Grants for East Boston Bike Path

City officials will join nonprofit organizations and local park advocates to announce three private grants that will benefit the new bike path in East Boston. The event will be held on Monday, October 29, at 6:00 PM at the Meridian Street Library in East Boston where local author and journalist Dianne Dumanoski will read from her article "Parks Lost and Found," which honors the history of local activism behind the East Boston Greenway.

Contact:
Erin Rowland, Public Affairs Manager, The Trust for Public Land, (617) 367-6200 x321

East Boston, Massachusetts: City officials will join nonprofit organizations and local park advocates on Monday, October 29, to announce three private grants that will benefit the new bike path in East Boston. The first phase of the bike path, which is located along the former Conrail corridor between Marginal Street and Porter Street, is now in the final stages of construction and landscaping. Following the announcements, well-known author and journalist Dianne Dumanoski will read from her article "Parks Lost and Found," which honors the history of local activism behind the East Boston Greenway. Best known for co-authoring the 1997 book, Our Stolen Future, Ms. Dumanoski has been reporting on environmental issues since Earth Day 1970.

The event will be held on Monday, October 29 at 6:00 PM at the Meridian Street Library in East Boston. It is being sponsored by The Trust for Public Land, Boston Natural Areas Fund, the East Boston Greenway Council, and is open to the public. The Trust for Public Land is a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting land for people to enjoy as parks and open space.

Since 1972, the Trust has protected more than 1.2 million acres nationwide, including nearly 75,000 acres in New England. The Wall Street Journal's Smart Money magazine recently named TPL the nation's most efficient large conservation charity, based on the percentage of funds dedicated to programs. For more information, visit www.tpl.org