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It seems as if time is breaking up that old gang of ours.
The Delmar Commercial Committee was created by the Skinker DeBaliviere Planning Committee in 1989. Our first official act was to walk Delmar to get a feel for what was there.
It was a hot day and we got cokes at the McDonald’s (soon to be a History Museum location).
It was a depressing tour, with only a handful of viable businesses on the thoroughfare. By 1990, our chairperson, JoAnn Vatcha, myself, Steve Brammeier, Sam Green, Nat Rivers, Dennis Townsend, and Loretta Lloyd begin to craft a redevelopment plan that we hoped would enable new growth at our periphery.
We were assisted by SDCC director Nancy Farmer and Aldermen Dan McGuire and Irving Clay.
I am sketching this scenario today because two of the stalwarts – Townsend and Lloyd business owners – on Delmar have or will retire. Townsend’s Boulevard Cleaners is shuttered and the building that housed it has been sold. Lloyd is contemplating closing Sunshine Academy, a daycare center she has operated for many years.
In our many meetings over the plan and moving toward the present, Dennis Townsend and Loretta Lloyd supplied the realism and good sense the committee needed. Their warmth and good humor also made meetings more pleasant and tasks less onerous.
I know that all those associated with the Delmar effort join me in expressing gratitude to these two stalwarts and in wishing them every good fortune in the years ahead.
On another plain, I am always surprised that more of our neighbors do not recycle. Global warming is real. Conservation is needed. Recycling helps us to be green. For $45 per year, your recycling will be picked up once a week by Earth Circle Recycling.
They take almost every kind of plastic, glass, aluminum and steel cans, newspapers, magazines and catalogues, and waste paper. I’ve been part of this for 8 or 9 years and I know I’d do very little if I had to schlep it myself somewhere.
Call Earth Circle and become part of the solution.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2007.
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