Archive for November, 2008
Your weekend: Ho ho ho!
Looking for something to do with the kids on this looong holiday weekend? Alameda Towne Centre is hosting a tree lighting event from 4 to 7 p.m. today in the heart of the mall. The event includes performances by the Piedmont Choir, Alameda Civic Ballet, Chipman Middle School Orchestra and Bay Farm and Franklin Choir.
The [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here’s hoping you all are enjoying the day with friends and family. And if you’re looking for some great food and company today, Christ Episcopal Church is hosting a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. They’re at 1700 Santa Clara Avenue. The Journal’s got the scoop right here.
NEA CHARTER APPROVED
The school board on Tuesday night approved a charter application for Nea Community Learning Center. The vote was 3-1, with Trustee Janet Gibson casting the sole vote against the charter and Board President Bill Schaff absent.
The charter will move forward pending an agreement with the district that must be signed by January 31, 2009. Separately, [...]
It’s … good!
A reader wrote in last week to ask if I could talk about the financial success of the new theater downtown. So I checked in with the city’s development services director, Leslie Little, who conveniently gave the city council a report card of sorts on just this topic last week. According to Little, the news [...]
Hope for the holidays: Building Futures with Women and Children
Vezelda Allen has struggled with drugs and domestic violence and was bouncing from hotel to hotel until about six months ago, when she finally decided she had enough. She called Building Futures with Women & Children’s crisis line, 1-866-A-WAY-OUT. It was the first step toward turning her life back around.
Allen has spent nearly six months [...]
Dahl retires from Alameda bank board
Can I just say that I appreciate the truth-in-advertising approach taken by the folks at Bank of Alameda? The bank and its corporate parent, NorCal Community Bancorp, just announced the retirement of one of the bank’s founders and a member of its board of directors, Robert K. Dahl, because, quote:
My difficult decision to retire from [...]
UPDATED Yea Nea?
UPDATED 1:27 p.m.
Tonight’s school board meeting promises to be an exciting one. The board will introduce our new superintendent, Kirsten Vital, and its members are slated to make a decision regarding Nea Community Learning Center’s application for a K-12 charter school that could, if approved, open next fall.
District staff is recommending the school board approve [...]
SunCal bankruptcies, part deux
So I’ve got a little bit more for you on those SunCal bankruptcies … looks like there are 27 cases total as of last Wednesday, when SunCal Oak Knoll LLC – the entity that was set up to develop the Oak Knoll project in Oakland – filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition in federal bankruptcy court [...]
The Magnificent Seven
The Planning Board is set to consider Alameda’s first major update of its transportation plan in 17 years. Nestled amid the eye-glazing details about street classifications, modal overlays and bus bulbs is a bold proposal to bar the widening of roads and intersections to accommodate new car traffic, which would force developers to find other [...]
Rat Fink rules!
Kudos are due to students in the College of Alameda’s Auto Body and Paint program, who took top honors in the California Autobody Association East Bay Chapter’s annual customized model truck design contest.
The students won second place overall and “educational best of show” for their “Rat Fink” model truck, which was inspired by cars designed [...]
The cost of doing business
So a lot of people have asked, and I’ve been wondering myself: How much did Alameda’s adventure in telecom cost the city?
How’s $60 million grab you?
I’ve been back and forth with Alameda Power & Telecom’s diligent and ever-patient spokesman, Matt McCabe, on this, and did a little research on my own, which I’ll reference and [...]
