When Lakeside River Park Conservancy Executive Director Robin Rierdan kicked off the first in a series of five public meetings on what a future 15-acre park might include, she made clear from the start that the design will look different from any other in the area, should include dynamic features instead of a predictable play structure, might have a...
On June 27 Lakeside's Historic Business District was swarming with worker bees who came in force to a work party. Welding their Hula Hoes, weed whackers, shovels, rakes, gloves and trash bags, they went straight to their work, some even down on their knees, digging up weeds from the cracks of the sidewalks.
Kolleen Paredes, who was the organizer of...