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Looking Forward:A "Landmark" Measure To Preserve Open SpaceThis spring, Contra Costa property owners will have an unprece-dented opportunity to protect and preserve our most importantremaining natural lands, parks, shorelines and trails.

A County-sponsored Open Space Measure mail ballot is anticipatedto go before property owners in mid-May. If passed, the Measurewould set aside $8 million per year for open space protection andpreservation. It would also help fund the much-needed maintenanceand enhancement of already existing parklands.

Mt. Diablo is one of the manykey areas identified for signif-icant funding, should the pro-posed Measure move forwardand be approved. Much ofthe land surrounding themountain, and even its veryslopes, are privately ownedand threatened by develop-ment. Acquisition of theseareas would enable the pro-tection of environmentally-sensitive areas, which providehabitat for several special sta-tus species.

The Measure would also fundthe linking of greenbelts adja-cent to Mount Diablo, includ-ing Kirker Hills to the North,

the Tassajara Valley to the South, and to the dwindling agriculturallands to the East. Linking these areas would provide an essentialbuffer to encroaching development and urbanization.

The Measure would also provide funds to help restore and maintainexisting regional and neighborhood parks and recreational areas,including Tilden and Briones, Black Diamond Mines, Contra LomaRegional Park, the Iron Horse Trail, the Lafayette-Moraga RegionalTrail, the Martinez Regional Shoreline, Waterbird Regional Preserveand Wildcat Canyon Regional Park.

The Open Space Measure was launched in 2000 by Contra CostaCounty Board of Supervisors John Gioia and Donna Gerber. Sincethen, it has been moved forward by an unprecedented coalition ofbusiness, environmental and local leaders through the Coalition for

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Vote No! on Measure N on March 2Save Los VaquerosJust four years after completing the $450 million, 100,000 acre footLos Vaqueros reservoir at ratepayers' expense, the Contra CostaWater District (CCWD) wants to destroy it and build a massivereplacement five times its size, at a cost of $1.5 billion. Some SMDmembers will receive this after the election (others will receive aspecial mailing prior to the election); the proposal to expand LosVaqueros will continue for some time. Read more about the issue atwww.NoonMeasureN.com

Here's what the district said about the reservoir completed in 1999:"Los Vaqueros will give CCWDcustomers enough high-qualitywater to meet their needs, evenduring a prolonged drought."An expanded reservoir won'tbenefit Contra Costa - the exist-ing one solved our needs.Tearing down Los Vaqueros rep-resents flushing $100 million inpublic funds down the drain,endangering our water supply,and includes huge impacts.

Measure N enables the State-themost likely partner-and SouthernCalifornia water districts to takemore water from the Delta,harming water quality, parkland,and our pocketbooks. It endan-gers the health of the Bay andDelta, destroys up to 2,600acres of natural habitat and recreational facilities within the LosVaqueros watershed, and encourages increased development.

CCWD's ballot statement is deceptive, is advisory only, and doesn'tbind the District to anything. The March 2 vote is premature andpolitically motivated since CCWD hasn't completed an Environ-mental Impact Report, nailed down partners or funding or definedtheir project. We do know that the $1.5 billion cost is proposed tocome from environmental restoration funding, an inappropriate use.

The Los Vaqueros watershed is the second largest open space in theEast Bay, at 19,000 acres almost equal to Mt. Diablo State Park, andhome to many sensitive species. The first project was authorizedwith a similarly vague ballot item in 1988 and during the campaignCCWD made many specific promises (many organizations includ-

CCWD’s proposal to expand Los Vaqueros reservoir would drown the Adobe Valleyunder 150 feet of water in addition to other impacts (Bob Walker/Oakland Museum)

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Board of DirectorsMalcolm SproulPresident

Arthur BonwellVice-President

Allan PragerVice-President

Doug KnauerSecretary

Frank VarenchikTreasurerBurt BasslerMary L. BowermanDonald de FremeryScott HeinSteven MehlmanJohn MercurioDavid OgdenDave SargentDavid TrotterSharon Walters

StaffRonald BrownExecutive Director

Seth AdamsDirector of Land Programs

Talia SmithDevelopment Associate

Suzanne BitzOffice Manager

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From The Executive Director

Shaping ContraCosta County’sFutureSave Mount Diablo, along

with a host of other conservation and special inter-ests groups, has been meeting over the past severalyears at a variety of negotiating tables. These nego-tiations all relate to issues about how and whereContra Costa County will develop in coming years.

What are the core issues? Congested roads and apaucity of transit and para-transit alternatives; a lackof affordable work-force housing; suburban sprawlthat is consuming our valued open spaces and primeagricultural lands; increasing threats to endangeredwildlife; a growing and aging population; oldercities with abandoned downtowns and pollutedindustrial sites. Each of them is serious and enor-mous…and they’re all related.

The good news is that all of them are being dis-cussed in current planning measures: Shaping OurFuture (SOF)—a regional planning effort; theCounty’s Urban Limit Line (ULL), which expires in2010; Reauthorization of the Measure C half-centTransportation Tax, which pays for everything fromroads to mass transit; the East County HabitatConservation Plan (HCP), an attempt to balancedevelopment and endangered species issues; theCounty’s Open Space Funding Measure and theHousing Trust Fund, proposals to protect more openspace and manage what we have, and to better pro-vide affordable housing. Are they an unrelated jum-ble of government pork, or the recipe for a healthy,well balanced, and growing community?

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but all of these proj-ects will be facing critical decision points in 2004.It really doesn’t matter if it is chance, divine inter-vention or someone’s Machiavellian plan. Any oneof these efforts could be blocked or hampered byany of the special interests who are working onanother of these efforts. However, we have anopportunity to weave all of these proposals into awonderfully dynamic blueprint for addressing themajor issues that challenge Contra Costa—or wecan simply continue the mistakes of the past andbecome like Los Angeles - the megalopolis we alllove to hate.

Shaping Our Future (a planning project created bythe county and its 19 cities) has done the research,analysis and planning for how we can successfullyaddress all of these challenges. While it may not beperfect, it is an effort to objectively develop a com-prehensive vision for how we can successfully inte-grate the 250,000 increase in our population project-ed to occur in the next 20 – 30 years. It considersthe land use and transportation planning decisionswe need to make in order to simultaneously accom-

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modate the increased population, sustain businessvitality, and maintain the high quality of life thatmakes Contra Costa County such a great place tolive.

Some cities have expressed fear that Shaping OurFuture is a “Big Brother” effort that will dramatical-ly change the character of their cities, causing themto lose their unique identities—but if we do nothingthat will happen anyway. In order to gain the sup-port of cities, Shaping Our Future has evolved into aset of non-binding, voluntary principles. The hardwork is still to come. While we should all be care-ful not to create a plan that could destroy a commu-nity’s unique character, we also should be concernedabout the problems created by the lack of a county-wide planning policy that would contain strongrequirements and incentives for compliance. In fact,Shaping Our Future offers a well-crafted and region-ally sensitive vision. It may be the best mechanismfor insuring the unique character of individual com-munities.

The County’s Urban Limit Line has helped begin thetransition to smart growth while taking sensitiveareas off the table—but it expires in 2010 and does-n’t bind cities. In an ideal scenario, SOF could helpto redefine and redraw the County Urban LimitLine. The 19 cities and the county should agreeupon this new line, for a period of at least 30 years –with no provisions for expansion. Rather than beingredrawn with political motivation, this new lineneeds to take into account scientifically definedhabitat corridors and necessary resource protections.The East County Habitat Conservation Plan isalready attempting to identify the importantresources and to develop conservation strategies.

The County’s Open Space Funding Measure, ifapproved, can help to provide the dollars to assistwith the acquisition of these important habitat andrecreation lands. These efforts help to define whichlands need to be permanently preserved for park,recreation and open space uses to support our grow-ing population. The cities and the county need towork cooperatively on developing new zoning poli-cies that will encourage and support the right kind ofgrowth—in the right places— in order to accommo-date residential, commercial, and industrial needs.

SOF’s guidelines can be used by the Contra CostaTransit Authority as the basis for developingMeasure C’s transportation investments for the next30 years. The guidelines can help define neededcapital improvements and transit projects that willdecrease our dependence on single occupancy vehi-cles. They can help fund smart growth develop-ments around multi-modal transit stations. It canprovide financial incentives to cities, the county andto developers for the actual production of affordable,high-density, mixed-use, work-force housing proj-ects. It can also insure that commerce Shaping con-tined from page 1is supported by an expanded trans-portation and road system that does not induce addi-tional sprawl.

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Kellogg Valley, the Dam and MariposaCanyon

Directions: From Central Contra CostaCounty Hwy 4 East. Exit south on Lone Tree.Over the hill, right onto Highway 4 Bypass, lefton Balfour, right on Walnut, to the dam. OrMarsh Creek Road east, straight onto CaminoDiablo, right on Walnut. From the south, takeVasco north to Camino Diablo, left, left again onWalnut, to the dam.

Trailhead: Visitor Center below damTrail: Los Vaqueros Tr to Vista Grande toMariposa Cyn to Kellogg CreekDistance: 4.5 miles, substantial climb then easy

When you drive into thewatershed from thenorth you followKellogg Creek, whichonce curved across theLos Vaqueros valley.Vasco Road crossed thecreek at the dam site,then the valley widenedagain to the north.

CCWD proposes anadditional reservoir,“Kellogg Forebay”below the dam. On mydrive in I passed twocoyotes in less than amile.

The Visitor Center is thestarting point for the

short, quarter mile walk up to the dam.For Mariposa, just before the dam bath-rooms, take the Los Vaqueros Trail steeplyuphill. Your first half hour is a climbthrough blue oak groves but stops arerewarded with great views.

Imagine the dam 170’ higher, submergingmost of the peninsula before you (AdobeValley is beyond) and to the tops of the oakgrove across the dam.

After a half mile Vista Grande goes right;soon you’ll level out with more great viewsof Morgan Territory Ridge. Once you reachthe ridge top bathroom—views of Diablo,Round Valley and the Central Valley—it’sall gravy.

Take the Crest Trail down for a shorterloop, otherwise continue on Vista Grande.Another half hour and you’ll be windingdown rolling hills and curve northeast intoMariposa’s oak woodland and back toWalnut Blvd. Cross it, follow the KelloggCreek trail right and soon you’ll be back atthe start.

Visit Los Vaquerosbefore it’s too lateLos Vaqueros (Until 3/1/04, 7 am - 5 pm)Map: www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/direc-tions.aspNotes: No bikes, horses, dogs. $4-6 fee. Eitherentrance is 45 minutes from Walnut Creek

Los Vaqueros is a sublime, threatened area,as big as Mt. Diablo State Park, a largebasin with a multitude of canyons andridges. It’s little known because it’s new,and the Contra Costa Water District hasadded little to its ranchroad trail system, 25% ofthe State Park’s in length.Long trails are ideal forcyclists and equestriansbut CCWD doesn’t allowthem above the reservoirdam (with one excep-tion). The magnificentoak-studded valley bot-tom and sinuous KelloggCreek were sacrificed tothe 1500 acre reservoir, amajor barrier to wildlife,especially small ones.Public management hasaided some species.With Vasco Road relocat-ed east, the valley isquiet and isolated.

The current reservoirwas dedicated just four years ago; there’sno need for the incredible waste of anenlargement. CCWD’s plan is to teardown the dam, build one six times largerand 170’ higher, destroy 2600 more acresand probably close most of the watershedfor years. Go now, and Vote NO onMeasure N on March 2. It’s easy to get tothe north side dam and to trails with wideviews; the south includes flat trails leadinginto intimately beautiful Adobe Valley—which will be submerged. The expansionwould double the wildlife and recreationalbarrier.

Adobe Valley & the MarinaDirections: From Livermore On Hwy 580,take Vasco Road toward Brentwood for 4.5miles. Look for the sign, turn left, follow pastthe marina to the end. From the north, takeVasco south.Trailhead: end of road trailhead, past theMarinaTrail: Los Vaqueros Trail to Adobe Trail andback Distance: 2 hours round trip, flat and easy.

Go past the marina to the end of the road;after the rock causeway, the Los Vaqueros

Trail follows the shallow reservoir edge.The dam is barely visible in the distance,past a long peninsula—which would bemostly submerged if the reservoir’sexpanded—leading to Round Valley.Morgan Territory Ridge is above left. Theproposal would raise the water level 160feet into the woodland and chaparral, elim-inating the west side grassland corridor—where meadowlarks call and herons huntmice. You’ll pass miles of young oaks intubex tubes. A thousand acres of oakrestoration would be submerged as well asthe trail, and many huge old oaks housingan orchestra of birds. You’ll pass side

canyons whose streams are now isolated.Seagulls, kites and osprey wheel overhead,a bald eagle is often seen.

In 20 minutes you’ll pass huge, partiallysubmerged oak skeletons, and leave thereservoir behind. Incredible Adobe Valleyopens up ahead, blue oak groves and chap-arral become visible, band tailed pigeonsfeed among young oaks. Again imaginethe water’s surface 160’ higher, stretchingup into the side canyons on both sides, andup the creeks that reappear at the water’send—you’d get the bends from this depth.When you rejoin the graveled access roadyou’ll be at the Ordway Ranch, a perfectsite for a group camp which CCWD hasneglected. Stay right; soon the trail splits,follow the Adobe Trail left. Bigger valleyoaks show up and on my day a coyotebarked at me from above. Pass a ponddam and reach a big gate, straight onto theonly trail above the dam where horses andbicycles are allowed, from MorganTerritory to Round Valley. Go a few hun-dred feet straight for a wonderful overlookof Round Valley.

CCWD’s proposal to expand the 1500 acre Los Vaqueros reservoir would destroy another foursquare miles including the spectacular Adobe Valley (Stephen Joseph)

Visit Our Web Site:www.savemountdiablo.orgBeautiful images of the mountain . . . his-tory of SMD and its acquisitions . . . infor-mation about our current land use planningefforts & aquisition projects . . . read arti-cles from past newsletters.

Our web site was created by and is regu-larly updated by SMD co-founder ArtBonwell. Art changes the web site fre-quently and encourages site visitors toshare their own Diablo images for posting.

The Wild Bird Center, in Newell Plaza inWalnut Creek, hosts SMD’s web site.Thanks to Joanie & Chris Smith. Chrisalso provides SMD with the technical sup-port Art needs in maintaining the web site.

First Annual Mount Diablo Trail Adventure Logo ContestDo you enjoy drawing or graphic design? SMD is looking for artists of all ages to submitlogo designs for our 2004 Mount Diablo Trail Adventure. The winning logo will be revealedon race day and used to promote theTrail Adventure event throughoutthe year. Designs can use up to fourcolors and can be submitted as anactual image on paper, or via anemail attachment.Mail to: SMD, 1196 BoulevardWay, #10, Walnut Creek, 94595, or,email to <smdinfo@savemountdia-blo.org>

Logos must be received bySeptember 30. Include your name,address, and phone number.

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On November 2, 2003 SMD held its annual MountDiablo Trail Adventure - “Get Dirty on Diablo” - andcommunity expo at Castle Rock Park. The event wassponsored by local business owners, Marty Breen(Forward Motion Sports - Danville and Walnut Creek)and Dave Husted (Outside Intersts). It attracted nearly150 runners and hikers from as far as New Mexico toparticipate in the half marathon and 10K run/hike.Board member Scott Hein and wife Claudia lead aninterpretive hike along the course route. Local resi-dents, 43 year-old Adam Rhoads of San Ramon and 34year-old Sarah Smith of Piedmont were the overallwinners in the men and women categories of the halfmarathon. In the 10K race, 51 year-old Manuel Pino ofTempe, AZ took first place for the men with 28 year-old Oakland resident Jenny Wong leading the women.

Additional sponsors included New Balance (category prizes), Chipotle (lunch), AlhambraWater (water), and the Diablo Road Runner (financial support). Other community organiza-tions and local bluegrass band, Grab Bag, participated in the community expo. Specialthanks to over 40 volunteers who worked behind the scenes to make the day such a success.

Mt. Diablo Trail Adventure2004 Race to be held November 7

2003 Trail Adventure Logo

2002 Trail Adventure Logo

ing SMD were neutral as a result) whichthey then broke. Key among them weredeceptions about rate increases, the promiseof a broad scale recreation program and thepromise to permanently preserve the water-shed where they now propose to destroyfour more square miles. Afterwards theywere indicted by the Contra Costa GrandJury.

SMD was part of a taskforce which exam-ined the current proposal for 18 months. Ifthere was an appropriate balance of newland preservation and commitments thatcould be relied upon, our position might bedifferent. CCWD refused to make a singleconcrete commitment before placing themeasure on the ballot. We've learned

Los Vaqueros continued from page 1 recently that they also intend to destroy therecreational facilities at Antioch's ContraLoma Regional Park, a proposal they're try-ing to keep quiet until after the election.

We oppose Measure N as part of a coalitionof twenty-nine community organizationswith a variety of interests, chaired by for-mer Senator John Nejedly, who believesthe proposal is the latest scheme to sendwater south. Key opponents are formerSupervisor Donna Gerber and EBRPDDirectors Ted Radke, Beverly Lane andJean Siri. SMD signed ballot argumentsagainst the measure and has committedsubstantial funding to the opposition.

If Los Vaqueros is torn down we'll still bepaying bonds for the destroyed dam, butthey haven't figured out who will pay for

the new one or what the economic impactswill be. They don't want us to know aboutthe problems, such as how the expandeddam could harm water quality, parkland,wildlife, and fish. One thing we do know:during construction of a new reservoir, wewill lose Los Vaqueros’ water quality,drought and emergency supply benefits for4-8 years.

We also know that trails, recreational facil-ities and four square miles of habitatwould be destroyed or submerged for areservoir for which there is no demonstrat-ed need, including a significant wildlifecorridor on the reservoir's west side.CCWD also continues to oppose multi-usetrails above the dam (with a 1-mile DiabloTrail exception, which would be flooded);thus no horses or cyclists.

Heather Hopfner, Mike Helm, and Bob Hopfnerat SMD 2003 Moonlight event.(David Ogden)

Ways to help Save Mount DiabloBob and Heather Hopfner, owners of JustRugs (5753 Pacheco Blvd. Martinez, 925-609-2151) had so much fun at SMD’sMoonlight event, they then sponsored anad in Diablo Magazine about our work.We appreciate the support. Imagine howyou can help. Call for info: 925 947-3535

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Who Was Walter P. Frick? The Creation of Mt. DiabloState Park (part 1)By Seth Adams, Save Mount Diablo

A lantern signaled “coast clear” one moon-less night, to an off shore Canadian ship.Soon the rum runners were offloading bar-rels and cases at a cove on Sonoma’s DelMar Ranch. Men with machine guns stoodguard as Pierce Arrow trucks were loadedfrom boats. Del Mar’s owner, Walter P.Frick, was a millionaire businessman bothmoral and conservative but a dollar a barrelwas a better deal than cut fences and threat-ened ranch hands. Especially after the ‘29stock crash brought the Roaring Twentiesto a halt.

W.P. Frick, as he was known, bought DelMar in 1912 with his business partnerRobert Noble Burgess. Burgess had grownup at the foot of Mount Diablo and bothmen were experts in complex real estatespeculation. Both were members of andBurgess lived at Oakland’s Athenian Club,a men’s club near Frick’s apartment andoffice.

By the 1870s most of Mount Diablo hadbeen divided into Mexican ranchos, home-steads and ceded to railroads. In 1900largely rural Contra Costa County included18,000 residents. The tunnel through the

Oakland hills opened in 1903, andafter the 1906 earthquake, Burgess andothers began subdividing parts ofCentral County. The first automobilegarage opened in Martinez in 1907,the County’s first electric train arrivedin 1911, and stagecoach service endedtwo years later.

A succession of owners parceledtogether then lost or passed on a largetract known as the Railroad Ranch,Cook Farms, and then the OakwoodPark Stock Farm, stretching fromDanville toward the summit. At aboutthe same time that Frick and Burgessbought Del Mar, Burgess boughtOakwood and other parcels totalingmore than 15,000 acres—the west faceof Mt. Diablo—and in 1913announced grand plans for the Mt.Diablo Estates, a community of10,000. His investors included StateSenator Arthur H. Breed, Sr. andHarlow P. Bancroft (large real estatedealers in Oakland), and GeorgeEmmons, head of the Emmons Storage

and Drayage Co. Each purchased a quartershare of the Mt. Diablo Park Company.

Burgess built Mt. Diablo Scenic Boulevardto the mountain’s peak and encouragedtourists as potential lot buyers. Diablo wasmade official with a post office in December1916, and lots were sold for summer andweekend homes. Men would take the trainto Oakland or the City on weekdays, leavingtheir families in Diablo. In 1917, WorldWar I intervened, Burgess went bankrupt,and Diablo declined. The only parts of hisproject which were built were the homesclustered around the Mt. Diablo ParkCountry Club. Most of the Diablo landsdefaulted to investors, or to their originalowners.

Burgess is often incorrectly credited for Mt.Diablo State Park’s creation—and he didplay a part—but starting in 1919 WalterFrick reassembled many of the parcelsBurgess had controlled into the 10,000 acreDiablo Ranch. By 1920 the county’s popu-lation had climbed to 54,000 in a Bay areaof 1.2 million, and Diablo began a resur-gence.

“Park”During the 1920s and 30s, Walter Frick’sname was front page news. By the time ofhis death in 1937, he had made his way intoSan Francisco Society, amassed and nearlylost a fortune, and owned tens of thousandsof acres of land in a dozen California coun-ties. He knew governors and presidents.

What distinguishes Frick’s rise throughthe ‘20s and fall during the GreatDepression were the Diablo and Del Marpurchases. Although Diablo Ranch wascloser to population centers, Frick’sactions led directly to creation of Mt.Diablo State Park.

In 1921, soon after Frick’s Diablo pur-chases began, Mt. Diablo State Park wasdedicated, a “State Park and GameRefuge” on 630 acres at the summit.What’s rarely mentioned is that it was adesignation, not ownership. In 1931 thePark was re-dedicated after the purchaseof two areas stretching up Southgate Roadto include Rock City. By 1937 seven pur-chases had been made—including the“State Park” summit. All but nineteenacres of the 2,022 acre park, includingthree quarters of the summit, were pur-chased from Walter Frick.

Despite broad coverage of Diablo and theState Park’s creation during his last years,Frick’s role has largely been forgotten—aone liner mentioning his ownership ofpart of the mountain. Instead Burgess isremembered, as founder of Diablo and theMt. Diablo Park Club and because of histourist brochures and 1964 Memoirs. Itmight have been the single word, “Park.”Burgess’s real estate development holdingcompany was the “Mt. Diablo ParkCompany.” After Burgess’s bankruptcy,Frick gathered the Diablo lands into the“Mt. Diablo Company.” Perhaps localhistorians and reporters simply confusedthe two, failed to review dozens of com-plicated land transactions, and therebydeprived Frick of recognition. Burgessdoesn’t mention Frick in his Memoirs.

Maybe it was a broken heart. Frick mayhave been distracted or media shy becauseof financial difficulties and a high profiledivorce from his second wife, the beauti-

Walter P. Frick c. 1910 (c. of Robert Frick)

Walter Frick’s Mt. Diablo brochure, c. mid 1920s(collection of Roger Epperson)

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ful Helen Fay. In any case, an Oaklandbusinessman gave Save Mount Diablofounder Mary Bowerman permission tostudy his land, when she began her botani-cal research on Mt. Diablo in 1930, andwith the Marvelous Mount Diablobrochure, including Frick’s name andOakland address, my interest was piqued.

Walter Paul Frick, 1875-1937Frick’s tale is of a middle class Indiana boywho made good in California, during theSan Francisco Bay Area’s maturation fromthe mining era following the Gold Rush toits emergence as the western United States’financial center. He was a product of histimes, conservative yet visionary, hard-driving in business, socially ambitious. Hislife is marked by sharp deals over thou-sands of acres. In pictures of Frick he isoften the smiling center of attention but byhis 40s in the mid 1920s he has aged into agrave demeanor.

He was born in 1875 in Evansville, Indianathe youngest son of Peter Frick and SusanEmrich Frick, middle class Swiss-Germanimmigrants. They married during the CivilWar, lived with Peter’s brother, well knownarchitect Joseph K. Frick, and had six chil-dren. There was no connection with thewealthy Pennsylvania Fricks but the mer-chant family was prosperous enough that,the year before Walter was born, his sisterHattie and their father Peter traveled firstclass to Germany on the S.S. Hohenzollern.The family was educated and musical.Hattie became an opera singer and at onepoint Walter managed his brother Romeo’sopera company.

“He had a marvelous voice. He had agood singing voice, the whole family wastrained in music… He loved to play the

guitar, but not very often.He had a harmonica har-ness and would call squaredancing in the forest withthe loggers… He had somefavorite songs, like“Marquita” and “ShantyTown.”… Great voice, greatvoice…He was a goodspeaker.” Frick’s 87-yearold son Robert and his wifeAda live in Tiburon. RobertFrick grew up on Nob Hillbut he and his brotherworked at both the Del Marand Diablo Ranches. Whenhis parents separated in1932, Robert moved withhis father to their house in

Diablo. Except where attributed, the itali-cized quotes are his.

“At the age of eighteen he left EvansvilleIndiana, came to California and milkedcows in Placerville…he had ten dollars inhis pocket.” Frick moved to California in1893, and lived in Grizzly Flat andPlacerville. He became a mining engineer,then a timber broker for the Medford,Oregon Wheeler Lumber company, andjoined numerous business and social clubs.“I saw a picture once with his mining part-ner Seymour Hill, carrying an eighty ouncechunk of gold they’d gotten out of a mine…They owned together then sold the StarlightMining Company, eleven gold mines in ElDorado… He had a knack for makingmoney. He truly enjoyed the process ofmaking deals. What he did, he’d buy upthese small parcels and put them together,he’d stay one step ahead of the big lumbercompanies and sell to them and make aprofit.”

“Dad was a wonderful horseman in thetransition from horses to automobiles.”“He was a man of the earth. He carried alot of his camp equipment in the car withhim.” {when he was consid-ering land} “He’d get a cur-sory glance with a mule thengo back. He liked to be out-doors but he rarely was; hewas at the office, or at home,or traveling.”

Between 1900 and 1906,when he started makingdozens of timber deals inSonoma County, Frickmoved to the Bay Area andbegan his climb up the socialladder. “Dad lived in the oldStanford home at the time ofthe earthquake. He was able

Walter P. Frick camping c. 1910 (c. Robert Frick)Helen Fay Frick (S.F. Chronicle, 1-6-1924)

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Walter Paul, Jr., Helen Jane & Robert Frick, late 1920s, c. R. Frick

to get on a ferry and across the bay toOakland. He liked Oakland because it wasmore informal; he called it a shirt sleevecity.” His business ventures includedspeculation in the stock market, timber,mining, oil, and agriculture. By age 34 in1909 he was wealthy enough to donate theland for an Oakland school, but stipulatedthat it must forever bear his name or landand improvements would revert back tohim.

Around 1910 he partnered with R.N.Burgess and in 1912 they bought 4,819acre Del Mar, which had already beenlogged. Frick planned to subdivide theRanch for large estates, made manyimprovements and ran thousands of sheep.He planted Monterey cypress hedgerows indouble parallels that still mark the subdivi-sion lines, to shelter the sheep from thewind.

That same year he was admitted to theBohemian Club, (he was a member untilhis death and a parking lot at the grove isevidently named “Frick Flat”) in additionto his memberships in the Athenian,Claremont Country and CommercialClubs, the Masons, etc. By 1913 he was inthe Society pages when he married societyfavorite Georgina Crawford Sneathen.They moved to Piedmont and had a daugh-ter, Shirley Frances Frick, but Sneatherdivorced Frick two years later. In 1916 hemarried Helen Fay, a beautiful Oaklandkindergarten teacher from Nebraska.Walter and Helen had two sons and a sec-ond daughter from 1917 to 1919, RobertPeter, Walter Paul Jr., and Helen Jane.

“He came out of the roaring 20’s, a wholebunch of people who got rich quick. Mymother spent a great deal of time shoppingfor clothes, expensive clothes, keeping upwith the wealthy people of SanFrancisco…We were brought up by gov-

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ernesses and Chinese cooks. While dad wastrying to make money, mother was trying toclimb up in Society.”

“He always wore a hat. No one went hatlessback in those days. He never swore. Hewas always wel-dressed, I don’t rememberdad ever being sloppy. He used to dressvery expensively, flashy clothes, diamondstick pin—a big diamond... He had no vices,he wasn’t religious. He was politically con-servative, Republican. Businessmen, espe-cially wealthy businessmen, tend to be statusquo. He entertainedPresident Hoover at thehouse at Diablo whenHoover was running forre-election in 1932. Iremember meetingPresident Hoover in theliving room at dinner,Hoover, father, my broth-er and I.”

The children spent sum-mers at Del Mar. Frickbuilt clay tennis courtsthere and a playhousefor Helen Jane, the boysrowed and fished on theGualala River and on thesea. As the boys grewolder they were expectedto work with the ranchhands.

“The Del Mar ranchwas twelve miles alongthe coast and averagedabout a mile and a halfdeep back from thecoast…The ranches werealways a drag financial-ly. He used to worryabout the rains not com-ing during the lambing.”

The Diablo RanchIn 1917 Walter Frick joined the Mt DiabloPark Country Club which Burgess hadfounded (now known as the Diablo CountryClub.) Two years later he began acquiringmany of the parcels at Diablo that Burgesshad previously controlled—at about thesame time that public discussions beganabout preserving the mountain as a publicpark.

“I worked on the Diablo ranch for years asa boy. Dad had a sheep ranch there…Diablo was his favorite ranch. My brotherand I favored Del Mar, but he didn’t like thecold there. He liked the heat.”

A sheepherder’s camp was located near thepresent day site of the Athenian School andbetween ten and thirty hands would managethe sheep and cattle, and harvest walnuts.“We would handle sheep, circumcise thelambs in the wintertime when they were justa few weeks old. You ever hear of ‘mountainoysters’? We’d throw them in a bucket andhave them for one of our meals. Dad wasalways in his office or off on some businesstrip. We plowed the walnut orchard. It wasa mile long. It took me one hour long to godown that orchard, one hour down, one hourback. It was the only level land on the

ranch…where the country club was.”“The mountain was fascinating, especiallyon horseback or walking but we didn’t go upDiablo much. My brother and I rounded upcattle on the ranch for Dad. Just myyounger brother and I, a year younger, theforeman and maybe one permanent hand.He hired Basque sheep herders and then thesheep were herded over to the Delta. Howthey got there I don’t know, to one of theDelta islands where they would summer.There wasn’t enough feed in the summer tosupport 4000 head of ewes. The Basquewould herd them from late Fall until thelambs were sent to market in June, then theywere sent over to that island in the Delta,then brought back to the mountain following

the early rains.”

On Dec. 27, 1919 the Contra CostaGazette reports: “Visitor Here Urges ThatSteps Be Taken To Preserve Mount DiabloAs Public Park” “During a visit inMartinez the past week Edward P.E. Troy,public utility, municipal and tax expert ofSan Francisco, discussed in some detail aplan which has been proposed for theestablishment of a public park on Mt.Diablo. Troy expresses the belief that nowis the opportune time to take steps tosecure large tracts of land on Mt. Diablo

under an act of the leg-islature which willsecure it permanentlyfor future generationsas a place of beautyand an attraction tothis section ofCalifornia.”

Why did Frick buyDiablo? His motiva-tions have beendescribed as altruistic.It is equally likely thathe envisioned a gooddeal doing what he hadalways done—puttingsmaller pieces togetherand then reselling themas a whole for a greaterprice.

Perhaps he intended tosell most of the acreageto the state but a parkat the mountain’s peakwould make hisremaining acreagemore valuable too. Inany case, he drove ahard bargain as a vari-ety of interestsstatewide began push-

ing for funding for several different stateparks. He probably never expected toown the Diablo Ranch for eighteenyears—from Robert’s 2nd birthday untilhe was attending Cal Berkeley—or to losehis wife and his health.

Special thanks to Betty Maffei and theContra Costa History Center, Sea Ranchhistorian Susan Clark, Patricia Davis,Robert and Ada Frick, and SuzanneLamble.

Part 2 of Who Was Walter P. Frick? TheCreation of Mt. Diablo State Park will bepublished in the Fall 2004 Diablo Watch.Info for this article was gathered frommany places.

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Amazingly, the breezes that were sweeping across the plain at the China Wallearlier in the day disappeared as over 300 guests began arriving at MacedoRanch. In its second year, the sold out event attracted more than three times thenumber of attendees. Cindy Gershen and her Sunrise Catering staff served anelegant meal as guests enjoyed Michele Latimer and her jazz quartet. The eventand its silent and live auctions raised over $75,000 to support the programs ofSave Mount Diablo.

Moonlight On The MountainSaturday, September 13, 2003

Save the Date“Moonlight on the Mountain”

Saturday evening, August 28, 2004An elegant evening under the light of the full moon, at the China Wall on Mt Diablo.

Celebrate SMD’s 33nd anniversary and acknowledge recipients of Mountain Star Awards.

• Be a table host • Donate silent or

live auction items• Call 925-947-3535 •

Catered reception withhosted bar, sumptuousdinner, jazz quartet,silent & live auctions.

• Sign up as anevent sponsor

• Join the planningcommittee.

Left: Friends from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), the named Event sponsor; Jim and Toril Jelter and Ron Nunn of BlackhawkNunn, sponsor of the 2003 Mountain Star Awards; Bob Marx, Raj and Dana Jain, and Clark Morrison. Small photos from upper left: Paul & Marilyn Gardner,County Supervisor Millie Greenberg & EBRPD Director Beverly Lane; Sharon Walters & Claudia Hein; Doug Knauer & Mary Nejedly Piepho. Middle row:Ron Brown, Rena Brantley, Dave Dornsife; SMD Founder Art Bonwell & Jeanne Thomas; Werner Koellner, David & Nicole Kozicki. Bottom row: John Fingerpaints the scene as Jim Jelter & Shirley Nootbaar watch; Mary & Craig Randall; Prentice & Ron Osborne. Below right: Larry Gerber. Talia Smith, MarielleBoortz, Donna Gerber

D i a b l o C e l e b r a t e d

Photos by Scott Hein, David Ogden, LiedeMarie Haitsma

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It was a spectacular day at BlackDiamond Mines, when SMDlarge donors headed under-ground. Miners John Waters andRick Yarborough made a presen-tation then led a special guidedtour of areas of the mines seldomseen, followed by a short hike tothe Rose Hill cemetery, led byPark Supervisor Roger Epperson

Dressage for DiabloOctober 4, 2003

Large Donor MiningMuseum Tour November 23, 2003

In 1944 SMD Founder MaryBowerman (left) published TheFlowering Plants and Ferns ofMt. Diablo. With the help ofJepson Herbarium’s BarbaraErtter (right), the book wasrepublished last year. SMD largedonors attended a special signingat the Museum of San RamonValley. Beverly Lane (center).

Photos by Scott Hein, David Ogden, Liede Marie Haitsma

Mary BowermanBook SigningDecember 11, 2003

Over 500 children and adults enjoyed the spectacular performance heldat the Equestrian Center at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek. Theevent was sponsored by the Mount Diablo Gateway Alliancegroup that isattempting to protect 36 acres of rolling land adjacent to the North Gateentrance to Mount Diablo State Park. Thanks to sponsors: Wild RideFreestyles, Concord Feed, Purina Mills, Trader Joe’s, Rocco’s Pizza, anddozens of volunteers.

Far Left: Logo by Shirley Nootbaar. Left: Kaitlyn Whittenburg. Top: Juniors Pas de Duex - Brittney Deibert & Holly Stewart.

Bottom: DG Bar Showtime Vaulters & Creeky Routson

D i a b l o C e l e b r a t e d

David Ogden. . . manager of theCreative ServicesWriters Group atPeopleSoft, joinedthe Save MountDiablo Board inDecember. Davidhas served on manyhuman services

boards. He began with SMD several yearsago, first by donating his photographs andthen by joining the DevelopmentCommittee. His contributions are, “Heart,photography, money, time, and writing ifneeded” He got involved with SMDbecause, “Its mission is the noblest. Itspeople are dedicated and passionate.”

“I’m a quiet guy, not a schmoozer. . . a fol-lower rather than a leader. An East Baynative who never moved away, so “Mt.Diablo has always been in my life. It is aspiritual anchor, a presence that is moreenduring than Broadway Plaza, more wor-thy than George Bush, strong and fragile atthe same time. A source of awe and inspi-ration to me, my kids, and to their descen-dants.” David lives in Walnut Creek withwife Sandy Biagi and children, Casey andCooper.

Volunteers Needed forMitchell Canyon, Clayton Steward: n. One who manages another'sproperty.

Over ten years of care has gone into restor-ing to health a 10 acre grassland at thenorth base of Mount Diablo State Park atthe Mitchell Canyon entrance. Three tofour (3 - 4) long term volunteers are neededto continue giving this habitat the help itneeds: spring mowing, spot weeding, andperhaps participation in seed collecting andsowing.

Full orientation to the site and the projectwill be provided, and consultation supportfrom the California Native Plant SocietyEast Bay Chapter will be available. Formore details, contact Charli Danielsen, whomanaged the project in its first ten years, at<charlid@pacbell.net>, or call Save MountDiablo at 925-947-3535.

Save Mount Diablo supporters and friendsare also invited to join Charli and CNPS’restoration team members from 10 am to 1pm on Saturday, July 3 at the MitchellCanyon site to pull weedy thistles andenjoy the native grassland …bring glovesor borrow ours.

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S p o t l i g h t o n V o l u n t e e r s & S p o n s o r sThanks to “Moonlight On TheMountain” Volunteers Burt Bassler, Sandy Biagi, Art Bonwell,Rebecca Brown, Sharon Brown, RyanCollins, Bob Doyle, John and Robbin Eudy,David Frane, Don Frank, Charla Gabert,Marilyn Gardner, Mary Haake, Scott &Claudia Hein, Roz Hirsch, JohnHutchinson, Karen Hunt, Marilyn King, Dave Knauer, Gloria Lotten, Martha Lynn,Bob Marx, National Charities League, JudyNelson, David Ogden, Kerry Randall, Tom Rieger, Dave Sargent, Chris Schmidt,Valerie Schmidt, Dave Trotter, TerryValentine, Bill Walters, Sharon Walters Table Sponsors:Burt Bassler, Blackhawk Country Club,Dave and Dana Dornsife, East Bay Reg.Park Dist., John Kiefer, Bob Marx, Caroleand Lloyd Mason, Mehlman & TerBeekLLP, David Trotter

Special Thanks to:Sunrise Bistro, Catering & Cafe of WalnutCreek; Al Beliso, PG&E, Technical &Ecological Services; San Ramon ValleyFire District, Craig Bowen, Chief&Michael Sylvis, Asst. Chief Operations;Boyd Clegg, Battalion Chief - ; BrianHickey, Supt, Mt. Diablo State Park; PlantDecor - Valerie and Chris Schmidt

Open Space. The Coalition is co-chairedby SMD Executive Director Ron Brownand Tina Batt, Executive Director of theMuir Heritage Land Trust. "We haveworked together for four years to create aplan that will preserve and protect our mostimportant environmental and natural

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resources for current and future genera-tions," said Tina Batt.

How You Can Help Support the Measure:Volunteer to help the Coalition for OpenSpace with mailings, phone banks, signposting and other essential tasks related toincreasing awareness about this landmarkopportunity to preserve open space. Donations to the Coalition for Open Space

will help the campaign move forward.(Campaign donations are not tax-deductible.) Call 381-4187 to volunteer,or e-mail imorrison@contracostaopen-space.org.

To Find Out More: Visit the Coalition forOpen Space Website at: contracostaopen-space.org., or call (925) 381-4187.

Dozens of elected officials and hundreds ofcommunity activists are discussing each ofthe projects. Each is being closely watchedand influenced by numerous special inter-ests (developers, land owners, businessleaders, unions, environmentalists, socialjustice advocates, taxpayer organizations,politicians, cities, the county; the list goeson and on…). Each of the interests isworking diligently to achieve its ownobjectives, which often creates conflict. And that’s as it should be. But by workingcollaboratively we have the opportunity tomake progress and achieve balance. We allhave a part to play. But, the final productwill be enhanced if we recognize that thebest way to achieve our own objectives is

to create alliances with various interestgroups – including developers, unions,business interests, cities and the county.By working together, these diverse interestgroups can identify common objectives,and then develop strategies for helping toachieve each other’s objectives while creat-ing a sensitively balanced long-range planfor our community. Save Mount Diablorealizes that its ability to preserve the last

wild places in Contra Costa is absolutelylinked to the rest of the community’s suc-cess in providing housing, jobs and ade-quate transportation and transit options forour growing population. Together, we trulycan Shape Our Future.

You can help “shape” these decisions byspeaking out—at public hearings, in lettersto the editor, and to our elected officials.

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Visit the websites below to learn more about each process:Shaping Our Future: www.shapingourfuture.org

Measure C Reauthorization: www.ccta.net/RENEWAL/reauthorization.htmUrban Limit Line: www.costa.ca.us/depart/cd/advance/ULL.htm

Open Space Funding: www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cd/water/OS/index.htmHabitat Conservation Plan: www.cocohcp.org/downloads/ECCC-NOP.pdf

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AT&T

RestorationAward

For resourceprotection &enhancementat Mt Diablo

For the 2001 removal of its communicationtower and the restoration of the tower siteat Mt. Diablo State Park. Overlooking theSan Ramon Valley from near Diablo'speak, AT&T’s tower was on Summit Roadand adjacent to one of the park’s mostheavily used trails. The 100' tower--thesize and shape of an eight story building,and including a 5300 sq. ft. concrete build-ing--was built in 1949, expanded in 1965,and was the biggest communication toweron the mountain.

When AT&T realized it no longer neededthe tower it agreed to requests that thetower be removed and the site restored,rather than attempting to transfer its leaseto another business. The removal was cost-ly and time consuming but, in shoulderingthe burden, AT&T demonstrated great cor-porate responsiveness to the communityand significantly enhanced Mt. Diablo.

Bob & ShirleyNootbaar

LeadershipAward

For difficult & visionary

contributions

Shirley is an accomplished artist in lovewith the view from the Mount DiabloGateway property, at the entrance to theState Park. Bob, a member of the LindsayMuseum’s Board, helped Shirley create theMt. Diablo Gateway Alliance, a communitybased coalition that has worked for theproperty’s preservation. Bob and Shirley’spersistence in pursuing complex negotia-tions led to an agreement with the ContraCosta Flood Control District (owners of theproperty) to purchase a conservation eas-ment on the property.

Their personal support and leadership infundraising efforts has resulted in a widerange of community and governmental sup-port. Funds have nearly been raised and, afew months after Bob’s untimely passing,we are on the verge of permanently protect-ing the visually dramatic gateway to MtDiablo State Park.

Blackhawk-Nunn“Mountain Star” AwardsMountain Star Awards recognize individuals and organizationswhose contributions have been significant in helping Save MountDiablo to achieve its mission. The 2003 “Mountain Star” Awardswere generously sponsored by Blackhawk-Nunn, developers of theSummerset adult community and the Vineyards at Marsh Creek.

They were presented at “Moonlight On The Mountain” on September 28. Our thanks to Ronand Bob Nunn and to Steve Beinke for their generous support of Save Mount Diablo.

Mountain Star Awards, Call for NominationsSave Mount Diablo will be awarding Mountain Star Awards at its 33rd anniversary celebra-tion, “Moonlight on the Mountain”, on August 28. We are seeking nominations of individu-als (volunteers or professional), organizations or agencies, whose one-time, or ongoing con-tributions have been significant in helping Save Mount Diablo to accomplish its mission.

The awards recognize individuals and organizations that work for the preservation of MountDiablo and the quality of life in our community. Nominees may NOT be current SMDBoard Members or staff, but they can be associated with SMD (previously or currently),another organization, or no organization. Nominees can be acknowledged for their effortsin any of the categories from the list on the right (note prior awardees).

Submit written nominations by June 18. Include your name and contact information; thename of your nominees(s), their contact information and several sentences about why youare making the nominations. Mail nominations to SMD, 1196 Boulevard Way, Suite 10,Walnut Creek, 94595 or email <smdinfo@savemountdiablo.org>

Prior Mountain StarAward Recipients

Leadership AwardsFor difficult and visionary contributions:Arthur Bonwell; Joann Hanna; Manfred

Lindner; Shirley & Bob Nootbaar;Susan Watson

Alliance AwardsAgencies and organizations that work in

concert with SMD:California Department of Parks &

Recreation; Contra Costa Building &Construction Trades Council; East Bay

Regional Park District; Greenbelt Alliance

Legislative AwardsFor elected representatives:

Retired Senator John Nejedly; RetiredSenator Dan Boatwright; Senator Tom

Torlakson; Assemblyman JoeCanciamilla; Supervisor Donna Gerber

Interpretive AwardsFor public education:

Judy Adler; Mt Diablo Interpretive Assoc.

Cornerstone AwardsLarge & precedent-setting contributions:

Ken Behring; Charles Gresham;City of Walnut Creek

Public Service AwardsLand preservation by

government employees:Jim Cutler; Hulet Hornbeck;

Warren Westrup

Media AwardsFor increasing community awareness

of Mount Diablo:Contra Costa Times; Gary Bogue

Trail Blazer AwardsFor public recreation andenjoyment of the mountain

George Cardinet, Don de Fremery

Restoration AwardsFor resource protection and

enhancement at Mount DiabloAT&T; Ralph Kraetsch; Gary Beeman;

Steve Slavin; Charli Danielsen

Stewardship AwardsFor the mountain's ongoing

ecological healthRoger Epperson; The Ginochio Family;

The Thomas Family

Mountain Saver AwardFor lifetime achievementbenefitting Mount DiabloSeth Adams; Bob Doyle

AT&T’s John Peacock Shirley Nootbaar

Heritage Trees and GrovesHonor Your Loved Ones AtChaparral SpringHuge valley oaks stand like sentinels in thegrassland of Chaparral Spring, branchesdipping to the ground. Blue oak groves areeverywhere, on ridges, slopes and droppingdown canyons to mix with live oak. In latewinter the new buds are a reddish hazeabove naked branches. The buckeyes, sur-rounding big meadows through which trailspass, are white branched in late fall. Theirwinter buds look like green tulips in mid-winter, they’re the first to lose their leavesin summer, but in late May large candles ofhundreds of small white-pink flowers com-pletely cover the trees and the fragrancedrifts on the breeze.

In 1994 Save Mount Diablo acquired 333-acre Chaparral Spring, a sensually beautifulproperty of canyons and ridges east ofClayton and north of Marsh Creek Road,the first link in the Mt. Diablo to BlackDiamond Mines corridor. The property hadthree times been threatened with develop-ment. Given the urgency, SMD went outon a limb in securing a loan to purchase theproperty.

We came up with an innovative program topay off the loan and to benefit our land pro-grams, adoption of heritage trees andgroves. Trees near fire roads are mappedand numbered with small metal dog tags.Groves a few hundred feet from roads andalong narrow trails are mapped as they’readopted. When the program is complete amonument naming all the grove donors andthose memorialized will be placed low onthe property. You can ask us to pick out atree, or visit Chaparral Spring and pick outyour own.

The program has captured people’s imagi-nation. We assumed most Heritage Treeprogram adoptions would be in memory ofloved ones who had passed away. Insteadthe first adoption, a five acre grove includ-

ing a huge blue oak, wasby Jamil and Karen Abu-Hamdeh as a Mother’sDay gift for Karen’smother.

The trips to pick out a treeor grove serve severalpurposes. They’re anemotional time of closureand they’re fun, bringingtogether families fromacross the country tohonor someone or some-thing they love. A valley

oak was chosen by a mother whose daugh-ter had died seven years earlier, “Her birth-day is coming up in June, and I always tryto think of something to keep her memoryalive.” A young couple wanted a place tobring their 2 1/2-year-old daughter andchose an oak with a branch that dips low tothe ground, so she can sit on the limb. Alarge grove was adopted in honor of thework of the Boy Scouts. Subsequently anEagle Scout candidate built a large infor-mation sign.

A wife chose a ridgeline grove with a great

view of Diablo because her husband lovedthe mountain, another because she and herhusband had met at nearby Marsh CreekSprings. The Concord Police Dept. donat-ed funds for a grove for the wife of one oftheir fellow police officers after he was lostin a motorcycle accident.

Sometimes a tree or grove is chosen as agreat place to picnic. Others are chosen forthe view or because they’re visible from theroad, making each trip down Marsh CreekRoad a simple memorial. A grove aboveChaparral Spring’s interior pond and thelargest tree on the property were adopted inhonor of Contra Costa Times columnistGary Bogue and his readers, the self-pro-claimed “Diablo Nuts,” after he asked themto donate toward the property’s preserva-tion.

The trips also allow Save Mount Diablo tobuild relationships with donors, and to edu-cate them about our work saving land.Dana and Dave Dornsife participated in

Four Days Diablo several years ago andhave become strong supporters. InDecember, Dana adopted a five acre groveas a birthday present for Dave.

Scott and Claudia Hein had been signifi-cant supporters of SMD for some timewhen they and Scott’s sister Kristen andher husband Phil each adopted a one-acrebuckeye grove. Clustered around a hiddenmeadow, the 1999 grove adoptions honorScott and Kristen’s mother who had diedtwo years earlier. Scott and Claudia wereso impressed with our work, they gotmore involved. They became volunteersand Scott began donating his photographyand joined the Land Committee. Later hejoined the Board of Directors and Claudiabecame Assistant Secretary.

Adoption trips are often a simulated realestate search as one grove is picked outthen a “better” one is found. It’s very per-sonal, like picking out a Christmas tree.Except, of course, it really symbolizesconnecting a loved one with preservationof a special place forever. After we get anidea what the donors are looking for, wetake a walk or a drive on the property. Wetry to encourage donors to feel like they’readopting the entire 333-acre property.

Because of liability, Chaparral Springwon’t be open to the public until it’s trans-ferred to the public but we often schedulespecial days and hikes—on Mother’s Dayand Memorial Day, for example—so thatdonors can picnic or visit their adoptionsand we try to be flexible in allowing visitson special occasions.

The program will end in the next severalyears. From 1999 to 2001 we (togetherwith the Regional Pa4rk District) alsoacquired neighboring Clayton Ranch,1,030 acres extending open space to with-in a half mile of Black Diamond RegionalPreserve. Tree adoptions donations rangefrom $250 to $1000. Commemorativegroves range from $2,500 for a one-acregrove to $20,000 for a 10-acre grove. Ifyou would like to participate in the pro-gram, please call 925 947-3535 for moreinformation.

Top, bottom images Stephen Joseph; center Scott Hein

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Founder’s CircleDave & Dana DornsifeVirginia Ives & Paul Orsay

Summit Club($1,000 or more)Joseph Raphel, Braddock &

Logan Services IncJim & Carolyn ButlerJulie Grisham & Kenneth

WintersDouglas Lacey & Cindy

Silvani-LacyPaul Liu & Cheryl YoungRichard & Belinda McNeelyDonald & Georgia PalmerMarty & Amy ReedDoug RichardsonJames & Patricia ScofieldGreg & Cathy TibblesGeorge & Sarah Zimmerman

Peak Guardian($500 or more)Eugene Barth FoundationDina Colman & David

LuczynskiRaymond & Laura De PoleKaye DeckerLeslie & Syd DentSusan FlauttLee GlasgowPeter & Judy HagenBob & Becky HazletonScott & Claudia HeinDick Heron & Sue

PitsenbargerJohn McCorduck Carolyn & Bob Mills, Gordon & Donna MonroeFred & Katie MorehouseDavid Ogden & Sandi BiagiTed & Marjorie PlantDana & Marti SketchleyHenry StaufferDavid & Deborah TrotterEarl & Marlys Worden

Mountain Saver($250 or more)Mary BaldwinDave & Rena BrantleyDorothy BrownRon & Sharon Brown

Robert & Gail BurnettJames DayDavid DevineFred & Susan DoneckerTom FanninRon& Ann HendelHarlan & Gayl HirschfeldJohn & Linda JuddDave & Lois KailJoyce KellyGerald & Rosette KochJesse & Sharon KriderBunny Martin & David

KurtzmanSteve & Carla MatthewsTom & Maria MonicaMichael O'DonahueNigel OgilvieAlbert & Pam PalitzJoyce PayneStephane PelchatJeff & Joyce RadiganPaul & Bea StunzGreg & Maria ThurmanJacob Van Akkeren & Leslie

BartholicFrank & Barb VarenchikTom WagnerMilton & Margaret WatchersHobie & Ann Woods

Diablo Donor($100 or more)AAUWBozena AdamThomas & Annette AlborgRoger AlperinH. Ward AlterMichael AnciauxJames Bartlett & Mimi FoordVirginia Bary

Save Mount Diablo’s annual operating expenses are underwritten by the financial support we receivefrom membership revenue. In addition to providing financial support, the number of members we haveis a statement to legislators and others about the level of community support for our projects.

We would like to thank the following individuals who have become members in the past year. Weinvite you to join them in supporting Save Mount Diablo’s efforts to preserve open space.

Hunt BascomBurt BasslerClaude & Carol BenedixEdward & Mildred BennettBennett BerkeAnne BlandinMarcheta BowdleMalcolm & Sylvia BoyceDon & Jeanne BoydKate BoyleButch & Lynn BrearPeter & Waldy BreidbachBrent BriggsDiane BrownRichard & Alice BrownWalter & Joann BrownJim & Barbara BrunellJohn Butera Dennis ButkowskiMelinda CampiKristine ChaseCiao Bella SalonTerri CostelloBrenda de la OssaJohn DeemingFrank & Janice DelfinoErnest & Florence DicksonBarbara DrewJohn EdwardsDonald & Jeanie EganRobert EvangelistiCarol EvansDavid & Julie FarabeeToni FauverRuth FosterGreg & Cindy FranciscoWJ FrankCharles FraserEdward FraserAlex & Deborah FriedmanJohn & Julia Fuller FamilyBruce GarnerBingham & Larry GibbsDavid GrayDonald & Melinda GroomPhil & Susan GroverVeronica GunnersenLiede-Marie HaitsmaJean HalfordSydney & Helen HammillKatherine Hart & Donna

King

Roz HirschMichael & Nadine HitchcockPatricia Holman & Peter

MurphyCarolyn HuntNoel HurdKimberly JohnsonRoger & Donna JohnsonLew JonesJim & Janis JuddFonda Karelitz & Mark

RosenRichard KawinRay & Lynne KeckPhilip LathrapJeffrey & Deborah LeightonEllen LernerJames LingelDavid LingrenLinda LocklinDavid LoebEleanor LoyndMichael MagnaniMartha MartinSteve & Marcia MatthiesenStuart & Barbara

McCulloughWinton & Margaret

McKibbenMark McLaren & Nancy

NorlandEdgar MendelsohnRichard & Shannon MerrillGlenn & Lisa MillerPatrick & Nancy MillerBarbara MonslerJames R MooreIvy MorrrisonDavid MossMaynard MungerTheron & Elizabeth NelsonDavid & Margaret NicholasAileen NicholsRichard & Carol NorthingCharles & Ann OlsenOrinda Garden ClubOrinda Hiking ClubJohn OrmondCarly OwensDale PerkinsAida PetersonDale Peterson

Membership Matters

Paul PopenoeJames & Patricia PrayBill RalphDavid & Mary RamosConnie RegaliaJennifer RiceJohn RichardsonClara RichertCarol RiddellTod RubinLinda Sanford & Richard

MooreSheryl SankeyDave SargentDorothy SattlerDylan SavidgeEarl & Kathryn SawyerJean SaylorPaul & Nancy SchorrEarle & Judy SchrempDavid & Eileen ShortSierra Club Bay - Mt. Diablo

GroupSharon SingerBob & Geraldine SmithRon & Judy SmithBeth SnortumLeonard & Barbara SongsterMalcolm & Casey SproulRichard & Mary SproulAndrew & Karen SteinPatricia ThomasRebecca ThomasPatricia ThunenAlvira ValladaoJohn & Linda Van HeertumDavid & Laura WaalMichael & Joyce WahligClifford WalkerBill & Stacy WalterCarl & Lynne WalterBarbara Walters Douglas & Ruth WatermanDavid & Elaine WegenkaTom & Carolyn WesthoffRick & Christine WiseJudy Wobleski

Friends ($35 or more) over 350 families support SMD in

this category

California poppy

Wild Rose

Indian paintbrush

United Way Donor OptionYou can designate Save Mount Diablo as the recipi-ent of your United Way Pledge. When you areasked to make your annual workplace donation,please consider designating it to us. Our tax IDnumber is 94-2681735.

Business ContributionsMany companies will match your charitable contri-butions to Save Mount Diablo. Ask your employerif they have a matching gift program. Also let usknow if your employer has a foundation or corpo-rate donation program to which we can apply.

GeneralDonat ions

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ChungCharles & Sharon KruegerDavid KwinterValerie Watase, Lafayette

Physical Therapy IncMichel & Ysabel LagacheCarol LaneTheodore & Janice

LassagneEdward L. LeechJames A. LehrmanMarston & Anne Le ighJeffrey & Deborah

LeightonDavid LenehanCatherine Lewis & Andrew

LeavittLuther & Virginia LinkhartCatherine LockeRobert & Beverly LoomisPaul & Carol LouJuanita LutherGrace MacNeillTerrence MackinRaymond & Gloria MageeMichael MagnaniRobert & Valerie MahoneyJon Maienschein & Lisa

ClineDavid & Brigitte MainlandDavid Marcus & Karen

FriedmanCarl MarkhamAndrew & Lynne MarshallChristopher & Vicki

MartinMartha J. MartinJohn & Marti MasekMatt MastersJames MatherCarolyn MatthewsJames McCallDon & Nancy McCormackJames & Emily

McCormickRose McKinnonMark McLaren & Nancy

NorlandMartin & Helen McLarenRobert McLaughlin &

Theresa RumjahnRichard MerrittDaphne L. MillerLorraine MitchellGordon & Donna MonroeJoe & Jerilyn MooreRichard & Carol

MortensenMargaret MoweryBruce & Denise MuirheadMaynard MungerDione & Brad MustardPaul & Catherine

NancarrowBeatrice NeetzHerbert F. Neller

Robert & Joye HeideJohn & Diane HeimJulia HenshawJohn & Eleanor HigsonEric & Debbie HinzelElla HirstMichael & Nadine

HitchcockRichard HoedtAnne HoffPatricia Holman & Peter

MurphyOliver HolmesMary HookWilliam K. HousePeggie HowellJay & Karyn HoyerKen & Joanne HughesJim & Kris HuntAndrew & Barbara ImbrieLori InnesPeyton I. JacobDavid & Lynn JesusBill & Heidi JonesDonald JonesSteven & Anne JonesGail JordanGiselle Jurkanin & Kristin

CooperPeter & Julie Ann

KaldveerJerry & Susan KaplanTiffany KaplanJordana KatcherRaymond Katz & June

MaselbasDiane KauffmanDick & Tina KauffmanKathryn KearnsDave & Marion KendrickBJ & Veronica KerekesA.M. KernSelma KingMichael Palucki, Knapsack

ToursDoug Knauer & Jennifer

BabineauxIvy KnottGeorge KohutEmma KolokousisJohn Kopchik & Kristine

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Kathleen NelsonTheron & Elizabeth

NelsonDorothy NicholsLisa Nicolini & William

IngramKirsten NiemeyerGenevieve NygaardJim O'Neill & Kathleen

Mosier-O'NeillDavid Ogden & Sandy

BiagiNigel OgilvieCharles & Anne OlsenThomas & Barbara OlwinGreg PageChristopher & Margaret

PantonJamie & Charlotte PantonRobert & Patricia PartridgeEugene & Mary PaschalTom & Nancy PattenRodney & Sarah PaulDavid & Mariana PeckLawrence & Mary PeiranoJacquelin & Werner PelsJoel PerlsteinBrad & Trish PiattChristine & Valerie

Schmidt, Plant DecorArt PoirierTom PotworowskiPhillip & Judy QuinlanTimothy ReardonHubert & Joan ReberBrian & Janet RichardsJim Richards & Bette

BrockmanJan RichardsonElsie RicheyTom & Ulla RiegerVictoria RinkNorman & Inge RobertsonWilliam RobinsonGael RodgersWalter & Mary RogersLeslie Rosenfeld &

Stephen MorrisSteve RossMarjorie RothRound Hill Garden ClubJohn & Joanne RuzekMark RyanRobert RyonStuart SampsonAl & Mary Anne SanbornEdgar & Jean SandersonPeter & Maureen

SanseveroEd & Julie SattlerKenneth & Marjorie SauerDylan SavidgeBeulah SchillerAnthony SchillingMarvin & Mary SchinnererRudolf Schmid

Theodore & ElizabethSchmidt

Andrew & Linda SchneitDan SchoenholzMady Schubarth & John

AmundsonJeff & Jacqueline SchubertAllen & Alyce SchwartzJames & Patricia ScofieldArlene ScolesMarian ScottDonald SeaverJanine SeniorAnn ShanckChris Truebridge, Shapell

Industries William SharpRobert & Carol ShueyCheryl SibthorpRobert SiebenSierra Club - Delta

Regional GroupWilliam Sikkema & Linda

YoungReta SimmonsSharon SingerDana SlausonBob SlykerAlan & Mary Louise SmithDavid K. Smith & Theresa

BlairMatt & Mary SmithMorgan & Sarah SmithPatricia SmithRobert & Geraldine SmithRoger & Helen SmithMildred SnelsonStan & Angie SolbeckGregg & Anne SorensenBarney & Nancy

SpeckmanPaul SpiegelErnest & Marlene SponzilliSusan Steinberg & Dennis

HerzogHelen StevensJames & Barbara StevensSandor & Faye StrausPaul & Bea StunzJo & Jack SudallFred & Georgine SullivanDavid & Pamela SummersVelta Suna BoveyJohn & Elouise SutterKermit SveenThomas E.SwainePaul SwatekMary F. TerjesonRobert & Jeane TharrattTim & Patricia ThibosPatricia ThomasIan Baird Thomas-Denova

LLCLarry ThompsonGreg & Maria ThurmanWarren Tighe

Todd & BarbaraTillinghast

Michael & ConnieTomcik

Dave & Sharon TooleyRoger & Polly TroxellChris & Sara TruebridgeJohn & Susan TullisChris Valle-RiestraJacob Van Akkeren &

Leslie BartholicDonald VascoMark & Christine Von

Der LiethJohn WaggonerRudy WagnerPhyllis WainwrightRichard L. WaldoClifford WalkerWalnut Creek Garden

ClubJohn & Donna WaltonJohn WaterburyArthur & Florence

WatersonJohn Weeden & David

DaviesDavid & Elaine WegenkaAlfred P. WeilerRobert & Cheryl

WeisenmillerMarie WentzReid Weske & Lisa

WindflowerRobert & Karen WetherellWhat A Tomato Produce

CoPeter & Ann WhiteheadKristen C. WickStephen & Margaret

WilcoxSonja & Kim WilkinGary & Betsy WillcutsAndrew HoltzWillows Theatre

CompanyChris & Teri Wills Brian Olin, Lennar

CommunitiesWindemere LLC

Pat WolfMark WoodburyRonald M. WoodsTerry & Leslie WyattDonald & Carolyn Zerby

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Valley OakScott Hein

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In Memory ofMargaret Anderson

Allan AndersonFrancesca Bogardus

Harvey & Donna BroslerRich & Gloria McDrewMount Diablo Interpretive Assn.

Anne Dyer BrinckerhoffAnna Marie & Richard Lininger

Elizabeth BuckJune Wall

Don ChristensenLeslie & Gayle Servin

Henry ColarichRuth Eseltine

Robert DuttonJune Wall

Frances DyerDon & Gladys Laston

Nancy McKinnon ElsberryJanice & Ted McKinnon

Anna FerriLarry Ferri

Phil FloresMichael & Joyce Wahlig

Abbott GarciaThe Biology & Health

Sciences Dept, DVCBetty Goldstein

Paul PopenoeArbert Hall

Jeannie HarmonJenny Bell Harmon

Emily RuedBob Hart

Mary & Dick BowersJean Hauser

Barbara HauserNeil Henoch

John & Thelma DanaMarcy Dubow Howard

Philip & Henrietta Dubow

Bruce McLeodLeslie Servin

Malcolm NielsenDon & Gladys Laston

Bob NootbaarJim & Sharon Moore, Jr.Giles BrownJohn DeemingRick & Elaine Williams

Saundra PaulAnne Leslie

Pete PetersonEleanor Peterson

Ray SawyerHazel Sawyer

Rob SchonholtzJane Hicks

Andrew WeingartenDan & Chris Weingarten

Seth AdamsClose To Home

Paul & Elizabeth BaxterCarol Baxter

Dina ColmanAnn Culver

Jessica Dresser’s BatMitzvah

The Dresser FamilyThe Feldman Family

Bruce & Jill Dresser and Family

Charla GabertMarcy & Bill Buck

David Lingren & IlanaSchatz

Lawrence GrossmanJim Meyer & Dana Claire’swedding

Nigel Ogilvie

Penny & Jim AdamsBarbara Jean AgenoBarbara AlexanderRoger AlperinJack AndersonWilliam & Margaret

AndrewsAnonymousAlan & Helen ApplefordDavid & Milena AranaRollin & Millie ArmerPaul & Joan ArmstrongEleanor ArnbergMarion ArnoldEarle & Marjorie AtkinsonBoyd & Jean BallengerDoris BanfieldDeborah BaroneGreg & Joanne BartowVirginia BaryBetty Lou BatesHenry BeckStephen & Karen BeckWalter & Evelyn BellGeoffrey & Sally

BellengerMark & Silvia BelotzLesley BennBob BensonPaul BettelheimDouglas & Betty BevansBruce & Sandra BeyaertDick & Alice BiagiFrank C. BlanchardRobert & Lisa BlumKenneth & Thelma Joyce

BoehmertPolly BoissevainMark BoleCharles BourilDon & Jeanne BoydSandra BozarthLarry BradleyAlexander Brennen &

Wendy NileLawrence & Elizabeth

BrickellPatti Bridges & Barbeques

GaloreRichard & Alice BrownKatherine & Fred

BrunswigRay & Pat BuckRonald & Barbara BuffiJoseph Bunker, CPARichard & Lois BunyardConstance BurgessDiane W. BurtonJohn & Catherine Butera,

Butera Video ProductionPatrick ButlerJohn & Jane Cambus

Foundat ions

Kathryn CameronPatricia & John CampbellAlbert CapronPaula CarmonaWilliam & Deborah CarrJoan CaseyJanice CattolicaHarvey & Phyllis CeaserReno & Shea CervelliRosemary ClarkWilliam ClarkRobert Clear & Barbara

JuddCharles ClemAnnabelle ClonerHoward & Betty CoatesPatricia E. CoffeyR Ken & Donna CoitFlorence ColeRuth CollinsJim & Patricia ComptonContra Costa Hills ClubSherrill Cook & Richard

StephensRick & Suzanne CordesSteven J. CorrellJanice CostellaLeonard & Virginia CosterChristopher & Dee Dee

CrossPatrick & Barbara

CullinaneRandall & Jacqueline

CurtisSally Dalton & Nickolas & Carrie DamatoJohn & Thelma DanaJohn & Charlice DanielsenPhillip & Jean DavidVickie DawesGeorge DayMildred DayRobert & Elizabeth De

CheneBrenda de la OssaRaymond & Laura De

PoleDeNova Homes, Inc.Glen & Georgene

DeardorffAnthony & Lucy Di

BiancaErnest & Florence DicksonJuanita DicksonConstance DiernisseCarl Dinerman & Mariann

WhiteAlbert D Seeno III,

Discovery Builders Inc.Jack & Ami DitzelRobert DociliAnn Dole & Gary

McBrideLinda DomeierElisa Dowd & Douglas

Graver

Barbara DrewThomas & Jane DunphyMark EdgrenMichael EganRoy & Isako EgawaJoel & Diane EisenbergDon ElfvingRobert & Margaret ElliottAnthony & Marie

EmersonHoward EnderleMiles M. EnglehartT. David & Marie EpleyMarvin & Ruth EpsteinPatricia EverallTom Fannin & Ann CarsonHugh & Anna FehrenbachGeraldine FerringDorothy FingerSid & Linda FluhrerHarold & Donna FogelOra Nell FolkmanPaul, Lisa & Kelsey

FrancisW. J. FrankJosephine FranklinAlex & Deborah FriedmanClarice M GarrisonMark & B. GeiserMichael GendelmanBarbara GeorgeBingham & Charles GibbsDavid & Betsy GiffordRaymond & Christina

GillieJohn GinochioElizabeth GirgichMary Givens & Austin

BurchellRudolf GlauserMarilyn GoebelDavid A. GoldbergPaul & Ann GommelFred & Elaine GrabJeff & Judy GreenhouseRobert & Beverly GrunderMarie GuelldJim & Bev GulleyRichard & Rosita

GustafsonMary HaakeRobert HahnJohn HalliseyJames & Margaret

HamasakiSydney & Helen HammillCarol HandelmanAllan & Margaret HansellLaura HansenJohn HarrisJohn & Esther HarrisKathleen HarrisonRichard & Margaret HartJohn & Mary Ann HayesCarlyle HedrickTamra Hege

All contributions weremade from August 1, 2003through January 31, 2004

In-Kind Gifts

Heritage Trees

Julie Grisham & KennethWinters

Donation towards Power Point projector

Scott & Claudia Heinclipboards

Andrew & Linda Schneitlateral file cabinet

Jeanne Thomasfile cabinet; ink car-tridges

In honor of his birthday Dave Dornsife –3 acre grove -

Dana Dornsife

In memory of Bruce B. Smith –5 acre grove

Kathleen Smith

Monkey flower

BT Rocca, Jr. FoundationBoucher Family FoundationLouise & Clark JohnsonCharitable FoundationJames & Gloria RedmondFoundationMaisel Foundation

In Honor of GeneralDonat ions

s a v e M O U N T D I A B L O

s a v e M O U N T D I A B L O

1196 Boulevard Way, Suite 10Walnut Creek, CA 94595

Address Service Requested

Non-Profit

Organization

U.S. Postage Paid

Concord, CA

Permit No. 525

16Save Mount Diablo's Mission . . To preserve Mount Diablo's peaks and surroundingfoothills through land acquisition and preservationstrategies to: protect the mountain's natural beauty,integrity, and biological diversity; enhance ourarea's quality of life; and provide recreationalopportunities consistent with protection of naturalresources.

In support of our mission, we:· Protect open space through purchases, gifts and

cooperative efforts with public and private entities· Educate the public regarding threats to the moun-

tain's flora, fauna and rugged beauty, as well as

the history and heritage of the mountain and itssurrounding foothills

· Work with landowners to preserve their prop-erty and to ensure that they receive fair valuein any transaction aimed at preserving openspace

· Work in partnership with Mt. Diablo StatePark, East Bay Regional Park District, andother public and private entities to increaseand manage open space and to identify mitiga-tion opportunities

· Participate in the land use planning process forprojects that could impact Mount Diablo andits surrounding foothills

· Aid in the restoration of habitat and the protec-tion of rare species

· Offer technical advice to community andneighborhood groups regarding preservation ofopen space

· Raise funds and sponsor events to build publicawareness and to carry out our programs

· Temporarily own and responsibly managelands prior to their transfer to a public agencyfor permanent preservation.

· Encourage recreation and public enjoyment ofMount Diablo's parklands consistent with theprotection of their natural resources

“Moonlight On TheMountain” Auction Donors

Additional Donors: Anandamayi & Tara Arnold, Bob & Marilyn Aston, Dick & AliceBiagi, Warren & Norma Cabral, Jack & Ami Ditzel, Robert & Denise Draizen, EncinaBicycle Center, Harvey & Linda Green, James & Roberta Hadley, Toril & James Jelter,

Manfred & Bernice Lindner, James McCall, Merrill Lynch, James & Noel Murphy, ShirleyNootbaar, Richard Rollins, W.B. & Beatrice Scarborough, Ronald & Donna Topping,

Susan Watson, Phillip & Beverly Winslow

Art Bonwell, Auto Affair, Azzulina LLC,Benali Inc, Blackhawk Country Club, Blue &Gold Fleet, Bowles & Verna LLP, BradBowles, Caffe Delle Stelle, California Pedaler,Ceramics by Rachel Deist, Changes Salon &Day Spa, Clinique at Macy’s, ClubSport of SanRamon, Cold Stone Creamery, Concord Feed &Pet Supply, Cost Plus World Market, CostcoWarehouse, Danville Cigar & Fine Gifts, DavidTrotter, Diablo Valley Women’s League,Disneyland, East Bay Flower Company, FatherNature's, FAZ Restaurant, Forli Ristorante andBar, Gift Baskets by Design, Home Interiors &Gifts, IKEA California, LLC, In-N-Out Burger,Jeanne Thomas, John & Jill Mercurio, John &Robbin Eudy, John Finger, John Koeberer &Pam Koeberer Pitts, Jory’s Flowers, Just Rugs,Levi Strauss, Linda Evans Fitness, Little HomeThai Cuisine, Los Angeles Dodgers, LunaLoca, Malcolm Sproul, Masses Billiards SportsBar & Grill, McDowell Valley Vineyards,Melissa Allen & Elisabeth Andreason, Michael& Denise Sewell, Michelle Budziak,Mondello's Cucina Italiana, Natalie's Creations,Oakland Athletics, Outside Interests, ParallaxPress, Paramount's Great America, PleasantThoughts, Postino, Quivira Vineyards, RagingWaters, Renaissance Club Sport, Ron Brown,San Ramon Marriott, Sandy Biagi & SharonJuhnke, Scott & Claudia Hein, Scott ValleyBank, Scott's Seafood, See's Candies, SethAdams, Sheraton Concord Hotel, ShorelineAmphitheatre, Six Flags Magic Mountain,Stephen Joseph, Sycamore Associates LLC,Tiffany & Company, Uncle Wang’s, WalnutCreek Baking Co, Whole Foods Market, WildBird Center, Wild Birds Unlimited, Yard BirdsHome Center