Archive for June, 2009
Council may place second fire measure on ballot
I got so wrapped up in this whole business about the Alameda Point initiative the other day I forgot to mention the other big electoral news from Saturday’s League of Women Voters meeting: The news that the city is creating a companion for the firefighters’ minimum staffing measure which is due to be set for [...]
Blue Rectangle holds Non-Profit Night tonight
Just got an e-mail from the good folks over at Blue Rectangle, and it sounds like they’ve been hosting a monthly Non-Profit Night. This month’s is at 7 p.m. today at the store, which is at 1355 Park Street.
Here’s how it works: Five or six nonprofits send representatives to the store for the event (signups [...]
Business retention survey online
Alameda’s Economic Development Commission wants to know how the city can best serve its business during these economically troubled times. They’ve posted a business support retention survey on their website.
The survey is short (10 questions) and anonymous. The deadline for participating is July 7. To get directly to the survey, click here.
Monday profile: Eddie Muller
When Eddie Muller says he’s a contemporary renaissance man, he’s not kidding: The onetime newsman has not only earned the nickname “Czar of Noir” for his authoritative tomes on film noir and his annual film festival, he’s written films, amassed materials for a boxing museum and concocted his own cocktail. (And that’s not even the [...]
City considering changes to Point measure
Sounds like Councilwoman Lena Tam caused a bit of a stir with her comments on the proposed Alameda Point development initiative at the local League of Women Voters’ annual meeting on Saturday.
As the Leaguers discussed their role in the anticipated election over SunCal’s Point development plan, Tam let it be known that the city is [...]
Today’s must read: Lauren Do on Mary Kenney
In case you missed it Friday, blogger Lauren Do did a really nice piece on Mary Kenney, who succumbed to cancer last Monday, June 22. She was 76.
Kenney, according to this bio on the website for Alameda’s Fourth of July Parade – for which she was to serve as a grand marshal – had a [...]
Relay for Life is today
Just wanted to put out a quick note that the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life starts at 10 a.m. today at Encinal High School.
Some 185 people on 24 teams will walk or run the track at Encinal for 24 hours for this fundraiser, and you’re invited to come support their efforts, learn more about [...]
On Point: City getting land for sports complex
Got a note over the weekend from a tipster who pointed out that the process for transferring a piece of the former Naval Air Station Alameda to the city is finally headed toward completion – a decade after the city asked for the land.
Richard Bangert forwarded me this notice the Navy published on its Base [...]
Unauthorized Stones rolling into Towne Centre
Just wanted to post up a little reminder to all you folks looking for things to do this weekend that The Unauthorized Rolling Stones will be doing a make-up gig at Alameda Towne Centre from noon to 2 this Saturday, June 27.
The band was supposed to kick off the shopping center’s Summer Serenade free concert [...]
District hires in-house counsel
Alameda Unified has hired a new general counsel to handle their legal matters: Danielle Houck.
Houck, an Island resident, is a graduate of the University at California, Davis School of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1998. She had worked as a senior associate at Ruiz & Sperow, and employment-focused law firm with a [...]
Your weekend: Have a field day
Attention, radioheads: The Amateur Radio Club of Alameda and Alameda’s Community Emergency Response Team are joining forces for this year’s Field Day, and they’ll be showing off all kinds of cool gear from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 27 at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.
Strictly speaking, Field Day is a contest designed [...]
