Editor: Our wonderful Sonoma Overlook Trail is now nearly 12 years old! While the SOT is owned by the City, it has been maintained by citizen volunteers on the SOT Task Force. Over the past year, there have been two especially noteworthy improvements to the SOT. Both are the result of two persons who miraculously appeared to volunteer dozens of hours of service.
Fred Allebach, with more than 13 years of experience as a leader of trail crews working in many of our national parks, and who moved to Sonoma four years ago, recently donated more than 30 hours of work on the SOT to improve drainage in many wet areas. Fred is now a local house painter and handyman.
Juan Bucio, owner of a local landscape business, has donated dozens of hours to maintain the drip irrigation during the summer months for the oak trees planted at the SOT trailhead. He also mowed the tall grasses at the trailhead for fire prevention. This month, Juan and his crew planted and staked another 12 oak trees at the trailhead.
This is to acknowledge and thank both Fred Allebach and Juan Bucio for their contributions to the SOT. Their help is a generous gift to all the hikers who enjoy the trail, as well as to the City and its taxpayers.
If you are in need of a house painter or handyman, or of landscape services, I urge you to support or recommend these two local businessmen. Contact information for them can be found in the kiosk display case at the SOT trailhead.
Finally, the Task Force is delighted to announce that Joanna Kemper has agreed to serve as our new SOT Task Force chairperson.
John Donnelly
Chair, SOT Task Force
2005-2011
Sonoma
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