Every now and then when the universe aligns, when the childen are fed and happy and everyone has warm mitts fantastic things happen. For me this winter, one of our member clubs, the Fernie Nordic Society is making a lot of magic for my family! 

We have experienced some fantastic growth at the Fernie Trails Alliance this year. But, predicatably, we have also had to wrestle with some serious issues. 

Our mandate at the Fernie Trails Alliance is to preserve recreation opportunity and safeguard our trail assets for the long-term benefit of our community. To help us achieve this, we require event organizers to follow our event protocol and to pay a trail-use fee. 

I was thrilled to hear that my very complex fundraising bundle had been approved by our largest funders -Teck Coal and Columbia Basin Trust. This project list involves four significant infrastructure improvements that are geared primarily at providing recreation opportunity for novice users. 

It isn’t often I find myself struggling to keep up professionally to someone, and let me tell you it is all I can do to keep ahead of Pat Gilmar and his crew. I am working on a fundraising bundle that will see the Fernie Trails Alliance and its’ member clubs working on five significant infrastructure projects this summer, and if that weren’t enough work I suddenly caught wind of a bridge being slung into Gorby Crossing today.