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By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 08:16 p.m. EST, Nov 08, 2009
The National Park Service and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association will dedicate a new volunteer center in northern Summit County today.
The ceremony will be at 3 p.m. at the four-building complex in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The $855,000 project involved rehabilitating the historic Savacoal House, the Savacoal Barn, the Boodey House and the Conger House off Boston Mills Road in Boston Township.
The Volunteer Center, as it has been dubbed, will provide office, work, storage and meeting space for the park's volunteer support organizations.
Last year, 2,329 park volunteers donated 78,794 hours to the Cuyahoga Valley park.
It is one of the largest and most active volunteer programs in the national parks system.
The park's volunteer program is jointly managed by the federal park and by the association.
The four structures are all near the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail near the park's Boston Store Visitor Center. They are also within the Boston Historic District that is listed on the prestigious National Register of Historic Places.
The association, an active friends-of-the-park group, raised more than two-thirds of the funds for the center.
Contributors include the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation, the Lehner Family Foundation, the Jean Thomas Lambert Foundation, the Chilcote Family Foundation, the Bokom Foundation, several park volunteers and the descendants of the Savacoal family.
The balance of the funds came from the Cuyahoga Valley park.
Such a facility has been envisioned for the Cuyahoga Valley for a number of years and should enable the park to attract and retain volunteers, officials said.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
The National Park Service and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association will dedicate a new volunteer center in northern Summit County today.
The ceremony will be at 3 p.m. at the four-building complex in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The $855,000 project involved rehabilitating the historic Savacoal House, the Savacoal Barn, the Boodey House and the Conger House off Boston Mills Road in Boston Township.
The Volunteer Center, as it has been dubbed, will provide office, work, storage and meeting space for the park's volunteer support organizations.
Last year, 2,329 park volunteers donated 78,794 hours to the Cuyahoga Valley park.
It is one of the largest and most active volunteer programs in the national parks system.
The park's volunteer program is jointly managed by the federal park and by the association.
The four structures are all near the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail near the park's Boston Store Visitor Center. They are also within the Boston Historic District that is listed on the prestigious National Register of Historic Places.
The association, an active friends-of-the-park group, raised more than two-thirds of the funds for the center.
Contributors include the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation, the Lehner Family Foundation, the Jean Thomas Lambert Foundation, the Chilcote Family Foundation, the Bokom Foundation, several park volunteers and the descendants of the Savacoal family.
The balance of the funds came from the Cuyahoga Valley park.
Such a facility has been envisioned for the Cuyahoga Valley for a number of years and should enable the park to attract and retain volunteers, officials said.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
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