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Friends of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail 7th Annual Meeting and Dinner

When: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Doors open at 6:00 pm, dinner at 6:30 pm Where: Shipshewana Convention Center 760 S. Van Buren St. (SR 5) Shipshewana, IN

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Shipshewana Town Center

This impressive new facility houses:

• A 15,000 square foot convention center, a portion of which we will use for our annual meeting
• Hochstetlers’ Hudson Museum
• The LaGrange County Convention and Visitors Bureau
• The offices of the Shipshewana Retail Merchants Association
• The Shipshewana Area Historical Society
• The Hudson, Essex, Terraplane Historical Society’s National Office

Featured speaker

Our featured speaker for this year’s meeting will be Andy Dodzik from DLZ Indiana, LLC. This is the engineering-consulting firm hired by the Elkhart County Parks & Recreation Department and the Town of Shipshewana to design and manage the construction of phases 3 and 4, the section of trail from Middlebury to Shipshewana.

Mr. Dodzik will speak about the design process, specific features of the trail in phases 3 and 4 and the current timetable for completion with an up-to-date report on the progress of the project.

Reports

In addition to the above, you will hear a presentation from the Pumpkinvine Board that brings you up-to-date on each of the other project phases. This will include a status on:

• The supplemental grant application submitted by Elkhart County Parks & Recreation Department to assist in building Phase 3.
• The supplemental grant application submitted by the Town of Shipshewana to assist in building Phase 4.
• The grant application for $1 million submitted by Elkhart County Parks & Recreation Department for Phase 5A, 3.4 miles from CR 28 to CR 33.
• The grant application for $1 million submitted by the Town of Middlebury for Phase 6, 1.2 miles from Wayne Street to US 20.

Come join us to share a delicious meal and to hear up-date presentations on the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail project.