FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
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FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
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FOE STANDS VIGIL ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
This year, however, the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Department decided to close Edgewood to after-hours visitors in strict compliance with the recently adopted master plan. Unfortunately, that meant simply closing the gates and instructing all park staff to go home at 8 p.m., leaving the park vulnerable to uncontrolled access by people who were used to coming in on that particular night. Because repeated requests for some official presence at the Sunset Entrance were denied by the park service, several members of the Friends of Edgewood Park took it upon themselves to stand vigil at the Sunset gate. Luckily, both the San Mateo County Sheriffs Department and the Redwood City Police Department sent patrol cars to check on and provide back up for the volunteers. As a result, 50 - 75 would-be revelers in various states of sobriety were turned away that night, avoiding what could easily have developed into a vandalism and/or wildfire threat to the park and surrounding areas. The Friends of Edgewood would like to thank Peter Ingram, Mike & Nancy Mangini, and Frank Figoni for spending their July 4th in the service of Edgewood and the community in which they live. |
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For many years, "Hill
1" near the Sunset Entrance to Edgewood Park has been a favorite place for local
residents to view Bay Area fireworks displays on the fourth of July. For the past three
years, the Edgewood Park Rangers, with the help of the Volunteer Trail Patrol, controlled
this after-hours activity by ensuring that visitors remained on authorized trails, did not
bring alcoholic beverages into the park, did not smoke or use fireworks themselves, and
left when the fireworks displays ended.