In just a few weeks, the Fountain at The Circle will be decorated for the holidays, complete with festive lighting and (faux) evergreen garlands. This morning, the fountain was turned into what looked like a winter snowscape: Someone tossed an entire bottle of dishwashing soap (Trader Joe’s brand, by the way) into the pool, creating a giant bubble bath —...
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This Saturday is the first Saturday of the month. The weather should be fine, although we need the rain! 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...
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This Saturday 5 September 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! Friends of the Fountain and Walk and one of our volunteers, Wendy Wells, have been working to beautify Fountain Walk. Thanks to Wendy for...
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Thanks to the community for their interest in the fountain. After a number of questions about water use, we have put up a banner to let the community know that we are recirculating our precious water. See details here.
This Saturday August 1 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! Last month we added in compost to enrich the soil. We will continue on this special project to beautify Fountain Walk. Please come help...
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FOFW friends and neighbors: As the drought continues and water restrictions tighten, some of you may wonder: Why does the Fountain at The Circle continue to operate? It’s a reasonable question, to which there is a good answer: The fountain is – so far – drought-compliant. The fountain — a 1996 reproduction of the original, a landmark 1911 work of art...
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We have been working on the website to recover from the changes due to the WordPress update. We have added new photos to all of the Galleries that were taken in the early 1990s with film cameras and scanned! We also added a new Gallery about the 3-D scanning of the fountain art features that was done in January of...
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This Saturday July 4 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...
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Hi, neighbors. The Fountain and Walk are Berkeley’s oldest public art installation. On occasion, people feel compelled to add their own artistic touches to this civic treasure. In recent days, the stairs at the base of Fountain Walk were “decorated” with chalk designs. And over the past weekend, the bollards surrounding the fountain were strewn with crepe paper and the...
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A WordPress upgrade has caused some of our photos to stop being displayed. We are working to correct this. Meanwhile, we invite you to visit our photo albums on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/friendsofthefountainandwalk?ref=aymt_homepage_panel We appreciate your understanding and patience. Sara Holmes – President
