Today we speak with Randy Smith, a co-coordinator of Redding’s Annual Community Cleanup that took place Oct. 3. The turn-out was massive, and so were the results. Q: Randy Smith, first, congratulations on your 10th year as a co-coordinator of the… Continue Reading
This brief writing attempts summary of Saturday’s achievement at the 8th Community Creek Clean-up along the North Sacramento Trail from the North Market Street Bridge to the Sundial Bridge. Nothing could stop the outpouring on behalf of the resource and… Continue Reading
This summer’s improvement to SR 299W on the crooked Buckhorn may have benefits beyond accident reduction, time savings and motion sickness relief. Perhaps flagman-caused delay might give motorists pause to seek alternative routes to the Redwood Empire. State Route 36… Continue Reading
Randy Smith’s descriptions of discovered illegal encampments are what planted the seed of the idea for this series. Full disclosure: Smith is a long-time friend.
Q: Randy, thanks for taking time to talk with me today. Can you please start by sharing with readers a list of the various facets of volunteer work that have given you a front-line look at the issue of homeless encampments?
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As sunlight washed over Redding’s first day of October, more than 200 volunteers, 20 chainsaws and five industrial chippers converged upon a jungle-like parcel of land previously “hidden” in the city’s core. Their mission: uncover and correct a half-century of overgrowth and neglect during the… Continue Reading
Enveloping the riparian areas along the many waterways of Shasta County is the sort of lush greenery that makes living in the far north state enviable. But some of that vegetation, like the invasive, creek-choking arundo plant, puts its environment in… Continue Reading
Six years ago, when there was a budget for such things and Redding had a new Planning Commissioner, I was sent to a League of California Cities Annual Meeting in Monterey. Besides learning something about provisions of the California Environmental… Continue Reading
Redding historical photos of the Diestelhorst Auto Camp and cabins, built in the early 1920s by the Diestelhorst family, near Diestelhorst Bridge over the Sacramento River. A great flood in February 1940 wiped out the camp and cabins, and… Continue Reading
It has been an eventful month since the chainsaws and chippers of the 4th Annual Community Creek Clean-up became silent along the South Sacramento River Trail. The unprecedented volunteer labor before, during and after this event have returned to Redding… Continue Reading
This year’s 4th annual Redding Community Creek Clean Up takes place on 3 October. The effort of hundreds of volunteers on this day will end a month of labor at several different venues. West Side Trail Cleanup was Sept. 12;… Continue Reading
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