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2021 July, News, Newsletter · July 1, 2021

Splash Pad News – July 2021

2021 July, Ken Katz · July 1, 2021

The Names in Lights Have a Tale to Tell – Part 3

by Ken Katz This is the third and last in a series of articles about the twenty-seven Names in Lights panels in the Splash Pad Plaza that were dedicated in 2004. The first two articles were limited to the six panels that specifically grouped together businesses in the Grand Lake commercial district. This month’s News […]

2021 July, Ken Katz, Odds and Ends · July 1, 2021

Odds and Ends – July 2021

Monday morning, we received the following email from Tessa Quintanilla, the Project Manager from EAH Housing, about the building that houses Vegan Mob (formerly Kwik Way). “Thought I should reach out to you to give you a heads-up about some events this weekend at 500 Lake Park, as you may have some questions after going […]

2021 July, Grand Avenue Merchant News, Ken Katz · July 1, 2021

Grand Avenue Merchant News – July 2021

by Ken Katz Things are hopping on Grand Avenue, as business is returning to normal, and we’ve got some big news to report. The other day, Anthony Bennett, the owner of Antiques Collected Four 32 and the spokesperson for the Grand Avenue Business Association, alerted us to a new shop at 474 Santa Clara called […]

2021 July, Ken Katz · July 1, 2021

The Bounty Boxes Just Keep on Coming

by Ken Katz The Saturday before last, fourteen months after picking up my very first Bounty Box–as a worldwide pandemic loomed–I decided that volunteering in the Grand Lake Bounty Box booth was the very best way to get some first-hand knowledge as to what it takes to assemble a large quantity of local seasonal produce […]

2021 July, C. J. Hirschfield · June 30, 2021

The Short, Flamboyant Reign of Victoria the Corpse Flower

by C. J. Hirschfield In 2017, more than 130,000 people came to see a corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) bloom in person at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC and more than 650,000 viewers accessed the live web stream. The public’s fascination with this endangered Sumatran rainforest plant is no doubt due to its great […]

2021 July, Eric Hughes · June 30, 2021

Grand Lake Clean-Up Collaboration

by Eric Hughes On Sunday, June 27, over fifty neighbors answered our call to help make the Grand Lake Neighborhood a cleaner, safer place to be. The cleanup was organized by representatives from Grand Lake Neighbors, the Grand Avenue Business Association, the Lakeshore Business Improvement District, the Lakeshore Homes Association, and the District 2 City […]

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