Good News For Bikers and Walkers

Efforts to pave trails are paying off, one step at a time

MANCHESTER – Gisele Sevigny Fontaine drove from her home on the east side to meet her friend Orianna Dolbec on the West Side.

The two senior citizens crossed the newly opened pedestrian bridge over the Merrimack River, strolled along the riverwalk and ended up at a late-morning Fisher Cats game next to the paved pathway.

"It was like killing two birds with one stone," Sevigny Fontaine said. "You got your exercise and you got to see a good game, even though they did lose."

Piece by piece, the city is expanding and paving existing or over-grown natural trails to make it easier for people, such as Dolbec and Sevigny Fontaine to walk and bike around the city.

"The whole point is for this to connect into the neighborhoods, so people don't use their cars," said Chuck DePrima, the acting director for the city's Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Department.

GOOD NEWS IN THE NEWS...FINALLY

Outpouring of help

By GARRY RAYNO
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff
17 hours, 23 minutes ago

MANCHESTER – Deb Gaudette of Goffstown knows what it is like to be without a home because she and her family twice were flooded out by the Piscataquog River.

Yesterday, she called the Salvation Army Manchester Corps to say she wants to donate some of the things she was given to help the victims of Tuesday's Pearl Street apartment house fire.

"It's not a big deal; it's just the right thing to do," Gaudette said yesterday.

So there you have it; some good news for your weekend, and it's 49 degrees currently in Manchester. (It's hot in New Mexico....)