park. The Bob Leonard Trail will be a walkway on the west side of the river from the Illinois Street bridge south to the Indiana Street footbridge. "It’s mostly in an erosion control setup now," Oie said of the brick and stonework in that area. "When it is completed, it will be a nice addition to the path along that side of the river." Watch for registration forms and information about the event in the Daily Herald. You can also download forms at www.dtown.org. Other river plans: During the walk along the route for the upcoming Walk-A-Thon, Oie pointed out interesting future projects for the River Corridor Foundation. He said work is being done to secure grants for a canoe launch on St. Charles’ Freedom Walk that would have handicap access. He also mentioned some areas near Salerno’s that could have walkways or footbridges to connect some trails. On the humorous side, unless you were a member of the St. Charles Kiwanis who suffered this fate, Oie talked about a portion of the trail on the west side of Route 31 that the Kiwanis volunteered to clear out and create years ago. "It’s called the Poison Ivy Trail because some of the Kiwanis got some nasty cases of poison ivy doing that work," Oie said. |
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