Archive for April, 2009
Your weekend: Dining out for life
I know I’m running a little late on this one, folks, but better late than never: Tonight a number of restaurants on the Island and beyond will participate in Dining Out for Life, an annual fundraiser for AIDS service organizations.
Here’s how it works: Eat dinner at a participating restaurant and they’ll donate 25 percent of [...]
Fernside tree hearing tonight
Hey, city watchers! Looked at the city’s website recently and wondered what that generic “public hearing” noticed for tonight is for? Well, we just got a note from the author of the Alamedalorax blog that it’s about those trees the city has said could be cut down along Fernside Avenue.
The tree removal notices are posted [...]
Tough times for local chamber
Times have been tough for businesses big and small. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the impacts of this unraveling economy would fall on organizations that support businesses, including our local chamber of commerce.
Memberships at the chamber have declined, but the chamber’s director insists the agency is still viable and working hard to promote local [...]
The Island comments: Following the fire
The flames that conquered a dilapidated medical records depot last month shed light on an unsettling truth: Our city lacks the ability to quickly, fully and accurately inform us when a major disaster happens.
When city and air quality officials decided to issue a shelter-in-place advisory for residents a mile downwind of the fire, they opted [...]
School district offers swine flu guidance
District officials are asking parents to keep their sick kids at home for a few days in an effort to help stop the spread of swine flu.
The district is asking parents to keep sick children at home and to promptly pick up children from school if they are discovered to be sick while there. They’re [...]
Happy Anniversary!
Sounds like Island-based Peet’s Coffee & Tea is bucking the trend toward bad economic news, posting positive financial results for the first quarter of 2009.
The company showed first quarter diluted earnings per share of 23 cents, an increase of 53 percent from the previous year, on a net income of $3.1 million for the quarter. [...]
Island sports: Alameda Girls Softball Association update
Game Recaps Saturday, April 25, 2009
AGSA 6U
McDonald’s/Alameda Pediatric Dental Blue Dolphins vs. Piedmont Purple Leopards
The Blue Dolphins are showing some real finesse! The sixth game of the season was sunny and loads of fun. Iris Phillips and Suraya Picaso showed off their knowledge of the finer details, both making extreme care to lay the bat [...]
The 77 percenters
Today Alameda celebrates Equal Pay Day – well, it’s not a celebration, exactly. It’s a recognition that women in this country still earn far less on average than men, more than four decades since the initiation of the modern women’s rights movement.
According to the folks at Isle City of Alameda, which is the local chapter [...]
Truckin’
Sounds like some of the businesses at Alameda Towne Centre are having a hard time complying with rules that prohibit late-night and early-morning truck deliveries.
Logs kept by the shopping center’s security guards show that trucks turned up at the center almost daily between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., sometimes up to seven [...]
Island sports: Alameda Little League update
Majors’ Division
Shooting Stars Photography Astros 18, Morgan Stanley, Bail Group Athletics 4
The Astros rocketed away from the A’s over the final four innings on April 25 after a tight 5-4 start. Nice catches by Astros outfielders Jamie Nemzer and Mitchell Nakahara and shutout efforts by Astros pitchers John Huntoon, Joe Hausner, and Anthony Bonino ended [...]
School district softens LGBT curriculum
Officials at Alameda Unified are offering a new and softer version of their proposed LGBT lessons for students in the district’s elementary schools to the school board at its meeting Tuesday. (Check under “Hot Topics” when you click the link.)
A public hearing on the proposed curriculum is set for May 12, and the board could [...]
