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Class of 1946 Shares Memories of Pleasanton 60 Years Ago Page 16 Vol. VII, Number 39 • October 20, 2006 www.PleasantonWeekly.com It’s all about Pleasanton Happy days Class of 1946 shares memories of Pleasanton 60 years ago page 16 Neck-and-neck Fair finished? Indie invasion Survey says McNerney gains Decreased vendors, sales may California Film Festival Buyers renewing interest ground on Pombo discontinue antique event comes to Tri-Valley in housing market page 5 page 7 Section 2 page 40 INSIDE this week this a OPEN SUN 1-4 OPEN SAT/SUN 1-4 LIVERMORE DUBLIN PLEASANTON 6189 SPRINGTIME COMMON $725,000 7210 STAGECOACH DRIVE $649,950 3666 WOODBINE WAY $420,950 3 bedrooms + loft, 2.5 baths. 2233 +/- square feet. This Spacious floor plan of over 1900 sq. ft.! 4 bedrooms Condo 2 beds 1 bath 867 square feet, New appliances, beautiful features a gourmet kitchen, luxurious master /2 baths, large private yard with new landscaping, new bathroom, new tile floors and new carpet. 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LIVERMORE TRACY FREMONT 1477 CALLE DE LAS GRANVAS $579,000 2756 DAISY LANE $810,000 3398 MANCHESTER CMN. $612,000 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath, 1840 +/- sq ft Townhome with This home shows like new, Entertainers delight with This TH features 3 lrg. bdrms, 2.5 bath w/ 1640+/- sq. ft. Hardwood & Ceramic Tile Floors, Large Loft Area, gourmet kitchen, formal living & dinning rooms, large It boasts a remodeled kitchen with new cabinets, gran- Fireplace in Living Room, Formal Dining Area. Sparkling swimming pool with waterfall, 3 car garage. ite countertops, new appliances and new flooring. DANIEL ALPHER 925.548.6500 DENISE IVALDI 925.846.7997 SANDRA GILBERT 925.251.2521 Pleasanton 5075 Hopyard Road, Suite 110 925.251.2500 plus 13 other Bay Area Locations www.InteroRealEstate.com Log on to find your dream home or an exciting new career. 2003 Intero Real Estate Services, Inc. All rights reserved. The logo is a service mark of Intero Real Estate Services, Inc. *Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Page 2 • October 20, 2006 • Pleasanton Weekly Around Pleasanton by Jeb Bing Pleasanton passion marks retirement ohn B. McWilliams probably daughters: Erin, 21, now a first- knows more about Pleasanton year teacher in Belmont, and twins Jthan anyone else in town. He Mallory and Megan, 18, who will was born here 56 years ago, his graduate next June from Amador. father John M. McWilliams served For 20 years, John B’s mother lived on the city Planning Commission in with them. With five women in the late 1950s and then was elected the house, he learned to rise early to the City Council and was the before the hot water was gone and appointed mayor from 1962-63. head to work. He died in 1980 but “young” John His passion for living in Pleasanton continued on with the city, becom- extended to his job at the city’s old Experience Matters ing today the longest-serving city wastewater treatment plant, then employee who has been involved in located on Sunol Boulevard where every aspect of operating, inspecting the Senior Center is now located. It Roy Dronkers and supervising the public water and was tough work, much of it manual sewer system that serves every house labor, as crews moved pipes carry- and business in Pleasanton. At one ing treated wastewater by hand to Professional Real Estate Consultant since 1986 time, he no doubt was at each of our different sections of the undeveloped houses, either when they were being Bernal property, where cattle grazed planned, built or since we moved in. on the swampy grassland made lush On Nov. 17, he’ll call it quits, by the effluent. But in the 1970s, the 925.484.5200 [email protected] ending a career that spanned five plant reached its capacity, pumping dronkers.com decades, starting with a summer job 1,250,000 gallons of treated waste- in 1968. That will give him more water each day. New homes and 900 Main St. Ste 101 time to spend with his wife Donna, businesses in North Pleasanton were who works at the Livermore Lab, connected to the new Dublin San his brother Lee, who just retired Ramon Services District waste treat- as a sign painter with the city’s ment plant at I-680 and Stoneridge Street Department, and visiting and Johnson drives. In 1976, unable with his mother Barbara, 89, at the to handle any additional sewage, Pleasanton Convalescent Center on Pleasanton declared a housing mora- Neal Street. He also plans to spend torium and started connecting all of more time at the family cabin in its sewers to the DSRSD plant, clos- CHERYL Arnold, although McWilliams says ing down the Sunol facility in 1980. owning a cabin is much like a boat: McWilliams, promoted over the “The happiest day of your life is years, became a supervisor at the when you buy it; the next happiest city’s new Operations Center on COOK-KALLIO day is when you sell it.” Busch Road, in charge of plan- McWilliams’ long service ning capital improvement projects with the city’s sewer, water and and technical upgrades. Today, a FOR PLEASANTON CITY COUNCIL other operations is topped only truck checks sewer pipes with a by his family’s equally long his- state-of-the-art digital camera that tory with Pleasanton. His parents can be moved by remote controls A Passion for Public Service moved here in the early 1940s, throughout the system to check its later buying a house in the new integrity and for blockage. Another Jensen tract across Santa Rita Road advance is SCADA, a control and from Amador Valley High School. date acquisition system that checks That’s where John B., Lee and water quality, pressure and how www.votecook-kallio.com their three sisters—Lynne, Janis much water is available in city and young Barbara—were raised. water tanks to serve an increas- The senior McWilliams, a contrac- ingly thirsty system and in case of ) 20 year Pleasanton resident and parent of four grown children tor, expanded the house to serve emergencies. So when McWilliams his growing family, making it into checks out next month, he’ll leave a ) An Award Winning Teacher: Excellence in Education 2006, Teacher of the a four-bedroom, two-bath home, system almost fully automated with Year 2005, Teacher of the Year 1997, Coach- We The People Competition one of the largest in the neigh- no one needed to walk the streets Civics Team borhood. When John M. died in house by house to make sure the 1980, John B. and Donna bought city’s vast underground sewer and ) An Accomplished Leader: Assemblymember Torrico’s Citizen of the Year the house, raising another genera- water piping system works. ■ 2006, Senator Figueroa’s Woman of the Year 2004, Bachelor’s and Master’s tion of McWilliams—their three Degrees in History and the Constitution, James Madison Fellow About the Cover Amador Valley High School Class of 1946 alumni Bill Trimingham (pictured ENDORSEMENTS: left) and Frank Bonde pose in this June 1946 photo. The class recently celebrated its 60th reunion, sharing memories of Pleasanton and being the Livermore-Pleasanton Firefighters Alameda Co. Supervisor Scott Haggerty first class to graduate after World War II. Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce Bill McCammon, Alameda County Fire Chief Vol. VII, Number 39 Congressman Pete Stark Jennifer Hosterman, Mayor of Pleasanton State Senator Liz Figueroa Ken Mercer, Former Pleasanton Mayor The Pleasanton Weekly is published weekly by Embarcadero Publishing Co., 5506 Assemblymember Alberto Torrico Bob Butler, Former Pleasanton Mayor Sunol Blvd., Suite 100, Pleasanton, CA 94566; (925) 600-0840. USPS 020407. Assemblymember Johan Klehs Matt Campbell, Former Pleasanton City Councilmember The Pleasanton Weekly is mailed free upon request to homes and apartments in Pleasanton. Voluntary subscriptions at $30 per year ($50 for two years) are welcome Ellen Corbett, Former Assemblymember Karin Mohr, Former Pleasanton City Councilmember from Pleasanton residents. Subscription rate for businesses and for residents of other communities is $40 per year.
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