8/11/2023 0 Comments Beach scavengers crosswordRobinson, 57 and unemployed, said he has worked the streets of Long Beach seven years, taking in about $100 a week. Trash bins are usually full of bottles and cans after Friday, which is payday for many people. The first to the 10th of the month also is prime time-just after welfare and Social Security checks arrive. Robinson drives to neighborhoods throughout Long Beach and then sets out on foot. He usually avoids affluent areas like Belmont Shore. ![]() “I go there once in a while,” said Robinson, who lives in an apartment on Martin Luther King Jr. “But you have to watch where you park, and people think you’re doing something wrong. The scavengers interviewed by The Times said they resist taking cans and bottles from recycling bins. “I hope they can see how many historical treasures we have around Santa Rosa,” said Dave Franzman, a Santa Rosa High teacher and the adviser to the history club.It just takes too many cans to cover a $135 citation-about 3,900 at current recycling rates. The event’s organizers hope participants got a taste of the city’s legacy. “It sounded like a fun way to get to know Santa Rosa,” she said. After getting her site card, Stockel said she was interested in the hunt as a relatively new resident to the city. Maggie Stockel and boyfriend Paul Duncan correctly deduced that the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens was one of the sites. The first person or group to return with all 10 cards Saturday won $50 in cash. But now, it’s the placE to ‘tie the knot.’?” The unusual capital letters - O N E - hinted at the answer: The Church of One Tree, as featured in “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” cartoons by Santa Rosa native Robert Ripley.Īt each of the 10 venues, three members of the high school history club handed participants a “historic site card,” which told a little of the place’s history. “That’s what I found out doing this project.”Īmong her chosen historic sites were the confluence of Santa Rosa and Matanzas creeks near City Hall, once the place of a Native American village the Mary Jesse Hospital, which had been located at Fifth and King streets and Pedersen’s Furniture at Fifth and Orchard streets, where once had stood the Methodist Episcopal South Church, one of the few buildings in that neighborhood to remain amid the rubble of the 1906 earthquake.įor her first clue, Julia Pastis wrote: “?‘Believe it or Not,’ your next location Once stood tall and green. “I hope they realize that history actually can be fun,” Julia Pastis said in regard to Saturday’s participants. ![]() ![]() And while Thomas graduated and this summer advanced to UC Berkeley, his freshman sister, Julia, took over the challenge of devising the hunt and researching the history of her 10 chosen sites. ![]() The event was created last year by Santa Rosa High student Thomas Pastis, son of “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip creator Stephan Pastis. The event, a sort of scavenger hunt into the city’s heritage, was sponsored by the Historical Society of Santa Rosa, with assistance from the Santa Rosa High School History Club. Those who persevered learned that the town’s first library served as the location of the 1956 film “Ībout 50 people took part Saturday in the second annual Great Santa Rosa History Hunt. They traipsed Saturday morning between downtown parks and older buildings in Santa Rosa, using clues to track down bits of the city’s past.
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