Celebration toasts the POB Bay Trail

The Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail invite the public to celebrate and support the community’s waterfront trail at their fifth annual “Toast the Trail” celebration.

The festivities take place from 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Pend d’Oreille Winery, 301 Cedar, Sandpoint, hosted by the Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail.

The event will include live music featuring Doug Bond and Marty Perron, great food and drink, unique holiday gift shopping and amazing auction items including a season pass to the Festival at Sandpoint, tickets to Schweitzer Mountain, a refurbished bike, original art work and much more!

The event will also include a thank you to the Rotary Club of Sandpoint for its generous donation of four new benches they created and installed along the trail. The group will also give a quick a recap of the year’s work on the trail and a look to what lies ahead for the trail’s future.

The Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail and supporters have been busy this year working on ways to extend the trail into Ponderay via an underpass under the railroad tracks. This extension project will require substantial planning studies and this year’s “Toast the Trail” event will help raise revenue to fund these studies.

A portion of all sales from food, drink and holiday gifts at the winery, during the event, will be donated to the group.

Admission to the “Toast the Trail” celebration is free and open to the public. More information about the event and the trail can be found at the Friends website: www.pobtrail.org or by calling the Friends at 208-946-7586.