GrandLakeNeighbors.org

Splash Pad Newsletter
The Good News/Bad News Edition
July 24, 2010

I’ve got good and bad news and the contrast between the one and the other is so glaring, I couldn’t resist. Let us begin on a positive note with…

The Very Best News

Work on Kwik Way has resumed and the blighted conditions we’ve lived with for [...]

Splash Pad Park

We have a confession to make. After the huge success of the two Disney volunteer work days at the park, we’re spoiled and are longing for a bigger, more reliable volunteer contingent. There’s a ray of hope on the horizon as Jerry Barclay’s Splash Pad/Farmers Market Advisory Group has just begun to [...]

Welcome to the new Grand Lake Neighbors website. Grand Lake Neighbors is a group of volunteers working together to preserve and improve the Grand Lake district of Oakland. Our mission is threefold: 

Communication – sharing information and keeping each other informed about issues in our area
Solving problems – tapping into the incredible talent in our neighborhood [...]

You may very well be wondering what the hawk is doing featured so prominently on the GrandLakeNeighbors.org home page.

If, twenty-five years ago, I had told my older son’s 4th grade teacher that four Cooper’s Hawks had returned for a second summer to the Morcom Rose Garden, she’d probably insist that there are no hawks in [...]