June 25, 2005 - C4 initiated an Oak
Savannah Trail clean-up day. A dozen C4 members and a handful of
concerned citizens showed up and picked up six bags of litter, most of
which had accumulated near street intersections.
June 25, 2005 - C4 initiated an Oak
Savannah Trail clean-up day. A dozen C4 members and a handful of
concerned citizens showed up and picked up six bags of litter, most of
which had accumulated near street intersections.
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 February 26, 2005 -
Representatives from Indiana trails groups met in Indianapolis at the
Indianapolis Art Center to share successes and discuss solutions to
common problems and upcoming challenges. Rory Robinson from the
National Park Service coordinated the event. Click here for more photos.
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 November 18, 2004 - Hammond Mayor Tom
McDermott, Jr. flanked by 25 City of Hammond department heads at the "Mayor's
Night In" at the Hammond Civic Center. The mayor told the audience
of anxious taxpayers that bike trails make Hammond a desirable place to
live.
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 November 17, 2004 - A standing-room-only crowd filled Purdue University Calumet's conference and meeting facility, The Center, for a public Marquette Greenway open house. The Purdue University Calumet library will serve as the official repository for documents relating to the Marquette Greenway. Click here for more photos. |
 October 27, 2004 - Mitch Barloga from NIRPC giving a PowerPoint presentation on the 2004 NIRPC Ped & Pedal Plan at an open house held at the Michigan City Parks Department. Five open houses co-sponsored with C4 were held throughout the tri-county Calumet Region for public input. |
 September 29, 2004 - Riders from Bike for Democracy on their Portland to Washington D.C. voter registration ride on the Erie Lackawanna Trail in Hammond. Click here for more photos. Click here for a Chicago to Michigan City cue sheet. |
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 May 12,
2004 - We Thought it was over. We thought we had won. On April
27th, 2004 the Porter
Redevelopment
Commission voted unanimously to build the
off-road Prairie-Duneland
to Calumet Trail connection at an open public meeting at the town hall.
Now the NIMBYs have resurrected, bringing their mythological nightmares
of trail horror back to haunt the citizens of Lake, Porter, and
LaPorte counties who want safe, quiet, green, pollution and motor
vehicle free connections between their communities. Click here to read all the gory stories. |
 May 6, 2004 - Professor Bernie Dahl
and
students
from Purdue University West Lafayette's landscape architecture school
present a plan to develop the abandoned C & O rail corridor into a
trail from Griffith to Porter County at a public meeting in the Lake
County Public Library. See What's
New for more.
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 May 4, 2004 - 1st Dist. Congressman Pete Visclosky announces the team of planners who will begin working on the Marquette Greenway project at a press conference inside the Marquette Park Pavillion. Click here for complete Marquette Greenway coverage. |
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The Calumet Citizen
Newsletter for Calumet Citizens for Connecting Communities Vol.1 Issue
1
Tuesday April 27,
2004
50
Cents
VICTORY!
Porter, Indiana -- The Porter Redevelopment
Commission voted unanimously to build the off-road Prairie-Duneland
to Calumet Trail connection. Please write thank-you letters to the
board members. Names and addresses are on the link provided above. The
connection should be completed by July 4th, 2005. Thanks to all
the C4 members who showed up for support!
"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's
roar."
--Winston Churchill |