Changing paths, the walking trail along River Road beneath Medicine Hat city hall, Finlay Bridge and extending to Lions Park has been renamed "Kiwanis Centennial Trail" to honour the local service club's founding in 1924.--News Photo Collin Gallant
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A section of the city’s Heritage Trail Network will be renamed to honour a local service club after council endorsed the move.
The Devonian Trail, which runs along River Road to Lions Park, will become “Kiwanis Centennial Trail” to honour the 1924 formation of the local group.
It comes after two years of discussions between the club and council’s municipal naming committee, which didn’t come to agreement on an appropriate roadway but landed on the trailway built 45 years ago along the river beneath city hall.
There are only minimal costs involved in the change, and the original donors to the project are no longer active, council heard.
In 1980, the Devonian Foundation of Calgary donated $88,500 help fund the trail’s construction, built in an initial leg from the Medicine Hat Library on River Road to the old Arena, including a viewpoint near city hall. That was eventually extended into greenspace in the North River Flats.
Tepee for Tigers
The Saamis Tepee will be lit orange this weekend as the Medicine Hat Tigers begin their second-round Western Hockey League playoff series Saturday night.
The announcement was made at Monday’s council meeting with some compliment given to facilities staff for accommodating the request on short notice. The lights at the 215-foot structure near the Trans-Canada are often switched to denote causes or events suggested by local groups, and some juggling was required, say councillors.
