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AYAY ROSSINGSROSSINGS “The VoiceBB of the Waterfront” CC September 2010 Vol.11, No.9

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columns features 16 SAILING ADVENTURES 08 PHOTO GALLERY Talk Sailor to Me! Saying Goodbye to the by Captain Ray Old Transbay Terminal 14 by Marjorie Blackwell 17 IT CAME FROM guides BENEATH THE SEA 12 GREEN PAGES Bay Salmon Runs Make Getting Hitched With a 06 WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES September Memorable Fresh Green Twist Our recreational resource guide by Kati Schmidt by Bill Picture WETA FERRY SCHEDULES 18 Be on time for last call THE DELTA BEAT 20 AROUND THE BAY Water Project Threatens news 22 To see, be, do, know Delta’s Fishing Bounty 04 Another ‘Ghost Ship’ by Jah Mackey Leaves Suisun Bay ON OUR COVER 05 WATERFRONT NEWS Port of Oakland Recycles Its Mammoth Cranes September 2010 Volume 11, Number 9 by Patrick Burnson Bobby Winston, Proprietor Joyce Aldana, President Joel Williams, Publisher Patrick Runkle, Editor 07 Futuristic Transbay Terminal Breaks Ground ADVERTISING & MARKETING Joel Williams, Advertising & Marketing Director CULTURAL CURRENTS GRAPHICS & PRODUCTION 11 Francisco Arreola, Designer / Web Producer Sports and Performing ART DIRECTION Francisco Arreola; Patrick Runkle; Joel Williams Arts Fuse at AT&T Park

COLUMNISTS by Paul Duclos Captain Ray Wichmann; Paul Duclos; Patrick Burnson; Deb Self; Jah Mackey; Kati Schmidt Rocketship Sculpture WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS 14 Bill Picture; Joel Williams; Comes to Embarcadero The $4.2 billion , which promises to Marjorie Blackwell be the “Grand Central Station of the West,” broke ground ACCOUNTING BAYKEEPER in downtown San Francisco on August 14. When the new Cindy Henderson 21 Crossword Challenge Center emerges on the site of the old Transbay Termimal Advertising Inquiries: in August 2017, it promises to launch a new era of urban (707) 556-3323, [email protected] transportation. It will link eight Bay Area counties with 11 Bay Crossings Ferry Building, #22 bus and rail systems — in one modern, regional hub. See the San Francisco, CA 94111 Corrections & Letters article on the groundbreaking on Page 7, and a photo gallery www.baycrossings.com We appreciate the opportunity to publish our readers' bidding farewell to the old Transbay Terminal on Page 8. comments, letters or requests for corrections, which can A Division of Nematode Media, LLC be sent to [email protected]. Image courtesy of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Rendering courtesy of Transbay Joint Powers Authority.

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WATERFRONT NEWS Another ‘Ghost Ship’ Removed 415.773.1188 www.blueandgoldfleet.com From Suisun Bay for Scrapping

The enchanting nautical experience begins when passengers board Blue & Gold Fleet boats that sail on . Blue & Gold Fleet is the largest excursion and commuter ferry service provider in the Bay Area.

ay Ship & Yacht, located in the Coast Guard-enforced Invasive Alameda on San Francisco Species Act, and towed to Texas for Bay, has completed scrapping. There are currently no hydro-blasting the hull licensed facilities for scrapping ships and superstructure, and on the west coast; however, plans are finished its seawirthiness inspection underway to establish a ship recycling Bof, the decommissioned USS Florikan. facility at the former U.S. Navy facility San Francisco Bay Cruise Adventure An hour long cruise along the The ship, shown above, was brought to at in Vallejo. City’s historic waterfront, right past the sea lions, under the Golden the shipyard’s 388’ x The Florikan Gate Bridge, by Sausalito, past Angel Island and around Alcatraz. 84’ drydock prior was a Chanticleer- Sausalito & Tiburon A comfortable ride across the San Francisco Bay to being towed to There are currently class submarine to the two Marin seaside villages of Sausalito and Tiburon to enjoy shopping, Texas for scrapping. rescue ship. She was dining or an easy stroll around town. The Florikan will no licensed facilities launched in June be one less ship in for scrapping ships 1942 by Moore Dry Angel Island A State park and wildlife reserve. Angel Island is the U.S. Maritime both a great picnic destination with hiking, kayak tours, an hour-long fully- on the West Dock Co., a shipyard narrated TramTour, as well as a historical site dating back to the U.S. Civil War. Administration’s Coast; however, plans once located in Reserve Fleet at Suisun Oakland, across Vallejo Sail to Vallejo, a waterfront community that includes the city’s Bay, which has been are underway to the estuary from Heritage District, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and family-friendly the subject of much establish a ship Bay Ship & Yacht’s Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park. concern and a high- recycling facility present shipyard in profile environmental Alameda. During Alameda & Oakland There’s dining in Jack London Square, the Farmer’s at the market on Sundays and jazz nightly. lawsuit. Originally World War II, the numbering more former U.S. Navy Florikan served than 100 ships, the facility at Mare Island at Pearl Harbor, “ghost fleet” has now in Vallejo. Midway, and Kiska, Blue & Gold Fleet at PIER 39 been reduced to only Alaska. She has a 57 ships, as one ship displacement of Beach Street & The Embarcadero after another has 1,780 long tons, a San Francisco been removed from the fleet, cleaned length of 251 feet, a beam of 42 feet, at a local shipyard to comply with and a draft of 14 feet, 3 inches.

4 September 2010 www.baycrossings.com WORKING WATERFRONT NEWS Port of Oakland Recycles Its Mammoth Cranes

By Patrick Burnson for the environment whenever possible. World Maritime Day to Combat their own. The council desires to be kept With the re-use of these cranes, we are Climate Change abreast of other World Maritime Day reducing waste and saving resources, activities. he Port of Oakland and Massport gets cranes that are ready When the United States Coast Guard The “Year of the Seafarer” in 2010 has added state-of-the- to be put in service.” hosted the primary World Maritime will provide an excellent opportunity to art super-post-Panamax The two Kocks cranes’ total weight Day in New York last year, a similar convey to seafarers (1.5 million strong cranes over the past equals approximately five million event gained traction here in the Bay worldwide) a clear message that the decade to handle the pounds. They use electrical power to Area. Now ports around the country are entire shipping community understands larger container ships that now transit operate, so there are no emissions in holding their own observances to provide the conditions under which they operate, theT globe. When the Alameda Naval the port area when they are in use. The valuable education, awareness and shows compassion for the sacrifices they Air Station was in service, however, barges taking the cranes to the Port of publicity on the maritime community’s make, and does care for them. Oakland used thousand-ton “low- Boston are beginning a month-long, efforts to combat climate change. profile” cranes to accommodate flight- 6,300-mile waterborne journey that The Navy League of the United path safety issues. will take them through the Panama States Pacific Merchant Marine Council For more information, Bay Since the base closure, those Canal and up the east coast to their new will have a program on 2010 World Crossings readers may cranes are no longer needed here. home at Conley Container Terminal. Maritime Day “Year of the Seafarer” at its contact Phelps Hobart, In the meantime, the Massachusetts The Kocks container cranes from luncheon on Monday, September 20. The President of the Pacific Port Authority (Massport) needs low- the Port of Oakland have a boom Council welcomes other organizations to Merchant Marine Council at profile cranes due to the proximity outreach of 150 feet. Each crane can participate in this luncheon on the S.S. (415) 544-0100. of its container terminal to Boston lift as much as 50 Long Tons (112,000 Jeremiah O’Brien or to host activities of Logan International Airport. The lbs.) in one lift. These cranes are Port of Oakland and Massport have 132 feet high (about the height of a recently cooperated so that the cranes 12-story building) and are expected from Oakland can be re-used at the to arrive in Boston by mid-September. east coast facility. The first part of this Rigging International of Alameda (a engineering feat has been completed; in member of the Sarens Group, Belgium) Voted “most romantic August, the cranes were loaded aboard is responsible for the entirety of the Catch a Great Deal a barge and pulled away from Berth 37 cranes’ journey and for their setup getaway” in Best of Solano poll at the Port of Oakland. in Boston. The low-profile cranes in to SF Giants games Up to 24 sailings daily Port of Oakland Maritime Director Oakland were replaced by Evergreen’s www.baylinkferry.comvisit to/from Vallejo and the SF Ferry James Kwon said, “We are pleased that new super post-Panamax cranes that for details Building with stops at our low-profile container cranes are arrived in March of this year. The Fisherman’s Wharf/ new Evergreen cranes had to be fully going to be put to good use at Massport. Family fares now available This demonstrates how the port operational before the low-profile industry is making conscious decisions cranes could be removed.

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Every 6PM – 8PM - Wednesday Night Sail, OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Wednesday This two-hour skippered charter is a great way to break up a long week. We’ll be sailing from 6 to 8 pm and follow that with a chili and chowder social. Don’t miss this great opportunity for a mid-week break! On September 1st this sail is on the Seaward, an 82’ schooner, followed by a free BBQ! Cost is $40.

September 4 10AM – 2PM - Kayak Basics: Oakland Estuary, California Canoe & Kayak, 800-366-9804, www.calkayak.com Are you ready to try kayaking? Maximize your fun on the water! This half-day class allows you to paddle a few different types of kayaks, including Touring Kayaks (for open water), Recreational Kayaks, and Sit-on-Tops. Learn the basic strokes and the difference between boat types. This class emphasizes basic water safety, but saves capsize recovery practice for the Beginning Sea Kayaking class. Cost is $59, includes coupon for future rental, good for 2 hours!

September 7 7PM – 10PM - Navigation 1, OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Consider this course the nuts and bolts of navigation. Everything a sailor needs navigationally to successfully day sail in the US. Cost is $25 and reservations are required.

September 11 8:30AM – 5PM - Charter Share Sail Out the Gate, Club Nautique Sailing School & Charters, Sausalito, (415) 332-8001, www.clubnautique.net Climb on board one of our offshore equipped boats with some fellow sailing buddies and get a taste of the open sea as you head “out the gate” to the San Francisco Buoy and back. Cost: Members: $120 /Non-Members: $160

September 11 9AM – 5PM - Sailboat Motoring, Club Nautique Sailing School & Charters, Alameda, (510) 865-4700, www.clubnautique.net Learn to become a master at maneuvering a 31’ sailboat. Must have US SAILING Basic Cruising Certification or equivalent skills. Cost: Members: $222 /Non- Members: $295

September 12 9AM – 5PM - Taste of the Bay Charter Share Sail - Club Nautique Sailing School & Charters, Alameda, (510) 865-4700, www.clubnautique.net Go sailing with skilled sailors and stop at a local waterfront restaurant for lunch. Meet new sailing buddies and have a great time! Limited space available! Cost: Members: $75/ Non-Members: $100 (Lunch not included). Call for reservations.

September 18 4PM – 6PM - Monthly FREE BBQ–OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Come sail with us on an Introduction to Sailing outing and then partake in our monthly Saturday BBQ. Take a tour of our school, meet club members and make new friends!

September 24 7PM – 10PM - Moonlight Kayaking, Jack London Square, California Canoe & Kayak, 800-366-9804, www.calkayak.com Moonlight paddling is enchanting! The water is calm and glassy on the Oakland Estuary and the city lights add to the ambiance. We enjoy a leisurely pace as the sun sets and the moon rises, illuminating a delightful evening. Call or reserve online. Cost: $49, includes kayaks, equipment, and guides.

September 25 8AM – 3PM - 9th Annual Support Strokes Paddle, Jack London Square, California Canoe & Kayak, 800-366-9804, www.calkayak.com Paddlers and non-paddlers are welcome to participate in this benefit for breast cancer. Courses range from novice to expert. Half price classes and kayak rentals available for new paddlers. Register online at www.calkayak.com or call 510-893- 7833. Funds collected are donated to 4 local breast cancer profits.

September 25 7PM – 9PM - Knot Tying Seminar, OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Take your knot tying skills to a whole new level. Learn all the knots that are utilized in sailing and have all your knot-related questions answered. Cost is $25 and reservations are required.

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NEWS FROM Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Transbay Transit Center Breaks New Ground

By Marjorie Blackwell an underground train station for Pelli Architects, which won the future and California high- highly competitive design contest speed train service. And that’s just with its concept of an airy, five- he long-awaited the first phase. story structure and a five-acre “Grand Central Phase 2 funding will complete rooftop park that will provide Station of the the Transit Center by extending welcome greenery and open space West” is under way underground rail tracks 1.3 miles in the dense downtown. The at last — after years from Caltrain’s current 4th and Center’s ground floor concourse, of planning and accumulating Townsend terminus, enabling with an entrance off of Mission funds,T an international design the Center to fulfill its mission to Street, will feature a Grand Hall competition, unrelenting political bring Caltrain — and ultimately with a prominent light column will from the Bay Area, Sacramento high-speed trains — to the heart bringing daylight into the building. and Washington, DC, and a final of downtown. Two levels up, the bus deck will boost of federal “stimulus” funds. In addition to vastly improving house 30 bus bays with a direct Image courtesy of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Rendering courtesy of Transbay Joint Powers Authority. The $4.2 billion Transbay regional connections, the Transit connection to the Bay Bridge via A view of the Grand Hall, with its prominent light column bringing daylight into Transit Center in downtown Center will redefine living aerial bus ramps. The bus deck will the building. San Francisco broke ground on in downtown San Francisco by be used primarily by AC Transit, August 11. When the new Center creating a brand new South of as well as by Muni buses serving emerges on the site of the old Market neighborhood with 2,600 Treasure Island, Westcat, Amtrak feature a walking trail, MTC has set aside over $350 Transbay Terminal in August 2017, housing units (35 percent below and Greyhound. Below ground gardens, lily ponds, an outdoor million in bridge tolls for the it promises to launch a new era of market), 3 million square feet of new will be two train levels; the train amphitheatre and retail shops. project. Of this pot, $150 million urban transportation. It will link commercial space, and the tallest platform on the lower level will The park also will double as a is from Regional Measure 2 funds eight Bay Area counties with 11 bus office tower on the West Coast. have six tracks for Caltrain and “green roof” contributing to the approved by Bay Area voters. The and rail systems — in one modern, The Transit Center’s striking high-speed trains. transit facility’s environmental bridge toll funding is not only regional hub that will include design is the work of Pelli Clarke The rooftop park will features. helping to finance the new terminal, In his remarks at the Transit but also financed construction of Center’s groundbreaking ceremony, the temporary Transbay Terminal San Francisco Mayor Gavin and demolition of the old Transbay Newsom extolled the prospect of Terminal. linking jobs, housing and transit. The funding that put the “One of the things we’re celebrating, Transit Center over the top and is the visionary leadership … that propelled it into construction was established a framework of transit an infusion of $400 million in first, that recognized the jobs- “stimulus” funds from the Obama housing linkage, and that density Administration for the high-speed with transit near and around jobs is rail portion. Altogether, California our fate and future,” he said, adding has received $2.34 billion in federal that the project “is the ultimate funds for high-speed rail. manifestation of smart growth.” According to U.S. Secretary The $4.2 billion Transbay of Transportation Ray LaHood, Transit Center Project is being speaking at the Transit Center financed by various government groundbreaking ceremony, agency partners: the federal “California received the most government, the state of California, high-speed rail money (in the the Metropolitan Transportation nation) because you have your act Commission (MTC) and its together and have been working on Bay Area Toll Authority, the San high-speed rail for a decade.” Image courtesy of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Rendering courtesy of Transbay Joint Powers Authority. Francisco County and San Mateo “California,” he said, “is way This cross section of the new terminal shows the bus deck on the top level and the underground train station serving both County Transportation Authorities, ahead of the curve when it comes Caltrain and the California High-Speed Rail system. and AC Transit, among others. to high-speed rail.”

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Farewell Album Turning Out the Lights at the Old Transbay Terminal

By Marjorie Blackwell

Photo by Noah Berger an Francisco’s Transbay Terminal is going, going… gone. In the next few months, the gray concrete monolith that has dominated Mission Street between Fremont and First streets since 1939 will become a pile of rubble. The lights went out for good on the deteriorating Terminal at midnight on August 6, when the last AC Transit bus headed out to SAlameda. In a well-coordinated plan, a few hours later, lights went on and bus service began in the new, temporary terminal two blocks away between Main, Beale, Howard and Folsom streets. Demolition of the terminal began a week later on August 14, starting with the freeway-connector ramps that loom over Howard Street — and over the new temporary bus terminal. Although the Transbay Terminal has been a bus station for the past 51 years, it was designed and built as a railway station. Designed by prominent architect Timothy Pflueger, it was an adjunct to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, serving passenger trains that traversed the Bay Bridge to East Bay cities, Sacramento and beyond. Beginning in 1939, three rail systems carried passengers from the Terminal across the Bay Bridge: the Interurban Electric Railway, the Sacramento Northern and the . The Key System long outlived the other two, shuttling thousands of daily commuters across the Bridge for the next 19 years. The electric trains, powered by a third rail, ran on the lower deck of the Bridge, alongside trucks, while automobiles crossed in both directions on the upper deck. During rush hour, 10-car trains arrived at the Terminal every two minutes for a 30-minute — or less — trip to East Bay destinations in Oakland, Alameda, Piedmont and other East Bay cities. The Terminal, which was financed by 50-cent Bay Bridge tolls, was designed to handle up to 35 million people a year. At its peak, Photo by Noah Berger NEWS FROM Metropolitan Transportation Commission

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Farewell Album Turning Out the Lights at the Old Transbay Terminal

however, it was used by only 26 million passengers a year. Ridership began to decline after the end of World War II when gas rationing was discontinued, and more people began to buy automobiles. By the early 1950s, train ridership was down to 5 million a year. In 1958, the train tracks on the bridge were dismantled, and the bridge was given over entirely to vehicle and bus traffic. In 1959, AC Transit took over the Key System routes, and, although the Terminal continued to be part of the Bay Bridge and was owned and managed by the state of California, it was converted into a bus station, primarily for AC Transit’s transbay buses. Remnants of the Terminal’s railroad heydays lasted for years, © Tom Paiva Photography until the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the building, and Caltrans boarded up and walled off many of the old sections. One railroad component continued in use until the Terminal closed this summer, however: The elevated loop that AC Transit buses used to drop off and pick up passengers was the same one used by trains. Shortly before the Terminal was closed for good, Caltrans gave the once vibrant building a last hurrah by opening up some of the old boarded up spaces. On July 30, the public had a chance to glimpse the terminal’s past and see some of the building’s original features, including the large waiting room with curved wooden benches, a 1930s-era diner with green plastic seats and curved counters, a onetime popular bar, a state police office with an adjoining jail cell, a shoeshine stand, a news stand and a long spiral staircase to an underground parking garage.

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), which is building the new Transbay Transit Center on the old Terminal site, is collecting positive memories about the Transbay Terminal and its place in San Francisco’s history. You can share your memories by emailing memories@ transbaycenter.org. They will be posted on the TJPA website (www.transbaycenter.org) in the coming weeks.

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CULTURAL CURRENTS

Sports and Performing Arts Fuse at AT&T Park and Golden Gate Fields

By Paul Duclos in one of San Francisco’s most beautiful Verdian mezzo-soprano and former Adler beers, and $1 sodas—every Sunday of locations. Through state-of-the-art Fellow Dolora Zajick returns to sing the meeting. In addition to a full card of technology made possible by the Koret- Amneris, and tenor Marcello Giordani horse racing, the Sunday programs will hile Giants fans Taube Media Suite, these simulcasts makes his role debut as Radames. include live musical entertainment, and wait to see if their are transmitted in high definition Returning after his highly-praised beginning September 12, live television team will be playing (HD) to AT&T Park’s 103-feet wide performances in last season’s Otello is coverage of all NFL games via the NFL postseason baseball scoreboard—one of the highest quality baritone Marco Vratogna as Amonasro, Sunday Ticket. in “the yard,” there outdoor scoreboards in the nation—live and baritone Hao Jiang Tian sings the Golden Gate Fields’ Summer Concert will be another major cultural event from the stage of the War Memorial role of Ramfis. Series begins this month with Busta Wtaking place there this month. Opera House. While the SF opera company uses Groove on September 5, The Spazmatics San Francisco Opera partners with Concert quality audio and AT&T a sporting venue to attract new fans to on September 12, Pop Fiction on the San Francisco Giants and Webcor Park’s huge screen create an unmatched the performing arts, Golden Gate Fields September 19, Love Fool on September Builders once again to bring grand operatic experience for attendees sitting across the Bay will be introducing racing 26, and the Cheeseballs on October 3. opera to AT&T Park, home of the San in the stands and on the baseball field. aficionados to popular music. And at Busta Groove will play back-to-back Francisco Giants baseball team, with Traditional baseball game concessions are the same time, GGF comes to the aid of dates at Golden Gate Fields as the band a free live simulcast of Verdi’s Aida on available, providing audiences the rare the budget-minded when it presents six will provide the tunes for the track’s Friday, September 24 at 8 p.m. opportunity to eat hot dogs, peanuts and “Dollar Day” programs during its 2010 “Family Day” celebration on Labor Day, Conceived by David Gockley as a popcorn while enjoying glorious opera. summer horse racing season. Monday, September 6. Fans attending way to further the San Francisco Opera’s The celebrated cast of principal The 27-day session runs through the Labor Day program will receive a free community involvement, the Company’s singers features Italian soprano Micaela Sunday, October 3. Golden Gate Fields picnic blanket, and the track’s “Family four previous simulcasts at AT&T Park Carosi making her Company debut will offer “Dollar Day” cards—featuring Day” festivities will include many free have allowed nearly 100,000 music as Aida, a signature role that she has $1 general parking, $1 general admission, activities for kids, including pony rides, lovers to experience grand opera for free sung around the world to great acclaim. $1 racing programs, $1 hot dogs, $1 bounce houses and face painting.

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GREEN PAGES Getting Hitched With a Green Twist

By Bill Picture

ay Area wedding planner Ema Drouillard provides environmentally conscious intendeds with a unique opportunity to start their life together on a green foot, as well as to Bshare their passion for sustainability with friends and family members. Drouillard is encouraging couples to take a less-is-more, anti-Bridezilla approach to planning their big day. That approach minimizes the wedding’s impact on the environment, and, Drouillard believes, keeps the joy and beauty of a couple’s commitment to building a life together from getting buried under the bells and whistles of a traditional “big wedding.” “Keep it small,” she says. “That’s the key. Minimize wherever possible.” Photo by Ema Drouillard Drouillard first got her feet wet in The average American wedding costs just under $28,000 and requires the services of 43 vendors. Minimizing the number of vendors will reduce costs, the wedding business in 1971, when she and minimize carbon emissions from vehicles used to transport equipment and Landmark locations require no decorations or set up. was ordained as a minister so that she could officiate the wedding of her brother and his then-fiancée. “He ended up not Drouillard to officiate their ceremonies. marketing materials, and I reuse and prompted Drouillard to better align her marrying her, of course. And when he And, after receiving several glowing recycle whenever and wherever possible. business practices with her at-home ones, finally did get married many, many years reviews, she decided to market her And, when I take pictures for clients, which she describes as “aggressive.” That later, he didn’t even use me,” she jokes. services to the public. “And wedding I only use rechargeable batteries. Even has meant marketing herself as a green Friends, however, did call upon planning kind of evolved from there,” contracts are signed electronically. ” business—her business, Ceremony Way, she says. Drouillard now offers full- Those efforts were all back-end ones, was certified a green business by the service wedding planning, and has however. That is, they required little, County of Marin a few years ago—and recently won a Betty Furness Award for if any, participation on the part of the encouraging clients to reprioritize, Intense Consumer Advocacy from the wedding party. According to Drouillard, putting the health of the environment Environmental Forum of Marin. until very recently, most couples weren’t before those traditions that add flair to a willing to forego less environmentally ceremony, but little, if anything, else. Starting at home friendly traditions for the sake of having Drouillard’s own passion for a greener wedding. Small changes, big results environmentalism led her to seek small “It’s really only in the last few years “It all comes down to our individual ways to green her business practices long that people have started incorporating footprints; and every choice we make can Photo by Ema Drouillard before the green movement took shape. their interest in the environment into help reduce that,” Drouillard explains. There are lots of little things that couples can “I started with small things,” she explains. more aspects of their lives,” she says. “All those little choices add up.” do to minimize the impact of their “big day” on the environment without guests even noticing. “For instance, I only run errands on “They’re even seeking out the services of A good place to start, according to Among them is using flowers harvested from my way to or from an appointment businesses that share that interest. And Drouillard, is with the guest list, which sustainable resources, and serving local and so that I don’t do any unnecessary that segment is definitely growing.” any married couple will tell you can organic food at receptions. driving. I don’t spend money on printed Those shifts in attitude and spending quickly get out of control.

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“When you have a 300-person guest When it comes to printed vendor’s office practices and purchasing list, the bride and groom become hosts,” invitations, the question is: “Should procedures are.” she says. “The focus is less on celebrating we or shouldn’t we?” the couple’s commitment to each other Printing on 100% recycled paper Check, please and more on making sure that everyone and using soy-based inks is the least that When it comes to weddings, keeping else is being taken care of. Also, I find an environmentally responsible couple it simple (and small) is not only better that the guests at smaller, more intimate can do. For those willing to go the extra for the environment. It’s also more weddings are more present.” green mile, Drouillard recommends economical, which is a big concern Next is choosing an appropriate doing away with printed invitations for couples given today’s financial venue. “Try to find a venue that can host altogether and going electronic. climate. According to TheKnot.com, a the ceremony and the reception. It’ll cut “It’s one less thing that will end wedding resources website, the average Photo by Ema Drouillard down on the driving for your guests. up in the garbage,” she says. “Actually, American wedding costs just under Twenty percent of couples are now choosing to Also, look for a venue that has its own it’s at least five things if you count $28,000. Drouillard specializes in elope to escape the high cost and headaches of traditional big weddings. The wedding equipment, and that requires a minimum the mailing envelope, the invitation, weddings for under 25 guests and offers industry has renamed these intimate affairs amount of dressing or decoration. the insert that’s usually inside, the packages starting at around $500. “destination weddings.” Whatever you need for your event that reply card and the reply envelope. An Of course, keeping it small means the venue can’t provide in-house, will e-vite is just as effective, and just as that some distant relative, family friend have to be rented and trucked in. Plus, acceptable nowadays.” or coworker isn’t going to make the cut. For more information on Ema decorations often can’t be reused or At the wedding, Drouillard For those couples that would prefer to Drouillard and her green wedding recycled.” recommends flowers harvested not have to deal with the headache of packages, visit www.ceremonyway.com. from sustainable creating a guest list, who would prefer resources. Should to have just a few very close loved ones a couple decide to on hand for the ceremony, or who serve a meal at the would simply prefer to keep costs to an reception, Drouillard absolute minimum, Drouillard suggests recommends serving another option—eloping. local and organic “We call them ‘destination food—or choosing weddings’ now,” jokes Drouillard. a caterer that does. “When you hear that someone Sustainable, Local Tourism After the wedding, is ‘eloping,’ you think of people Without Cars or Buses! Drouillard suggests sneaking off in the middle of the Urban, Local Wine Tasting p o s t i n g p h o t o s night to get married. Nowadays, it’s a on Two . online for guests to viable alternative to a bigger wedding, enjoy, rather than with people planning them up to a We supply bikes, helmets and printing copies or year in advance. Sometimes it’s just an experienced guide. the bride and groom; sometimes burning CDs. Includes picnic lunch and “I just heard that they invite along a few close friends tasting fees at 3 or 4 the average wedding and family members. These kinds of great wineries of the East Bay employs the services weddings represent 20 percent of the o f 4 3 v e n d o r s ,” market now.” Vintner's Alliance. Drouillard adds. The number of destination “Can you believe that? weddings is increasing so quickly that Standard tours start at the Again, minimize. The wedding industry conferences have ferry terminal in Oakland's fewer vendors you begun including seminars to help Jack London Square. use, the greener your wedding planners meet the demand. event is. Not only “Wedding planning is just like any are you reducing other business. You have to change with Book through our website carbon emissions the times,” Drouillard says. “You have www.eastbaywinerybiketours.com from the trucks used to constantly be morphing. I’m always or email Photo by Ema Drouillard to transport things, looking to see how I can improve the [email protected] Green wedding planners say it keeps the focus on the bride and you also have to think process, to make it simpler for the couple, for custom tours. groom, who are often reduced to party hosts at large weddings. about how green each greener and more cost-efficient.”

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PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO Embarcadero Adds Rocketship to Its Transit Offerings

ast month, Mayor Gavin a companion piece, the Rocket Stop are confident that this compelling piece NASA Johnson Space Center, “I applaud Newsom joined the Black designed by Alan Rorie, which tells the will engage people and enhance their the team for tapping that emotion in a Rock Arts Foundation story of the Rocketship’s exploits, providing experience of the area. Pier 14 provides unique and creative way. I believe it has the (BRAF) and the Port of San route, schedule and other information. a fitting and fantastic backdrop for this potential to make a personal and significant Francisco to celebrate the The installation will be illuminated for whimsical work of art.” impact to all who encounter it.” unveiling of Raygun Gothic Rocketship, nighttime viewing. More than 70 artists and makers The temporary exhibition of the La 40-foot-tall sculpture created by a team “We are very proud to have the work of participated in the creation of Raygun artwork is made possible through of Bay Area artists lead by Sean Orlando, local artists of this caliber represented along Gothic Rocketship, including members funding provided by the Black Rock Arts Nathaniel Taylor and David Shulman. San Francisco’s iconic waterfront,” said of Five Ton Crane, a collective of Bay Area Foundation, aided by a $15,000 grant The Rocketship, poised as if to board Mayor Gavin Newsom. “Sean, Nathaniel artists and inventors. “It’s remarkable what from the Port of San Francisco. Significant passengers for a typical run to a nearby and David’s Raygun Gothic Rocketship creative heights people can reach when contributions and key services have been stellar destination, will remain at the Pier is an important piece of our City’s strong they work together,” said lead artist Sean contributed by: Degenkolb Engineers, 14 Tidal Plaza, at the base of Mission temporary public art program that adds an Orlando. “The whole idea behind Five Ton Leslie Pritchett Public Art Consulting, Street, on the Embarcadero for a 14-month important vibrancy and a vitality to our Crane is that artists working in concert can Paul and April Buchheit, Loren and temporary exhibition. public spaces.” accomplish so much more than any one Rachel Carpenter, Freddy and Helvetica The 40-foot-tall artwork offers a retro- “We at the Port are charged with person could working alone. The Raygun Hahne, Rock Paper Scissors Foundation, futuristic, highly-stylized vision of space creating opportunities for residents and Gothic Rocketship project is a perfect and the Edwards Family Fund. To find travel circa 1930s-1940s science fiction visitors alike to connect with San Francisco’s example of that idea in action.” out more about this project visit www. and is the latest in a series of temporary spectacular waterfront,” said Port Executive “I believe the Raygun Gothic Rocketship blackrockarts.org/projects/raygun- public art exhibitions sponsored by BRAF Director Monique Moyer. “As the third team uniquely captured the emotion and gothic-rocket. to enliven and activate public spaces. in a series of large-scale sculptures to wonderment each kid has felt with space During Mayor Newsom’s tenure, there The sculpture will be accompanied by be installed temporarily at Pier 14, we travel at some time in their childhood,” said have been more than 20 temporary public Joel Walker, Director, Center Operations, art exhibits around various neighborhoods of San Francisco—including the Arts in the Storefronts exhibits; Zhang Huan’s Three Heads Six Arms, currently on ALAMEDA OAKLAND FERRY display in Civic Center Plaza; and several highly successful projects undertaken in concert with the Black Rock Arts Foundation, such as The David Best Hayes Green Temple Project and the award-winning Panhandle Bandshell Project.

Whether you’re commuting to work or enjoying a weekend outing with friends or family, the Alameda/Oakland Ferry is a great way to travel the bay.

akla a/O nd service between Oakland’s Jack London Square, Alameda Main d e F e m r a r l y Street, SF Ferry Building and SF Pier 41, Seasonal service to A ATT&T Park for Giants game and Angel Island State Park Photo by Renée Dunn Martin 510.749.5837 www.eastbayferry.com The Raygun Gothic Rocketship will remain at the Pier 14 Tidal Plaza, at the base of Mission Street, on the Embarcadero for a 14-month temporary exhibition.

14 September 2010 www.baycrossings.com We Need Your Voice Join Baykeeper Today! Do you believe polluters like the Cosco Busan should be held accountable for fouling the San Francisco Bay? Do you think cities need to do more to keep sewage out of our streets, creeks and the Bay? If so, join Baykeeper and help us enforce clean water laws to protect the Bay. It’s never been more important. Join us today! www.baykeeper.org

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSALS TO PROPOSED CHANGES TO FERRY FREQUENT RIDER FARES AND SCHEDULES PUBLIC HEARING DATE/LOCATION Thursday, October 7, 2010, 9:30 a.m., Board Room, Administration Building, Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza, San Francisco, CA

n recognition of its $132 million five-year projected deficit, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and PROPOSED CHANGES TO GOLDEN GATE FERRY FARES ITransportation District (District) will hold a public hearing to receive public comment on proposals to: 1) Reduce the discount rate for the Golden Gate Ferry “Frequent Rider” Program available through Frequent Rider Program Fares – Available only by Using ClipperTM Card the use of Clipper cards to a standard 30% from the basic adult cash fare; and, 2) Implement schedule adjustments to the Larkspur and Sausalito schedules that will Ferry Current Current Proposed Proposed Effective % of Current improve operational efficiency and generate cost savings. Route Clipper Clipper Clipper Clipper Proposed Passengers Daily PROPOSED CHANGES TO WEEKDAY GOLDEN GATE FERRY SCHEDULES Fare Discount Fare Discount Fare using Weekday off Adult off Adult Increase Clipper Ridership There are currently 41 weekday crossings scheduled between Larkspur and San Francisco and 18 Cash Fare Cash Fare weekday crossings scheduled between Sausalito and San Francisco. The modifications to the weekday Larkspur and Sausalito ferry schedules are proposed to better accommodate commuters’ work start times in San Francisco, maximize crew availability, and provide cost savings associated with reduced Golden $5.15 46% $5.80 30% +$0.65 or 58% 4,500 fuel consumption. Gate Proposed changes to the Larkspur Ferry WEEKDAY schedule include the following: Larkspur 1. Adjustment to the departure and arrival times of 13 crossings Ferry 2. Elimination of 3 crossings 3. Elimination of 2 crossings during the fall/winter season Golden $4.40 38% $5.80 30% +$1.40 or 31% 1,500 4. Elimination of 3 additional crossings year-round Gate 31.8% fare 5. Conversion of one trip from a high-speed catamaran crossing (30 minutes) to a Spaulding Class Sausalito increase vessel crossing (45 minutes). Ferry

Proposed schedules and additional information can be found at http://goldengate.org/financialplan/ ggf_fares-schedules.php. For transit information to the public hearing, visit www.goldengate.org Public comments will be received at the Public Hearing, by email at or call 511 (say “” then “operator”), TDD 711. To request special assistance at the [email protected] or in writing to (no later than 4:30 p.m., October 7, 2010): public hearing due to a disability, please call 415-923-2223 at least three days before the hearing date. Jan Tarantino, Secretary of the District

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100818-2 Bay Crossings Public Hearing/ Magazines/Ads/SNAP II SAILING I Love When You Talk Sailor to Me!

By Captain Ray so shallow that, when the tide goes out, the things. A small ‘6 pounder’ (the approximate cold enough to “freeze the balls off a brass vessel is left “high and dry.” weight of the shot) weighed more than half monkey.” There is no written proof of the One definition of a barge is a powerless a ton and a ’32 pounder’ could weigh as origin of this expression, but it is just risqué an you believe that another vessel used to carry cargo. They can be towed much as two and one half tons. Imagine the enough to have survived in our colloquial year has come and gone? Aye alongside or behind, pushed ahead, or (in the chaos and destruction if one of these guns speech, with most folks not knowing its less matie, the 19th of September past) towed through canals by horses, mules, was to break loose from its tackles and begin prurient origin. is officially ‘Talk Like a Pirate and sometimes, even people walking on the careening about the ship as it rolled in the Day’! To help you participate canal bank’s towpath. Because they were waves—hence the term “loose cannon” for Ray Wichmann, more fully and to continue my tradition, I’d unwieldy and difficult to control, they were anyone dangerous and out of control. is a US SAILING- Clike to tell you about some common (and often involved in collisions. By extension, While on the subject of a ship’s guns, certified Ocean uncommon) phrases that come from the sea. any person who creates an unwelcome and here’s one more expression for you. The P a s s a g e m a k i n g Without further ado: surprising interruption can be said to “barge cannonballs were stacked in pyramids Instructor, a US On a full-rigged ship (a ship with at in.” alongside the guns on a brass plate called SAILING Instructor least three masts, all square rigged), there During the age of sail, the guns aboard a monkey. (Although cannonball is a Trainer, and a were over 250 different pieces of running naval vessels were not very accurate and it was commonly used term, it is incorrect on two member of US rigging, lines that were adjustable and used to necessary to get close to the enemy in order counts because the ship’s guns were always SAILING’s National control the sails. When a seaman apprentice for them to be effective. In order to avoid referred to as guns, never cannons, and Faculty. He holds a 100-Ton Master’s had learned the function and location of all being fired upon while “under the guns” the balls were properly called shot.) Long License, was a charter skipper in Hawai’i of these lines, he earned his promotion to of their foes, they would fly the ensign of a periods of cold weather would cause the for 15 years, and has sailed on both coasts of the United States, in Mexico, the seaman, because he “knew the ropes.” neutral country and were said to be operating metals to contract at different rates, which Caribbean, and Greece. He is presently Sometimes all of us are trapped by under “false colors.” would disrupt the neatly stacked balls, employed as the Master Instructor at The guns aboard a naval vessel in the unforeseen circumstances. An example of thereby causing them to fall off the monkey OCSC Sailing in the . this for sailors is when they anchor in water late 1700s and early 1800s were massive and roll about the deck. It was said to be

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16BayCrossing_4C_4.9X5.5.inddSeptember 2010 1 www.baycrossings.com 8/10/10 10:02:44 AM IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA Salmon Make September Memorable

by Kati Schmidt However, in recent years, wild salmon at Aquarium of the Bay, providing environment. It will take all of us working have made headlines for their staggering information on wild salmon and what together to protect and restore these species population declines. Both the winter and individuals can do to protect them. and the valuable fishery that, until recently, acific salmon are central spring runs of Central Valley Chinook Special exhibits will chronicle the they supported,” said Swanson. to the culture, cuisine and salmon are protected as endangered historical importance that salmon have The salmon viewing map will be ecology of the entire west played in our ecosystem available for visitors to pick up throughout coast—and the San Francisco as well as to a variety of Salmon Month at Aquarium of the Bay, or Bay Area in particular. Two populations and industries. available to view and print online, at The species of salmon, the giant Chinook (or A s p a r t o f t h i s Bay Institute’s website, www.bay.org. King)P salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) initiative, SalmonAID also and their close cousins, steelhead trout calls upon individuals to Highlights of SalmonAID’s Salmon (Oncorynchus mykiss), migrate through our avoid consuming farmed Month at Aquarium of the Bay Bay. With The Bay Institute co-sponsoring salmon, which have higher include: SalmonAID’s Salmon Month at Aquarium levels of dioxins and PCBs, • September 10: Meet Your Fishermen, Photo courtesy of Aquarium of the Bay of the Bay throughout September, and the and can spread parasites including a discussion by Bill Carter, author fall run of Central Valley Chinook salmon In recent years, wild salmon have made headlines for their to nearby wild salmon. of the acclaimed book Red Summer. staggering population declines. swimming towards the Golden Gate as “There is no such thing as • September 15: Salmon Cinema & they prepare to return to freshwater, now is sustainable farmed salmon,” Storytelling Circle, featuring films from a perfect time to take a deeper look at these species; similarly two populations of commented Rosenfield. “To feed the the Wild & Scenic Environmental animals as well as key issues threatening steelhead in the San Francisco Bay farmed salmon, boats must scour the Film Festival and discussions by Native their vitality. watershed are endangered. The long-term ocean to harvest tons of smaller “forage” Americans. “Salmon are remarkable creatures, decline of these once-robust populations fish species. It is comparable to raising • September 18-19: Kids Weekend, and are an important component of our is attributed primarily to dams and their wild tigers for meat.” with hands-on activities led by SPAWN, aquatic ecosystems,” said Tina Swanson, associated large-scale water diversions. In the Watershed Stewards Project and the executive director of The Bay Institute. the San Francisco Bay watershed alone, Securing Front Row Seats to Institute for Fisheries Resources. “Salmon support valuable commercial nine of the 10 largest tributary rivers are Nature’s Greatest Show • September 26: SalmonAID Festival and recreational fisheries, and are an iconic blocked by large storage dams, limiting Beginning during Salmon Month on PIER 39: A free, outdoor celebration cultural resource. Over their life span, access for salmon to spawn. (September) and continuing through featuring two dozen SalmonAID partner salmon forge a living connection between “Twenty-six populations of Pacific early March, depending on the location, organizations. our rivers, estuaries and the ocean.” salmon are endangered across the west you can secure front row seats to the For additional information on Like sturgeon, salmon are anadromous, coast,” said Jon Rosenfield, SalmonAID migration of steelhead and fall run SalmonAID or to purchase tickets for the meaning they are born in fresh water and President and conservation biologist with Chinook salmon. The Bay Institute, Salmon Cinema & Storytelling Circle and will then make their way to open oceans, The Bay Institute. “These fish are hardy and SalmonAID, and the Nature Conservancy other events, visit www.salmonaid.org or where they will spend between one to adaptable. If they cannot thrive in our rivers have created a map that identifies specific www.aquariumofthebay.org. five years feeding and maturing before and estuaries, then we’ve done some serious locations and timeframes for viewing returning to spawn in fresh water. One damage, and that’s bad news for people.” salmon in the wild. of salmon’s many remarkable attributes Within the Bay Area, Walnut Creek, Kati Schmidt is is its instinctive ability to return to the SalmonAID Hosts Salmon Month Lagunitas Creek and Redwood Creek the Public Relations same river—often even the exact same at Aquarium of the Bay are top spots. In the Central Valley, Manager for stream of its birth—to spawn. With the Raising awareness for the plight of wild the number of salmon running up the Aquarium of the exception of steelhead, Pacific salmon salmon, SalmonAID, a coalition of sport American River comes to a crescendo in Bay and The Bay Institute, nonprofit are also semelparous, meaning they die and commercial fishermen, conservation mid-November; the Stanislaus River is a organizations shortly after spawning. organizations, chefs, First Nations tribes leading location for viewing the animals dedicated to Chinook, coho, sockeye, chum, and others are presenting Salmon Month in action; and the Feather River becomes protecting, restoring and inspiring pink salmon and steelhead trout once an underwater interstate for salmon as throughout September at Aquarium of conservation of San Francisco Bay and well as steelhead. populated nearly every coastal river the Bay. Don’t miss Salmon Cinema & its watershed. A Bay Area native and or stream from southern California to Storytelling on September 15, where Native “In addition to visiting these areas, aspiring Great American novelist, Kati Alaska. California’s salmon runs used to Americans will share traditional salmon we urge individuals to consider how their enjoys the professional and personal be among the largest in the world, with lore and tales of modern-day healing and actions affect our salmon and the rivers muses found from strolling and cycling many millions of fish returning to spawn collaboration for salmon recovery. they depend on, to make smart decisions along, and occasionally even swimming in the Central Valley and coastal rivers Throughout September, SalmonAID in their own lives about water and in San Francisco Bay and beyond. each year. partners will interact with visitors chemical use, and to vote in favor of the

www.baycrossings.com September 2010 17 Sponsored by Golden Gate Ferry LARKSPUR* Weekdays (excluding Holidays) Weekends and Holidays Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Larkspur Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Larkspur Larkspur Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Larkspur 5:50 a.m. 6:20 a.m. 6:25 a.m. 6:55 a.m. 09:40 a.m. 10:30 a.m. ------6:35 7:05 7:10 7:40 11:40 12:30 p.m. 12:40 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 7:10 7:40 7:45 8:15 1:40 p.m. 2:30 2:40 3:30 7:50 8:20 8:30 9:05 3:40 4:30 4:40 5:25 San Pablo Bay Vallejo 8:20 8:50 9:10 9:45 5:30# 7:00 7:15 8:00 9:15 9:50 10:10 10:45 One-way Ferry Fares 10:10 10:45 10:55 11:30 Larkspur Larkspur Sausalito 11:10 11:45 11:55 12:30 p.m. 11:40 12:15 p.m. 12:25 p.m. 1:00 Daily Daily 12:40 p.m. 1:15 1:25 2:00 Richmond Adult Cash Fare $8.25 $8.25 2:15 2:50 3:00 3:30 Pacific 2:50 3:25 3:35 4:05 TransLink/ Fare $5.15 $4.40 Tiburon 3:40 4:15 4:25 4:55 Ocean Youth/Senior/Disabled $4.10 $4.10 Angel Island 4:15 4:45 4:55 5:25 Sausalito ------5:20 6:05 Children 5 and under FREE FREE Alcatraz 5:10 5:45 5:55 6:25 (limit 2 per fare-paying adult) Berkeley 5:35 6:10 6:20 6:50 Children ages 5 and under travel free when accompanied by a 6:35 7:10 7:20 7:50 full fare paying adult (limit two youth per adult). 7:20 7:55 8:10 8:40 N Oakland 8:10 8:45 8:50 9:20 Golden Gate Ferry Fares, Effective July 1, 2010 8:50 9:25 9:35 10:05 Fares shown are for one-way travel San Francisco San Alameda * Direct ferry service is provided to most Giants games at AT&T Park. Special service is provided to various concerts and the Francisco Harbor Bay Isle Bay to Breakers Race. On weekdays, with the exception of the 5:20pm San Francisco departure which uses a 715 passenger Bay Spaulding vessel, all other trips use high-speed catamarans. Weekend service is provided by a 715 passenger Spaulding vessel. # To San Francisco via Sausalito. SAUSALITO Weekdays (excluding Holidays) Weekends and Holidays Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Sausalito Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Sausalito Sausalito Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Sausalito Blue & Gold Ferry 7:10 a.m. 7:35 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 8:10 a.m. ------10:40 a.m. 11:10 a.m. ALAMEDA/OAKLAND ALAMEDA/OAKLAND 8:20 8:45 10:15 10:45 11:20 a.m. 11:50 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 10:55 11:25 11:35 12:05 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:25 1:55 Weekdays to San Francisco Weekends and Holidays to San Francisco 12:15 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 12:55 p.m. 1:25 2:10 2:40 2:50 3:20 Depart Depart Arrive S.F. Arrive S.F. Depart Depart Arrive S.F. Arrive S.F. 1:55 2:25 2:35 3:05 3:50 4:20 4:45 5:15 Oakland Alameda Ferry Bldg. Pier 41 Oakland Alameda Ferry Bldg. Pier 41 3:20 3:50 4:00 4:30 5:35 6:05 6:30 7:00 9:00 a.m. 9:10 a.m. 9:35 a.m. 4:45 5:15 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 ------6:00 a.m. 6:10 a.m. 6:30 a.m. ------6:10 6:35 6:45 7:10 7:05 7:15 7:35 ----- 10:40 10:25* 11:10 a.m. 11:25 7:20 7:50 7:55 8:20 8:10 8:20 8:40 ----- 12:20 p.m. 12:10 p.m.* 12:50 p.m. 1:05 p.m. 9:15 9:25 9:45 10:00 a.m. 0 1:55 1:45* 2:25 2:40 Contact Information For the Golden Gate Ferry website, visit: http://goldengateferry.org/ 11:00 10:50* 11:30 11:45 4:00 3:45* 4:30 4:45 Toll free 511 or 711 (TDD) Comments and questions can be submitted at http://ferrycomments.goldengate.org/ 12:45 p.m.^ 12:35 p.m.* 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 5:45 5:30* ---- 6:20 Holiday service is in effect on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents No ferry service on New Year’s Day, 2:30 2:20*^ 3:00 3:10 7:20 7:05* 7:50 8:05 Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and the day after Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. 4:40 4:30*^ 5:10 ----- 8:55^ 8:45* 8:25 9:30 Thanksgiving Day (Sausalito). The Larkspur line operates on a Modified 5:50 5:40*^ 6:15 ----- 10:30^ 10:20* ---- 11:00^ Holiday Schedule on the day after Thanksgiving Day. 6:20 6:10* ----- 7:00 Weekends and Holidays from San Francisco 6:55^ 6:45*^ 7:20 ----- Depart S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Arrive 7:55^ 7:45* 8:20 ----- Pier 41 Ferry Bldg. Alameda Oakland Bay Area Ferry Terminal Locations 8:55^ 8:45* ----- 9:25 8:30 a.m.# ---- 9:10 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Alameda Ferry Terminal Weekdays from San Francisco 9:45 10:00 a.m. 10:20 10:35 2990 Main St. in Alameda Depart S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Arrive 11:35 11:50 12:10 p.m. 12:20 Pier 41 Ferry Bldg. Alameda Oakland 1:10 p.m. 1:25 p.m. 1:45 1:55 2:50 ---- 3:45 3:55 ----- 6:30 a.m.# 7:15 a.m. 7:05 a.m. Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal 4:55 5:10 5:30 5:40 ----- 7:35# 8:20 8:10 2 MeCartney Drive in Alameda 6:30 6:45 7:05 7:15 ----- 8:40# 9:25 9:15 8:10 8:25 8:45 8:55 10:15 a.m. 10:30 10:50^ 11:00^ 9:40 9:55 10:15 10:25 Ferry Terminal 12:00 p.m. 12:15 p.m. 12:35 p.m.^ 12:45 p.m.^ 1:45 2:00 2:20^ 2:30^ No ferry service on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New 101 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd., just east of U.S. Highway 101 in Larkspur, CA Year’s Day, and Presidents Day. 3:45 4:10 4:30^ 4:40^ Regular weekday service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day ----- 5:20 5:40 5:50 One Round 10 Ticket 20 Ticket Monthly 5:20 5:45 6:10 6:20 FARES: 530 Water St @ Jack London Square in Oakland Way Trip Book Book Pass ----- 6:25 6:45 6:55 Adult (13+) $6.25 $12.50 $50.00 $90.00 $170.00 ----- 7:25 7:45 07:55 Junior (5-12) $3.50 $7.00 ----- 8:25 8:45 08:55 Child under 5* FREE FREE PURCHASE TICKETS Humbolt St. & Anchor Ave. in downtown Sausalito * To S.F. via Oakland # To Alameda via Oakland Senior (65+)* $3.75 $7.50 ONBOARD THE FERRY or at the Regional Transit  ^ Departs immediately after loading Disabled Persons* $3.75 $7.50 Connection (RTC) at participating For the most current schedule, visit http://www. Active Military $5.00 $10.00 Bay Area businesses. Please call Tiburon Ferry Terminal eastbayferry.com/ Seniors must show valid I.D., Regional the 24-hour Ferry Fone at Transit Connection Discount or Medicare (510) 522-3300 to confirm times. Behind Guaymus Restaurant & the Intersection of Tiburon Blvd. & Main St. in Tiburon Card. Disabled Persons must show a Regional Transit Connection Discount Schedule information collected from Card. Children under 5 ride free when accompanied by an adult. Active Vallejo Ferry Terminal http://www.eastbayferry.com Military Personnel must show military I.D. Fares subject to change. All times 289 Mare Island Way in Vallejo are estimates.

18 September 2010 www.baycrossings.com Blue & Gold Ferry Baylink Ferry Harbor Bay Ferry BAY CRUISE SAUSALITO VALLEJO EAST END OF ALAMEDA/S.F. Depart Pier 39 FISHERMAN’S WHARF, PIER 41 VALLEJO – SAN FRANCISCO Depart Arrive Depart Arrive Weekdays Weekends and Holidays Weekdays Weekdays Harbor Bay S.F. Ferry S.F. Ferry Harbor Bay Island Bldg. Bldg. Island Available through 9/6/10 10:15 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. Depart Vallejo Depart S.F. Depart Pier 41 10:15 a.m. 1:45 11:00 4:00 Pier 41 Sausalito Sausalito Pier 41 to S.F Ferry Ferry Bldg. Fisherman’s Wharf 6:30 a.m. 6:55 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:25 a.m. 11:00 2:30 p.m. 12:15 p.m. 5:00 11:15 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 11:55 a.m. 12:25 p.m. Building to Vallejo to Vallejo 7:30 7:55 8:00 8:25 12:15 p.m. 4:00 1:15 6:00 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:10 p.m. 1:40 5:30 a.m. 6:35 a.m. ----- 8:30 8:55 4:35 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 1:15 5:45 1:45 6:45 2:00 2:30 2:45 3:15 6:30 7:35 ------4:30 p.m. 5:35 6:00 3:20 3:50 4:00 4:55 7:00 8:10 ----- 5:05 p.m. 5:30 6:35 7:00 Available starting 9/7/10 5:10 5:40 5:50 6:20 7:45 8:55 ------10:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 1:15 2:30 4:00 6:05 6:30 7:35 8:00 ---- 7:55 8:00 8:20 8:45 9:55 ----- 7:05 7:30 For the most current schedule, visit www.blueandgoldfleet.com 8:30* 9:10* 9:15* 10:15* 10:00 11:10 11:30 a.m. Bay Cruise does not operate during inclement weather. Additional cruises may Fridays only* No weekend service be added on demand. Check with ticket booth on day of sailing for schedule. No 11:30 12:40 p.m. ----- reserved seating available. Weekends and Holidays 2:00 p.m. 3:30 3:10 p.m. FARES: 3:20 4:30 ----- FARES: All prices include audio tour. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. 4:05 5:15 ----- Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry passengers can Pier 41 Sausalito Sausalito Pier 41 Adult $24.00 Junior (12-18) $20.00 4:45 6:00 ----- purchase Ferry tickets, passes and books on board Senior (62+) $20.00 Child (5-11) $16.00 11:00 a.m. 11:35 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 12:20 p.m. 5:35 7:05 6:45 the . Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry accepts Discount fares available at 12:30 p.m. 1:05 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:50 cash, checks, Visa, Mastercard and Commuter http://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/Sightseeing/Boat/baycruise.cfm Weekends and Holidays 2:00 2:35 2:45 3:20 Checks as payment for ferry tickets. 7:00 a.m. 8:10 a.m. ----- 3:30 4:25 4:35 5:05 ANGEL ISLAND - S.F. 8:30 10:00 9:35 a.m. Fare: ---- 4:50 5:00 5:30 10:00 11:10 11:30 One-way Adult $6.50 Weekdays – Daily Departures Pier 41 5:15 5:50 6:00 6:55 One-way Juniors (5-12) $3.25 11:30 12:40 p.m. ----- 7:05 7:40 7:45 8:40 Children (under 5) Free Depart Arrive Depart Arrive 2:00 p.m. 3:10 3:30 p.m. One-way Seniors (62 & over) $3.75 Pier 41 Angel Island Angel Island Pier 41 No service on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, 4:30 6:00 5:40 and New Year’s Day / Weekend Schedule on Presidents Day Disabled $3.75 5:35 7:00 ----- 9:45 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Active Military $5.25 7:30 9:00 8:40 1:05 p.m. 1:50 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 2:20 p.m. FARES: One-way Round-trip One-way Commute (book of 10) $55.00 ------3:25 3:45 Adult $10.00 $20.00 FARES: One-way One-way Commute (book of 20) $100.00 Child (5-11) $5.75 $11.50 Weekends – Departures Pier 41 Adult (13-64) $13.00 Monthly Pass (book of 40) $185.00 For the most current schedule, visit Senior (65+)/Disabled/Medicare $6.50 Free MUNI and AC Transit Transfers Provided Depart Arrive Arrive Depart http://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/Ferry/Sausalito/index.cfm Child (6-12) $6.50 Pier 41 Angel Island Angel Island Pier 41 Baylink DayPass $24.00 9:40 a.m. 10:05 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 11:35 a.m. TIBURON – Pier 41 Baylink Monthly Pass (Bus / Ferry) $290.00 11:45 12:10 12:15 p.m. 1:40 p.m. Weekdays w/Muni $345.00 Angel Island Ferry 1:50 2:45 2:55 3:25 Depart Arrive Depart Arrive Call (707) 64-FERRY or visit www.baylinkferry.com for updated TIBURON – ANGEL ISLAND ------4:30 5:30 S.F. Tiburon Tiburon S.F. information. Pier 41 Pier 41 Weekdays (May - September) ANGEL ISLAND FARES* 10:50 a.m. 11:10 a.m. 11:15 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Travel time between Vallejo and San Francisco is 10:00 a.m. 11:00 1:00 p.m. 3:00 Adult (12+) $16.00 12:10 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 12:35 p.m. 12:55 approximately 60 minutes. Child (ages 6-12) $9.00 1:05 1:25 1:35 2:20 Returning 10:20 a.m. 11:20 1:20 p.m. 3:30 Child (5 & under) Free 2:30 2:50 3:00 3:45 * All prices include State Park Fees / Weekend Schedule on Memorial 3:20 4:15 4:25 4:55 Day (May 25) / Independence Day (July 4) and Labor Day (Sept 7) 4:05 4:45 ------Weekends (May - September) ---- 7:35 7:45 8:20 TIBURON COMMUTE 8:30* 9:30* 9:35* 10:15* Red & White 10:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. hourly TIBURON – S.F. Ferry Building * Fridays only ^ Via Sausalito visit www.blueandgoldfleet.com BAY CRUISE Returning 10:20 a.m. — 5:20 p.m. hourly Weekdays TIBURON Weekends and Holidays Pier 43½ FARES: FARES: Round Trip (*Limit one Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive Depart Arrive Adult (13 and over) $13.50 free child, S.F. S.F. Monday through Sunday Adult (18+) $22.00 Tiburon Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Tiburon Tiburon Tiburon Child (6 - 12) $11.50 Pier 41 Pier 41 Youth (5-17) $16.00 ages 2 10:00 a.m. 1:45 p.m. Children (3 - 5) $3.50 and under, 6:00 a.m. 6:20 a.m. ------9:40 a.m. 10:35 a.m. 10:40 a.m. 11:35 a.m. Child (under 5)Free 10:45 * 2:30 Toddlers (ages 2 and under) Free* per paying 6:50 7:10 7:15 a.m. 7:35 a.m. 11:45 12:35 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 1:40 Family Pass $69.00 11:15 Bicycles $1.00 adult.) 7:50 8:10 8:15 8:35 1:50 2:20 2:30 3:25 3:00 (2 Adult + 4 Youth) 8:45 9:05 ------12:00 p.m. 3:45 For the most current schedule and other information, visit 3:30 4:05 4:10 5:05 * Weekends Only ------4:25 p.m. 4:45 p.m. 5:15 6:15 6:20 6:55 1:15 4:15 * http://www.angelislandferry.com/ 5:00 p.m. 5:20 p.m. 5:25 5:45 7:05 8:00 8:05 8:40 Schedule Subject to change w/o notice 5:50 6:10 6:15 6:35 FARES: One-way Round trip 6:40 7:00 7:15 7:35 9:35* 8:45* 8:50* 9:30* Adult $9.50 $19.00 ----- 9:55 p.m.* ------Child (5-11) $5.25 $10.50 20 Ticket Commute Book $140.00 (Mon. - Fri.) Fridays only*

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By Jah Mackey Unfortunately, this anglers’ paradise is in jeopardy. Once upon a time, the Delta was teaming with huge populations of he Delta has long been all kinds of fish and was home to many one of the nation’s premiere commercial fishermen. With the passing fishing grounds. If you enjoy of the Burn-Porter Act in 1960, the bluegill, salmon, readear, California State Water Project, including largemouth, smallmouth, the California Aqueduct, was constructed and striped Bass, bullhead catfish, channel and expanded. Major additions and Tcatfish, shad, sturgeon, crappie, steelhead renovations were completed at recently and the occasional crawdad, then you have as 1997 and additional work was to be found your Shangri-La. The famed striped completed around 2008. bass migrate through the Delta twice a year, The original plan called for massive usually in November and May. However, pumps that would pump freshwater beautiful fish can be had all year long. from Northern California through the There are over 1000 miles of waterways California Aqueduct and supply Southern beckoning you with thoughts of your next California and the Central Valley with a fishing adventure. Whether you own the latest valuable resource. Due to court rulings on Ranger Boat or are pulling your grandfather’s the endangered status of the Delta Smelt, Photo by Jah Mackey aluminum special out of storage—or better a native to the waterway and a forage fish There are over 1000 miles of waterways in the Delta beckoning you with thoughts of your next fishing yet, are looking for a quiet riverbank—the that makes up one of lower foundations of adventure. Delta has a fishing spot for you. the Delta food chain, those pumps have On a recent productive fishing outing been kept quiet for some time. on the Mokelumne River, a friend and I What has been historically the birthplace Governor have developed a similar plan to Many organizations are opposed to the ventured to Paradise Point via several sloughs of legendary tales of great fishermen has re-route large amounts of freshwater around Bay Delta Conservation Plan, including and cuts. As we meandered along, we become the site for California’s ongoing the Delta in a new conveyance system to the California Striped Bass Association stopped at Herman and Helen’s for lunch on water wars. The California state government, Southern and Central California. This (www.striper-csba.com), California Little Connection Slough. Then, we made along with the state’s corporate agricultural plan is very similar to the Peripheral Canal Delta Chamber and Visitors Bureau our way to King Island Resort on Honker businesses, has set out to change the flow rejected by voters in 1982. (www.californiadelta.org), California Cut and Disappointment Slough just north of the state’s most important waterway and The revised proposal now known as the Sportfishing Protection Alliance (www. of Stockton. As I said, our last destination freshwater fishery yet again. Bay Delta Conservation Plan will further calsport.org), Restore the Delta (www. before we headed home was Paradise Point, The advent of the California Aqueduct jeopardize the Delta. The plan (BDCP) restorethedelta.org), Water 4 Fish (www. located on Bishop Cut and Disappointment and associated projects has decimated the calls for the eradication of non-native fish water4fish.org), several of the Delta water Slough, near Eight Mile Road north of fish populations to the point where the species, a new canal and a series of tide districts and the cities and five counties that Stockton. The scenery was beautiful and Delta smelt are on the endangered species control gates—two permanently in the comprise the Delta. timeless, reminding me of The Adventures list and others are dangerously close. Now western Delta and two in the central Delta Stay informed, stay committed, and of Huckleberry Finn or Eve’s Bayou. the California State Legislature and our as long-term temporary solutions—to allow stay fishing. freshwater flow into the system on high tide to be contained as the tide begins to turn for the outflow. Jah Mackey, is Sharing time with whales is a privilege. In an effort to restore native fish President of Oceanus species, part of the plan is the eradication M a r i n e G r o u p of (presumably by poisoning the waterway) (OMG), which “non-native predatory species” that provides outsourced proponents of the BDCP say threaten marina management indigenous Delta smelt, longfin smelt and services to public and private marinas. salmonid populations. While not stated, Mackey is the current commodore of this part of the BDCP specifically targets California’s first internet-based yacht striped bass, largemouth bass and every 415-331-6267 club, OMG’s Delta Yacht Registry, and other non-native predatory species in the is an avid boater with over 20 years of waterway. boating experience on the San Francisco So, if you are an avid angler and you Bay and Delta Regions. www.sfbaywhalewatching.com enjoy fishing in the Delta, get involved.

20 September 2010 www.baycrossings.com THE BAY AND ITS WATERSHEDBAYKEEPER “The Bay and Its Watershed”San Francisco Crossword Baykeeper Challenge THE BAY AND ITS WATERSHED he San Francisco Bay is remarkably 1 San Francisco2 Baykeeper3 complex. As we take in the scenery 4 along the Bay Trail, ride the ferry Tto work, or when we wade into the water 5 6 7 for a swim, it’s hard to comprehend the 1 2 3 numerous processes at work to sustain 8 4 9 the Bay ecosystem. The Bay’s biological 10 11 5 12 6 7 communities depend on freshwater inflow from the Delta, continual tidal 13 14 8 9 flushing, a seasonal coastal upwelling, 10 11 12 regular cycles of sediment and nutrients 15 and stable water chemistry. These factors 13 14 16 17 18 come together in a way that makes the 19 20 San Francisco Bay unique among aquatic 15 21 systems and allows for a great diversity of 16 17 18 organisms to thrive. 22 19 20 The delicate balance of the Bay’s 21 23 systems also makes it vulnerable to pollution from industry, agriculture and 22 24 23 urban activities. When any component 25 26 in the ecosystem is disturbed, it can 24 upset the balanced environment that 25 26 plants and animals need to survive. Unfortunately, the Bay is under constant 27 28 29 30 threat of pollution, even from sources 31 32 27 28 29 30 far beyond the shoreline. Every action 33 in the watershed has the potential to 31 32 impact the Bay. San Francisco Baykeeper 34 33 35 aims to reduce pollution throughout the 34 35 watershed, knowing that even seemingly 36 distant threats can be harmful. 36 37

Last year, the Baykeeper Crossword 37 Challenge tested your knowledge of the mysteries inside the Bay. This year we 38 38 are expanding the Crossword Challenge 39 into the watershed to find out how much 39 you know about the dynamics of the Bay, Across Across DownDownDown the human activities1 thatisland harm pointit, and of convergence1 island point of of threeconvergence counties of three counties 1 strait1 namedstrait named after after a ship, a ship, not not a mammalmammal strategies to protect2 it. theNeed gradual a hint or sinking 2 the of gradualDelta islandssinking of Delta islands 3 gives3 shipsgives ships stability, stability, also also carries carries exotic exotic species species two? Email [email protected] endangered with your bird 5 foundendangered in Bay bird marshes found in Bay marshes 4 gravel4 gravel nest nestfor salmonfor salmon eggs eggs 9 land area that drains to a common waterbody 6 percent of California land area that drains to the Bay questions. 9 land area that drains to a common waterbody 6 percent of California land area that drains to the Bay 10 degradation of creek10 degradation banks of creek banks 7 discarded7 discarded by the by theOhlone, Ohlone, now now foundfound in inlarge large buried buried The first three13 peopleoften to seensend usairing-out 13 often its seen wings airing-out its wings piles piles a completed and14 correctbetween puzzle ebb by and14 floodbetween ebb and flood 8 a toxic8 a legacytoxic legacy from from theDeb the GoldSelf Gold is ExecutiveRush 15 spilled 53,000 gallons of bunker fuel 11 pollution from diffuseDirector sources of August 31 will win15 aspilled prize! Submit 53,000 gallons19 one sourceof bunker of excess fuel nutrients to the Bay 11 pollution12 streams from and diffuse rivers that sources bring freshwater to the Bay your completed puzzle19 one to: Baykeepersource of excess22 ships nutrients finally leaving to the Suisun Bay Bay 12 streams16 returning and rivers underground thatSan Francisco bring creeks freshwater to a more natural to the state Bay Crossword Challenge,22 ships 785 finallyMarket leaving23 tide Suisun that is Baybelow mean lower low water 16 returning17 where underground the San JoaquinBaykeeper, creeks meets which the to uses Sacramento a more natural state 23 tide that is below mean lower low water 17 where the San Joaquin meets the Sacramento Street, Suite 850, San Francisco, CA 25 gray whale feeding mechanism 18 San Francisco's stylescience of andsewer advocacy system 25 gray whale feeding26 largestmechanism source of pollution to the Bay 18 San20 Francisco'sinvasive kelp style foundto of enforcein sewerlocal clean marinas system 94103. Submissions26 alsolargest may be source faxed of27 pollutionfish like salmon, to the steelhead,Bay and sturgeon 20 invasive21 360 kelp feet deep found in local marinas to Baykeeper at 27(415)fish 856-0443 like salmon, or 32 steelhead,distinguished and by sturgeon its external ears and long front 21 36024 feetthe deepfirst urban Nationalwater laws Wildlife and hold Refuge scanned and sent to32 [email protected] by itsflippers external ears and long front 24 the28 firstin theurban Bay, increasesNationalpolluters as Wildlife you accountable. move Refugewest flippers 34 "green" and threatened with extinction 28 in 29the fourthBay, increasesbusiest containerDeb as has you port25 moveyears in the of experience westnation in An electronic copy can be downloaded on 36 roofs, roadways, and parking lots are __ surfaces 30 number of counties surrounding the Bay 34 "green" and threatened with extinction 29 fourth busiest containerenvironmental port in advocacy the nation and non-profit our website at Baykeeper.org. We will also 37 found on the margins of waterbodies, offer natural 31 Clean Water Act goal: fishable and __ 36 roofs, roadways, and parking lots are __ surfaces 30 number of counties management,surrounding and enjoysthe Baypaddling the print the correct answers in next month’s protection 33 highest level of sewage treatment 37 found on the margins38 this of"Rock" waterbodies, provides nesting offer habitat natural for seabirds 31 Clean35 "new"Water mercury Act goal: mineBay infishableand Santa walking Clara and its shorelines.County __ Bay Crossings. Good luck!protection 39 the "king" of salmon 33 highest level of sewage treatment 38 this "Rock" provides nesting habitat for seabirds 35 "new" mercury mine in Santa Clara County 39 the "king" of salmon www.baycrossings.com September 2010 21 Around the bay in September

Legendary Musicians Descend array of international flavors. Locally- so book early. For more information, raise money for youth and adaptive on Sausalito Art Festival produced Drake’s beer and Alameda- visit www.vsattui.com. sailing programs. Training, sailing This Labor Day weekend, top-notch based Rosenblum Cellars, Rock Wall gear, continental breakfast, lunch music and stars of the contemporary and R&B Cellars wines will be the sold Paddle for the Cure at and awards ceremony are included. art scene will be showcased on the at the beverage centers. Free, secure Jack London Square The Regatta takes place at OCSC sparkling bay shores of Sausalito’s valet bicycle parking will be provided by California Canoe & Kayak is proud to Sailing in Berkeley and is a great Mediterranean-like seaside village BikeAlameda. For more information, sponsor the 9th Support Strokes Paddle corporate team-building exercise and as Sausalito hosts the West Coast’s visit www.westalamedabusiness.com. Fundraiser on Saturday, September 25 community service opportunity for ultimate Art and Music Experience. at Jack London Square. Event time is companies. Non-sailors are encouraged This year’s musical attractions feature Jack London Square Goes Green from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. This event is open to participate. Expert coaches from the Bangles, the Fixx and Modern Enjoy a fun and family-friendly street to non-paddlers as well as paddlers from Group Experiential Learning (GEL) English on Saturday, September 4 fair dedicated to all things “green” and novice to expert. Participants new to and OCSC Sailing will transform and Dave Mason, the Tubes and explore the latest in green living and the sport have the opportunity to take your group of non-sailors into a Pablo Cruise on Sunday, September 5. energy conservation. The festival, which a kayaking class with California Canoe team of racers for the day’s Regatta. Monday afternoon features Jefferson will extend throughout Jack London & Kayak for half price, or to paddle in For information on sponsorship Starship, Mavis Staples and the Sons of Square, will feature live entertainment, a tandem with an experienced paddler. packages, and Big Team Regatta San Champlin. The best local, American, speakers, local and national green This event is not limited to canoes Francisco, visit www.gelcorp.com/ and international artists will bring businesses, an eco fashion show, organic and kayaks—all paddlers, outrigger clients/bigteamregattasf2010.html. more than 20,000 original works of art foods, community action groups, a teams and rowers are welcome and Companies interested in entering a including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, kid zone and so much more. For more encouraged to participate. Paddlers team of executives in the race can get jewelry, fiber art, fine glass, woodwork, information, visit www.goinggreenjls. raise money for breast cancer advocacy, the information kit at the website, or mixed media and photography. From com. The event takes place on Saturday, support, research and treatment. All contact Jay Palace at jpalace@gelcorp. functional to surreal, witty to the September 25 from noon to 7 p.m. and proceeds benefit local Bay Area non- com, or Mary Jane Powell at mjstyles@ elegantly decorative, these one-of- until 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 26. profit organizations working to help gmail.com. a-kind and limited edition artworks women with cancer. Discounted kayak form an unparalleled collection that Winery to Hold 125th and canoe rentals will be provided Oakland Wine Benefit can only be seen once a year. Enjoy the Birthday Party to registered participants as needed. to Support Foster Kids opportunity to meet the artists one- V. Sattui Winery will hold their Reservations for boats are required. The 4th Harvest Crush Wine Benefit on-one or stretch out on the lawn in biggest event ever on Saturday, Registration fee is $20, and each held at JC Cellars in Oakland will the scenic bayside park. Enjoy nonstop September 25 when they celebrate participating paddler is asked to raise provide a memorable evening of food, entertainment on three stages or their 125th birthday with the “1885- a minimum of $100. Registration wine and community that supports gourmet delights with champagne and 2010 Anniversary Celebration Harvest includes: t-shirt, lunch, discount Adopt A Special Kid’s mission to find fine wines. For more information, visit Ball.” The event promises to pull out class, kayak rental and raffle ticket. ‘forever’ families for waiting children www.sausalitoartfestival.org. all the stops with an evening to beat all All pledges raised will be distributed in foster care. Guests enjoy select and others. The festivities will begin with amongst the beneficiaries based of premium wine tastings, winery tours and Alameda Rocks Webster Street champagne flowing on the estate’s the donor’s choice. Online donations artisan snacks along with opportunities More than 30,000 people are expected outdoor terraces with Italian antipasti or registration are available at www. to win raffle prizes, purchase mystery to jam Webster Street for the 9th annual and live classical music. Later, the calkayak.com. You may also pick up a wines and participate in a silent auction. Webster Street Jam from 10 a.m. to 6 crowd will move to a big-top tent registration form at California Canoe This year’s raffle grand prize, valued p.m. Saturday and Sunday, September where a six-course banquet of the finest & Kayak, 409 Water Street in Jack at $4,000, is a one-week getaway in a 11-12 in the heart of historic West cuisine from Lombardia, Italy will be London Square. private four-bedroom home on Carmel Alameda on Webster Street between prepared by Michelin-star chef Stefano Point. The event takes place on Friday, Central and Lincoln Avenues. The Masanti. He will match dishes from Sixth Annual Big Team September 24 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 two-day international food, music, his native Lombardia with V. Sattui’s Regatta to Set Sail p.m. JC Cellars is located at 55 Fourth art and wine festival also includes a finest wines, including reserves and On Friday, October 1, nonprofit Street in Oakland. Admission tickets are special performance by Foreverland, older vintages. The evening will then Treasure Island Sailing Center will hold priced at $20 for select wine tastings, the 14-piece Michael Jackson tribute continue in the winery, where Pride & its sixth annual Big Team Regatta San $40 for premium wine tastings and $75 band, on Saturday evening. All the arts Joy will provide a high-style show of Francisco, a corporate sailing challenge for VIP tickets, while raffle tickets are and crafts on sale will be from talented soul-injected dance music. The event is that pits Bay Area companies against $20 each or 6 for $100. For tickets, call area artisans, and the food will be from a black tie and the cost is $225 for non- each other in the pursuit of glory, Liz at (510) 553-1748 ext 11. local area restaurants reflecting a vast members. This event sold out last year, bragging rights, and opportunity to

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