By Gary Meyer, TME

In July and August of 2016, Frazier Park area residents began sounding the alarm: The pond water level was falling.
By November 3, the pond was gone.

Eighteen months later, at 5 a.m. on April 28, 2018, Lockwood Valley metal sculptor Stan McCuen, with his family and friends, installed sculptures representing

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Left-right: VFW member and Mountain Memories Vice-President Terry Staley helps Lockwood Valley metal sculptor Stan McCuen install two dozen fish and water fowl sculptures in the dried-up pond bed to draw attention to an opportunity for restoring the pond.

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