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Here's some information about our Sports and Recreation program |
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Our location:
| --We're the closest church of any denomination in North America to a major auto racing venue. Lime Rock Park is right across the street. We have a wonderful and long-standing relationship with the track and their visitors. |
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| --We have a flat, well-drained eight+ acre
field -- called Reid Field at Trinity -- for a back yard. Back in 1890 it was the scene of organized
bicycle
racing, and more recently it's been the venue for horse shows, our
summer
sports program, jogging and walking,
Thursday evening softball, and just having fun.
It's also where Pastor Heidi and her weekly walking group, called
Walk - Talk - Pray starts out each Friday morning at
8 AM,
concluding at 9 AM. (You're invited, of
course, and be sure to bring your dog!) We are delighted to make the field available for organized athletics. We've had serious discussions with the the local Connecticut Junior Soccer Association club, Northwest United Soccer Club, and we're hoping that the field will someday become a site where they both practice and play. We're delighted to hear from other organizations who might want to use the field, as well. |
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--While the highway bridge on Route 7 was being rebuilt, we were located right on the Appalachian Trail! It detoured right beside our church (normally it's about a mile away). Here's a hiker on the Trail waving as he passes Trinity, and a kiosk our friends at Trinity Glen built so we could collect sign-ups from hikers:
Now that the AT is back on its old course, we're hoping that the word gets out that we particularly welcome AT hikers -- we'll have illustrated directions here soon just how to find us from the AT, both northbound and southbound (and how to get back onto the main trail from Trinity as well). |
Life on the Appalachian Trail...
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Here's a recent AT story from a Trinity parishioner:
"...had a cool experience yesterday
at Trinity. I ... noticed a dozen backpacks leaning on the stone
wall across the street at the cemetery. Said backpacks turned out to
belong to some members of the freshman class at
Bucknell who
were on one of those "bonding" excursions on the AT under the
direction of a woman from an organization based in Northampton.
"I offered them the "facilities" and the kitchen for water bottles, and you never saw such a happy bunch of kids in your life. They were all walking barefoot on the carpeting and sitting in actual chairs. One girl confided that she took a "sink bath" in the ladies room and felt much better for it... "The group all signed into the AT book at the kiosk, took postcards, and the organizer said she'd put our name in her AT resource book list....we are having quite the summer with the AT!"
More news: The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area is planning a bike trail along the Housatonic. We're hoping that means more bikes at Trinity! Welcome!! |
| Each Memorial Day weekend, while on their Berkshire Ride, members of the New York Cycle Club make a rest stop at Trinity and visit our Tag and Bake Sale. |
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Our membership:
| --We're still a small parish, but our average Sunday attendance is increasing, month over month, and year over year. Yet we are still small enough that everyone pretty much knows everyone else. We have an increasing number of families with young children. (More about people who attend Trinity is here). |  (Click to enlarge) |
| --Our membership includes people with meaningful credentials in a variety of sports and recreational activities. And we are not afraid to try new things. For example, two summers ago we challenged other area houses of worship to meet us here at Trinity for a softball game! (The game, unfortunately, was rained out). So, instead, we started, along with Lime Rock Park, the Skip Barber Racing School, and Fast Track Catering, a Thursday evening softball program.) |
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| --We sent a team of 10 competitors to the Bishop's 5K for Kids in West Hartford in May 2010 and a similar number in 2011. We'll be back in 2012, too! |
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| --We assembled a Trinity team for the 2010 CROP Walk at Housatonic Valley Regional High School and right now we're in the process of signing up a team for 2011. Click the icon to the right to see more about CROP Walks, or click the link above to see photos. |
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| --We've also got a decent number of young people in the parish, considering our small size and rural location (a fair sampling of them appear, along with some kids from the community) in our Summer Sports 2009 picture at the right). Athletics isn't all our kids do, but they all enjoy physical activity, and we're happy to offer that as part of our programs. Here's information about Sports 2011. |
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Our neighborhood:
| --There are no recreational facilities in the hamlet of Lime Rock, other than Lime Rock Park. Lime Rock's really the only neighborhood of the Township of Salisbury that is affordable, so families with kids often settle here. |
You might want to verify this on a Google Map! |
| --We're central to the Towns of Salisbury, Canaan (Falls Village), North Canaan, Cornwall, and Sharon, and near New York State. While there are many wonderful recreational facilities in our area, they are unevenly distributed and there are real barriers to access. |
It makes sense that Trinity has
developed a sports and recreation ministry, one of few in the
Episcopal Church.
We are looking for other sports and recreational needs we can fill:
Do you have a sports or recreational interest that we could accommodate here at Trinity? Tell us about it. (After all, our summer sports program exists because seven years ago, a nine year old in our Sunday School suggested it.) Take another look at the map of Reid Field at Trinity at the top of this page, see if that gives you any ideas, and let us know.
Are you involved in a sports or recreational activity outside Trinity that you would like Trinity's membership to know about -- and support? Tell us about that, too. (Did you know that the Masters Swimming program at Hotchkiss was founded by a Trinity parishioner? And Trinity kids are active in everything from Falls Village Children's Theatre to Lakeville Pony Club to Northwest United Soccer Club to Salisbury Youth Hockey to Salisbury Winter Sports Association (that's ski jumping) to community basketball and softball to high school and intermediate school sports at several area schools.)
Why not become a Facebook fan of Trinity Lime Rock Sports? You can do it right here!
Trinity Lime Rock Sports You can also find our Trinity Lime Rock Sports Facebook page directly at http://www.facebook.com/TrinityLimeRockSports
Trinity Lime Rock Sports on Facebook
Learn about walking, jogging, or running on Reid Field, and Walk, Talk, Pray -- CLICK HERE Check back often at this page for more about this side of Trinity Lime Rock!
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