It is good to see other Parkway groups becoming more organizationally efficient, with a more focused direction and understanding the value of being tax deductible for donors, as the Parkway needs all the help it can get.
Parkway defenders busy
Alcohol ban among victories, group says
By Bill Lindelof - blindelof@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, November 29, 2007
For an organization with a minuscule budget and one paid part-time clerical employee, the Save the American River Association stayed busy this year.
The watchdog group's work will be reviewed at its annual member meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Carmichael's Ancil Hoffman Park.
Warren Truitt, president of the organization, recently provided a thumbnail sketch of SARA's year, which included support for a holiday alcohol ban for rafters and making a big downtown development more environmentally sensitive.
"We don't back off of any issue that threatens the parkway," Truitt said.
The 23-mile parkway, maintained by Sacramento County, runs from the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers at Discovery Park near Interstate 5 to Nimbus Dam near Highway 50. The trail also extends to Folsom Lake, a stretch that is under state jurisdiction.
