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CARTS,
42 Lakes Close,
Lacombe, AB T4L 1S4
phone 403-782-3017
email: dogo@telusplanet.net
or
info@centralalbertatrails.org
Board of Directors 2011-12
President - Debbie Olsen
(Lacombe)
Secretary - Fran Lees
(Red Deer)
Treasurer - Bev Hanes
(Red Deer)
Vice-President - Paul Pettypiece
(Springbrook)
Directors:
Grant Johnson
(Red Deer),
Jim Woychuk
(Red Deer),
Chris Stephan
(City of Red Deer),
Outi Kite
(City of Lacombe),
Pete Waddell
(Sylvan Lake)
Municipalities represented:
Cities of Red Deer, Lacombe
Towns of Sylvan Lake, Blackfalds,
Ponoka, Innisfail, Penhold, Bowden
Counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, Ponoka
Hamlet of Springbrook
CARTS Brochure (pdf) |
 Mission Statement:
"To foster & provide opportunities for
promotion,
designation and
development of a trail network."
The Birth of CARTS
Early in
1998, a preliminary group of individual Central Albertans
representing various agencies including the City of Red Deer, Red
Deer County, Parkland Community Planning Services, Alberta TrailNet, Red Deer
Visitor and Convention Bureau, Normandeau Cultural and Natural History
Society, and Red Deer River Naturalists, came together to form the
Central Alberta Regional Trails Initiative.
This group proposed the creation of the Central Alberta Regional
Trails Master Plan project to identify the issues, concerns, support,
and ideas regarding the designation and development of recreational
trail linkages in rural Central Alberta.
Several communities throughout the counties of Red Deer and Lacombe
involved in the project decided to form a society in order to
attract the Trans Canada Trail to the central corridor.
In January 1999, the Central Alberta Regional Trails Society (CARTS)
was born and expanded to include communities in the county of Ponoka.
(see History)
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