| Dear Sirs:
August 22nd was a great day for Waterman
Center's Brick Pond Nature Park in Owego, New York. At about 3:00 pm. pickup
trucks and cars laden with weed eaters, wheelbarrows, chain saws, brush
cutters, lumber, gravel and the many volunteers, all from Lockheed Martin,
assembled in the Brick Pond parking areas.
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| Before I left the scene
at 7:00 pm. I took a walk around the entire pathway circle and in the woods
met several volunteers still working on the walkway next to the railroad
tracks.
In early June a thunderstorm with high wind had broken our 430 foot long floating pedestrian bridge walkway. This may be the longest such nature park bridge in the nation. It is longer than a football field! The volunteers repaired four bridge walkways, cleared the footpaths of weeds, branches, large downed trees and rerouted several sections of pathways to higher ground. Waterman needs volunteers. If you want to have some fun and feel good about it, give them a call at 625-2221. So, when you walk the paths, bring your field glasses as well as a pocket sized hand held bramble cutter and you too can be a volunteer. If you would like to know more about why "Brick" Pond played a big part in Owego's early history, visit the Tioga County Historical Society on Front Street in Owego. They will be glad to tell you. I hope the volunteers from Waterman
Center didn't catch cold, as they all got very wet working on the big bridge.
My thanks to all you lovely people.
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