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Covering Dallas, Monmouth, Independence, Falls City and surrounding areas since 1868
Dallas Public Works assistant Patti Senger and Parks Supervisor Ron Lines watch as Barbara Chaney places a brick purchased by DHS Class of 1966 on the trail.
DALLAS -- The city added a thin strip of bricks to the Main Street trailhead along the Rickreall Creek Trail on Friday, Feb. 26.
Of those bricks, 16 represented the first group of donors to the city's brick donation program supporting the trail project and other local charities.
"I think (the donors) are going to be excited to see them in the ground," said Patti Senger, a city of Dallas Public Works Department executive assistant.
In addition to the trail project, Kids, Inc., Dallas Education Fund, Dallas Senior Center and Dallas Public Library have received a combined $800 through the program. The city launched the program about a year ago.
Barbara Chaney, a resident of Dallas, bought the first brick in the name of the Dallas High School Class of 1966.
"The class of 1966 would like to challenge all classes to buy a brick," she said Friday.
So far, the class of 1959 has answered the challenge.
When completed, the approximately 4-mile trail will run east to west through the city. Paving on pieces of the trail have been completed between Levens and Main streets and by the Dallas Aquatic Center.
Additional funding for the project has been provided through a grant from the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation the city received last summer.
Bricks cost $150 each, $175 with a custom logo, a portion of which will go to the Park Trust Fund and up to $75 going to the nonprofit charity of the brick buyer's choice. Bricks can be engraved with a name, message or placed anonymously.
For more information: Dallas City Hall, 503-831-3502.
