November 27 | Have a warm and wonderful holiday season

  As the year draws to a close, we are thankful for the community support that enabled several major accomplishments at the Fountain and Walk. We completed repairs to balusters and the sidewalk around The Circle and on Fountain Walk. The coping around the fountain pool has been reset and secured. New LED light fixtures now shine brightly in the...

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November 10 | BERKELEY PROJECT DAY – 8 Nov 2014

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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November 4 | Fountain and Walk Improvements: Next Step

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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October 31 | VOLUNTEER – Join Our Group Tomorrow

It appears that the rain will dissipate by 9am tomorrow, Saturday 1 November. Please come and join the monthly maintenance, after the rain stops! I will arrive before 8am (unless it is raining, and then I will arrive later) to unload the tools, pick up trash, remove graffiti, put the 4 yard debris bins out and see what needs to...

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October 30 | LOS ANGELES PATH – Refurbished

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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October 6 | Keep the Fountain Sign-Free!

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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October 1 | City – Volunteer Recognition

On Saturday 27 September the City of Berkeley Parks Division held its second annual volunteer recognition day: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Parks_Rec_Waterfront/Home/Community_Parks_Day_-_Volunteer_Recognition_Ceremony.aspx Harvard and I were acknowledged (along with about 5 other volunteers), and Scott Dunlap and Charlie Wilson (also from the Friends of the Fountain and Walk board) attended and were part of the recognition of the work by Friends of the Fountain...

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September 10 | Lower Fountain Walk Planting

Today was a very successful day! City staff and volunteers worked together to dig holes, plant new drought tolerant, deer resistant plants, install irrigation and mulch. The irrigation is set up so that a hose may be hooked up to water the plants until they get established, and the rains begin. The neighbors have offered to provide the water, so...

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September 6 | Thank You For Helping Today!

Thank you to all who showed up to help prepare the dirt areas on Fountain Walk so the the City, and those who want to help, may plant on Wednesday 10 September between 8am-noon, followed by lunch provided by the City in Live Oak Park.  Thank you also to those of you who took care of the monthly maintenance tasks....

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August 19 | FOUNTAIN WALK PLANTING

Come join us to further beautify Fountain Walk: For now, we will be focusing on the dirt areas from the landing in the middle of the walk, down to the steps. Two Opportunities Saturday 6 September When: 9am-11am – Remove existing plants and prepare soil Where: Meet at Fountain Walk at the mailbox on The Circle PLEASE RSVP – We...

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