Backyard Boosters; Local Volunteers Ross and Ann Quattlebaum Say They Love Monterey County, and They Walk the Talk.

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Later they discovered that Steve Addington, a photojournalist who passed away about one year ago, had founded the Bicycle-Equestrian Trail Assistance team (BETA) to ensure Fort Ord's land was given to the public and maintained. ("I've never known anybody who loved the land as much as [Addington] did," [Ann Quattlebaum] says.) BETA was doing exactly what the Quattlebaums hoped to accomplish themselves. They got involved immediately.

"We don't go outside the country," [Ross Quattlebaum] says of their travels. "We still haven't seen everything we want to see in this country."

Ann thumbs through Dennis Copeland's photographic history of Monterey, a collection entitled Monterey Album: Life by the Bay, and points to a photo of Judge Ray Baugh, her one-armed uncle and friend of John Steinbeck, dancing a cowboy-western jig circa 1950. She flips a couple more pages to a black-and-white photo of several young girls frolicking on a theater stage. "I remember that day," she says. "We were celebrating a friend's birthday at the First Theater; it was 1946."

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Backyard Boosters; Local Volunteers Ross and Ann Quattlebaum Say They Love Monterey County, and They Walk the Talk.

Ten years ago, hiking through El Toro Park, Ross and Ann Quattlebaum came across a trail littered with trash. They stopped hiking and began picking up litter. A park ranger saw the Quattlebaums at work and approached them.

"He told us they had volunteers...

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