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24 P Tl�l 0 F I L e e the newtons connecting the . community through a natural legacy Walter Newton surveys the woods around him from beneath The story of this future parkland begins with George Newton the brim of his baseball cap , remembering a childhood spent and his desire to continue his quiet way of giving back to the exploring the land here and the adjacent Little River. "This is community in which he has spent most of his life . Now retired where we all learned to drive . Where I learned to build fires and as founder and president of Newton Instrument Company, camp , where I learned to cook on an open fire . It was the place George was looking for a suitable way in which to honor his late where I developed a love of the woods and the outdoors . " He wife , Mary. He contacted the Triangle Community Foundation and his father joke about the times each of George Newton's five with a unique offer : to donate the 391 acres of family-owned children managed to get the family jeep stuck in one precarious land in his wife's memory. Proceeds from its eventual sale would position or another, including wedged between two trees . Such benefit three organizations : Greensboro College , Trinity United memories are still tangible on this family property, 391 acres Methodist Church , and the Triangle Community Foundation's that intersect the Little River and straddle Durham and Orange Catalyst Project . "I never did envision a park or protected county lines . Thanks to the generosity of George Newton and a wildlife habitat to come out of this , " relates George Newton . "At remarkable partnership between several county leaders and best I was hoping for a development of large-acre homes , leaving nonprofits , many other children will have an opportunity to a sufficient buffer along the river to protect it . " The end result create memories here as plans unfold to turn this property into surpassed even George's greatest hopes , a recreational- park. Several key county and nonprofit leaders with an eye toward 4 ` ! may, At conservation took notice of the Newton property, sparking an a `t7k _ f- r ,�yy`-y, J �"' i.. 4f � unprecedented partnership . Durham and Orange count planners j � r Y P P P g Yf� it PP came together alongside two nonprofits , the Eno River { s A `' ' w I.' x Association (ERA) and the Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) , to tir find a way to acquire and protect this undeveloped land hugging ' } rsr the Little River. "The Triangle Land Conservancy has selected the Little River as one of six important river comdors in this region , " relates Kate Dixon , executive director of TLC . "This is L. the largest tract that we've been involved in protecting , and it is an incredible opportunity that the Newtons have given the community. " Continues Don Moffitt , an ERA board member, Yn "The Little River is one of the wildest , cleanest rivers in this Y region . We know now, particularly after Hurricane Floyd , that we all live upstream from someone else . We know how important p p 'y it is to be good stewards of the water we send downstream . " With such powerful motivation , these community leaders met with the Triangle Community Foundation , and , what was later dubbed the Little River Partnership , was on its way to making All '` r the vision of protecting the Newton property a �~ reality. ttf Add 0.4 .� .4 t J ^ 7 . lk y f j rCA,F`' r 1 Yt 4 s 't� �r, 1 1 . t t� . T RIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION