No walk in the park

October 2, 2008

By Jim Kilpatrick

Trevor Kitt, 15, led the scouts of McKinney Troop 496 to build a 21-foot cedar boardwalk along the wooded nature trail south of Towne Lake.“I had been thinking about my Eagle project and I called the McKinney Parks and Recreation Department to see if they had a project I could do,” Trevor said. “This one sounded the most interesting so I chose it.”The walkway will allow hikers to keep their feet drier and cleaner during the wet weather.The project required digging 12 post holes and mixing and pouring cement for the posts. It also required building the walkway framework and repositioning existing ramps and then laying down the cedar planks. The new walkway joins two existing pieces of the existing walkway.Trevor was assisted in the construction by 15 other scouts from Troop 496.The project took two days to complete.

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