Kati’s Touch

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Located behind what is called “Arnold Station,” once home to a post office and cannery along the B&A rail line, is “Kati’s Touch.” Part of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s “Team in Training,” Kati Fisher, too ill to participate in sponsored runs to raise money for cancer research, would give the “high five” to passing runners, spiriting them on. After her death, friends and team mates worked with The Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails and the county to establish a “place of solace and remembrance for those touched by cancer.” Kati’s personal “high five” was memorialized in bronze and the little park dedicated in 2008.

Angel’s Garden

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In memory of a much loved child, a couple worked with The Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails and the county to establish a special respite along Strawberry Way Lane in Odenton, complete with drinking fountain, plantings and bench.

Kevin Dooley Memorial

aaco-trails-may2Snuggled alongside the B&A Trail between Arnold and Severna Park is a memorial dedicated in 2006 to a popular Anne Arundel County employee of the Department of Planning and Zoning. Upon his untimely death, friends and co-workers raised funds and worked with The Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails to honor his memory with a bench and plantings.