Volunteer landscape architect wins ‘unsung hero’ award

Dick Glanville, whos provided unpaid services to San Anselmo as a landscape architect on and off since 1999, will get a Green Award.

The prize will be presented at 7 p.m. Aug. 5 at a special Town Council meeting.

It was voted for unanimously at a recent session of the Quality of Life Commission, which has been giving awards to unsung heroes monthly for five years.

As a volunteer, Glanville helped formulate the plan to replant and water the towns diseased elm trees, and has helped out with the rain garden at the library, tennis courts at Memorial Park, and landscaping at the firehouse after the flood.

Hes supplemented his paid work for the town with many volunteer hours on many tasks because its what feels right to do the old giving back, he says.

What does that giving back look like?

At the rain garden, he worked with some other folks and prepared plans to rebuild the curbs, develop a gravel and drainage system, and then prepared the plants themselves.

And as an essential part of the volunteer elm tree task force, which was linked to U.C. Extension, he helped come up with a long-term plan for strategic replacement. Five trees that are still doing fine were planted the first year, 1999, but, because of budgetary constraints, additional ones were not planted again until last year.

Glanville did come up with a new plan but stepped aside because he was retiring. I had to pass the baton, he says.

Way back, when his kids attended, he, his wife and four other parents built the first Wade Thomas garden, with raised flower beds, and also built a stone wall in front of the gym.

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