The signs are coming down now that the Okanagan Rail Trail Initiative has reached its fundraising goal.
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July 17, 2018 - 1:49 PM
VERNON - The final stage of fundraising $7.8-million to complete the Okanagan Rail Trail has been achieved, giving the project the green light to be completed by this fall.
Just two years after the campaign began, nearly 5,000 individual donors, plus dozens of businesses, have coughed up the cash to convert the disused railway corridor into a 49-kilometre trail running from Coldstream to Kelowna.
The federal government also contributed almost $1.8-million and the province $1.3-million to the building of the trail.
The trail, which is already well used, will now be managed by the Okanagan Rail Trail Committee made up of government staffers from the City of Kelowna, City of Vernon, North Okanagan Regional District, District of Lake Country, Okanagan Indian Band, and District of Coldstream.
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