DeSaulnier receives award as advocate of East Bay Park District
WALNUT CREEK, CA (Dec. 26, 2023) — The East Bay Regional Park District and the Regional Parks Foundation awarded the 2023 Radke Championing Advocacy Award to Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord).
Park district general manager Sabrina Landreth and board president Dennis Waespi were among those in attendances at the Dec. 8 presentation along the Iron Horse Trail in Walnut Creek.
DeSaulnier has been a long-time supporter and avid user of park district parks and trails. In 2022, he was instrumental in securing $3 million in federal funding for the district’s planned visitor center at Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50.
The award is named for late park district board member Ted Radke, who advanced state and federal support for park funding.
Bev Britton
Bev Britton graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota and moved to the Bay Area with her soon-to-be husband Jim in 1986. She was features editor at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek before becoming managing editor of the Contra Costa Sun in Lafayette in 1995. She retired from newsrooms in 2001, but an ad for the Clayton Pioneer drew her back in. The family moved to Lake Wildwood in the Gold Country a few years ago - but working at the Pioneer keeps her in touch with her old neighborhoods in Concord and Clayton.