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Friends group outlines Unity Park interpretive trail, eyes T-Mobile Hometown Grant
Summary
The Friends of the Highland Village Park Foundation presented a plan for an interpretive trail around the historic Unity Tree in Unity Park and said it will seek up to $50,000 from T‑Mobile’s Hometown Grant program while working to reduce projected costs and secure letters of support.
Kevin Fenderson, president of the Friends of the Highland Village Park Foundation, presented a plan on Feb. 17 to build an interpretive trail around the Unity Tree in Unity Park and said the group will pursue a T‑Mobile Hometown Grant that funds shovel‑ready projects up to $50,000.
Fenderson told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board the foundation has planted roughly 14 trees in Highland Village since the group formed during the pandemic and is now proposing a decomposed granite trail, five interpretive signs, a monolithic stone monument and other features around the fenced, historic tree. "If there was a bumper sticker for our park foundation it would be 'we plant trees,'" Fenderson said.
The nut graf: The foundation said the grant could cover much of the project but…
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