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Supervisors to Decide on San Lorenzo Project WEEKEND WEATHER FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY WARM Early clouds, late sun HIGHS:69-74 } 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 } LOWS:53-58 San Leandro Times AN INDEPENDENT HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SERVING SAN LEANDRO, ASHLAND, SAN LORENZO AND SHEFFIELD VILLAGE VOL. 29 • NO. 27 THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2019 SAN LEANDRO • CALIFORNIA Supervisors to Decide on San Lorenzo Project Village Green project goes to Alameda County Supervisors By Jim Knowles San Leandro Times The Alameda County Board feasible if all the workers are paid of Supervisors will decide next a union wage. Tuesday whether to OK a new A lawyer representing Dem- apartment project in the long-va- mon, Rob Selna, said the unions cant, former Mervyn’s site in the don’t really want an environmen- middle of San Lorenzo. see SUPERVISORS, page 8 San Lorenzans have always mourned the loss of the original Mervyn’s that was the heart of town. When it closed in 1995, adjoining smaller stores fell Saag’s shortly after like dominos leaving an empty slab of concrete for over Closing two decades at Hesperian Boule- PHOTO BY DENIS PEREZ vard and Paseo Grande. Kaleb Johnson, an 11th grader from San Leandro, does a wheelie on his bicycle in front of Vic’s Bike Shop on If the project is approved, the SL Plant East 14th Street. Village Green apartment complex will fill that vacant property with By Denis Perez 163 apartments in five buildings San Leandro Times that will be four-stories tall. Smithfield Foods shut down Wheeling Around Town If the supervisors say no, the production of the 41-year-old vacant property will remain an Saag’s Products sausage factory Teens say biking gives them a sense of community; some empty lot in the center of San in San Leandro and will be laying Lorenzo, right across Hesperian off 81 workers. drivers hostile, but most kids keep it peaceful and fun from the long abandoned Loren- Continuing production in zo Theater. the San Leandro facility at 1799 By Denis Perez He refers to being in a group of 10 or “When you are in the middle of a ride The plan was approved by Factor Ave. would no longer be San Leandro Times more riders taking over a part of the street. like that, all your problems go away,” the county planning commission cost-efficient, said a Smithfield Warm days and summer vacation drive a “When we ride out as a group it is safe Garcia said. in February, but a labor group spokesperson. number of San Leandro youth to congregate, to ride in the street,” he said. Garcia and a group of around 20 young filed an appeal to block it on the “Smithfield recently made the ride bikes, do tricks and create a culture. When they do ride on the street, Garcia bicyclists met up in front of Vic’s Bike Shop grounds of the California Envi- difficult, but necessary decision “It feels hella good,” says one of these said it is to be able to do tricks and ride on East 14th at around 5 p.m. on June 18. ronmental Quality Act (CEQA). to shift production from our San riders, 14-year-old Isaac Garcia. freely. see BIKES, page 8 The group of four trade unions Leandro, California facility to calls itself East Bay Residents for other Smithfield plants in order Responsible Development. to drive efficiency and optimize The unions say the developer, our production network,” Smith- Demmon Partners, has not given field’s Executive VP of Corporate them the construction work. But Affairs and Compliance Keira Hornet Met Apollo 11 Crew 50 Years Ago Demmon says the project isn’t see SAAG’S, page 14 By Jim Knowles When the astronauts came San Leandro Times back and landed in the Pacific, On the Fourth of July, a piece the Hornet was there to meet INSIDE YOUR TIMES of American history that you can them. First a crew of navy div- walk up to and touch is docked ers jumped from a helicopter to ■ SL MUSEUM Auto ......................6 right nearby in Alameda. place a flotation collar around Museum to screen Apollo 11 Calendar.................4 The U.S.S. Hornet is a mu- the capsule, until the ship could documentary. 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