Friends and neighbors: Happy holidays! Just a note to remind you that for the next three weeks, the Fountain at The Circle will remain dressed for the season, with garlands of green around the perimeter of the center island and wreaths and kippahs adorning the fountain’s grizzly bear cubs. The lights come on about sundown and remain on for several...
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Friends and neighbors: A few pre-pandemic years back, we shared with you the news that an image of a long lost second Northbrae fountain had surfaced. The fellow who found it among several old photos he purchased at a flea market sent it our way. After some sleuthing and a major assist from a real estate agent who identified a...
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Friends and neighbors: After a shutdown of about two weeks, the Fountain at The Circle is back up and running, The fountain had been emptied and shut off to allow for the installation of new LED lights in the main pool. The lights being replaced had begun developing issues that caused short circuits from time to time, and were ultimately...
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Friends and neighbors: The holidays are upon us. We hope that you and yours have been staying safe and well, and wish you a wonderful holiday season. If you are a fan of the Fountain at The Circle and looking for gifts for friends and loved ones, please take a look at the offerings on the ‘SHOP” page of our website....
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Friends and neighbors: If you’ve passed by the Fountain at The Circle on a recent evening, you may have noticed that some of the lights that illuminate it at night have not been on. That is due to an electrical problem with the lights in the main fountain basin. The fountain’s bear cubs and crown remain lit. To resolve the...
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Friends and neighbors: For nearly 30 years, community support has been essential to the work of Friends the Fountain and Walk, the all-volunteer neighborhood nonprofit that teams with the City of Berkeley to care for the Fountain at The Circle, Fountain Walk and the surrounding historic area. That support shows up in a variety of ways, from generous donations from...
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Friends and neighbors: The Fountain at The Circle is a marvel, not just esthetically but mechanically. With a little routine maintenance — clearing it of leaves and other debris, cleaning the filters of the pumping system, checking the water chemistry — it flows and flows, recycling the same 5,000-plus gallons of water day after day. Except, that is, when someone...
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Friends and neighbors: Please keep an eye out for the August issue of Berkeley Hills Living magazine. It features a cover story on Friends of the Fountain and Walk board member Jim Reynolds and his wife Ruth. Jim has been a board member of FOFW for several years now, and heads up our monthly workday volunteer crew with fellow board...
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Friends and neighbors: On Thursday, July 7, a large truck entering The Circle from The Arlington ran up onto the the center island and knocked down two of the concrete bollards on the rim of the island. Some neighbors who witnessed it managed to get the ID of the company that apparently owns the truck and get that to police...
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An update: Shortly after this note was posted, a neighbor contacted us to say they had removed the Love-in-a-Mist cuttings in an effort to keep Fountain Walk clean. The cuttings and seed pods have been recovered and will help beautify the lower Walk planting beds in the future. Friends and neighbors: For many years now, Fountain Walk neighbor Wendy Wells...
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