It’s been an impressive fundraising campaign and it’s finally reached its goal.
Just over two years after it begun, the campaign to fund the Okanagan Rail Trail has reached it’s $7.8 million target.
That was achieved through the various municipalities it will serve, the federal and provincial government and, of course, a community of trail supporters.
There were nearly 5,000 individual donors, along with 62 business partners, 43 campaign partners and 45 trail ambassadors.
Donations were often made in creative ways from galas to lemonade stands, with large and small donations combining to reach the lofty $7.8 million goal.
A $160 donation funded one metre of the trail and everyone who helped with even a single metre of trail will be recognized online and on signs that will be installed on the trail next year.
The newly formed Okanagan Rail Trail Committee, made up of government staff representatives from the communities the trail serves, will take things over from here.
It’s now responsible for coordinating further development, management and communications for the trail corridor.
Most of the trail will by open by the fall.
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