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Insight Cable Ch. 20.

7:00PM on the 2nd day after council meetings
(Wednesday if council is on a Monday,
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BY KATIE WEITKAMP | COMMUNITY RECORDER STAFF WRITER

The city started of Independence Day with a bang when Gov. Ernie Fletcher presented two checks to the city.

Just before the city's Fourth of July parade, Fletcher presented a $200,000 check to install a sidewalk from Clover Ridge to the city's edge along Memorial Parkway.

State Rep. Joe Fischer (R-Fort Thomas) said the $200,000 when he served on the city council 19 years ago the city decided to upgrade sidewalks as it upgraded streets.

"(Fort Thomas is) well known as a safe community for walkers and bikers," Fischer said. He said the project would allow a portion of the city to be connected to churches and schools by sidewalks.

State Sen. Katie Stine (R-Southgate) said the sidewalk will help encourage residents to remain active.

"This is a city of walkers," she said. "At 7 o'clock the streets are veritably crowded."

Mayor Mary Brown said the sidewalk will be about five feet wide and will be set back from the street about five feet. The project will also include retaining walls in areas that have experienced slippage on the hillside.

City Administrator Don Martin said he is not sure when the project will begin.

Because Memorial Parkway is a state highway the city will be working closely with the state on the project.

In the past the city has asked the state to reduce the 45-mile per hour speed limit on that stretch of Memorial Parkway, but the state has declined to do so. The state has also said it will not put up guardrails in the area when a sidewalk is installed.

Fletcher also presented a check for the city for $167,000 to be used for road projects.

"We have worked with the state to provide a quality of life that we could not provide without state help," Brown said at the presentation.