Meditation Garden opened

Yesterday, the new Meditation Garden opened behind the Youth Center at 14 Park Road. Here are photos of Mayor Susan Brandborg with students Becca Zauderer and Rio Helmy. Becca and Rio, along with student Dylan Jones, created the garden as a Drake High School project in the ROCK program's "Art is Everywhere" program. Come and enjoy the garden!

Meditation Garden Grand Opening!

The new Meditation Garden created by students at Drake High School will have its official Grand Opening this Thursday, May 25th from 6 - 7:30 p.m. Mayor Susan Brandborg will be there to commend the students and we are expecting press coverage as well. Come celebrate and thank these students for our new garden! The garden is located behind the Fairfax Community Center/Youth Center at 14 Park Road.

Farmer's Market move

The Fairfax Farmer's Market will open for the season on Wednesday, June 14th, in a new location, Bolinas Park, at the corner of Bolinas and Elsie Lane. The Town Council approved this new location at the request of the Market. This is an opportunity for the Farmer's Market to expand to include more vendors and for everyone to enjoy the beautiful setting of the park. By locating closer to the central downtown business core, shoppers will be able to conveniently enjoy the many shops and restaurants the downtown has to offer on their visit to the Market. The Fairfax Farmer's Market is open 4 - 8 p.m. starting Wednesday, June 14th through October. For more information, contact the Marin County Farmers Market Association at 472-6100.

Ross Valley Watershed meeting tomorrow

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 20th, County Supervisor Hal Brown will host a community workshop on the Ross Valley Watershed Flood Protection and Creek Restoration project, at Drake High. An open house starts at 9:30 a.m., with the meeting running from 10:00 a.m. to Noon, another open house from 12:30 - 1 p.m., followed by in-depth technical discussions from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. A flyer regarding the workshop is posted on the Town News page.

Fairfax Festival website is now live!

Check it out: Fairfax Festival

Earthquake video

Recently, there was a conference held on the 100th Anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake. There is an interesting 14-minute video on "The Next Great Quake" available for viewing on the conference website www.1906eqconf.org. It is a reality check on how we need to be prepared and what the consequences of another big earthquake could be if it happened right now. I encourage you to watch it.

Photos for website

Do you have any good non-copyrighted photos of Fairfax? It would be nice to refresh the photos on the home page of our website. If you have any great photos depicting the Fairfax that we all know and love, and you would offer your digital photos at no charge for us to post on the website, I'd certainly appreciate you sending them on to me. I will give you credit on my blog and my most heartfelt thanks!

Meditation Garden coming soon!

A note from our Public Works Director, Debra Sue Johnson:

Sir Francis Drake High School students will be installing a meditation garden between the Youth Center and the Creek as part of the ROC program. This project is part of the "Art is Everywhere" program in which students create a piece of art and give it back to the community. The students are Becca Zauderer, Dylan Jones, and Rio Helmy.

They will be starting this weekend with rototilling and soil enriching. The design includes three red leaf Japanese maples, flowering plants and shrubs, flagstone paths, benches, and ground cover. They are creating a Van Gogh-like painting to hang in the garden and will also be incorporating a bird bath into the environment. All of the supplies and materials have been donated by Marin County businesses. There will be a grand opening organized and marketed by the students in the very near future.

We have agreed to be the hosts of this wonderful creation with watering to be done by Town Hall staff and volunteers and maintenance to be done by the Public Works Department.

Open Space Fundraiser

This Saturday, May 13th from 5:00 - 10:30 p.m., the Fairfax Open Space Committee will host its second Fundraiser. The benefit is for the purchase of the Melvin Property and the Committee is seeking to raise $29,000 toward the purchase. Tickets for the event are $20 and it will be held at the Fairfax Women's Club, 46 Park Road.

The event will feature great music by Otis Scarecroe with the Tom Finch Group, plus great food, drink and a raffle. This is a great opportunity to support the community and to help pay for the purchase of this beautiful property.

Information on Potential Influenza Pandemic

On April 27th, the Marin County Operational Disaster and Citizens Corp Council held a special meeting on the topic of the potential pandemic influenza. This could be the next big disaster that strikes and we need to take the warnings seriously. Doug Smith of our office attended the meeting and took notes which are now posted on the Disaster Preparedness web page, at the bottom of the page where the document links are. See http://www.townoffairfax.org/DisasterPreparednessNew/

Latest website update

In case you have not visited our website lately, and even if you have, please take note that we recently updated the Council minutes page with nine sets of minutes as I noticed we had fallen behind in postings. Also the strategic planning page now has documents from the April 22nd meeting.
http://www.townoffairfax.org/TownCouncil/Minutes/
http://www.townoffairfax.org/StrategicPlanning/
In addition, the web calendar of town meetings is now updated through December 2006.
http://www.townoffairfax.org/Calendar/

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have ideas for other Town information you'd like to see posted on our website.

Ross Valley Watershed Workshop

On Saturday, May 20th, County Supervisor Hal Brown will host a community workshop on the Ross Valley Watershed Flood Protection and Creek Restoration project, at Drake High. An open house starts at 9:30 a.m., with the meeting running from 10:00 a.m. to Noon, another open house from 12:30 - 1 p.m., followed by in-depth technical discussions from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. A mailer will be distributed from the County to all Fairfax residents the week of May 8th.

A flyer regarding the workshop is posted on the Town News page.

Adjourned meeting scheduled for May 10th

Due to the lateness of the hour, the Town Council did not complete its agenda at the May 3rd meeting. Thus, the Council adjourned the meeting to May 10th at 7:30 p.m. in order to consider the remainder of its agenda, including items 16 through 24 on the May 3rd agenda. The meeting agenda is now posted on under Town Council Agendas.