Sonrisas Trails Sensory Trail

08/14/2018

Congratulations Kevin Franke !!

06/11/2018

We are really excited to announce the final work weekend for Kevin’s Eagle Scout Project! Feel free to stop by the site anytime Friday or Saturday from 7AM until noon to see all of the benefits Sonrisas is receiving from Kevin and the community!
Also, thank you to KLST-KSAN for volunteering for these upcoming workdays!!

03/04/2018

This past week has been busy. On Saturday the 25, 6 Scouts came out and helped us pour concrete to level out our awnings, Sunday, we began pouring the footing for the benches, and throughout this week, we finished pouring the footings. On Friday, Tex Speck from Symco helped us place the benches, and on Saturday, Tex, along with 4 others helped us place the structures on the trail.

02/21/2018

On Monday, we finished laying w**d mat and put in posts for a fence around the perimeter of the seating area.

02/19/2018

Today, we finished cleaning out the holes for the structures, and began laying w**d mat. Thank you Uncle Wayne for your help today!

02/18/2018

Yesterday, another Sensory Trail Project began! Joe Navarro from Troop 363 is building a horse loading ramp for Sonrisas’ future outdoor activities, and he began pre-cutting all of the wood for the ramp. Good job Joe!

02/18/2018

This past few weeks, we have puchased decomposed granite from MAG Materials in Voca, laid out and drilled holes for the structures and benches, trenches and laid piping for water and electrical, purchased trees and w**d mat from Scherz Landscape, and prepared to lay w**d mat. We hope to be able to lay the w**d mat next weekend, and our structures manufactured by Hirschfeld will be coming in March 2nd. Symco will be providing a sky track so that we can hoist the benches and structures into the berm.

01/07/2018

Last night on the news

An Eagle Scout project by Scout Troop 363 member, Kevin Franke, was the subject of a groundbreaking for Sonrisas Trails Therapeutic Riding program as Franke has been working to add a sensory trail to the program's site.

01/07/2018

Day 23-
It’s the big one! We got so much done today. Thank you so much to all who helped make today possible

We built up the seating area land with landscape blocks and select fill, feathered out topsoil around the parameter of the job site, and added pea gravel on the water drainage.

Thank you to East Angelo Lions, Leadership San Angelo, Boy Scouts, San Angelo Standard Times, KLST/KSAN, San Angelo LIVE!, My Uncle Al and Jason, and all others who attended!

01/07/2018

Days 20-22
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we peppered for the upcoming big work day

01/03/2018

Days 16-19
On Saturday, we laid 50 more feet of landscape block. I was gone at camp, so my mom stepped up and helped out my dad. Thanks Mom and Dad! On Sunday, we began sorting landscape blocks so that they add random color to the retaining wall. On Monday, we trenched out an area to lay water and electrical conduit, sorted more block, and shaved off the back of the landscape blocks that were donated by Brady and Lemire Gilbert so that our other landscape blocks will fit. And on Tuesday, I sorted even more block.