Monday, October 01, 2007
The Associated Press

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation is giving $250,000 to help finish a section of the Great Allegheny Passage.

The five-year grant to the Regional Trail Corp. will help complete the Steel Valley section of the trail as part of Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary. The Great Allegheny Passage is a hiking and biking trail that snakes through Western Pennsylvania into Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Some of the money will be used to renovate a footbridge as part of Pittsburgh 250 & Fit, an initiative with the goal of getting 250,000 southwestern Pennsylvania residents to commit to regular exercise.