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Walking-Biking Trail Completed At Ministry-St. Mary's

Matt Thompson-Ministry Health Care

Pedestrians and staff now have an additional stretch of walking or biking trail to get to Ministry-St. Mary's Hospital in Rhinelander.

They also have a spot to rest. Pete and Jackie Cody of Rhinelander donated a bench along a segment of recently blacktopped pathway from the Highway 17 bypass intersection to the parking lot at the hospital. The bench was donated in the name of Oneida County Biking and Walking Trails Council. Jackie Cody said they had been talking with Ministry St. Mary's officials who are remodeling parts of the campus...

".....this works out well because they're facelifting the hospital and they said we could take a look at the project(to put the trail) where people are walking. There was already a path here. They looked at it and they agreed. They went ahead with the project which we couldn't be happier about...."

Northern Region Hospitals President Sandy Anderson says the remodeling and the interest by the community helped bring the path and bench into being...

"....it's a great thing when you can partner with your community to do something that is for the greater good..."

Credit Matt Thompson-Ministry Health Care

The trails council constructed a sidewalk on the opposite side of Highway 17 toward the Walmart complex. The trail crosses the bypass, then onto the hospital property without traveling down busy North Shore Drive.

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