Thank you for the sidewalks, Evergreen
Evergreen Junior High School students and district staff with Gov. Greg Gianforte. Left to right, Kutona Peterson, teacher Cynthia Thorsen, Zaidyn Black, Carter Hardman, Gov. Greg Gianforte, Matteus Thorsen, Avery Stevens, Tritt Gannon, Braelynn Peltier, Taelor Boyce, Parker Simpson, teacher Jennifer Doss, Bridget Reed, Superintendent Laurie Barron and Chloe McIlhargey.
Members of the Evergreen community celebrate the start of a project to build sidewalks along U.S. 2 on April 18, 2024. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
For the past 11 years, I have had the honor of serving as the very proud superintendent of the Evergreen School District. On behalf of the Evergreen Board of Trustees, staff, students, families, and community, I would like to thank everyone for their work to help our geographically small, rural, unincorporated community see the dream and vision of sidewalks for safe routes to school become a reality.
In 2005, almost 20 years ago, Evergreen Community Partners spearheaded Safe Routes to School in this community, which saw one mile of sidewalks installed from U.S. 2 to East Evergreen Elementary School in 2009. In 2021, Evergreen Community Partners initiated Phase I of sidewalks for U.S. 2, and, three years later, after more meetings, discussions, and navigating challenges than I can list here, we have broken ground on sidewalks that will provide safe routes to school from Evergreen Junior High School to the intersection one mile south, and we are in the process of planning for Phase II, which will see sidewalks going north toward Reserve Street.
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