By Elke Heitmeyer, Frazier Park

Jacqueline “Jackie” McNamee has lived in Frazier Park for more than ten years. She is passionate about community, she says, and has been saddened by the disconnection, inability to get together and sense of powerlessness many feel in the wake of the global pandemic.

When she saw photos on a local Facebook group of people enjoying a full, glorious Frazier Mountain Park pond in 2014, it hit her: “Here is an issue that can be corrected, that can bring people together, so that families can again gather around the water’s edge.”

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Frazier Mountain Park Pond (left) has been the heart of the Mountain Community for over 100 years. Jackie McNamee (center) hopes to help bring the community together again by working to restore the pond that went dry in 2016, during drought. The pond has also been a vital firefighting safety asset (below), where choppers refilled to knock down the 2011 Tecuya Ridge fire.

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