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Graton Construction
and Mario M Torrigino ($1500.) cash donations towards the $5000 goal for our water system and tools.
This letter is to clarify what appears to be a misconception that resulted in an erroneous reference to our firm, Brelje & Race, in the June Grassroots Graton column.
And last the mermaids and merman that swim their fins off for the event! Vira A.k.a.; The California Mermaid ®, Project manager for Friends of Fife creek restoration - AND - Thank you for the music provided at our Finraiser *Billy London and the world and roots music by *Obstinate Ostinatos and Michael Hantman!
Brelje & Race Consulting Engineers is a full service civil engineering firm in the North Bay area with the majority of our clients and projects here in Sonoma County.
The County engaged us to design the Graton and Occidental ADA Improvement Project as well as to perform inspection services. The County separately contracted with a construction firm to build the improvements. We have one inspector on site during construction with one of our company trucks which has our company logo prominently displayed. Therefore, it would be understandable it someone was to mistakenly assume that Brelje & Race was the contractor.
Friends of Fife Creek, Guerneville
Brelje & Race strives to maintain a professional presence in all of our relations with the public – including our clients. If there were any “inaccurate musings” made on the project site, I believe they did not come from our staff.
Since starting our pick up in January of 2016, we have saved over 70,000 pounds of trash from going into our watershed thanks to the people who are living without houses. It’s not perfect, and we are learning all the time, but it’s making a huge difference in our river and ocean ecosystems. We have been seeing a dramatic decrease in the amounts of trash that is ending up on our beaches after heavy rains.
THANK YOU
So proud and honored to be ask to be the keynote speaker this week in Southern California at a huge watershed conference about what we are doing here on the Russian River and how we are engaging our homeless population to stage trash for us to pick up and haul away.
Thank you,
Dave Coleman
Associate Principal
Brelje & Race Consulting Engineers
I really want to thank everyone who has supported this project, even when people around us were saying this was not right and that we were enabling our homeless, but in fact we have been doing the right thing, all along. I know this because our idea is spreading, and we could be the model for something really good for all of our rivers.
THANK YOU
A little thank you note to our community and businesses that supported and donated auction items to our June 25, 2017 Finraiser, at the West Sonoma inn and spa, Guerneville ,which is helping us reach our goal to raise the $5000 dollar water system needed to stretch our native plant restoration project further out towards River Road on Brookside Ln., and buy tools for hopefully more volunteers now that we have our new shed (donated by the sisters of perpetual indulgence and purple productions )for our Friend’s of Fife Creek restoration project.
PEACE and LOVE Always Chris Brokate,
Clean River Alliance
Thank you also to our mermaid approved wineries that poured their wines at our Finraiser event: Korbel organic Champaign, Moshin Vineyards, Flowers Vineyard, Wildhog Vineyard, Paul Matthews Wines.
Electric Bicycles
Please share: E-bikes are NOT allowed at any local parks, either Sonoma County Regional Parks or CA State Parks. They are considered motorized vehicles. Please advise any folks who rent or buy E-bikes that they are not allowed and riders may be cited.
LETTERS cont’d on page 4
Sarah Reid Thank you also to the Marks ($2000.)
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