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By Alison Drury

FROG Park Committee members and founders: (Left to right) Steve Costa, Robert Capalbo, Theresa Nelson, Barney Smits, Will Sheldon, Alison Drury, Leonora Sea Neighbors Clean Up at Frog Park by Alison Drury On Saturday, September 25, 2021, Friends of the Rockridge Green- belt (FROG) Park community volun- teers participated in the Creek-to-Bay Day cleanup. This was the neighborhood c...

By Alison Drury

Creek-to-Bay Day at Frog Park by Alison Drury When: Saturday, September 23 9am to noon Where: Frog Park. Meet at the big oak tree by the Big Frog play structure to sign the waiver to participate. In celebration of Creek-to-Bay Day, Friends of the Rockridge Greenbelt (FROG) are plannin...

By Alison Drury

Celebrate Earth Day at Big Frog Park by Alison Drury I When: April 22, 2023 from 9am to 12pm Where: Meet at the big oak tree by the Big Frog play structure to sign the waiver to participate in the cleanup and related activities. n celebration of Earth Day 2023, Friends of the Rockridge Green...

By Alison Drury

Bay Area Women Artists Exhibit at Rockridge Library by Alison Drury, FROG Park Co-Chair In celebration of Earth Day 2022, a cleanup of Big Frog Park, Little Frog Park, and the Temecal Greenbelt (between Big Frog and Little Frog) is being planned for April 23, from 9am to noon. This year’s Earth Day theme i...

...ifornia State Transportation Agency /DMV and elected state and local officials. Thank you, Carol for your leadership improving our park in a collaborative way with community volunteers and generous donors. FROG will now have two Co-Chairs, Alison Drury and Dr. Will Sheldon. Alison is a neighbor on Shafter, and she and her family are almost daily users of the park. She is a Senior Partner at Environmental Resources Management. Dr. Will Sheldon and his young family live on Broadway,

...ze will drive every single small business off the entire block where it is to be located, including most of the south end of College. The new retail space will be far less welcoming and totally unaffordable Creek to Bay Day at Frog Park by Alison Drury

... season again. We have fourteen candidates who have stepped up to run for six open spots on the board — so we’ve got a race on our hands! RCPC Election, see next page CANDIDATE STATEMENTS — SEE PAGES 3, 4 & 5 — FROG Celebrates Earth Day by Alison Drury In celebration of Earth Day 2024,

Volunteers assist with cleanup at last year’s Earth Day event. Photo by Alison Drury When: Sat., April 20, 9am to noon Where: Meet by the Big Frog play structure to sign the waiver needed to participate in the cleanup. Please bring your own gardening gloves and refillable water bottles; some gardening gloves will be avail-...

...it of instruction. But stubbornness trumps failure and I try until something works, at least to my own satisfaction.” 5495 Kales Ave. Price range: $50 – $500 http://www.marshabalian.com/ Open Nov. 5 & 6 Frog Park co-chairs Will Sheldon and Alison Drury. Rockridge parent Katie Taylor and her son, Toby Taylor Bielak, with Councilmember Treva Reid. Frog Park, from front page valuable contribution to International

... spinner that allowed for children of various ages to play together. Construction finished and ribbon cutting took place in February 2020, just before Covid-19 closed down parks citywide (the park re-opened later that fall). In early 2021, Alison Drury and Dr. Will Sheldon became the new Co-Chairs of FROG. Nearly $1 million was raised for creating the tables and seating of the

New FROG Co-Chairs: (L to R) Alison Drury and Will Sheldon, Frog Park Co-Founder Theresa Nelson, Councilmember Kalb’s Chief of Staff Olga Bolotina.

...lace the fibar (shred- ded bark) and to bring in new sand for the sandboxes soon. Certain areas of the park were left alone due to the homeless people camped nearby. Our next clean-up will be in September for Creek-to-Bay Day. New Co-Chair Alison Drury