"Lions help make trail for visually handicapped" from the June 19, 1973 Door County Advocate
Working in small crews like this, members of the Egg Harbor Lions club are busy preparing a Nature Trail for the Blind at the Ridges. Left to right are Roy Lukes, Ridges Naturalist, who supervises and labors, and Lions Henry Gilson, Larry Wester, Walter Wester and Austin Fraser. —Harmann
Lions help make trail for visually handicapped
Since April members of the Egg Harbor Lions club have been working on a new Nature Trail for Blind and Visually handicapped at Ridges Sanctuary. Roy Lukes, Ridges Naturalist, is supervising the project, and will cut the sound tapes which, together with railings, will make it a self-guided trail for even totally blind persons. The Lions are also providing the portable tape players.
The first quarter mile of trail has been cleared and about one-third of the necessary railings erected. Considerably more work is necessary before it can safely be opened to the public, and a late summer opening is anticipated. The opening is also contingent upon moving in the old log building which the Ridges is providing, and which will serve as a Nature Center and a place to issue the tape players.
Persons visually handicapped and otherwise will be guided by the railings to points of interest, selected especially to appeal to senses of touch, hearing and smell. At such points there will be a touch signal on the railing, signifying that the hiker should stop and turn on the tape player for instructions and a description of his surroundings.
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Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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