Katie Dickson’s Gold Award Project
Katie Dickson
On Sunday, May 15, 2011, the Washington Township Land Trust celebrated Katie Dickson’s Gold Award project by unveiling a new trail map and information kiosk sign. The kiosk sign is located along the Columbia Trail where it crosses the Land Trust’s wildflower meadow on Fairview Avenue in Long Valley.
WTLT Mill Pond Park Kiosk.
Karen Richards, Vice-President of the Land Trust, praised Katie’s dedication to her community, her leadership abilities and her time-management skills. Katie spent 84 hours on the project, designing and printing a trail map of Mill Pond Park, and designing and helping build the kiosk sign to house the trail map and other Land Trust information. To develop the map, she walked the trails with a hand-held GPS, marking points of interest as well as the direction of the paths, and then transferred those points to a map of the property.
As an all-volunteer non-profit organization, the Washington Township Land Trust owns and manages approximately 200 acres of park land and has helped preserve over 1,000 acres of open space.
Information contained in the WTLT Mill Pond Park Kiosk.
Katie applying finish to the framing.
Erin Kern helped Katie with
the project.