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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Friends and neighbors: Every day for more than a century, Berkeleyans have been traversing the two-block length of Fountain Walk between the south entrance to the Solano Tunnel and The Circle, home of the landmark Fountain at The Circle. In the previous century, it provided a connection for commuters moving between local trolleys on The Circle and trains heading to...
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Friends and neighbors: This morning (Jan. 27), almost a month after a large truck knocked over several of the bollards lining the perimeter of the fountain island in the middle of The Circle, repairs got underway. A city crew was out early digging up the toppled bollards, assessing the damage, and re-erecting the pillars that form protective barrier. It seems...
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Friends and neighbors: This was to be a year-end note expressing our gratitude to everyone who has shown their support for Friends of the Fountain and Walk this year, especially our devoted volunteers and those who have responded so generously to our annual holiday mailing. It is truly touching to see just how much this community values the Fountain at...
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Friends and neighbors: The holiday lights and greenery are up on the Fountain at The Circle. Volunteers were out Saturday, Dec. 4, to string lighted garlands around the perimeter of the fountain island and to adorn the fountain’s grizzly bear cubs with wreaths and kippot. They also carried out the monthly cleanup of The Circle, Fountain Walk...
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