The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority has partnered with the Huron County Library, the Friends of South Huron Trail and the Huron County Healthy Kids program to find a very unique way to telling stories.
Project Co-ordinator Kate Monk explains Story Time Trail is a project that has received funding through the Healthy Kids program and involves installing a series of posts along the McNaughton-Morrison Trail in Exeter.
Volunteers will post one page of a story on each of the posts so that children and their parents can read a story as they hike the trail.
Monk points out the Story Time Trail was conceived by Jenni Boles of the Huron County Library.
Moke says they just found out their getting the funding so they haven't even had a meeting yet but the posts will be installed through the spring and summer and the stories posted shortly after that.
She adds the story board will be changed every month or so so there will be new stories for the children to read.
Monk adds the grant from the Healthy Kids Program was four around five-thousand dollars and the Story Time Trail is a pilot program that they're hoping could also be used by other conservation areas.