Friends and neighbors: Just a quick note as we reach the end of 2017. First, briefly, the bad, or maybe sad, news: After several vandalism-free months, the Fountain at The Circle had detergent or some other soap tossed in it on Christmas night. It’s discouraging, especially after we felt we had had some success raising consciousness in the community over...
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Friends and neighbors: The holiday season is here, and the Fountain at The Circle has donned its annual holiday finery. Here’s a sampling of images of volunteers and neighbors turning out on Saturday, Dec. 2 (the first Saturday of every month is our scheduled volunteer maintenance day — come join us!) to add lighted swags of greenery and wreaths and kippahs...
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Friends and neighbors: On Friday, Oct. 6, contractors for the City of Berkeley began a long-awaited project to re-route the drainage of the Fountain at The Circle from the city’s storm drains to the sanitary sewer. This changeover is required by state law, and will put the fountain in compliance for the first time since the law began requiring it....
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Friends and neighbors: Please mark your calendars for Saturday, March 18, at 10 a.m. That’s the time and date of a community meeting the city parks department is holding to discuss some proposed improvements around The Circle and possibly along Fountain Walk. The meeting, which may run two hours, will take place at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst...
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This Saturday 4 February is the first Saturday of the month. The weather is predicted to include scattered showers, however I still plan to show up, since we were rained out in January. I want to thank two of the Fountain Board members, Steve Weindel and Jim Reynolds, for sharing the role of Volunteer Coordinator, as I will be stepping...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thank you for all of your many hours of volunteering in 2016 to help keep the fountain and the surrounding area looking great! I appreciate it, and I know that the community thanks us! This Saturday 7 January is the first Saturday of the month. Unfortunately, the weather forecast for both Saturday and Sunday is RAIN! THIS...
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Neighbors: Today (Friday, Dec. 2), a crew from the City of Berkeley is scheduled to carry out some maintenance on the Fountain at The Circle, which may include draining much of the water out and refilling it. As our neighborhood volunteer organization has stated many times during our drought-challenged times, we and the city do all we can not to remove...
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This Saturday 3 December is the first Saturday of the month. The weather should be fine! We plan to decorate for the holidays. A small group of us will begin putting up the garland and lights about 8am. The neighborhood kids will arrive about 9am to adorn the bears. Please feel free to invite your friends/neighbors/children to join in the...
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On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Berkeley City Council honored longtime Friends of the Fountain and Walk leaders Sara and Harvard Holmes (pictured at center in the photo above) with an official proclamation, praising the couple for their years of dedication to FOFW and the community. The proclamation, put forward by District 5 Councilmember Laurie Capitelli and signed by the entire...
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VOLUNTEER WEB PERSON/MEDIA GURU We are seeking a person who is interested in volunteering to help us with our website. We use WordPress, so, given the account and password, most people with some computer experience can compose pages and submit blogs. For more complicated situations, we have a volunteer web designer who designed and set up our website. We need...
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