“It’s a huge chore for them to take paint down through the trails and cover it up,” she said. The space is maintained by a group of volunteers who Donahoe said are waging a constant battle against fresh graffiti. “In exchange for that, I’d like to hand-paint some logos and get those names on there, as well,” she said. The winter season will give Donahoe time to work on an overall design, which will need to be approved by PennDOT before she can proceed.ĭonahoe said she plans to fund the project herself as a gift to her hometown but also has been approached by local businesses asking if they can participate. “I’ve gone down there and painted over a few of the obscene words over the years.” “It would certainly be nice to clean it up,” Rudge said. Rudge said he reached out to local legislators to try and bring it to PennDOT but wasn’t able to make much progress. Westmoreland Heritage Trail President Stan Rudge said trail officials had been approached a few years ago by a group of art students from Franklin Regional Senior High school who had proposed a similar idea. “They basically had to create an approval process to get things going,” she said. PennDOT officials told Donahoe it was the first time someone had suggested this type of project. “It was sort of a 30-minute pitch on why I thought it could be done.” “I gave an online presentation to a lot of different people, including from PennDOT,” Donahoe said. Originally suggested by a friend of Donahoe’s mother who volunteers with the Westmoreland Heritage Trail, the project is not only new for the artist but also new to the agency that needs to approve it. If Export native Christina Donahoe has her way, however, later this year, it will be covered with the largest mural she’s created to date. As pedestrians and cyclists on the Westmoreland Heritage Trail pass near the Cozy Inn Cutoff, they head underneath William Penn Highway, where the underpass is covered with all manner of graffiti.
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