Greenbelt Committee
The Greenbelt committee is made up of Volunteers exclusively from the Paradise Pines Property Owners’ Association. Our purpose is to help create a fire safe environment within our community, and to help keep the hiking trails in our Greenbelt areas free of obstructions. Prior to the Committee, a few volunteer workers took it upon themselves to build and maintain our hiking trails. Around 1984, A Greenbelt committee was established, and our first Greenbelt Chairman was appointed.
The Committee has varied in number of members over the years but currently stands at 12 members. The Committee had been working one Thursday morning per week, weather permitting, but the Greenbelt members voted to add a workday in September of 2002, and now work Mondays and Thursdays from 8am to 11am. They meet at the POA Village located at 14211 Wycliff Way and assemble at the garage behind the Recreation hall, at around 7:45 am. We meet afterwards at Dolly O’s for donuts and coffee.
Thanks to the efforts of former POA member, Don Steele, Grant-funded Forest grooming contractors and goats were used to create sheltered fire breaks in the Greenbelt areas directly adjacent to our housing.
When Grants are obtainable, there is an ongoing grooming project for areas that border our Greenbelt to help reduce the fire hazards of living in a “Wildland/Urban Interface Area”.
We don’t think of it as work; we think of it as a free exercise program. Everyone works at his or her own speed.
Anyone wishing to join the committee can call Lisa Epperly, our Greenbelt Committee Coordinator at 873-1114 or Terry Wild our Greenbelt Committee Chairman, at 873-6590.