The SF Model Yacht Club has opened its summer sailing season, with numerous model yacht enthusiasts taking their model boats out for a journey across Spreckels Lake.
Model Yacht Club sails into new season at Golden Gate Park
Great Blue Herons Back at Park
Great Blue Herons can be seen nesting at Stow Lake.
Orchid Lovers Unite
The annual Pacific Orchid Exposition was held at the Hall of Flowers, located in Golden Gate Park, at the end of February.
Best Buddies Walk at GG Park
The Best Buddies Friendship Walk is the number one walk in the country raising awareness and funds to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Volunteer Gardeners Help Keep City’s Parks Shining
For Wayne Hiroshima and Bill Lafferty, working as assistant gardeners in Golden Gate Park around plants, animals and birds, places them regularly in the life cycle. They discover how plants, animals, birds and humans are all interdependent on each other.
Plan in works to use recycled water at GG Park, golf courses
To decrease San Francisco’s dependency on the Hetch Hetchy water system, which delivers water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and the SF Recreation and Park Department are in the process of switching to “recycled” water for irrigating Golden Gate and Lincoln parks and the Presidio.
Richmond Roundup
Local athletes going into Prep Hall of Fame The 36th annual San Francisco Prep Hall of Fame award banquet in May will feature top athletes from local schools. From the Richmond District, Michael Gridley will be inducted. He was […]
Bloomin’ Exotics
The annual Pacific Orchid Exposition was held at the Hall of Flowers, located in Golden Gate Park, from Feb. 23 through Feb. 25.
Plan to Rebuild Park Tennis Courts OK’d
A plan to rebuild the tennis courts and clubhouse in Golden Gate Park got approved by the SF Recreation and Park Commission on Feb. 15.
Swan on the Lake
Alvord Lake in Golden Gate Park, circa 1900.
