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Wednesday, July 15, 2015 • Vol. 9 Issue 10 ELEVENTH ANNUA SUMMERL WINE FESTIVAL Independent, locally August 16,Sunday, 2015 26,000 copies owned and operated! SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE delivered biweekly to Lamorinda homes SODA CENTER, 2-5 P.M. & businesses $50 PER PERSON UNTIL AUGUST 3 925-377-0977 www.lamorindaweekly.com ($60 THEREAFTER, $70 AT THE DOOR) FREE REGISTER TODAY stmarys-ca.edu/wine or (925) 631-8744 Sleepy Hollow Legends’ swimmer Mollie Appl finished the 9-10 girls' 50-yard butterfly in 34.76 seconds. Photo Gint Federas Bottoms Up Meet Makes Big Splash Awards abound and underdogs shine at 40th annual OMPA invitational (See story on page C1) Advertising News A2 - A12 Life in Lamorinda B1 - B10 Not to be Missed B8-B9 HOW TO CONTACT US B9 Food B10 Service Directory B10 Sports C1 - C3 Classified C2 Love Lafayette C4 Our Homes D1 -D12 This Week Read About: Deer Hill Update A3 MOSO Discussed A5 Orinda House Fire Response Questioned Orinda Downtown Parking A6 By Nick Marnell Applicants for Council Vacancy A6 Lafayette Man’s World Record firefighter was injured and four family members Attempt B2 were displaced in a two-alarm fire that broke out Orinda Books Author Events B3 Ain a single-family home in Orinda June 21. The fire at SMC Summer Research B4 16 Charles Hill Road, which was reported shortly after Pitcher on U.S. team C3 10 a.m., was contained within an hour; the injured fire- fighter was treated at the scene and returned to work, ac- cording to Dennis Rein, Moraga-Orinda Fire District Civic News A1-A12 public information officer for the incident. “It was a very aggressive fire attack by our guys, and they saved a large Vision for Hacienda de portion of the house,” Fire Chief Stephen Healy told the MOFD board July 1. Battalion chief Sean Perkins esti- las Flores Unveiled – mated damage of $200,000. page A4. Some north Orinda residents questioned the fire re- sponse, as, based on data provided by Rein, engine 145 arrived at the scene seven and a half minutes from the please... time the fire was first called in, with engine 143 arriving nearly 30 seconds later. According to an Orinda resident, a driver saw smoke but no fire engine, so he drove up Charles Hill to fire station 43 in hopes of alerting the fire- fighters. But the station was empty. MOFD station 43, at 20 Via Las Cruces, less than one-half mile from the incident, was empty because the View of the Charles Hill Road fire from the captain's seat of a responding MOFD engine. station 43 captain was meeting that morning with the cap- Photo courtesy MOFD tain at station 45 in Orinda Village. ...thanks ... continued on page A8 Life in Lamorinda B1-B10 Sports C1-C3 Our Homes D1-D12 Otter found The Get rid of in Orinda tremendous what’s creek – success of the bugging page B1. Lamorinda you in the prep sports garden – programs – page D10. page C1. 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Diablo Blvd. Design Review Monday, July 27 , 7 p.m. New Kids in Town at the Planning and Building Lafayette Library & Learning Center, Arts & Science Discovery Center, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Department Check online for agendas, meeting By Cathy Tyson notes and announcements hey may look young, but brand City of Lafayette: new city planning technicians www.ci.lafayette.ca.us CThris Juram and Julia Koppman Nor - Phone: (925) 284-1968 ton, both recent college graduates, are Chamber of Commerce: smart and eager to work for the city of Lafayette. www.lafayettechamber.org Nothing says welcome aboard please... l i k e donuts and cake on your first day, says Juram, who has been at ...thanks! the job for just over a month. He felt very welcomed and is im - pressed with the collegial atmos - phere in the city offices. A graduate Lafayette Police Department Incident Summary Report June 21 to July 4 Abandoned Vehicle Petty Theft Lafayette city planning technicians Julia Koppman Norton and Chris Juram Photo C. Tyson Pleasant Hill/Old Tunnel Rds 1200 block El Curtola (2) Alarms 93 3500 block Herman Dr of Campolindo High School and ballet and choreography in her cording to the California Building Animal Cruelty Lafayette Community Center Sonoma State University, with a younger years. Code, oil derricks. 3400 block Springhill Rd (2) 3400 block Mt Diablo Bl (2) degree in environmental planning, “They are both fantastic,” says The new employees will also be Trader Joe’s 3500 block Via Los Colorados Juram currently lives in Moraga. “I s e n i or planner Michael Cass, who has w o r king on zoning applications deal - Safeway 60 block Lafayette Cr already have a great feel for the been showing them the ropes: he ap - ing with smaller additions and tree re - 911 calls (incl. hang-ups) 18 1000 block Dyer Dr community,” said the newbie who preciates the “youthful energy” they moval permits. As they become more Burglary, Auto 600 block Burton Dr played basketball for Campolindo bring. The two will be working the experienced, they will be working Mt Diablo Bl/Golden Gate Wy Springbrook Pool 900 block Leland Dr 3500 block Silver Springs Rd (2) and is familiar with local neighbor - counter two days per week, helping with other planners on tasks spelled Bentley Upper School Grand Theft hoods. residents who come to the city seek - out in the work plan, like the Housing 30 block Lafayette Cr 10 block Hidden Valley Rd Gluten-free cupcakes greeted ing discretionary development appli - Element. Burglary, Misc. 3200 block Mt Diablo Bl J u l i a Koppman Norton. She’s from cations. Planners on duty work at the Juram and Koppman Norton are 1000 block Brown Av Public Nuisance Oakland and recently graduated city offices’ front counter from 8 a.m. r e p l acing veteran planners Lindy Civil Problem Lafayette Cr/Fiesta Ln with a degree in urban studies from to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Chan and Anthony Arrivas. Chan had 1200 block Monticello Rd 900 block Moraga Rd UC Berkeley. “I’m really excited Certain projects are exempt from the been with the city since 2001, work - 1100 block Rahara Dr Post Office 3300 block Victoria Av 3600 block Happy Valley Ln (2) to be here,” she said on day three of permitting process, for example ing on hundreds of building applica - Disturbance of the Peace Oak Hill/N Thompson Rds her employment. The bright and fences not over six feet high, retaining tions. Arrivas started as a planning 3000 block Rohrer Dr Mosswood Dr/Village Center cheerful young lady has been in - walls that are not over three feet high, intern, then moved on to a planning Police/Fire/EMS Response Phone Harass volved in the world of dance – jazz, installing a swing set, or oddly, ac - technician position. 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