The Lake City Greenway Project received a monetary boost from R.R. Donnelley and Sons Inc. with a donation of $25,000 to cover engineering costs.

The international printing company also is donating land for the first phase of the eight- mile multi-use trail.

Also on hand Thursday was Steve Jones, Warsaw, winner of a parks department-sponsored logo contest.

Jones, a commercial and graphic designer, composed a blue and green oval-shaped graphic which will be used for lake City Greenway promotional materials and on markers along the trail.

Beginning at Trailhead Park and Chinworth Bridge, the 8- to 10-foot-wide asphalt path will run east and west parallel to old U.S. 30W on the south side.

Cutting across the City-County Athletic Complex and donated Donnelley property, the trail will turn south at Dewamac Park and follow Marsh Ditch to Zimmer Road in Boggs Industrial Park.

Plans include a shelter house in Trailhead Park and a historical bridge installation at the Marsh Ditch crossing at Dewamac Park.

Preliminary plans by Ken Herceg & Associates Inc., South Bend, show the path well off the road.

Jeff Noffsinger, Warsaw city planner, and Andy McCleary, Warsaw parks activities director, are coordinating the project with a steering committee.

The trail is expected to weave through downtown Warsaw, travel Smith Street to Winona Avenue and go into Winona Lake. In Winona Lake the greenway will follow the lakefront, Canal Street, go through Winona Lake Park to Park Avenue and Union Drive, and follow an old logging road to Roy Street.

The Greenway is being financed with government grants and contributions from local organizations, businesses and individuals. Already the project has received a $960,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Transportation, $30,000 from the Kosciusko County Foundation, $10,000 for planning from the Indiana Department of Commerce and $15,000 from National City Bank.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has contributed $100,000 for a wetlands boardwalk; $43,200 in Build Indiana Funds has been received as well.

The K21 Foundation has pledged $50,000, which will be applied directly to a Pike Lake Park and Kosciusko Community Hospital spur.

Construction costs are expected to be $1.55 million. Phase one costs, from the Chinworth Bridge to Zimmer Road, are estimated at $550,000.

Another $15,000 in engineering costs is needed to complete the western section of the trail.

Engineering must be paid "up front" and those costs will appear as a credit toward the city's 20 percent match on construction costs. [[In-content Ad]]