Planning a major update later today (last Saturday before the holiday — uber-busy, as are you, probably), but this rates first post of the day:
The Council of Arroyo Seco Organizations honored Altadena's own Michele Zack during their 2008 Arroyo Verde Awards. PSN's Steve Scauzillo says:
Zack has been a tireless advocate for cleaning up the arroyo and serves on the Town Council's Watershed Committee. She also knows alot about the origins of water and development in Altadena, Pasadena and Sierra Madre. She's the author of the highly praised book on the history of Altadena called "Altadena: Between Wilderness and City" and wrote the story for the 15-minute docudrama "Eaton's Water."
Indeed!
michele Zack said…
I was indeed honored, and also feel honor-bound to point out that although the Watershed Committee began as a committee of the Town Council, since 2005 it has been an independent ad hoc community group (see altadenawatershed.org). We came up with the idea for the Pocket Park on Marengo and Woodbury, but the project way much too big for us so we invited Altadena Foothills Conservancy (AFC is an official 501-C3 organization) to team up with us and be the organization of record on a grant application to Metropolitan Water District to create the park. Altadena Heritage, through chair Mark Goldschmidt, is also a major partner, contributing the design, drawings, and consultation with County Planners. Supervisor Antonovich and many others also have contributed to this project now in its 3rd year. Just this morning we were out planting, about a dozen neighbors, AFC, Town Council, and people from AH turned up to help.
Altadena Foothills Conservancy was also behind the Eaton’s Water project, as I was working as a consultant for them when I wrote the story. A student at Art Center, Sally Levi, produced the film with lots of input from me and the Conservancy. As I said the other night when I received this honor, everything that was cited as an accomplishment of mine for this award was actually a collaborative venture of many partners. I would be remiss not to make this very clear!
The whole story is of course never reported, it would have to be very long and mention the efforts of so many people and organizations. I do appreciate Steve Scauzillo’s brief report, and Altadenablog passing it on!
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 03:45 PM