Doug Walker, Osawatomie resident and vice president of the Kanza Rails-Trails Conservatory, is credited with being a guiding force in establishing the 117-mile Flint Hills Trail through the years and most recently the Mile Zero point in Osawatomie. The landing area at the trail’s eastern terminus has been named Walker Station in his honor.
Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the gathering at the ribbon cutting for the completion of the eastern terminus of the Flint Hills Trail at Osawatomie. Trail Task Force Chairman Jeff Walmann thanked Doherty Steel and the Doherty family for donating the arched gateway to the trail, and he commended Halls Bobcat Service/The Rock Yard for the company’s work on the project.
Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the gathering at the ribbon cutting for the completion of the eastern terminus of the Flint Hills Trail at Osawatomie.
Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the gathering for the ribbon-cutting at Mile Zero of the Flint Hills Trail in Osawatomie.
Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the gathering for the ribbon-cutting at Mile Zero of the Flint Hills Trail in Osawatomie.
Doug Walker, Osawatomie resident and vice president of the Kanza Rails-Trails Conservatory, is credited with being a guiding force in establishing the 117-mile Flint Hills Trail through the years and most recently the Mile Zero point in Osawatomie. The landing area at the trail’s eastern terminus has been named Walker Station in his honor.
Doug Carder / Staff Photo
Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the gathering at the ribbon cutting for the completion of the eastern terminus of the Flint Hills Trail at Osawatomie. Trail Task Force Chairman Jeff Walmann thanked Doherty Steel and the Doherty family for donating the arched gateway to the trail, and he commended Halls Bobcat Service/The Rock Yard for the company’s work on the project.
County Commissioner George Pretz (from left) Osawatomie Mayor Mark Govea and Gov. Laura Kelly were among the dignitaries who cut the ribbon on improvements to the Flint Hills Trail eastern terminus at Mile Zero in Osawatomie.
OSAWATOMIE — A train rumbled past as Gov. Laura Kelly, Mayor Mark Govea and other state and local dignitaries prepared to cut the ribbon on recent improvements at Mile Zero of the Flint Hills Trail in Osawatomie on Wednesday morning, Oct. 7.
The train was a fitting sight as community and state officials acknowledged all those who had a hand in making improvements to a two-mile stretch of the trail that established the eastern terminus near the Karl E. Cole Sports Complex.
News Editor Doug Carder can be reached at (913) 294-2311 or doug.carder@miconews.com.
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