Every year, the Friends of Rose Creek partners with I Love A Clean San Diego to get trash out of the creek. We’ve been doing this for fifteen years now and have averaged four tons of trash per year. Now some years it was more and some it was less.
U-Haul truck full of trash. One of many loads.
I’m the founder and Executive Director of the Friends of Rose Creek and I’m tired of the City of San Diego failing to help us out. Volunteers are essential but we want to partner with the City to protect and enhance Rose Creek. For the last two weeks, I’ve been making the rounds to all the City Council offices asking them to make the Pacific Beach portion of Rose Creek a park. This is the easy stretch. It has funding for habitat restoration, is designated as a linear park in the Pacific Beach portion of the Community Plan, and is the middle of my neighborhood. Residents in my community deserve a park and park services.
I’m not sure if I’ve been wasting my time trying to save an urban creek or if something will finally change. It’s hard to maintain hope. Emily Dickenson said it better than I can:
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all