Muir Beach Neighborhood News Issue 240 March 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR IN MEMORIAM Front Cover Dear Reader: Great Highway One Peace Demonstration 1 It is with sadness that the Beachcomber says goodbye to a great Painting by Larry Yamamoto friend of the Beachcomber, Ann Browning, who passed away in Page 2 Table of Contents 2 October 2007. Ann was the Business Manager for the newsletter Ann Browning From the Editor 2 for twenty years, stalwart in her dedication to her “beloved In Memoriam Beachcomber” as the editorship changed over the years. an essential member of this community for over 30 years, left us on October 12 Ann Browning 3 I am deeply appreciative of the assistance Ann gave me when after a long standoff with ovarian cancer. UpFront Anne Jeschke Heads Circulation Services 4 I took over as editor last January. Her long-time experience on She was a true link in the chain: Business Manager for the Beachcomber, Rental New Beachcomber Mailbox Arrives 4 the newsletter was invaluable to me in those early days. I miss Coordinator for the Community Center, dessert overseer for the Firemen's Barbecue. Library Call for Beachcomber Back Issues 4 this caring and committed member of Muir Beach. Local Resident Author Wins Pen Award for 2007 5 But it wasn't the things she did, but how she did everything in her life– Pen to Paper 6 with fairness, generosity and grace. She took life for what it was, and became an Hey Watch That Dog! 7 Next issue: May 2008 Yoga in Muir Beach 7 Submissions Deadline: March 31, 2008 honest friend to practically everyone she met. We may never know another like her. Remembering Jim Canepa 8 See page 66 for Submission Guidelines. Carbon Offset Anyone? 9 During her final weeks she was in the constant company of family, friends and Green Till the Very End 10 Email: [email protected] particularly our own wonderful neighbors. The well-wishes, the meals, the musicians, Cute Tots 12 Drop: Beachcomber mailbox, south end of Pelican Mailbox Row the Garden Club high tea, the hands and hope came from everywhere. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life Goes On Mail: Editor, Beachcomber, 19 Seacape, First Annual What Is In the Water Party? 13 Muir Beach, CA 94965 • 415.381.2515 She formed a community of her own in those last days, Day of the Dead, November 2007 14 2007 Halloween Party 14 Other 2008 Submissions Deadlines: but all she talked about was how lucky she felt. July issue: June 9, 2008 Muir Beachers Really Had Fun Last Year! 15 From all the cards, flowers, letters and gifts, a line from one card lingers: Muir Beach Volunteer Firemen’s Association October issue: September 15, 2008 2008 BBQ Kickoff "No one who loved the earth so much ever truly leaves it." Barbecue Planning Requires Big Community Involvement 16 Support Those Who Support Us We miss her already. Help Needed to Transform Barbecue Site 17 Organization Key to Successful Barbecue 17 Dee Turman, 305 College View Drive Are You Ready? 19 DTurman Illustration, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 707.843.1625 Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department Graphic Designer [email protected] Spotlight: Firefighter Graham Groneman 20 of the Beachcomber Graphic Design & Illustration Services www. dturmanillustration.com MBVFD Incident Log 24 Muir Beach Quilters Dave Semling, The 35th Annual Quilters Holiday Arts Fair 25 Mill Valley Services, The Vision Project 30 printer of the Beachcomber Greater Muir Beach Neighbors Progress on MB Transit & the Big Lagoon Project 34 Muir Beach Community Services District The Canepa family, District Manager’s Report 35 Community Center Update 36 Mill Valley Market, Shop & Give Program Real Estate Real Estate News 37 Muir Woods National Monument Copyright © Beachcomber. All rights reserved. Redwood Log 38 The Beachcomber is a community magazine published by Nature and for the residents, friends, family, and former residents Natural Curiosities 39 of Muir Beach. Published since 1946. Appears four times a The Critter Report: Moving into Spring 40 year in March, May, July, and October. Subscription rates are Can I Mention Something? 42 $25 per year for delivered issues and $30 per year for mailed Art copies. Why Do You Paint? 46 Update on Gunvor Nelson 48 One Last Wade In The Old Sweetwater 49 Beachcomber Staff Editor Linda Gibbs Travel Graphic Design Dee Turman The Boat Story 54 Waiting for the Silverfish 58 Reporters Days of Wine and Cruises 60 Greater Muir Beach Neighbors Judith Yamamoto Globalization, Development, and Poverty 61 Muir Beach Quilters Pam Barlow Fiction & Poetry MB Volunteer Fire Dept. & Roving Paul Jeschke Two Poems by David Leivick 64 MB Volunteer Firemen’s Assoc. Anne Jeschke Women Live In These Rooms 65 Nature Dave MacKenzie Community Info 66 Masthead Larry Yamamoto Supporting the Beachcomber Photographer Julie Smith Friends of the Beachcomber 67 Circulation Anne Jeschke Become a Friend of the Beachcomber 67 Cover paintings by Larry Yamamoto Give a Gift Subscription to the Beachcomber 67 Beachcomber Beach Towel 67 Front cover: Great Highway One Peace Demonstration, 15” x 22” in the collection of Dr. Edward Hyman and Dr. Deborah McDonald. Back Cover Back cover: Great Highway One Peace Demonstration II, 15” x 22” Great Highway One Peace Demonstration II 68 in the collection of Robert Kaufman. Photographs by Larry Yamamoto Painting by Larry Yamamoto 2 3 UPFRONT UPFRONT Anne Jeschke Heads Circulation Services By Linda Gibbs Local Resident Author Wins Pen Award for 2007 I am pleased to announce one of those residents that people think of when something In Oakland, on Dec. 8, 2007, local West Coast author that seven-year resident Anne needs getting done! Jeschke has agreed to handle Karla Andersdatter received a PEN award for her Subscription and Circulation Anne wanted us to know she is “an enthusiastic grandmother recent book, DIARY OF A POET; AN IMAGINARY LIFE Services for the Beachcomber. of four pre-schoolers as well as an avid traveler, RV’er, New and Selected Work, in the category of Creative and home exchanger.” She is a CASA (Court Appointed Non Fiction. At the event (held at the Rockridge Many of you know of Anne’s Special Advocate) volunteer, representing the court by Library) award winners read from their collections wonderful energy, enthusiasm, assisting children under the supervision of the court due to and expertise through her work neglect or abuse by their parents/guardians. She gathers providing an afternoon of absorbing listening for Anne Jeschke on the Board of the Muir Beach information that assists judges in the important decision the large audience. More than 100 astute listeners Volunteer Fire Association. This of permanent custody for the children. Please contact her arrived as witness to the literary achievements. year will be her third year as Volunteer Coordinator for the if you are interested in more information about CASA and annual Firemen’s BBQ. their need for volunteers. The Josephine Miles Award from the Oakland Anne is also the neighborhood liaison for Disaster Please welcome Anne to the Beachcomber and direct any chapter of PEN (an International Association of Preparedness and a reporter for the Beachcomber. She’s subscription or circulation questions to her. Poets, Essayists, and Novelists) is offered every year to authors who achieve excellence without the support of large corporate publishing establishments New Beachcomber Mailbox Arrives in Time for Spring Renewals or universities. Ms. Andersdatter, a San Francisco By Linda Gibbs born, West Coast writer, who has authored 21 books, Effective immediately, mail for the Beachcomber can be Quilters do. Maury Ostroff of the CSD consented to our use received the award in Oakland, along with others dropped in the new Beachcomber mailbox located at of 19 Seacape which is the community center address. So for who were honored by PEN for their achievements. the southern end of Pelican Mailbox Row next to the CSD mailing, send to Beachcomber, 19 Seacape, Muir Beach, CA The Josephine Miles Award has been given for Water mailbox. This new box replaces the mailbox that had 94965. Thank you, Veronica and Maury. come unhinged and couldn’t be repaired. Larry Yamamoto the last 17 years to honor the poet Josephine decorated the original Beachcomber mailbox and I will be Please do not drop off mail at the 19 Seacape mailbox at the Miles, who was a beloved teacher of poetry at UC sure to hold this historic piece for the Muir Beach History community center. Use the box designated Beachcomber on Berkeley until her death. She supported a new House, which is a dream now, but hey, who knows, maybe Highway One across from the Pelican. Many thanks. genre of poets, including Allan Ginsberg, whose someone will step forward with the land and we’ll raise the works surpassed the existing cultural norms and money to build it. George Lindholdt, our local historian, has broke the boundaries of language in a new way, but agreed to act as curator of the History House when we have were unsupported by the University or commercial, bricks and mortar. But that’s a story for another day. corporate, publishing houses. The new mailbox is a locked box so please drop off your subscription renewal envelopes and other Beachcomber mail In 2006, Bill Moyers won the award for Censorship to that box from now on. To get mail delivered to the box, and A.D. Winans, creator of Second Coming Press in our mail carrier, Veronica, conveyed the post office’s policy Photograph by Julie Smith San Francisco, won a Lifetime Achievement Award known reviewer of Small Press since the ‘60s claims of only delivering to a box associated with a physical property The new Beachcomber mailbox marked with the masthead from PEN, Oakland.