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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact: Tammy Miller, Columbia Parks and Recreation - (573) 874-7465

Parks and Recreation Department honored by national trails
organization

COLUMBIA, MO (June 6, 2005) -- The Columbia Parks and Recreation
Department has been selected to receive a 2005 Annual Achievement Award
by the Coalition for Recreational Trails (CRT). The award is part of the
CRT's Recreational Trails Program. 

Specifically, the Parks and Recreation Department is being honored for
its development of the MKT trailhead at Flat Branch Park. The trailhead
includes bicycle racks, benches, tables and seating, a drinking
fountain, sidewalks, landscaping and historical plaques. Before the site
was developed, it was the home of an abandoned warehouse and was
situated on contaminated soil. 

A citizens' committee, the MKT Trailhead Committee, worked with the
city's Parks and Recreation and Public Works departments to develop
the trailhead. Work on the trailhead was completed in 2001. It now
serves as a focal point of Flat Branch Park, as well as providing access
to downtown Columbia to users of the MKT Trail.

The MKT trailhead project is being honored as part of the awards
program's construction and design category. 

The CRT is a federation of national and regional trail-related
organizations. Its members work together to build awareness and
understanding of the Recreational Trails Program, which returns federal
gasoline taxes paid by off-highway recreationists to the states for
trail development and maintenance. 

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