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Published on Saturday, October 01, 2011
By BY JAN SEARS
Volunteers will do some landscape maintenance at three Redlands locations on Oct. 22, in conjunction with the National Day of Service.
About 100 volunteers from the Redlands Service Club Council and the Inland Empire United Way will touch up the recently landscaped Redlands Boulevard median, the newly dedicated Terrace Park along Colton Avenue, and a fire demonstration garden at Ford Park.
The event is Redlands' observance of National Make a Difference Day, which takes place annually on the fourth Saturday of October. On that day, millions of Americans participate in activities to help improve their communities, said city spokesman Carl Baker.
In Redlands, volunteers will meet at 8 a.m. at the project areas. They should bring gardening gloves, weed trimmers, trash bags, shovels, rakes and other tools. In the median, they will be sprucing up work done last spring, when thousands of volunteers tackled the long-neglected 1.5-mile strip and painted benches at the Redlands Bowl. The work was funded with grants, including $40,000 from Home Depot.
Before the volunteer work began, the city put in irrigation lines and pruned some existing trees. On April 30, volunteers added tons of river rock to swales that serve as street drainage and planted more than 2,000 low-maintenance, drought-tolerant trees and shrubs.
They finished off by covering the ground with a layer of mulch.
Volunteers will maintain the median every two weeks under city supervision for the next year, Baker said.
After that, maintenance responsibilities will be gradually transferred to city staff, he said.
Terrace Park, along the south side of Colton Avenue, was finished and dedicated in June.
The park is roughly 40 feet wide and a half-mile long, starting at Sixth Street
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