Interview of Dennis C. Scherzer by Meda Okelo. Topics include; coming from Akron, Ohio, then San Francisco to EPA in 1974; getting married to Marilyn Scott in 1975; relationship with musician Norman Fontaine and his band Pyramid; EPA in the 1970s; his job as manager of the CommunityFarm and why it closed; other plots that he farmed; county infrastructure issues; serving on the East Palo Alto Sanitary District Board starting in 1982 and then again later after being the general manager, his experiences, the problems, accomplishments and future issues; his children attending Ravenswood Children’s Center and then schools outside East Palo Alto; memories of Gertrude Wilks, Pat Johnson, Warnell Coates, James Taylor “JT” Howell and many others; the battle for incorporation; involvement in Just Us, an anti-drug neighborhood group; Norman Fontaine Day; successes and frustrations of life as public official; and EPA priorities for the future.