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May 2005 Press Release Archive Celebrate National Recreation and Parks Month - May 24  Come Out and Play the OPR Way! July is National Recreation and Parks month and the City of Oakland Office of Parks and Recreation is celebrating by hosting events throughout the City. There's fun for the whole family! Festivities kick off at Play Day on the Plaza - Friday, July 1 from 12-2 p.m. in front of Oakland City Hall … more >>Oakland Ballet returns to stage - May 24 The Oakland Ballet will return to the stage in October for an abbreviated schedule of 11 performances -- two mixed-bill programs plus "Nutcracker" … more >> Weeklong field trip introduces kids to live critters - May 24 A few dozen youngsters from out of town sloshed through the mud looking for non-local critters at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park last week. Their messy search was part of a weeklong field trip organized by a Midwest university and an East Coast science center … more >> Alzheimer's patients unlock minds in art - May 16 The pictures they paint in their weekly art classes are simple images — strawberries, flowers, an owl, a human face. But often — and sometimes without even knowing it — the men and women enrolled in classes at the Alzheimer's Center of the East Bay paint personally meaningful symbols from lives that are fading from their memories … more >> Parks worker coaches teens in life - May 16 By all appearances, Darlene Lee, 64, is an unlikely park bouncer, with her slim frame, and short-cropped haircut. She dresses causally in jeans and a fleece jacket, and wears jade green bangle bracelets. But on a recent sunny afternoon at Lincoln Square Recreation Center, a park in Oaklands Chinatown, she stood ready to jump in the middle of a fight about to break out between two dozen Asian-American teenagers … more >> Oakland runner has no plans to slow down at 60 - May 9 There are a lot of reasons Len Goldman runs, and winning awards is not high on the list. But the 60-year-old Oakland resident will graciously accept one, anyway, when he picks up the Road Runners Club of America's Male Masters 2004 Runner of the Year award May 14 at the group's national convention … more >> Merritt College will celebrate 50 years - May 9 Merritt College will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a community learning center Friday. The sold-out evening event will feature music by artists Xecutive Sweet, Jacqueline Hairston and the Traveling Voices Choir, John Turk and John Handy. The two-year college, named after Oakland pioneer Samuel Merritt … more >> Oakland nature lovers need volunteers - May 9 Friends of Temescal Creek are looking for volunteers to help the group measure the creek's water quality. Temescal Creek runs from the Oakland hills to the Bay. It is mostly hidden under a culvert through Montclair and Rockridge but pops up around different parts of its length … more >> Little strangers warm hearts of nursing home residents - May 9 The tune "Pop Goes the Weasel" plays as two infants, held by their mothers, share a toy and a smile with older women at Piedmont Gardens senior facility. Sitting around the activity room, nine residents of the Oakland facility, most of whom are in wheelchairs, await a turn to hold, kiss or simply stroke the tiny feet of 10-month-old Elijah Geduldig and Luke Rorer. They are part of the Moms and Babies volunteer program … more >> Cinco de Mayo festival salutes Mexican heritage - May 9 Thousands of people packed Oakland's Fruitvale district Sunday to celebrate Cinco de Mayo beneath a blue sky thinly laced with gossamer clouds and brightly polka-dotted with escaping balloons. The annual fiesta filled nearly nine closed blocks of International Boulevard with an upbeat crowd energized by music loud enough to wake los muertos … more >> Kaleidoscope of butterflies alight, ready to be picked up for free - May 9 Oakland artist Nancy Mizuno Elliott was tired of selling -- selling her work to collectors, herself to galleries. The antidote, she decided, was to give her art away instead … more >> Tour awakens memories in anchor - May 9 Over the years, Ron Claiborne has returned to Oakland, but he hadn't walked down memory lane until Wednesday's assignment for ABC's "Good Morning America" … more >> Students take seniors out to a ballgame - May 9 Undoubtedly, at least a few of the students in teacher Nancy Karell's eighth-grade leadership class had some stereotypes shattered recently. All it took was an Oakland A's game, a hot dog, an umbrella or two, and the ability to look beyond the graying hair … more >> Literacy project enlists author/illustrator - May 9 Students at Santa Fe Elementary School in Oakland were treated to something novel this week when they wrote a story with children's book author/illustrator Marissa Moss … more >> |
Related links: - Contra Costa Times - Convention Center - East Bay Express - KTOP - Oakland Tribune - SF Chronicle - SF Examiner |
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