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Press Release Archive ~ August 2004 Youths Study Nonviolence - 08/31/04 Oakland ~ In June, Alexzandria Timms lost her 15-year old brother, Jeremee, to gun violence in East Oakland ... more >> College Offers Free Clinic for Kids - 08/31/04 Samuel Merritt College in Oakland is looking for children with learning disabilities and other difficulties to participate in a free occupational therapy clinic ... more >> Cal Honors Historic Black Woman - 08/31/04 Berkeley ~ For the first time in UC Berkeley's 136-year history, a university building was renamed Monday to honor an African-American woman ... more >> Oakland Library Wins State Award - 08/30/04 The Oakland Public Library is pleased to announce receipt of a California Council for Humanities California Stories: California Story Fund Award for an oral history project on the pre-World War II generation of Oakland Chinese Americans ... more >> Golden Day for Oakland - 08/30/04 A 10-count chanted by a choir us of euphoric voices burst from a Hayward home Sunday as Oakland boxing phenomenon Andre Ward closed in on the gold that his father assured him waited at the end of the Olympic rainbow ... more >> School Days are Here, Again - 08/30/04 Oakland public schools open their doors to students Sept. 7, while some private facilities are set to start class tomorrow ... more >> 'Tip-a-Cop' at Kincaid's to Benefit Special Olympics - 08/25/04 Oakland ~ A nice view, good food and the opportunity to give a police officer orders is the luncheon fare today as part of a "Tip-a-Cop" fund-raiser at Kincaid's Restaurant in Jack London Square ... more >> 2 Matches Stand Between Oakland Boxer and Gold - 08/25/04 Oakland ~ Tiffiney Ward was shopping when she heard her husband, Oakland resident Andre Ward, had won his Olympic boxing match in Athens, Greece ... more >> Girls Invited to Try Out for Rowing Team - 08/24/04 The Jack London Aquatic Center invites Oakland high school girls to join its 2004-2005 rowing team. The cost is $75 per semester, and some fee waivers are available ... more >> Lincoln Child Center to Get New Playground - 08/24/04 Several hundred Oakland residents, community volunteers and staff from the Home Depot will build a state-of-the-art playground based on local children's drawings at the Lincoln Child Center, 4368 Lincoln Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 26. The project has been organized by Home Depot and KaBOOM!, a national non-profit organization that aims for all children to have safe, fun play opportunities in their communities ... more >> Adding Color to Oakland StreetFest - 08/24/04 Oakland ~ What looks like three jumbo white panels of wood at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center on Monday will by Sunday be a colorful mural celebrating Chinatown festivals ... more >> Oakland Stairway Movin' On Up - 08/23/04 The Friends of the Cleveland Cascade are having a work party today from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. in their ongoing efforts to restore the unique multilevel stairway linking Merritt Street to Lakeshore Avenue ... more >> Asthma Camp Helps Kids Breathe - 08/23/04 Nearly 120 Bay Area children with asthma will begin a three-day camp today to help them gain skills in managing the potentially life-threatening respiratory illness ... more >> Salsa Festival Spices Up New Fruitvale Image - 08/23/04 Oakland ~ A tasty picante salsa does not just melt paint of the wall. A perfect muy picante salsa, the kind mom used to make, will tease your mouth with a slight tang, then kick you in the rump with a flash of fire ... more >> "Honoring Lake Merritt’s Birds" - 08/20/04 
A dancer, 2 vocalists and visual artist have joined creative forces to celebrate and honor the birds of the North America’s oldest wildlife refuge at Lake Merritt ... more >> Graceful Guinea Reunion in Oakland - 08/20/04 Oakland ~ Alseny Soumah has lived far away from Guinea, West Africa, for many years. But this week, his country and its people have arrived in Oakland, filling his heart and the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts with the sounds of drumbeats and his homeland ... more >> Temescal Looks to Shine with Fair - 08/19/04 Oakland ~ If other Temescal residents have the same urge as Kenny Mostern -- the urge to dance on Telegraph Avenue -- their chance will come this weekend ... more >> Civilians Saluted for Helping Police - 08/19/04 Oakland ~ Forty-three men and women who volunteer their time at the Police Department helping fill gaps caused by budget reductions were honored for their efforts Wednesday night at a recognition dinner at the Waterfront Plaza Hotel ... more >> Workshop to Advise Potential Home Buyers - 08/17/04 Oakland ~ The Afro-American Construction Workers Association and area lenders are holding a three-hour workshop Saturday to help low- and moderate-income families learn how to repair or build credit and qualify to purchase a home in West Oakland or other areas of the city ... more >> Exhibit Helps Tongans Reconnect with Heritage - 08/17/04 Oakland ~ When Siu Tuita pounds strips of soft fleshy wood bark from a paper mulberry tree into tapa cloth, or ngatu, she is preserving her cultural Tongan heritage for future generations and creating a beautiful work of art ... more >> Fenton's to Create a 50-foot Sundae - 08/17/04 Fentons Creamery owner Scott Whidden knows how to stay cool under pressure. Fifteen to 20 organizations ask him and the Piedmont Avenue ice cream institution to support their causes each week ... more >> Fair Hopes to Teach About Youth Services in Oakland - 08/17/04 Oakland ~ More than 20 East Oakland youth organizations will come together this week to show the city's young people they can find all the services they need without leaving the area during the East Oakland WomenFirst Youth Extravaganza on Thursday afternoon ... more >> Elephant Warming to a New Habitat - 08/17/04 Oakland -- Osh, the young male elephant who arrived at the Oakland Zoo in March, is getting his feet wet on public display in the African elephant habitat ... more >> Oaklanders Make a Date with Super 8 - 08/17/04 Oakland ~ There's no place like home movies. They're worlds away, where movie magic truly charms the heart, bringing your long-gone grandmother back to life in a halcyon flutter and a moving memory. There she is, ageless and elegant, enchanting guests a hundred smiles an hour at cousin Pinky's wedding, the one where all the bridesmaids wore red-and-white-striped dresses and looked like big, yet delicate, after-dinner peppermints ... more >> They're Here - 08/17/04 Residents in Rockridge are upset about a new tree pest. It's not a killer, they says, but it's making a mighty big mess ... more >> Oakland Volunteers Handy for Seniors - 08/17/04 Salem Lutheran Home residents enjoy monthly manicure parties ... more >> Your 'Junk,' Their Treasure - 08/17/04 It's nearing the end of the summer, and that garage you promised yourself you'd clean out still looks like a pack-rat's storage shed. And the attic? Let's not even go there. Let's just say the bats in the belfry can barely find a place to sleep ... more >> For the Community ... - 08/16/04 The City of Oakland's Youth Jazz Camp and the Children's Art Camp proudly presents For the Community ..., an event to celebrate the many activities that were learned thoughout the youth camps ... more >> Temescal District Will Hold Street Fair - 08/16/04 The upcoming Temescal Street Fair, on Saturday from noon until 6 p.m., will feature live music, crafts, martial arts demonstrations and food samplings from local restaurants, including an Italian beer and wine garden, a tribute to days gone by when the district once flourished with beer gardens and canteens ... more >> Nonprofit Lets Youth Act Up All Over City - 08/16/04 Oakland ~ Last week, a stage play by Opera Piccola, an after-school performing arts program, had just ended at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in East Oakland. A Havenscourt Middle School eighth-grader promptly gave his review to Susannah Wood, project administrator. "That touched my soul," he said ... more >> Oakland Activists to Offer New Backpacks to Youths - 08/16/04 Oakland ~ Backpacks. Children heading back to school need them, and community leaders are working to provide them for students in low-income households ... more >> Oakland Announces Expansion of Hours at Its Libraries - 08/12/04 Oakland ~ The Oakland Public Library is pleased to announce that it will be expanding all neighborhood branch libraries to a six day schedule beginning Saturday, September 11, 2004 ... more >> Community Gardening Summer Newsletter - 08/12/04 
The Office of Parks and Recreation, Community Gardening has just released its summer edition of their Garden Talk Newsletter. The Summer Newsletter provides insightful information and wonderful tips on gardening ... more >> UNCF Annual Walk A Thon - 08/11/04 
The Northern California San Francisco Bay Area Office of the United Negro College Fund Inc. invites you to put on your walking shoes and join them as they celebrate 20 years of Walking For Education around beautiful Lake Merritt in Oakland ... more >> Summer School Exhibit - 08/10/04 
The Office of Parks and Recreation is inviting everyone to view the Oakland Fine Arts Summer School Exhibit at The Museum of Children's Art (MOCA) ... more >> Historic black politician is honored - 08/09/04 Today's walking tour sponsored by the Oakland Heritage Alliance (OHA) is "New Era New Politics," an exploration of downtown Oakland, with a focus on such local leaders as Lionel Wilson, Ronald Dellums and Byron Rumford ... more >> Oakland library helps voters register online - 08/09/04 The Oakland Public Library will be kicking off its voter registration drive this year with a new feature: online registration ... more >> Oaks keep players growing on, off field - 08/09/04 Oakland -- The good news never seemed to stop coming to the Oakland Oaks this summer ... more >> Work under way at Berkley square - 08/09/04 Ground has been broken at Thomas L. Berkley Square -- named for the late Oakland hills resident, attorney and newspaper publisher, who died in 2002 after working to ethnically integrate his enterprises and community ... more >> Putting hope in a backpack - 08/09/04 Each year, as summer begins to fade, a sense of possibility starts to brighten in the minds of school children ... more >> Play has no bounds in Oakland area - 08/09/04 A New Barrier-Free Play Area, the first and so far the only one in Northern California, is now open at Roberts Regional Recreation Area in the Oakland hills ... more >> Artist gives objects new life - 08/09/04 Artist Michaal Grbich, 72, is the first to admit that he's hyperactive. While discussing his "heavy metal" art, now on display at Montclair Gallery, Grbich flitted about his home, which also serves as an art gallery and dance studio in the Broadway Terrace hills ... more >> Park Boulevard seeks volunteers for planting - 08/09/04 The Glenview Neighborhood Association of Oakland seeks volunteers to help plant the Park Boulevard Median Strip ... more >> Rose garden volunteers needed - 08/09/04 The Grand Lake Grime Busters and the Grand Lake Kiwanis Club are seeking volunteers to help maintain the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses, also known as the Oakland Rose Garden ... more >> Temescal Pool Reopens - 08/03/04 The Office of Parks and Recreation, Aquatics Unit reopened the doors to Temescal Pool on Monday August 2, 2004. The newly renovated pool is now open to the public and the Aquatics Unit will be adjusting DeFremery and Temescal Pool schedules. Please review the schedule for Temescal Pool ... more >> Lake Merritt Boating Center programs voted Best of the Bay! - 08/02/04 Readers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian say that Lake Merritt is the best place for a sailing trip on a budget ... more >> Officials break ground on Berkley Square - 08/02/04 With shiny silver shovels glinting in the sun, an Oakland developer and county officials broke ground Thursday on a large new development they heralded as a cornerstone of economic revitalization for the uptown area ... more >> Pupils pick up trash, new words in park - 08/02/04 Cleaning up Clinton Square Park in the Eastlake district means more than just picking up trash and pulling weeds to the 150 Oakland Adult Education Program students who participated in the day-long activity Friday ... more >> Volunteers busy catching feral cats at Joaquin park - 08/02/04 The sun had set an hour ago, and Merry Bates was waiting in a parking lot near Joaquin Miller Park. She stood alone, except for a couple of cats ... more >> |
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