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Annual General Meeting Held

Our AGM was held on March 19, 2008. If you would like to receive the minutes, please go to "About Us", then to "Contact Us" and fill out the feedback form.

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Trail is now open!

It has been over 4 years in the making, but we are very happy to report that the trestles have all been completed, and it is now possible to travel over the 12km route between Myra and Ruth trailheads.

At the time of this writing, there is still, of course, snow on the route, but that will soon be gone.

The trail will be re-surfaced once the frost has left the ground, and other finishing touches will be underway, so it will be necessary to watch out for these activities.

Enjoy!

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society will be held on

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Okanagan College, 1000 KLO Road
Room H115 (Health Building)
At 7 pm

There will be light refreshments and beverages:

Agenda

1. Adoption of Agenda
2. Minutes of the Annual General
Meeting, April 10, 2007
3. President’s Report
4. Financial Report
5. Grand Reopening Plans
6. Early KVR local history
7. Election of Directors
8. Other Business
9. Adjournment

Members are welcome to suggest items for inclusion in the meeting, under “Other Business”.

2007 Progress Report #3

The reconstruction of the trestles is nearing its end. The replacement of all the damaged trestles is now substantially complete except for trestle 6 and trestle 7.

Work is progressing well on these final two. At trestle 7, the contractor has reached bent 13 of 21and should have it finished in the first week of December. This is the trestle with the S-curve.
Trestle 6 is the big steel one and the job there is to replace the burned super structure -- ties, boardwalk and railings. It is more than half completed and should be finished by the end of November.

The final task will be to erect the finished railings on those trestles which to date have temporary railings.

So we expect all that to be done by December 7.

In the spring, as soon as weather permits, the whole trail in Myra Canyon will be resurfaced with compacted gravel. We will be erecting substantial interpretive signage at that time as well, so that the whole project will be complete sometime in June, 2008.

The photo shown is the completed Trestle 4, the longest and highest of the wooden trestles.

2007 Progress Report #2

On the Little White Road side of the canyon, Trestle 4 is nearing completion and will be substantially complete by the end of August. This will allow construction access to trestles 5 and 6 and the contract has been let for those with a start date of September 1 and a completion date of November 30.

Trestle 5 is the smallest of the wooden ones and its construction is fairly straightforward. Trestle 6 is the larger of the two steel trestles. It needs only to have the wooden superstructure replaced, i.e., the timber ties and the decking and railings.

When trestle 4 is complete, public access will be permitted to trestle 3.

On the Myra station side of the canyon, work is proceeding well on trestle 8 and trestle 7. The target for their completion is also November 30. At this end, public access is limited to the first tunnel. ie. west of Trestle 12.

Our objective is to have the whole of the trail open in the spring of 2008. There will still be some restoration work on the trail surface and some amenities to be replaced but this should not interfere with public use.

We are planning a grand opening and a community celebration in the spring, probably in June 2008. More on this later

Photo is of Trestle 4 taken July 27, 2007.