This Saturday is the first Saturday of the month. Volunteers will be meeting at 1992 Los Angeles at 9am to maintain the landscaping around the Fountain and on Fountain Walk. Come and join us! For those of you who are joining us for the first time, feel free to bring any favorite gloves or tools, however, I do supply those...
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While doing more prep work on the fountain pool surface today, we found a ring in the middle bowl. If it is yours, please contact us at: FountainAndWalk@gmail.com . Happy Valentine’s Day!
Today there were no repairs to the fountain. City staff is working on a traffic safety plan that will keep the staff safe as they are working from their vehicles near the fountain. Repairs will resume when the plan has been worked out. My reports will continue at that point. City Parks Department has discovered that grinding off the painted...
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Friends and neighbors: Last night (Weds., Jan. 28), the City of Berkeley’s Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Dept. held a community meeting at Live Oak Park to gather ideas for possible improvements to the historic Fountain and Walk area. These improvements would be paid for with $130,000 in funds from Measure WW, a regionwide local grant program for acquisition and improvement...
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Friends and neighbors: Tonight (Jan. 28) from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Live Oak Park Fireside Room, the City of Berkeley is hosting a public meeting on how some funds set aside for improvements to The Circle and Fountain Walk will be allocated. These are funds from Measure WW, a regionwide local grant program for acquisition and improvement of parkland and...
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Friends and neighbors of the Fountain at The Circle: Starting January 20, you’ll see a lot of activity around the fountain. A number of much needed repairs and upgrades will be taking place over the course of a few weeks, most carried out by city crews and contractors. During that time, the fountain will not be operating so that all...
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Pam Boland (City Parks) suggested that we add color to the 13 terra cotta pots around The Circle by replanting them with Ivy Geranium with red flowers, Dudlyea Frank Reinelt, and Dudleya Pulverulenta. All of the Aloe Vera plants were given new homes with neighbors. We also removed the large Agave plants and Ivy and the bottom of Fountain Walk...
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Friends and neighbors: Our next improvement project is set for this Saturday, Nov. 8, beginning at about 9:30 a.m. We’ll meet at the usual spot just off The Circle at Los Angeles. There are two parts to the project: 1) Replanting the large terra cotta pots mounted atop the balustrade columns (seen at right) around The Circle. We’ll replace the aloe plants with...
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On Tuesday 28 October 2014, Pam Boland, Senior Landscape Gardener for the City, worked with Charlie Bowen of the Berkeley Path Wanderers Association (BPWA) and organized a City staff/community event to refurbish the path along the one way Los Angeles, parallel to the tunnel, that leads to Solano Avenue. Susan Schwartz and the Friends of 5 Creeks Weed Warriors brought...
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It’s the final few weeks of the fall election campaign, which means signs for and against candidates, ballot measures and more will be popping up everywhere on the landscape, competing for eyeballs with open house sandwich boards and garage and estate sale signs that appear year-round. It’s a sign of a healthy democracy at work. The Circle at the juncture...
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