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Watershed Management Group (WMG) features RillitoBend’s efforts to keep Rio Vista Park natural, Summer 2024

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In Watershed Management Group’s quarterly newsletter, Rio Vista Natural Resource Park is featured. Why? Because it shows how a neighborhood can come together around a shared vision of a natural resource park in the city. And with the implementation of the Master Plan and recent rains, the park has been transformed. ​Resident Catlow Shipek of Watershed Management Group (WMG) has been hired as a consultant to Tucson’s Parks & Rec Department to shepherd the restoration of the Park. Click on the links below to read about the efforts and see how the Park has been dramatically improved. For further information, read about the park on our Rio Vista Park page in our blog, RillitoBend Rambles. There are some lovely photos!   Read the WMG article HERE

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Presentation of Rio Vista Plan, April 18, 2024

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Matt Christman, Project Manager, presented the trail map and schedule for the Rio Vista Natural Resource Park to over 30 neighbors. He explained that Parks & Rec followed the five main recommendations from the Master Plan approved by Mayor and Council in March 2023 as their guide. The work will address: 1, consolidating and upgrading the trails; 2, revegetating open space areas; 3, upgrading the signage; 4, enhancing riparian areas; and, 5, introducing stormwater harvesting.  Under the direction of Catlow Shipek of Watershed Management, consultants are starting work next week (April 22nd), first with creating 30-35 shallow catch basins. Using soil taken from the excavation, Arizona Conservation Corps will build the trails. Audubon will start removing invasive species. Planting will start when the rains start, and irrigation will coincide with planting. Both Matt and Catlow with be onsite to supervise the consultants. Parks & Rec Operations will monitor the work done to assure plants are established and trails maintained. They anticipate working with volunteer groups to help, with monthly check-ins. Trash cans will be relocated to the edges of the park so maintenance crews don’t have to drive their trucks across the park.

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RillitoBend Spring Festival, March 23, 2024

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The first RillitoBend Spring Festival was a resounding success! The festival kicked off with a jam session of local musicians playing lots of different instruments: mandolin, hammered dulcimer, guitar, flute, ukulele, violin and more! Led by Connie Warren, the group got the crowd a’singing. After the jamming, the Tucson contradance group Friends of Traditional Music, led by Rave Review, showed a few contra steps, and the dancing began! What a lovely setting to have some fun with the neighbors—thank you Valley of the Moon! Everyone (young and old) is ready for a redux!  

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Ice Cream Social, April 30, 2023

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We had our first party in a looong time. What a turnout! It was good to see new faces and to renew old acquaintances, including Kevin Dahl, our Ward 3 Council Member. Thank you to our Social Committee for persevering through all these years and false starts: Sue DeArmond, Terry DeCarolis, Estelle Stern-Eilers, Dorothy Copps, Wallace Kinkade, Vicky Stromee, Cynthia Dunn, Linda Agen, Lisa Fabrizio, Julie Stephens and Mary Bird. What a team! We really appreciate Rich and Sandy Young, owners of the Hitching Post at Gentleman’s Acres, for providing such a wonderful venue. The view is spectacular. And the space was just perfect for milling around out of the sun and chatting with each other. Lindy Brigham, RBNA president

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Dedication of Rio Vista Natural Resource Park, February 27, 2010

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The dedication of the Rio Vista Natural Resource Park was celebrated by many residents and dignitaries including former Mayor George Miller, Ward 3 Council person Jerry Anderson, Pima County’s Board of Supervisors Sharon Bronson, Jim Ronstadt of the City of Tucson’s Park and Recreation Department and our Neighborhood Association’s officers. It was the culmination of years of collaboration with the City to establish this natural resource park, one of the first of its kind in the City. The ribbon cutting, l to r: George Miller (former Mayor of Tucson); Chris Tanz (artist who created the gneiss benches in the park); man in baseball hat unknown; Jim Ronstadt (Tucson Parks and Recreation Department); John O’Hare (NA); John Kovacik (NA president); George Pettit (Ward 3 liason); Murray and Sue DeArmond (NA); Sharon Bronson (Pima County Board of Supervisors); Jerry Anderson (Ward 3 councilperson); staffer from Parks and Recreation Department

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