Sierra Club
Redwood Chapter Newsletter
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Solano Breeze Corner Covering Benicia, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun, Vacaville and Vallejo Jane Bogner | |
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Help Needed - Get Involved Locally Vacaville: FRIENDS of LAGOON VALLEY Environmentalist and concerned citizens of Vacaville are organizing to Save Lagoon Valley from a huge development (1225 single-family homes, 100 attached town homes, school, fire station, golf course with clubhouse, one million sq. ft. of commercial office space, 50,000 sq. ft. of retail space and more). Friends of Lagoon Valley has circulated petitions for two referendums for the November ballot. One ballot measure will referend Vacaville's General Plan changes which allow for a huge development in Lagoon Valley. The second measure will referend the Specific Plan for Lagoon Valley's proposed development. These will be hotly contested issues this fall. Please get involved to protect this greenbelt between Vacaville and Fairfield. INFO or contributions: Save Lagoon Valley, 735 Brookside Dr., Vacaville 95688, 707 447-7356 or mconning@pacbell.net. ******** BENICIA: Protect our Waterfront Because of an editing shafu, the waterfront iniative will not appear on the November Ballot. POW did collect 3000 signatures. They will be out again to qualify for the March 2005 ballot. Volunteers are needed to help keep First Street Green. Please contact Nancy Lund 748-0155, Susan Street 747-1930 or email bstreet@pacbell.net. ******** Vallejo Solano Group is joining the Vallejo Waterfront Coalition to protect the open green space from developers (again). Be a part of the process of reviewing plans and planning for our future. Contact solanobreeze@yahoo.com or leave a message at 644-9183. ******** Solano County Regional Park Are you interested in help lobby for a regional park similar to the East Bay Regional Parks? Please contact "Friends of Solano Regional Park District" c/o Brent Schoradt 707 427-2308 or bschoradt@greenbelt.org. ******** Fairfield The Cordelia Rotary Club is raising money to put new signs on trails in Rockville Hills Park. Your help is requested for donations of time and/or money. Please contact Pam Muick at pmuick@sbcglobal.net or leave a message at 644-9183. ******** October 9 New Bridge Hike and Potluck Join Solano Group for a walk across the new Al Zappa Bridge crossing the Carquinez Strait. Meet at the South Vallejo Community Center [corner of Magazine and Sonoma] at 9 am. We'll car pool to the trail head and walk over to Crocket and back. Our final destination is Debbie and Kim Surani's home for a potluck in their backyard overlooking the three bridges. Come meet other Solano Group members. Info solanobreeze@yahoo.com or 644-9183. |
VALCORE Community Recycling: Check out www.VALCORErecycling.org and www.recycle-guide.com. ******** NEW HOURS @ VALCORE Recycling
Donate your cans to Sierra Club during CRV Buy Back hours. ******** VALCORE Recycling 2004 Workdays: August 28, September 18 (Coastal Cleanup), Oct 16 and Dec 11 (Vallejo Farmers Market). We work from 9 am to Noon. $50 is offered to volunteer supervisors for their favorite classroom. Call 644-9183. Thanks to all for bringing their valuable recyclables to Vallejo. Thanks to Nancy McCoy and Jane for working on May 29 and July 3 and Rollye Wiskerson for loading the CRV recycling banners after Vallejo's 4th of July Marina Party. Thanks to Nicole Bobetsky for helping at Benicia's Farmers Market; Steven Day and Craig for schlepping recycling info up to Fairfield; Kathy Blume for sitting by the Auto Zone in Suisun and Al Molnar for working at Vallejo Garbage Service's Oil recycling station. ******** CRV Recycling Contest: Don't throw those CRV containers in the curbside bin. They are worth a lot of money to Solano Group. Our goal is to top $100 by Sept 30. That's a measly 2500 containers or 208 cases of sodas or beer. ******** Composting Classes at VALCORE: August 21, September 18, October 16. 10 am to noon. ******** Wanted: VALCORE Board Replacement Solano Group has been a member of VALCORE Recycling since 1985. Jane Bogner has been our representative off and on since 1988. Guess what, she needs a break. (As do all our faithful ExCom members.) Obligations for a board member are attending the monthly board meeting on the 4th Monday of each month at 6:30 in Vallejo and arranging volunteers for the 8 Saturday workdays at the recycling site. This list of regular volunteers is readily available. VALCORE has been our source of fundraising for money needed to run our local group. It's an exciting board and a great way to 'act locally' on a global issue. ******** E-mail Solano Group at solanobreeze@yahoo.com. |