David Pritchett, a lover of creeks, fish, and wildlife and a former Santa Barbara Metropolis Council candidate, died on August 2 on the age of 59 in Reno, Nevada. His spouse, Kathryn Savage, famous in a social media publish that “He handed peacefully, with out ache, with our household holding his fingers. If such a factor exists, he had a very good dying.”
In Santa Barbara, Pritchett was identified for his thorny, outspoken method whereas serving on town’s creeks advisory fee and on the fee for transportation and circulation. He was in favor of making situations to induce steelhead to thrive, and inspiring various transportation, safer situations on Milpas Avenue, and “traffic-calming” gadgets like bulb-outs, all sizzling points through the 2009 marketing campaign.
Regionally, Pritchett is perhaps greatest identified for being the marketing campaign supervisor of Cathy Murillo’s bid to be elected to the Santa Barbara Metropolis Council in 2011 and her mayoral race in 2018. Each campaigns have been profitable. Pritchett himself ran unsuccessfully for council in 2009. They have been married on the time however divorced a number of years later.
Pritchett was a wildlife biologist, working for U.S. Fish & Wildlife and likewise as a non-public marketing consultant. He took a short lived job in Atlanta as a federal organic marketing consultant on a improvement undertaking and later moved to Nevada, the place he continued his civic activism. To acknowledge his profession caring for public lands in addition to his work with Reno’s Recreation and Parks Fee and different organizations, town’s mayor, Hillary L. Schieve, declared July 27 to be David Pritchett Day.
Pritchett had obtained a prognosis of pancreatic most cancers on March 13, however a routine substitute of a therapy stent had brought about a sepsis that led to renal failure. He was in hospice care at dwelling when he died.
One in every of Pritchett’s pet initiatives was the Truckee Meadows Parks Basis, which brings youth and households to the valley outdoors Reno carved by the Truckee River and to the parks within the surrounding counties. Kathryn Savage requested {that a} remembrance in honor of David Pritchett be made to the nonprofit Truckee Meadows.
https://www.tmparksfoundation.org/
