Grant providing sidewalk for children walking to school
The Daily ME, August 22, 2007
(excerpt) Thanks to funding from the Maine Department of Transportation's Safe Routes to School Program, Dover-Foxcroft will soon have a new sidewalk. The Town of Dover-Foxcroft applied for the grant funds, with technical assistance from Piscataquis County Economic Development Council (PCEDC).
Dover-Foxcroft Town Manager Jack Clukey was recently notified that the MDOT Safe Routes to School Program would provide $60,000 toward construction of a sidewalk on Harrison Avenue. With the closure of the Morton Avenue Elementary and the opening of the new SeDoMoCha Elementary School on the same campus as SeDoMoCha Middle School at the end of Harrison Avenue, all of the children from Kindergarten to eighth grade are now traveling this street.
“The safety of students walking to SeDoMoCha Middle School has long been a concern in our community,” said Clukey. “With the construction of the new SeDoMoCha Elementary School on the same campus, we will now have a larger number of even younger students using this street to access school and sport facilities.”
The lack of a sidewalk on Harrison Avenue left children to walk in the street with traffic, a situation made even more perilous during winter months when growing snow banks fill the edge of the roadway. When Clukey heard about the Safe Routes to School Program, he asked the school district, health organizations and PCEDC to partner in correcting the situation.
(excerpt) Thanks to funding from the Maine Department of Transportation's Safe Routes to School Program, Dover-Foxcroft will soon have a new sidewalk. The Town of Dover-Foxcroft applied for the grant funds, with technical assistance from Piscataquis County Economic Development Council (PCEDC).
Dover-Foxcroft Town Manager Jack Clukey was recently notified that the MDOT Safe Routes to School Program would provide $60,000 toward construction of a sidewalk on Harrison Avenue. With the closure of the Morton Avenue Elementary and the opening of the new SeDoMoCha Elementary School on the same campus as SeDoMoCha Middle School at the end of Harrison Avenue, all of the children from Kindergarten to eighth grade are now traveling this street.
“The safety of students walking to SeDoMoCha Middle School has long been a concern in our community,” said Clukey. “With the construction of the new SeDoMoCha Elementary School on the same campus, we will now have a larger number of even younger students using this street to access school and sport facilities.”
The lack of a sidewalk on Harrison Avenue left children to walk in the street with traffic, a situation made even more perilous during winter months when growing snow banks fill the edge of the roadway. When Clukey heard about the Safe Routes to School Program, he asked the school district, health organizations and PCEDC to partner in correcting the situation.
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