Volunteers Rejuvenate Port Jervis With Top-Line Recreation

Mike Ward stands on Front Street in downtown Port Jervis, N.Y., on March 27, 2023. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

As a production electrician, Mike Ward used to create Broadway shows with his team in Manhattan from scratch and saw them through to completion, no matter how challenging the projects were.

Following retirement, he put that same tenacity into building watershed trails in Port Jervis, New York, a small city with limited financial means on the eastern bank of the Delaware River.