Clean Clearlake
“Imagine pristine Clearlake, spiffed up and squeaky clean …” to the tune of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Thankfully, the City of Clearlake has recently put into place an Adopt A Park policy and is ready for individuals and groups to periodically clean and adopt Austin Park, Haverty Field, Highlands Park, Redbud Park, Senior Community Center, and City Hall.
Certainly the parks and public places need our care. So do our neighborhoods. Can you imagine 1,000 or more pins on a map of the City of Clearlake representing our citizens taking responsibility for cleaning and maintaining do-able areas of our city’s parks and neighborhoods? For example, my street, Vista Street, is just two blocks long, and I commit to every other day or so cleaning up and disposing of the litter on and beside our street.
I also hope our group, Citizens Caring For Clearlake, will join Neickol Cook in her heroic efforts to adopt Highlands Park where renovation of Clearlake’s Chamber of Commerce site is becoming a reality. Pristine Clearlake is a very real possibility — indeed a probability. For more information and if you are interested in officially taking responsibility for a park area and/or a block (or two) of Clearlake please call Barbara Christwitz at 707 995-0940 and we of CC4C will add your pin to the map. Also, as encouragement, CC4C has a reward program of grocery gift cards, bus passes, Lake County Time Bank hours, and Community Service hours to helpers who ask.
Barbara Christwitz, Citizens Caring For Clearlake
Still complaining?
The curiosity is killing me: How many people who voted down Governor Brown’s proposal to pay an extra fire protection/fighting fee had their homes saved, by them, in the recent big fires?
Who’s going to say, “Thanks for saving my home, firemen, but I don’t mind voting against your budgets?”
R. Roon Searcy, Lower Lake
