Users/DougWalter

Name: Doug Walter

Phone Number: (530) 756-6385

Office: I have worked for the Davis Food Co-op since February 1, 1989. I often lead new member orientations, tours for visitors or classes, and otherwise get to interact a lot with members and shoppers. Because of my long involvement with the DFC, please revert my edits about it if I stray too far into meddling.

I have also spent significant time over the years working with Solar Community Housing Association, and with the Whole Earth Festival. I don't have any formal tie to either now, but I certainly try to keep in touch with all the volunteers who make these unique resources available to our community.

Personality: I chose a photo of me taken by a friend after a full day of dance performances at a Renaissance Fair somewhere in Northern California (can't remember exactly which one, though). It shows me tired, but happy and willing to eat, drink and talk for just a little longer. That's a good day for me, and that should give you some insight into my personality.

I like to dance, especially Irish and Scottish dancing with Siamsa le Cheile and Raven Valley Irish Dance school. I like to sing, especially with friends like my partner, Donna Lemongello. I like to spend time in the beautiful world that surrounds us. I love to read, and sometimes to write about what I've read.
This photo was taken by my sister Laurie and shows (back row) me, my nephew Brendan Marshall, his dad Dan Marshall, (front row) Donna Lemongello, and my mother, Pat Walter. Lenny the dog is posing adorably in front of Pat and Donna.

Lenny: After more than sixteen years of faithful companionship, Lenny still would not give up and was starving to death. So on June 2, 2008, Donna and I said goodbye and had him euthanized. He was the dog waiting cheerfully outside of Briggs Hall for about a decade (under the ramp past the stairs you see in the right-hand photo on the Wiki page). He had many friends and fans; we miss him very much.

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Hey Doug, just a note that I responded to your question over here. —PhilipNeustrom

2007-06-25 22:57:51   nice response to Louis —StevenDaubert

Thank you. I respect his right to an opinion, and I'm fine with people thinking highly of Mike. I can't make a crusade out of it, but I dislike it when people simplify an issue (e.g. Covell Village) in a way that obfuscates. I'm always working on how to express my views succinctly yet accurately. — DougWalter

2007-06-26 20:42:29   I commend louis on his overall enthusiasm and support of a project designed by local builders and developers. It was a remarkable development with more environmental features than anything else being built locally today. Stop sugar coating the reason it failed.........Davis has become an elitist community, to buy a home here you must be high income, UCD affiliate, or a previous homeowner taking advantage of the appreciation gained over the years. It is not the family community long time Davis residents once enjoyed, where opportunity was available to all income levels. As the fortunate few examine the way they express themselves ie: dont take yourself so seriously.....Super Green Target comes in. —Jeffreymh

I don't find this comment fully comprehensible. I did talk with folks who were happy to see a project coming forward that wasn't from Lewis Homes, or Pulte, or Kauffman & Broad. It amuses me that you feel the elitism in Davis (which is real) is "the reason it failed" rather than the traffic that would be generated all through East Davis. Poor people and students don't particularly like choked streets.

But I'm not sorry that people are still debating the issues of building versus preserving ag land, of traffic traded for accomodating new residents, and of what design we want for Davis of the future. There are going to be fewer natural resources, so the human resources had better improve!

That said, isn't there a better place for debate than on my user page? Or is this the hip way to "drive traffic" to my photos? — DougWalter

2007-06-30 22:38:30   How totally cool that the Capital O has disappeared from the DFC page! It makes me feel that ranting has a purpose on the wiki! :) —DougWalter

2007-09-26 00:22:21   hey! don't go showing me up! ;) Hi Doug! How are you? —MichelleAccurso

2007-09-26 12:17:30   Ha ha. I like that you abbreviated your own name. You went through SMF? You know you have to tell me what airline you were flying and where you were going. (You can't NOT tell these things to aviation nerds, it kills them.) That's a shame, it's always nice to see people you know outside of the airport. Have a good one! —MichelleAccurso

2007-09-26 23:03:53   Yoiks! I just noticed that I'm wearing the same blue scarf in both photos — it has woodblock prints on it by my friend M. Lauren Washburn, a fantastic artist. —DougWalter

2007-09-27 22:49:53   very interesting information on Isao Fujimoto. —JessicaRockwell

2007-10-31 22:20:33   Hope you're ok after your bike crash, I saw your name in the paper today (and here on the bike tips page). Glad the helmet helped! —EdHenn

• Thanks Ed (along with others who've expressed concern other ways). I'm alive and mending with reasonable speed. I couldn't really walk around the house easily yesterday, and today I'm well enough to go back to work. I think I was lucky — and I'll endorse quality helmets for any- and everyone! —DougWalter
  

2007-11-16 23:30:02   Doug! Question! (are you hiring?) Email me, accurso.michelle @ gmail.com —MichelleAccurso

2007-12-26 10:13:20   Thanks for the tip Doug. I know about the site, but I just couldn't picture what buildings were there. Are there tin sheds there? The superfund page does not illuminate. —EdHenn

2008-02-02 00:52:37   Doug, thank you, you are quite kind! And it is always my pleasure to feed the lovely people of the DFC. —PopsicleGirl

2008-12-10 21:27:41   Hi Doug, I remember participating on a Co-op committee years ago which was developing a new landscape plan for the parking lot after the remodel. There was a lot of talk about adding fruit trees, making a kind of working orchard out front, work committees to do the pruning, etc. It was all pretty idealistic. All I could think about was fruit plopping down onto cars on hot summer days. Fortunately (or not), wiser heads prevailed. The figs may be a relic of that whole process! —DonShor

2008-12-12 12:24:57   Now you did it! It's up to you now to change that to past tense later tonight! ;D —JabberWokky

2008-12-14 11:37:37   Hey now... don't joke about that. Having an incorrect tense on a wiki entry once killed my father. It was in the great grammar winter of '13, and a stray "is", caught by the gale winds, lodged in his leg. Later that winter he developed a fatal case of the gerunds. —JabberWokky

• LOL! —DougWalter
  

2009-02-09 15:41:07   digdug did you put the souperbowl on the events calender? —StevenDaubert

2009-04-26 19:40:34   And nice catch on Mitchell！ I was following the MSNBC draft list, and they had him erroneously listed as a UCD player (I should have double checked). And, you're right about coloring the table rows; it's a lot easier to read. —TheAmazingLarry

2009-07-16 09:14:17   Yeah, I kinda guessed they may have closed, which is why it was a seed... I had planned to look up and see if they were still open. Thanks for the edit. —JabberWokky

2009-08-05 20:18:05   Nice idea for an entry, but you might want to find points to distinguish it from the Fruit core group, and on the wiki, the free food entry. —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards

2009-08-13 18:28:24   Hey Doug Tell Donna her old friend from Morristown High is looking to get in touch. Still here 80 Maple Ave. Morris Plains, NJ 07950 —magdaskitchen@yahoo.com

2009-10-04 15:43:44   Have you given a listen to Blackmore's Night? I'm not saying you'd like it, but you might. A friend here found that I liked Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention and we had a brief listening party at his place. He was picking out songs, so I can't speak for the band in general (and yes, it's Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple). —JabberWokky

2009-10-28 18:45:07   This week and next week are the two biggest weeks for midterms. All my classes this quarter have their midterms in this period. I know that myself and OliviaY were kept away by studying. Yes, we could have changed the date, but eh.... —WilliamLewis

• Too bad, then, but I guess it's ultimately an "eh..." and catch you both sometime in the future. —DougWalter