Early on the morning of Saturday, April 25, more than 420 volunteers fanned out across the city as part of Lakewood’s annual Volunteer Day effort. The volunteers came from 28 community groups and businesses and worked on more than 27 sites helping neighbors and neighborhoods. Most of the projects aided elderly and disabled residents with work around their yard and home. The volunteer workers filled nine semi-truck sized dumpsters and nine smaller ones as they cleared the overgrown front and backyards. Full story

Both Todd and Rynerson entered Lakewood’s story as volun­teers, with a volunteer’s vision that something for their commu­nity needed to be done, and they were prepared to do it.

Todd was a tireless advo­cate of munici­pal contract­ing, helping to form the California Contract Cities Association and advising other communities that sought to incorporate under Todd’s “contract city” plan. Rynerson was a League of Women Voters volunteer, one of the founders of Project Shepherd (Lake­wood’s assistance program for families and seniors in need), and an alternate member of the Coastal Commission and the Metro­politan Transportation District regional advisory board.

Now that they are gone, who is taking their place in Lakewood’s ongoing story? Full story