Quarry Park in El Granada is open. Kids swoosh down the slide, build sand castles and watch Monarch butterflies flit overhead. Stone by stone, volunteers line the meandering creek.
Carpenters finish off the fences.
And deer graze on the flowers planted on opening day-but never mind, we'll plant more. In 1906, when the famous landscape architect Daniel H. Burnham designed the town of Granada, he drew in 640 acres of Coastside community park in the hills above the town. With the purchase of Quarry Park, forty of these acres are ours. But the purchase carries responsibility. The community must raise the money to pay for everything we do with Quarry Park.