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By Kristin Hathaway

FROG Steering Committee Sets June Meeting Agenda by Kristin Hathaway and Kristen Zaremba Pedestrians in five Oakland neighbor- hoods including Rockridge are noticing a series of bronze markers embedded in city sidewalks. These new Watershed Markers identify the location of buried creeks that are part of Oak...

... residents’ input through public meetings and community dialogue before generating their designs. The creek stepping stones idea arose at a public meeting when one resident described his fond child- hood memories of playing in and crossing Kristin Hathaway, CSM, is a Watershed Program Specialist in the Watershed and Stormwater Management Program, Oakland Public Works Agency. Kristen Zaremba is Senior Public Art Project Manager in the Cultural Arts & Marketing Department, Community & Economic...

By Don Kinkead

...sks depicting scenes of water plants and animals set in the sidewalk next to Oliveto Café, facing Shafter Avenue. The word “Temescal” was stamped in the concrete next to the disks. According to information e-mailed to The Rockridge News by Kristin Hathaway, an Oakland watershed program specialist, this is a city public art project, funded by Measure DD Creek Restoration and Lake Merritt Water Quality funds. “This project is located in five different watersheds throughout the City,” she wrote...