San Anselmo pair who led park water-fountain drive win award

Ann Brenner and Grier Argall, whose joint efforts resulted in a new public drinking fountain at Robson-Harrington Park, will get a Gold Award.

It will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 at the San Anselmo Town Council meeting.

The water fountain, to replace one that hadnt functioned in years, originally was Brenners idea. But Argall physically made it happen by donating his time, expertise and supplies.

For four years, the 61-year-old Brenner had been pulling overgrown ivy and weeds in the park, and even hired one of her sons friends to help. Her volunteer efforts, she says, were an outgrowth of her spending a lot of time there with her dogs and loving to watch the many children at play.

To advance the fountain project, she donated money and got some of her friends to do the same. They came up with the lions share of the $1,475 needed to fund the fixture itself. The town paid for the rest.

Says Brenner, a longtime Ross resident, I just love the park, and that the community gardens and fruit trees are there. I think its a lovely setting. I can even remember back 26 years when my husband and I took a class in the library of the house.

Argall, a 48-year-old whos lived in San Anselmo since he was six months old, recruited two assistants (plus his two sons, who helped with digging) to install the fountain, which has a faucet for humans on top and a spigot for dogs on the side.

Their combined two days of work saved San Anselmo about $2,500.

According to Town Manager Debbie Stutsman, the new lower park area fountain has been getting rave reviews.

Shortly before finishing that volunteer job, Argall completed at cost, he notes a park sewer-drain project that required him to install about 250 feet of pipe.

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