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consecutive TPWD Recreational Trail Grants, local grants from Lennox, Legacy, First <br />Federal Community Bank, Greater Paris Development, Kimberly Clark Foundation, <br />Campbell Soup, Lamar Power Partners, and Ash Grove Foundations. In kind <br />donations of equipment, materials, and labor has been phenomenal. The original <br />2004 construction of the Trail de Paris 3mile asphalt Trail on the abandoned rail <br />banked corridor had a cost estimate of $900,000. $125,000 in cash was raised and <br />the rest of the project $775,000 was totally funded via in kind equipment, materials <br />and labor by the private sector. To show continuing community need and support <br />for Trails, the recent Paris to Reno extension along the rail-banked corridor had a <br />cost estimate of $576,000. A$120,000 in grants from 51oca1 foundations and the <br />remaining $456,000 will be funded by private sector in kind donations. <br />The following are partnerships showing wide community support for the building <br />and maintaining of the 130-mile Trail: a 3mile trail in the town of Farmersville <br />Trail, the 4mile Trail de Paris, 7 refurbished railroad bridges, installation of a new <br />bicycle and pedestrian bridge over busy US Hwy 271 in the town of Paris, the 2 1/z <br />mile trail through the town of Reno and 3 refurbished Railroad bridges, clearing and <br />grading 15 miles of corridor and repairing 5 railroad bridges from Pecan Gap to <br />Wolfe City, clearing and grading of 25 miles from New Boston to Avery. <br />All of the Northeast Texas Rail-Trail projects rail-banking agencies have partnered <br />together to build the Trail on their corridors; Chaparral Rail to Trail, Greater Paris <br />Development Foundation, towns of Clarksville, Annona, and Avery, and Bowie <br />County. An alliance of state and federal representatives, city mayors, local <br />Chambers of Commerce, and communiry leaders agrees the 130-mile trail is key to <br />growth in rural northeast Texas. The partnership extends through 7 counties and 19 <br />towns. <br />To show community support, the Northeast Texas Trail project will be leveraged <br />with $220,000 local money. <br />Lennox-$100,000-4 year span <br />1St Federal-$75,000-3 year span <br />Chaparral-$25,000 <br />De Kalb -$20,000 <br />7 <br />......16p <br />