Trail that takes you from the beginning from the front of the nature center through a section of our parked uh back to the parking area and the railroad tracks.

The longest trail that's in passes through the park is our Cape Fear River Trail, and that runs parallel with the Cape Fear River.

It goes for about seven and a half miles from Clark Park Nature Center.

It's five miles north to the Jordan Soccer Complex at Methodist University.

And it goes about two and a half miles south where it joins up with our linear park trails in downtown Fed.

That is a paved trail.

It's walking and biking.

We also have a great deal of biodiversity and wildlife and wildflowers that pop up all times of year here in the park.

Bird watch or anything like that.

So come out and see us here at Clark Park, and we'll be glad to have you.

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We talked to Bobby Riddle, the supervisor for mechanical inspections with the city of Fayetteville about why the state requires this.

I mean, we want, you know, for one, it's got refrigerant.

Um, so that's a lot of the reason you know they don't want unlicensed contractor out there and and they're doing gas piping and and they got leaks in their house and not getting it properly tested, or same thing with refrigeration.

You know, they don't want us to go, they don't want to be cutting the refrigerant lines and and and letting Freon go into the environment, you know, and stuff like that.

So that's that's that's the the whole case and the whole reasoning why they want permits.

They want it the consumer to be protected and they want it to be installed per the code, which is bare minimum.

I mean the North Carolina State code is the bare minimum that you're required to do.

So you know, anything extra, that's that's some kudos, but um, but but yes, that's the primary reason why.

Riddle goes on to talk about what you can expect when you apply for a permit.

They put it in the the system.

We are there to put in a day or two in NNS and that and the state requires us to do these inspections within 48 hours.

Um awarded from uh OSFM because we have done all of our inspections within that 48-hour time frame within the past year.

And one thing he wants you to keep in mind as you're hiring a contractor is this.

Um licensing.org is gonna be where you verify.

It's really easy to follow the links are on top for anything you want to do, you can make a complaint, you can verify a license.

I mean, there's it's very easy.

You can get when you verify a license, you just go in, type the contractor's name, it'll come up and it'll verify that they have a license.

Or if they don't show, then more than likely they're not in the system, and they're probably not licensed.

Um most bigger, but most of the companies have their license number on their vehicles.

Um, you can write that down, go in there to verify and just type in that license number, and it would show that they have a license.

It's public information anyway, so you know this it's very easy to find out if they are licensed or not.

So to recap, that website was nclicensing.org.

We want you to make sure your contractor is licensed and please get your permit before you start work.

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