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Meeting attendees: Mike Boulland, Ronald Horii, Dorothy Wuss, Ken Silveira,
Mario Blaum, Holly Davis, Rick Leonard, Kitty Monahan, Judyth Hieb, Lynne
Paulson, John Klimaszewski.
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Trails:
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The Rocky Ridge Trail is closed. The sign says it is due to storm damage.
Ken will look into the trail closure and what it takes to re-open it. Can
volunteers help?
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The trails are too wet to use a grader. They have been grading at Almaden
Quicksilver and finished yesterday.
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We need someone to be a trail crew leader. It can be done when we adopt
a trail. We need to have a rep that is trained to do trails. We want to
adopt a trail. We can work through a trail crew lead. The person would
be a liaison to doing trail work. Training starts Saturday and runs for
3 Saturdays. Leads will be trained how to maintain trails. The trail lead
can lead a trail work group, which has 8-10 people. We need a liaison to
the trail lead. Steve Crockett is being trained.
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The Buck Norred service road to the right of the entrance is closed. There
is a volunteer foot trail on the other side of the canal leading to BGJ.
Looking at putting trail in.
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California Trail Day is Saturday April 26 at possibly 3 sites.
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The Joice Trail is muddy. People have been walking around the muddy section.
There is a lot of pig damage on the upper part of the trail. The pigs are
having their young and can be more aggressive.
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There is a new volunteer coordinator: Beeny Sander. (Email: beeny.sander@mail.prk.co.santa-clara.ca.us)
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Activities:
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There will be a wash day at the BGJ Ranch this Saturday from 12-6. [Note,
see
new Webpage]
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There will be star hike on Saturday April 5. John Dorrance will publicize
it.
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March 29: wildflower hike.
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Judyth is an anthropology major at SJSU. She's interested in Indians. Mike
wants to put up Indian displays in the park.
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John and Lynne are from the Santa Teresa Foothills Neighborhood Association,
which is interested in preserving the Santa Teresa Hills and opening up
the Coyote-Alamitos Canal Trail. They live near the canal.
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Mike gave a letter to Eric Goodrich to take to Chris Crockett about renewing
our park use permit. It needs to be renewed yearly. It covers us for activities
on park property.
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We can to have a dedication of Buck Norred's - Tamara handles that. We
can have a BBQ, dedications by the department, tours of the facility,
and horse demos.
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They are enlarging the Muriel Wright Center to 150 beds. It is for youths
18 and under. It is co-ed.
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Calero Maintenance unit is handling 3 parks, including Santa Teresa. The
parks department will not fill up vacancies in maintenance. They will ask
volunteer groups to help. Volunteers can do weed-whacking and picking up
litter.
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Hours (last 2 months):
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Mario Blaum:10
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Judyth: 10
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Holly Davis: 20
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Kitty Monahan: 3
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Ronald Horii: 10
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Dorothy Wuss: 3
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Mike Boulland: 9
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Rick Leonard: 10.
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John: 2
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Lynne Paulson: 2
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Dorothy is giving a talk at the Berryessa Community Center next week.
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Holly (treasurer's report and 4H):
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Account balance: $854.80.
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4H was asked to Want to do 4H event. Holly will volunteer horse. All 4H's
would set up demo area.
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We should check out Pyzak's for artifacts that can be saved. Rick can go
in there if he wears his park badge.
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The county doesn't have a depository for historical artifacts. We need
someplace to store them. We may be able to use the basement of Pyzak's
house.
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We renominated and re-elected the board.
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Ron Horii showed a slideshow of pictures of the park.
Ronald Horii,
Secretary, Friends of Santa Teresa Park
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