ALAMEDA
The annual Relay for Life Alameda most cancers analysis fundraiser was held July 22 at Leydecker Park, that includes a number of commemorations of most cancers survivors, sufferers, victims and caretakers throughout the the day- and night-long occasion.
All proceeds from the Alameda Relay for Life occasion, California’s longest-serving American Most cancers Society (ACS) relay, will profit the ACS. Relay for Life has been held at varied venues in Alameda: final yr at Jean Sweeney Open Area Park and this yr at Bay Farm Island’s Leydecker Park, the place guests have been inspired to hitch within the stroll, pledge donations and buy luminaria to mild up the evening.
This yr’s theme was “Carnival,” and enjoyable actions for the general public adopted that concept. The Alameda group emphasised the hazard of pores and skin most cancers and accordingly supplied academic supplies, sunscreen, and lip safety for distribution. Because the relay concluded, the luminaria, crafted by Alameda Purple Cross youth and marked with the names of family members, lined the strolling path.
Alameda Kiwanis Membership member Denise Gasti anchored We Stroll As One, a group of pals, household and different Kiwanians who earned $3,800 to help survivors, sufferers and households. The Alameda restaurant Dragon Rouge contributed $380 in receipts. Alameda Kiwanis additionally thanks Tucker’s Ice Cream for donating ice cream on the market, including to the income.
As of Aug. 10, a complete of $49,000 for the ten Alameda groups had been donated to ACS, with presents nonetheless coming in. Anu additional donations could be made on-line at bit.ly/alamedarelayforlife2023.
— Patricia Bowen
Friday ceremony to have a good time path mission’s completion
The extremely anticipated completion of the San Francisco Bay Path Hole and Enhancements Challenge can be celebrated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, close to the town’s border with Alameda’s Bay Farm Island.
This phase closes a half-mile hole within the San Francisco Bay Path and tremendously improves security for pedestrians and bicyclists. The mission additionally features a renovated boat, kayak and paddleboard launch space, a repaved staging space car parking zone and one acre of marsh habitat restoration.
For media and invited visitors solely, the occasion program will embrace excursions of the brand new boat launch space and have Corey Lillard, the MLK Jr. Multicultural Rally Committee’s president, East Bay Regional Park District Deputy Normal Supervisor Dr. Ana M. Alvarez: and EBRPD Board Director Ellen Corbett. The occasion can be on the Doolittle Boat Launch Staging Space on the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at 7250 Doolittle Drive in Oakland.
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Free dental process helps Island man pay for faculty
A Bay Space medical apply has introduced the recipient of its second annual Knowledge For Knowledge program. Tyler Middleton, 24, of Alameda, had his knowledge enamel eliminated free of charge by Dr. Andrew Morrow at 7×7 Dental Implant and Oral Surgical procedure Specialists in San Francisco. The financial savings will let Middleton put aside extra funds for his MBA.
“As an undergraduate pupil who has not too long ago paid off my pupil debt, this process holds immense worth for me,” Middleton stated. “By prioritizing my dental well being now, I can deal with my research and profession with confidence, understanding that I’ve taken needed steps to keep up general well-being.”
Middleton, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduate, was among the many hundreds of school college students nationwide who by no means received to stroll the stage at their commencement throughout the pandemic in 2020.
— Neha Gowda
Native creator to learn from new guide ‘Tule City’ on Sunday
As election politics additional divide city and rural America, a memoir arrives with its true story of a broken-hearted liberal who remodeled his life in a conservative farm city.
“Tule City, a Memoir of Hellraising Redemption,” by Alameda creator Terry Winckler, tells his story beginning at age 30 as he left the massive metropolis to change into a low-paid reporter on a tiny newspaper in California’s Central Valley.
A speaking salt shaker welcomed him to a world of “spectacularly atypical” individuals whose lives would encourage and assist rebuild his. They embrace Chuck, the poet laureate of outhouses, “ol’ Willis,” who beat sense into him with a frying pan, and “fence publish Jim,” who stood tall amid tragedy.
Winckler discovered all of them alongside the Tule River, the place he sought solace and legendary trout. The seven-year journey peaked atop the Sierra mountains, the place he noticed his path again to the Bay Space, which he considered then as “The Emerald Metropolis.” A guide studying by the creator is ready for two p.m. Sunday in Books Inc. at 1334 Park St. in Alameda.
— Terry Winckler
Property house owners can apply for metropolis’s Façade Grant Program
Town of Alameda’s Façade Grant Program supplies enterprise and property house owners with matching grants to enhance their storefronts and improve the town’s retail districts. This fiscal yr’s grant program opened for utility on Aug. 1.
Beneath the Façade Grant Program, enterprise and property house owners could also be eligible for matching grants as much as $15,000 for exterior portray, new awnings and indicators and refurbishment of architectural options. For particulars, go to bit.ly/3DPBUkQ on-line.
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