High school students volunteer to help spruce up Pico Promenade

FALLBROOK - The Pico Promenade, a four-block walkway connecting south to north Fallbrook recently received a little sprucing up by high school students volunteering their time to the community.

Three students worked for two hours with the volunteers of the Save Our Forest branch of the Fallbrook Land Conservancy to weed, trim, and generally spruce up the first block of the Promenade.

The Pico Paths or Promenade as formerly known, begins at Fallbrook Street and runs north to Elder, connecting through to Fig Street to take walkers to the Fallbrook Library parking lot in the center of town. A smooth pathway, it is an easy walk off busy streets.

Students in need of community service hours to meet graduation requirements signed up to help at a recent Community Service Fair at Fallbrook High. To help students achieve these hours on a regular basis, Save Our Forest has set aside the third Saturday of every month for student volunteers through this school year. This help is in addition to the SOF usual work parties held twice a month to provide maintenance for trees that they have planted over the last 20 years.

Volunteers are the only answer, as Fallbrook is an unincorporated community with no city taxes to provide that care.

Students or other willing volunteers are urged to call Jackie Heyneman at (760) 728-5395 to be part of the community effort to make Fallbrook a pedestrian-friendly place to live.