When spider webs unite. . .

When spider webs unite. . .

April 25 – a Saturday – was a spectacular day for Suisun City. Other communities pulled out the stops for Earth Day. They planned events, organized events and coordinated events. That’s cool.

In Suisun City, it was our residents and our service clubs and other social groups and non-profits that made the day so spectacular. They came out in force to pick up litter along our waterways and trails; to clean out facilities; to spruce up and clean up homes and yards of people not in a position to do so themselves; and
they picked up virtually garbage bin after garbage bin after garbage bin of trash, junk, yard waste, e-waste – you name it – from their neighborhoods.

Who are these groups and what did they do?

•The Fairfield-Suisun Rotary Club cleaned up the trails, promenade and park spaces in the Waterfront District as part of their annual “Rotarians at Work Day;”

•Kiwanis Club of Suisun City planted and upgraded entry flowerbeds in neighborhoods across the city, as well as cleaned up numerous bikeways and pathways;

•First Christian Church celebrated their Second Annual INFUSION Project focused on repairing, cleaning and sprucing up more than 20 properties owned by seniors or handicapped residents in need of assistance;

•Solano Yacht Club beautified the Suisun City Marina;

•The Fairfield Visual Arts Association focused on the area around the Lawler House to get it ready for future
gallery/studio use;

•The Suisun City Police and Fire Boosters – hand-inhand with City staff – helped support the clean-up efforts of 4,365 residents as part of the City’s twice-annual neighborhood clean-up program; and

•Solano Garbage donated the truck-sized garbage bins to support all of these efforts.

What an incredible metamorphous! Small efforts united to become the “Suisun City Spring Clean.” City staff, including Code Enforcement Officers Catherine Chandler and Joanne Ledford led our support efforts, along with our Public Works Maintenance crews, to facilitate the labors of each and every one of these groups. And by facilitate, we mean “let folks run with their dreams.” Our job was to make sure that everyone was successful, and to that ended, we succeeded.

To celebrate our newly cleaned-up and spruced-up community at the hands of so many volunteers, the day was
capped off with a 90-minute narrated boat trip through the marsh – a trip offered to the first 60 or so people who showed up to volunteer. A trip sponsored by the City of Suisun City and the California Sunset in heartfelt thanks and appreciation.

A favorite Ethiopian proverb of mine says it all: “When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”