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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To all the friends of Friends of the Fountain and Walk: Thank you for all your help and support throughout the year. We hope 2015 will be another banner year for the century-old neighborhood landmark and treasure you help us maintain and improve. It’s not too late to make a tax-deductible donation to FOFW before the year’s end. Just click...
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The rain tried to stop us, but we did it anyway! A group of fountain volunteers put up the garland and lights on the bollards around the fountain. Neighborhood kids put wreaths made by neighborhood ladies on the bears, complete with custom made yarmulkes on the bears. We hope you enjoy the lights.
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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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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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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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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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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