Anne Brower Path (Path #70)
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65-69 Stevenson |
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From our pages on Path Stories:
Anne Brower, local environmentalist By Jia-Rui Chong, Daily Planet staff
(April 5, 2002)
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Path dedicated to Anne Brower
Berkeley Path Wanderers Association Newsletter -- Spring 2002 -- Vol. 5 No. 2
On Saturday, April 6, [2002] seventy people joined Berkeley City Councilmember Betty Olds in dedicating a path commemorating the memory of avid path wanderer Anne Brower. Brower’s children reminisced about how Anne inspired her husband David, a leading environmentalist of the 20th century.
“She was the conscience and editor of my father and played a big unknown role in the environmental movement,” son Ken Brower said. Anne died in 2001; David passed away a year earlier.
[Betty] Olds, Mayor Shirley Dean, BPWA members, the press, and neighbors attended the celebration at the top of Stevenson Ave. north of Shasta Road, on a path formerly known as Twin Path (neé Twain Path). Anne’s 10-year-old granddaughter cut the ribbon on the renamed path.
Dean noted that BPWA is an inspiring aspect of life in Berkeley. “The paths are important for public safety,” she said. “They’re also nice.” The Browers lived in a simple wooden bungalow nearby. “This path was the one she would use for walking pleasure, rather than commuting on foot,” daughter Barbara Brower said.
Anne Brower Path will be Path 70 on the city’s pathway index and appear on BPWA’s comprehensive path map. Local Boy Scouts played a major role in improving the sloping dirt path, which was dangerously slippery during winter rains.
In fall 2001, Berkeley Troop 19 Eagle Scout Candidates Ian Saulsberg and Matt Seuferer re-graded the path and installed simple wooden steps. The work was paid for with BPWA’s Berkeley Parks Mini-grant. “Path Wanderers and Boy Scouts have done an amazing amount of work,” Olds said. “It shows you what positive things Berkeley residents can do.”
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