Peace Corps veterans Joanne Omang, Mary Jo Good and Byron Good will be on hand to help celebrate Medomak Valley Land Trust's first established walking trail. The Goods, Omang, Scepanski, and Scholnick all of whom served in the Peace Corps in Turkey in 1964-66 and later in Cambridge, MA, formed what they believed would be a lifelong friendship. The group pooled resources and purchased the property on the Goose River in 1971 as a place where they could all get together and, over they years, the families spent a great deal of time here.
Goose River Peace Corps Preserve opens
Walking trail launched by Peace Corps Vets
By Medomak Valley Land Trust
WALDOBORO (Aug 20): Saturday morning, August 27, at 11:30 a.m., Peace Corps veterans Joanne Omang, Mary Jo Good and Byron Good will be on hand to help celebrate Medomak Valley Land Trust's first established walking trail. The Goose River Peace Corps Preserve, 54 acres on Finntown Road, Waldoboro, was donated by them and by Jordan Scepanski and Michael Scholnick to Medomak Valley Land Trust in 2001. This site was selected by the MVLT Lands Committee as having suitable characteristics for creating a walking trail.
MVLT's Stewardship Committee members Charlie Witherell, Jim Lott, Ed Fisher, Caren Clark, Susan Russell, Tom Hammermeister, Shelley Johnson, and Bill Evans spent many hours planning and developing the trail route and clearing the paths. They will also be recognized at the short 11:30 program on Saturday the 27th and will act as guides for a trail walk if needed. Participants are encouraged to stroll this entire trail which is about one mile long.
The Goods, Omang, Scepanski, and Scholnick all of whom served in the Peace Corps in Turkey in 1964-66 and later in Cambridge, MA, formed what they believed would be a lifelong friendship. The group pooled resources and purchased the property on the Goose River in 1971 as a place where they could all get together and, over they years, the families spent a great deal of time here.
In 2001 these friends decided to permanently assure the natural, undeveloped state of their land by donating the parcel to MVLT, a land trust whose mission includes conservation of wildlife habitat and natural resources.
These former Peace Corps volunteers, whose lives have taken them to different parts of the world, have, in fact, sustained their friendship and continue to spend at least part of each year here in the Medomak Valley.
Returned Peace Corps veterans in the Waldoboro area are welcomed to come to this brief ceremony and meet the Goose River Peace Corps Preserve donors. For more information, you may call MVLT at 832-5570.
