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A couple of visits by you to City Council meetings on June 2 and June 9 will almost certainly mean $15*000 worth of free hot lunches for Washington School children next year.
On June 2 the Community Development Commission recom mendation to spend $1 5 ,0 0 0 next year for these children will be on Council agenda. The Council will probably send it to committee. The staff will probably recommend its passage and also funding for free hot lunches for two other schools. Then it will probably come up for a vote June 9 or maybe June 1 6 . We are doing trail-breaking work here. These lunches will be paid for by Federal block-grant funds and matched by Federal Nutri tion funds. The city has the money because the Potrero project cost less than expected. It won't cost the school district a cent. And it won't raise your property taxes. Thirty-three percent (33%) of these kids are on welfare. But they are our kids - they go to school in our community. Our community includes these children as well as people who are threatened by ammonia tanks. So even if you don't have children, and maybe especially if you don't have children - PLEAoE GO TO THESE MEETINGS. You people in Brickyard Cove - and on Western Drive - the councilmen know who you are. They will recog nize you in the audience. We need your support now more than ever. June 2 is the date. Eight p.m. is the time. The place is third floor of City Hall - 25th & Barrett in the Civic Center. Carpool is leaving from the Santa Fe Market at 7«30 p.m. Watch Saturday's Richmond Independent for the agenda item over the next few weeks. Watch the Point store windows for notices. We've agonized over this for three years...don*t let
Jeanne Eger Chairperson Washington School Hot Lunch Committee Tuesdays, June 17 through August 5* 1 - 2 p.m. Films at the West Side Branch Library for childir en Thursdays, June 19 - August 7 , 1 - 2 p.m. Arts and crafts day at West Side Branch Library_____ June 2 and June 9 (Monday evenings, 8 p.m.) City Council will con sider spending $1 5 ,0 0 0 for hot lunches at Washington School. PLEASE SHOW UPl11 Your presence will help insure passage of this important program. Even if you don't have kids, try to come to these council meetings. 3rd floor City Hall - Civic Center June 2 (Monday evening) 8 p.m. City Council will hold first public hearing on Port and Marina Redevelopment plan. June 3 (Tues.) Art show at Art Co-op, 1652 Shattuck Aye. Berkeley Richmond planner John Kenyon will show "Man-Made Landscapes" - see article on page 18
June k (Wednesday) 7*30 p.m. Washington School spring program in school auditorium. Music and drama and dessertl Also awards presentation.
June 5 (Thurs.) 7 - 9 p.m. J.J. Aasen and others - show opening at Richmond Art Center - reception at 7 p.m. 2 5 th & Barrett, Richmond.
June 5 (Thurs.) Multicultural day at Washington School. A l l day. June 7 (Sat.) Flea Market on Washington School grounds. Benefit PTA. June 9 - 13. Registration for Art Center summer classes. See article in this issue. June 10 (Tuesday) POINT COUNTERPOINT DEADLINE. June 12 (Thursday) SCHOOL IS OUTl June 13 (Friday) Sign-ups for puppet making at main library. (classes start June 2 3 ) June 26 (Thurs.) 3 - 5 p.m. Community dinner at Community Center (pay $1 .0 0 in advance for purchase of food)
June 28 (Sat.) Excursion to San Francisco Zoo on Bart. Call Community Center 232-61E0 for details.
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Bet;y Poarson Anna Marie Healy Omera Essary Richard Mateucci Bob Dornan Cjndy Quist Victoria Foye Dan Weinstein Diana Spinola June is the sixth month, completing the first half of 1 9 7 5 * It is a rom-ntic month of weddings and anniversaries.a time for graduations and for remembering dear Dad...a time to plan vacations...a time to appieciate teachers because you^ll have their job for a couple of monthsl .Although she isn't a father, Mrs. John Bruce Dodd will be given a bouquet of flowers as she is the founder of tiie day honoring Dads. She started it as a local celebration in ]910 in Spokane and four years later Congress (who v/ iro all males then) made it apply to fathers nation wide. Mrs. Dodd will be 93 this ye^r.
V'hat is a father? (Answered by. those who see him lea-'t but love him best, his children) "Fathers a"e parents, but are male"...(Wendy)..."A father knows when you're too old to be kissed"...(Frank)... "For most children he is an idle"...(Polly)..."A Father is you next best friend. (Berry) Happy Anniversary Judy and ^oe Travis (15 years) and \ also Gary and Frances Smith. After listening to an account of the recent hospitali zatxon of Frank Pearson, his confinement sounded more like a 'treat* than a 'treatment'. And, you can bet thennurses at Alta Bates didn't find duty boring nor will they soon forget his stay! Those who have thumbed through the May isBue of "Seventeen** magazine were pleased to see a picture of the 197^ Junior Miss of California on page 24 and delighted to note it was taken by none other than our own Point resident. George F. Perry. Best photo on the two patesl (unbiased observation!) Those who refer to Rauld Ferrari's 'green thumb' garden on Casey Drive do so with a deep color of envy. By the time this is being read, it is hoped Margaret Allyn will have concluded her stay at Richmond Hospital and be back home in the Point. First communion is a very important event in some young lives. It was served two weeks ago at Our Lady of Mercy Church to Lynn Darling, Susan Amantite, Clare Catherine Doherty and Martha Ramirez. During the special service, they pleased all attending, and especially Father Prendeville by doing some of the readings themselves even though they couldn't reach the microphones. Drexl Holldday has been confined to Richmond Hospital with a heart a ttack.
• 4 - The friendly, gentle personali Camp Fire’s Brand Council Fire ty of Jim Waite will be missed by will be on Wednesday, June 4th at his friends and family. Jim, a Adams Jr. High. 0 KI LU will retired Standard Oil employee, was participate. a devoted member of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church and an avid m Philatelist. It is with sadness Vocabularies change with the and sympathy that we note the^ times and if you aren't 'hip' to passing of another of our belived a current jargon, here’s a few longtime Point residents. that are unfamiliar to the under- 30— but may bring a warm nostalgia m to those of us 'a little older'. It was an unusual Tupperware RUNNING BOARD} a horizontal Party given by Bev Price recently. step on the side of an automobile Five year old daughter, Anne, that enabled a passenger to get in wasn't feeling well andas the and out without dislocating party .progressed, so did the vertebrae. It also allowed kids fever, Anne was taken to the to take a ride on the outside of hospital later and underwent an the car, which was lots of fun, appendectomy. A slightly older RUMBLE SEAT* a seat that folded member of the household didn't ; into the car when not in use. view this as 'all bad' as maybe Sort of a trunk in reverse. A she wouldn't have to go back to cold place to ride. school* ROADSTER* a car with an open body, one seat, and very often a m rumble seat, Enjoy the Flea Markets? Whether VICTORY GARDEN* vegetables ou buy or sell, Edna tMayfield- grown at home by patriotic elmore invites interested persons citizens who quickly learned that to one on June 14-15 in their being patriotic resulted in their Warehouse garage at 535 A Street, radishes costing 11 cents each. between Barrett and Ripley. They MARCEL* a horrendous hairdo, are offering the use of their new concocted by a curling iron, The grey warehouse for this one time result was hair waving in alter* event before the building is nate directions, as in a bad sold and if you want a space, call seascape. her at 235-1935 (home) or 232-2394 CURLING IRON* you heated it on (Business! She says the only fee the stove and the wooden handles will be the cost of advertising were often scorched. Occasionally that will be divided among all also one's head. those who participate. m m Do something special for Dad What a woman needs* and those graduates* Up to age 14 — good parents from 14-30 -- good looks from 30-5 0 -- good personality after 50 — CASHm Don Hansen, who works at the Spot and wife Marsha are the proud parents of an eight-lb. baby boy. "Alexander Roy" was born at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley Wednes day night, May 21. Alex was all of 20 in, long when he was born, says Don, proudly. m weeks of children's art classes to $13 for seven weeks of loom weaving for adults. Classes will run from June 16 through August 8 , Women of the Methodist Church Most of the childrens classes wish to express their thanks and are Mondays or Tuesdays and t ratitude for the overwhelming include ceramics, creative art and response to their "Tea and Stit- leather craft. chery" on the l6th. It is im Adult classes include weaving, possible to thank individually all ceramics, jewelry making, painting those who made it so eventful and spinning and dyeing, photography successful. and one course in quilting and Enthusiasm was contagious and patchwork design for senior citi local trunks and workshops were zens. opened and the contents shared. Especially if you are new in The day was beautiful and Point Town, the Art Center would be a residents, former residents and fine place to enlarge your personal wish-they-were residents came to world and either dabble or study admire the stitchery of the seriously in the world of art. present, past and even future. Classes are held in light, airy Betty Pearson and Bunny Klivans well-equipped rooms. Instruction are thanked for their door- by professionals is of the highest prizres which were won by Caroline quality. Davidson, Joanne Bray and Vir*» The Art Center is located at ginia Marquart. 25th and Barrett in the Civic Besides the fellowship and Center Complex. For more infor good food, an important cause was mation, call 23^-2 3 9 7 . served as members are trying to raise funds to repair and protect the stained glass windows in the historic church. They may even have another such tea next yearl Members also thank the Point Counterpoint for their publicity which was responsible for resi dents providing items from neigh borhood trunks. ike O K» Z ll
The 0 KI ZU Campfire girls spent Memorial Day baking bread and churning butter. The dough was made into buns and used with bar-B-que'd hamburgers with all hhe trimmings. We did this as part of the bicentennial celebra tion. The summer brochure for the In June we will put on a pro Richmond Art Center is out and gram for a convalescent hospital registration for classes will be and we will attend the BBO Swim held the week of June 9-13 from Party put or for the 6 th graders 10 a.m. to ^ p.m. and on Monday by the Discovery Club, the Junior and Thursday evenings of that High Camp Fire Girls. veok from 8-9 p.m. We will also have an outdoor A wide variety of classes will ceremonial picnic and swim party be available, both day and evening, at the hod and Gun Club and will ra iging in price from $5 for seven also attend the annual Grand Council Fire on June ^th. - (o c A l t f e - .LOCAL NEWS
and more awkward than usual when I’m in one), Janine^e Ellie's is a real]y pleasant experience. Janine herself is one of those What happened to Janine? She is eternally cheerful, positive still there, but the name of the people who always leave you feel shop has been changed to "Ellie’s". ing better about yourself and the Just a couple of weeks ago I went world than you did when you came down for a haircut and was so in. happy with the experience I wrote an article for the PCP. But Janine asked me to hold off print ing it until next month - she might have some more news for me then, she said! The n&ws is that Janine is still there cutting and setting hair, but a very nice, petite, brown-haired <§rMrtiuni{y (grtfer lady called JSilie Hansen has pur chased the business. A medical At the Community Center this summer will be a full and exciting secretary for 1^ years, Ellie says "live wanted a small business for schedule...this is how its shaping myself for a long time." Ellie up... -- lives in Pinole and has been in Monday - this area for almost ten years. I p.m. - 7 p.m. General recrea This is her first venture into the tion beauty shop business. 7 - 9 p.m. movies provided by Janine just decided to give up the West Side Branch Library the headaches of being a business*, Tuesdays woman and stick to the creative First & Third} 3 - 5 p.m. Arts side of it exclusively. There are and crafts also rumors that Janine may spend Wednesdays some time at the Sassoon school 3 - 5 P.m. Outdoor games, vol in S.F. learning the high-fashion leyball, basket ball, soft geometric cuts. Won’t that be ball something - to have a high fashion II a.m. - 3 p.m. Senior Adult hairdresser in Point Kichmondl Day beginning June 25. This When I was in the shop last program will include sewing, month I treated myself to the movies, dinners, card games, first beauty shop haircut I've had dominoes, ping-pong, pool and in a long time. Janine gave me excursions. This program is a blow-cut, which she says is the to be set up by the seniors latest thing in all the best San with their officers Francisco salons. The difference Thursdays. between a blow-cut and a regular Adult night. cut is that the beautician blows the hair dry, meanwhile combing t A Community Dinner will be it into a gentle wave that curls held June 26 from 3~5 p.m. The under, like a page-boy. This one last dinner was cooked for 35 can do oneself at home with a people, but 50 people camel There little practice and one of those were many newcomers who enjoyed curling rods. the home cooking. Demember to pay Another nice thing about your $1 .0 0 in advance for the Janine^e Ellie'si for one who is June dinner, so we’ll be sure to easily intimidated by beauty shops have enough. (I always feel uglier, stupider -7- In Point Richmond, the best The staff and everyone that bet is still good old Keller’s attends the Center would like to Beach and walking around the thank Mr. Cleophas' Brown for do hills. You might try Point nating a pool table to the Center. Molate Beach or Red Rock Marina An excursion to the San Fran for fishing. Or take BART to cisco Zoo on. BART will be June 28 Berkeley, change to "Humphrey for elemtary school kids. Go Bart" the free bus through For more information call the the campus, up to Lawrence Hall Center at 232-6140. of Science. I would like to give special Since I tend to hang around thanks to the youth and Ronna Point Richmond most of the time, Moore for helping serve the I’m not really an expert on fifty people that attended the summer recreation. It would last Community Dinner. really be great if some of you Gladys Ferguson out there in newspaper-land would let me know your favorite summer recreation hints (only stuff I can print in a public newspaper, pleasel). Also, if you take a neat trip somewhere, why don’t you write about it so we can share it with you? SUMMER RECREATION - One more note about the EBRPD. IN THE EAST BAY REGIONAL The special A.C. Transit bus that PARKS... runs up to all the parks in the Berkeley Hills will be operating again this summer. You can Usually by this time of year transfer to it at the BART v,e are flooded with press re leases from the East Bay Regional station. I wish I could tell larks district telling fcbout you more about it, but I threw summer programs. However, as you away the press release by acci dent. Some days it just doesn’t probably realize, the EBRPD is on pay to get up... strike. At one point the life guards had also refused to work .e. in sympathy for the striking workers. At another time it seemed they had gone back to work. But the situation is still fluid, so it might be a good idea to A T THE. stay away from the swimming areas until the strike is settled — KVMN LIBRARY — especially if you can’t swim. The Richmond parks are in full operation, however, and we hope When I was a child, my sister to obtain more information about and I made puppets and put on summer programs soon. When puppet shows together for the school is out Kennedy Swim Center whole neighborhood. Those were will open to the public and we’ll some of the best times we had and have that schedule for you. You also some of the few times we got probably know that the Plunge is along together. I remember put closed for renovation. Some ting on "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let citizens are working to have it Down Your Long Golden Hair". reopened until the renovation Rapunzel (me) would let down her actually starts, because it is hair (from this high castle win*-' usually so heavily used during dow) and the wicked witch (my the summer. But there is no sister) would climb up her hair final word on that, either.
s •Wld take her off to the dungeon! stop sign ior west-bound traffic Well, despite the Freudian inter on Garrard approaching the tunnel. pretations (of which we were This means there are no stop thankfully oblivious) the puppet signs between Standard avenue and shows were great fun and took up the tunnel. The crossing between hours of satisfied creative work. the Plunge and Onstad's pizza is So the notice from the Main heavily used by children going Library about a puppet program on and coming to the beach and Plunge Mondays pushed all my mental "go" and school playground and pizza buttons. Sign ups start June 13 place. In the summer and on week at the children's reference desk. ends there are no crossing guards. The program runs from June 23 to The intersection is confusing, at July 2 7 , every Monday from 2-4 pm. best. The tunnel has no lights in Bring your scrap materials and/or it now and the glare at the other yourself. Puppet show in AugustI end makes it very difficult to see where you are going. Children disregard the small sign prohibi A T T-H f- ting bike riding on the tunnel road. All this adds up to a great big traffic hazard at this corner. The city has been requested to put a fourth stop sign there. If • • • and on -fiie they don't do it and a child is rz o m killed, BLOOD WILL BE ON THEIR HANDS. For those of you who knashed your teeth in the Memorial day traffic last weekend, consider vacationing in scenic Point Rich w m m tc m a o w mond next yearl The sun shown brightly and Keller's beach was im m m filled with happy sun and sand SINCERE S2RV3XS CINCS 1967 worshippers. It was so hot at the beach, in fact, that many 2 3 5 - 7 4 9 1 grownups overcame their usual av ersion to the cold Pacific water 31*30 BITAtea r o w s and went for a swim. RICHMOMD, CA. © 4806 On Sunday, with not enough of the usual Jumbo's crowd to make up a baseball game, many took to lounging on the lawns bordering the baseball field. They lounged, that is, until the sprinklers be ObbiGopy gan coming on. One couple laughed at the plight of another caught unsuspectingly in the way of a shaft of water until a few minutes later they became the newest victims. All agreed that it was incomprehensible that the city would choose a sunny Sunday after noon to water the playground lawns instead of waiting for evening. PHONE 233 5 ^ 0 0 PUNNE PAINT GENERAL HARDWARE The intersection of West Rich mond and Garrard was buzzing with OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK* 8AM-GPM. traffic and pedestrians. The city RONALD R. MOUSED J01H3tk ST. -RICHMOND has just put in a three-way stop sign there, but it left off the P O EZ r v T blown under a sky of glass anticipation golden hair shielding blue eyes from foam a small boy builds old man's memories from beachfulls of aching muscles tiny laughter his fingers sculpt driftwind castles into allegoric patters working to draw water from a path entrepreneur in heavy sand he walls the moat with care/ building to outwit the moon
i remember watching such a boy running along the beach wind in his innocence suddenly fall to his knees/ saw him imprison an imperfect chattel from the currents some richness forgotten Important by some old riptide pirate a coin left for sand fingers SHOW” for tiny opposable minds a t a small blue-eyed golden-haired boy H i t a fragile anomaly on a too vast beach vascillating between his mother's voice and a skyfull of empty stars c e m c Q s Jim Milstead
The Art Center, recent victim Also showing in the Main of censorship by the Richmond Gallery will be raku by David School District, looks like it Kuraoka. has a winner coming up with its In the other galleries will be show starting the evening of showing works of four Sacramento June $. area artists. Loosely labeled The headliner of the show is the "Capitol Four” , it includes "J.J." Aasen ,showing paintings, Fred Ball, Donna Billick, Patrick prints and drawings. J.J* was a Mooney and Lucian Pompili. curator of the Art Center about The Art Center nine years ago. He followed is located at 25th Jack Richard as curator and the and Barrett, in • two of them brought some of the the Civic Center finest young Bay Area artists to complex. More ... the Art Center for their first information is important one-man shows. Many of available by J.J.'s exhibitors back in the calling 23^-2397. 6 0 ?s went on to national and The show runs international fame. J.J. himself through July 6 . is a fine artist of no small stature. So the public reception to be held June 5 from 7-9 p.m. will probably feature the cream of the Bay Area artists, as well as art of the highest excellence. Art collectors, you have been put on notice! - TKECbEER- So it was West once more, and The portrait of Dan Robertson this time he landed in San Fran on the cover of this month’s POINT cisco, obtaining a job as insur COUNTERPOINT is by Jill Sacherman, ance underwriter and spending a young, talented Bay Area artist. what Dan calls the "bleakest 5 Jill will do portraits at reason years of my life." able rates. Contact her at A year's illness and a marriage 65*1-0737 or by calling the Point Counterpoint (232-2494). behind him, Dan came to Point Richmond one ' night, carrying a I went up to interview Dan petition to recall Ronald Reagan. at his house on High street in Thea recalls she saw him in the mid-May. Dan couldn't come out Baltic, arguing and waving his to see me because he was recuper arms around. "There's an interes ating from an accident. Dan had ting man," Thea thought to her broken his ankle falling out of self. Sho was also carrying a a tree at Point Pinole the weekend petition, to save Point Pinole. before. They met and after some conversa Thea Robertson fixed a beauti tion, the immortal words were ful lunch for us in the kitchen spoken, "I'll sign your petition and we sat happily, gazing at the if you’ll sign mine." And so a sunshine outside beaming on the modern marriage bigan. multicolored garden flowers and the Along the w a y , Dan picked u p a blue sea beyond. Dan poured us degree in art from U.C. Right now glasses of wine and we settled he is writing like mad<* trying to down to hear his life story. establish himself as a free lancer. Dan was born in Santa Barbara 37 years ago, but grew up in Nor Dan has two girls by his first wood Ohio. After high school he marraige, Becky and Cathy. They came west [again to join a brother often spend the weekend at the who was already on the coast. house on High Street. The Robert After a stint with Pacific Fruit sons will have to leave this Express as a clerk, he joined the place pretty soon and are expec Air Force and was sent to language ting to move to El Sobrante If school at Yale to learn Chinese. they cannot find a reasonable Then he was stationed in Formosa place to live in the Point. as a Chinese linguist. Dan Dan has been a Point Counter managed to espape servitude as an point contributor since the late Air Force "spook" and got a job as 6 0 ’s, when Donna Roselius ran the public information officer with paper. Don's articles have been the Strategic Air Command state humerous and insightfuli some side, writing press releases and times pointed and outragoous, like taking photographs. the one published around 1969 After he got out of the service, about "Okies”. A PCP project Dan went to work for American under consideration i3 a book of Motorcycle Magazine as associate Dan Robertson short stories, col editor. As he tells it, when he lected from the essays he has applied for the job he told the written for the nev.spaper over editor, "You should know two things the years. acout me. First, I don't type. By the time we finished the Second, I despise motorcycles and interview it was 3*00 and several motorcyclists." But Dan was hired glasses of wine later. It had anyway. been a fine luncheon with a After a couple of years he began rising local literary star. to bo plagued once again with that j»e. small, nagging question, "Is this all there is to life?" It Board of Equalization and a great deal of their time was taken up in hearing irate citizens complain about assessments. The initial enthusiasm dis Mr. Seaton said that a person played at the last meeting at not the owner of the property can which 70 people showed up, waned appeal an assessment decision. A ir May and the neighborhood council famous case occurred a few years meeting Tuesday the 20th had a ago when private citizens disputed snail turnout of about 12 people. the valuation put on Ronald Rea* Tie small attendance seemed to be gan's house and the assessment because of a lack of pressing board there raised the valuation. . issues at hand. Tom Butt had arranged to have Mr. Ralph Seaton, an Assistant County Assessor out of the Rich mond office t/peak to the group. Mr. Seaton explained how residen tial taxes are determined. A set amount of money is needed by schools and special districts in the county. The money is collec ted in relation to the value of the property in the county. Property which is worth more must "" The appraisal process has three produce more taxes. The appraisal parts* (l) replacement value process determines the value of ^2) market data (3 ) income. The the property and is the main tasic assessment rolls and the tax rolls of the assessor. Assessed valua are public record. tion is always 35^ °T full Mr. S&aton was bombarded with appraisal value. Appeal can be questions concerning industrial made disputing the assessed valua assessments. Lori Shaper s&id she tion of the property, but not the had heard that Hilltop land was amount of taxes. In other words, sold for a large sum and the pre a citizen can go before the vious tax appraisal didn't nearly Assessment Appeal Board and try approach that amount. Mr. Seaton to show that his/her house is not Asked if anyone in the room could worth as much as the County claims. have predicted whether that land In order to get would have become a shopping cen a case before ter in advance of the announcement the appeals of the plans. Tom Butt explained board you must that comments he had often heard file an appli were that Standard Oil is so large cation for and so impossible to keep track of "Change of that it in effect assesses itself. Assessment'1 Mr. Seaton asked if anyone in the This form room had tho expertise to assess is avail Standard Oil, able in the asses- ____-___:__ •, Mr. Seaton said that Standard sor's office and also from the pays nearly 1/3 of the property Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. taxes in Richmond. He said that The appeal must be filed between Richmond does not have a permanent i’jui v 2 and August~2~£, Three industrial appraisal staff but Contra Costa citizens appointed by that the industrial specialists the Board of Supervisors sit as are based in Martinez. Other the Appeals Board. Previously the interesting figures are the pro portion of property taxes paid Board of Supervisors sat as the -/2 (or adult) tested. The final re county widei 30% is paid by indus sults of lead poisoning are brain try, 1 % by commercial, 54% by damage, mental retardation and residential and about 4% is called death. "vacant"• Treatment for the poisoning He said that Standard Oil turns : would cost $2 ,0 0 0 and two weeks in in a property statement every year the hospital if it were paid for (as required by law) and the state privately. If the family is low ment is compared with tax office income they can get treatment information. Because of the many through the project at no cost. refineries in the county, the tax Ms. Dennis related the shocking office has a good deal of informal case of horses dropping dead in tion about refineries available. Contra Costa a few years ago. The Every three years its property tax deaths were the result of lead is audited by the State Board, poisoning from the Selby smelter which does assessments of all bus which deposited lead in the air. inesses of over $5 0 ,0 0 0 valuation The lead was deposited on leaves every three years. Mr. Seaton and grass which the horses ate. said that Carl Hush, a chief ap The smelter has since been shut praiser out of Martinez and a down but there is still a lot of Mr. Albert Lagorio, who is in lead in the earth around here. charge of industrial assessments would be the people to contact - SECURITY PATROL - for more information about indus The next guest speaker was trial assessments. Chuck Allison from ABC Security Lori Shaper asked about old Patrol, whom Tom Butt had invited people who had lived in the area to the meeting. Chuck Allison for many years, owned their homes said he was selling security pa free and clear and now were being trol services. If 70% of the forced out by taxes. Seaton said business got together they could that the assessor's office has no hire his outfit. He said they discretion in the matter of asses patrol Claremont Pines, where sments. Relief can only come from there are $2 5 0 ,00 0 -$3 0 0 ,0 0 0 homes. the legislature and, in fact, If there is a motorcycle rider on ■* there are several bills in the the street who doesn't belong the hopper now for this purpose there, they scare him away because - LEAD POISONING DISCUSSED - they wear uniforms that look like police uniforms. He said they The next guest was Rita Dennis would "help keep the ruffians un from the lead poisoning project. derhand" . Mr. Allison was ques She said that one out of 15 tioned as to why the City Council children tested in the county had seemed so anxious to hire his high levels of lead in their blood security patrol service and give Several years ago no one had anv it a monopoly when cities all lead in their blood but now every around have several patrols oper one has a level of about 2 0 . Level ating within their city limits. 40 is considered toxic. So it He said he used to doesn't take very much lead to work for Mr. Dabney's reach a toxic level, especially enterprise (the pat- for a small child. tol that formerly had the Richmond No symptoms appear for the first six weeks. After that, franchise) but had symptoms may be drowsiness, irri gotten out of tability and loss of appetite, all that operation of which are usually attributed to because they werq some other cause. So the only way a dishonest out to really tell is there is lead fit. He said poisoning is to have the child that Mr. Dabney had been charged with illegal
friia w r--" 1 ■.n'U'iP'tK; jjftr a M M ftr is an issue that people are willing to work on, such as the activity and he thought that hot lunch program, much can be having a monopoly contributed to accomplished. In other cities temptations of that kind. In the revenue sharing program is fact, Mr. Allison said he had set up by the city staff and written a letter to someone to then there ere one or two pub that effect. (We later checked lic hearings. Richmond has with Mr. Dave Higgins,^assistant gone farther and set up a whole city manager and he said that neighborhood council and commis Dabney had not had any formal sion structure. So the city re charges brought against him that sources are available to us when Mr. Higgins knew about.;A report we decide to act again. Ronna about charges by Mr. Dansky of Moore and Gladys felt that it was the American Mutual Secutiry very beneficial to have the local Patrol against the city are in citizens using the center for "City Hall Notes" in this issue.) these meetings. Ronna said she had heard about the last meeting COMMUNITY CENTER and how great it was all the way up in Sacramento. Someone Gladys Ferguson announced that suggested that the reporting in the Community Center is going to the PCP was so thorough that receive a gift of a full-sized maybe people didn’t feel a need pool table from Mr. Cleophas to come to the meetingl Brown, a Point Richmond resident and former city council candidate. However most of vhe group The center has already received felt that not much action could be a smaller pool table from Mrs. expected out of Point Richmond Moore of Point Richmond. The over the summer and it would be youth & center staff greatly ap better to call it quits until the preciate these generous gifts and fall or until something came up. the community support which has All agreed that no executive been shown recently. Gladys said board was necessary. she is presently trying to plan So the neighborhood council activities for the elderly and adjourned until the next impor hopes to have something going on tant isBue comes up. If you this summer. Peggy Wilson, who have a project or a gripe that was not able to attend the meeting you want to push, contact Tom at sent an invitation to anyone in Interactive Resources, 236-7 4 3 5. the community to help sketch the mural. The work will be done during the summer because one of the requirements was that it be done during regular working hours. NEWSPAPER - RECAP - HISTORY Despite the poor turnout, interest in the speakers was such From A History of Richmond. Cali that it was 9*30 be* fornia . published by the Richmond tore the last agenda Chamber of Commerce, 19^4. item was brought up. (Available at the public library lorn Butt wondered reference desk.) whether it would be a rood idea to let the "Naugle's reighborhood organization Record was a weekly shoot and it languish for awhile until a new filled a real need for the com vital issue arose, rather than munity. A good many newspapers meeting just for the sake of have come and gone, but perhaps meeting. He said that when there none was more important than this first one which faithfully recor ded the comings and goings of those pioneer residents of Rich PI22A mond. For a few months he had the field to himself. Then in 1901 the town attracted the attention of Guy E. Milnes who was publisher Onstad's Pizza & Things has of the Gazette at Martinez and an finally openedlBob Onstad (who Important figure in County poli* also manages Berkeley's Community tics. One winter day he hauled i Theater full time) was handed his second-hand press out from Oakland business license late Friday in the rain, getting stuck in the afternoon and immediately ran to mud several times on the way. H# his van to get to the produce called his paper the Leader and markets before closing time, launched It as a daily. At about urday morning brought the new the same time a small weekly cal crew, Bob’s ion Rick,, who will be ling itself the Press came into managing the restaurant, Lisa existence, but it died an early Williams', Betty Black, Chris Bar death, presumably from advertising ley, Teri Mathis and Jeanne Eger. malnutrition. In 1902 Norman Ellsworth, a San Francisco printer, invaded the field with the Trib The group eagerly experimented une. These were the day of per with pizza making - all pizzas sonal journalism, and the editors are made fresh an: the dough is frequently lambasted each other rolled out by hand. The first in the public prints, although it batch brought rave reviews and is doubtful whether their readers Bob took them over to some of the cared a great deal for their per local establishments for samplers sonal quarrels. The Tribune had to try out. Everyone has been announced that it intended to be watching the progress of the place come a daily, but it never sue- . over the past 17 months. Bob and ceeded in coming out oftener than Rick have redecorated what used to twice a week, and at a tender age be the Four Corners Cafe by hand. it passed out, nor was its passing The pride of the new eatery is the regretted by its cynical contem hand-made counter top which dis poraries. In 1910 the Herald was plays chart maps of the coastline established by J.L. Kennon. With from San Francisco to Sacramento. in a year it was merged with the Bob's own water-color paintings Record, thus establishing the name are on the walls. Record-Herald under which the Besides the pizza, featured paper was published for many years eating includes burgers, hot dogs, thereafter. In 1912 there was a "beer dogs" (hot dogs cooked in merger of the Record-Herald and beer), gourmet coffee and much the Leader under ownership of more. Take-out service is avail Mr. Milnes and Frank Hull, with able by calling information In ihe F. J. Hulaniski as editor. The Plumbing, electrical and inspec latter was an important figure in tion troubles forgotten, the tired* the newspaper world here and was but happy crew sank down upon the the author of a history of Contra Costa County." outside benches at the erd of the j day to watch the eclipse. All Newspaper History will be decided it was a good omen. continued in the next issue of POINT COUNTERPOINT. A Point Richmond resident, Bob j Onstad is no newcomer to the res- ! taurant business. Several years ago Bob created and ran an estab lishment called the "Bard's Brook Coffee Shop and Pizza Parlor" in j Ashland Oregon.
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Monday. Mav 19 - Two outgoing council- men sang their swan songs and tvrc old politicos were brought back to the scene of action to eulogize them. Gay Vargas, defeated for council after serving for 2k years was presented with a plaque of appreciation by former Mayor and council member John Sheridan. Booker Anderson got one too and also decided to make off with his name plate as a souvenir. Anderson's term was distinguished by his wisecracks, introduction of friends and political acquain tances in the council audience, and long speeches about how citizens had a right to speak before the council. His remarks that he intended to stay in the political arena and make friends with some young people and newt omers were incor- rectly attributed to Gay Vargas the next day in the daily alternative newspaper. Supervisor and former councilman Jim Kenny was also on hand for the speechmaking. The round of speeches came at the end of a meeting which was notable only for the way in which council once more, without investigation into charges made, reaffirmed the city-bestowed monopoly ter ABC Security Batrol for street patrol services. (This subject was also digeussed at the Point Neighborhood Council meeting - see page i3 ) Mr. Harry Dansky, vho had been turned down in his bid for the patrol service franchise, cucted a section of the California Code dealing with consumer affairs, which states that no department shall prohibit a business which holds a valid license from operating its business. Dansky said that his patrol service, American Mutual, was going out to street patrol. "If the police want to cite us, they can. The State says they'll back us up," Mr. Dansky stated. Dansky also said that in the cities which ABC claimed to oper ate on its application for the franchise, it actually does not operate in ?0$ of the places it claims. At that point Mayor Nelson in an angry £nd agitated state, objected, saying the matter had already been decided and that we had a good police department. (The police department had made the selection of street patrols.) Nelson ruled the subject closed. The question was in the minds of many observors as to why the council seemed so anxious to give the security patrol to ABC without further in- vestigation, even though serious questions had been raised two weeks in a row. Councilman A1 Silva was the only council member to do loss than railroad the matter through. Silva brought up the fact that if the city gave a monopoly to a business, they should provide some way to regu late it. Silva ought to know about this, being manager of the Richmond office of Pacific Telephone, a regulated public utility-monopoly. But he was unsuccessful in this move toward further investigation. In other action, 25 citizens of the Humboldt Avenue neighborhood attended council and a number of them spoke against a Planning Commission variance given to the owners of a property next to the small park there. The property is zoned for a 3-unit apartment, but the developer wants to put up a **-unit building v/ith interior courtyard. There would be virtually ro set back and a blank wall would be facing the small park. Council failed to muster enough Votes to affirm or override the Commission and so the matter was held over to the June 9 meeting. Tuesday. Mav 21 - Bob Campbell, Fritz Allen and Tom Corcoran were sworn in as new city councilmen this evening. The council passed its business quickly and then turned to the business of electing a new mayor and vice-mayor. For this the councilmen went into executive session, which lasted quite a long time. When they came out Dick Nelson announced that Gary Fernandez had been elected Mayor but that no agreement could be made as to Vice-Mayor, so the city would be without one, at least this week. Many hopes for a unified council, which will be able to pass on important matters without long squabbling were clouded with this announcement. The meeting was adjourned and council and audience adjourned to the Art Center for a reception to honor the new council members.
You may have wondered at this headline in the May 15 edition. NO- WORDS PICTURE What was intended was for the artist to draw a picture of a hypodermic needle and that, all by i f .kypockrflttC Hudk itself, would be a headline. "No words-picture of hypodermic needle" was the instruction to the artist, who reproduced the words instead of drawing the piccure. But no matter - even with sv.cn an existential headline, the mes sage came across. Sheila Craft was inspired to write and send us the following poem, which we appreciate! a lament for Joe and Mariano
what do you do when there's no place left to go/ when there's no one at home/ no friends are home/ oh lord, if there is one, give me a mercy rest/ take me back to a place where I can heal my shattered heart/ I want to be where love is/ where I want to want again - when did we pass up the boundary? I want to feel again needs and wants/ I don't want to pass up anything that is for everyday/ there could be somebody home/ if money can buy dreams money should buy help/ there should be someone home... Sheila -J7- A show Point Richmonders may Cabin cruisers moor at Red Rock want to catch will be opening at Marina (foreground right). Tankers the Art Co-op Gallery, 1652 Shat- glide toward the Long Wharf or on tuck Avenue, Berkeley, June 3 and to San Pablo Bay. Sailboats tack running through June 28. against the wind in the distance. An occasional freight train rumbfcfes The featured artist is John along the shore on the Castro Point Kenyon, a British-born architect Belt line tracks, while toy-like who works for the Richmond Rede cars and trucks gleam continually velopment Agency. from the two decks of the Richmond- Why, you may ask, is the Point San Rafael Bridge. The silver Counterpoint pushing an art show by bridge dominates all, its erector* a Richmond city staffer in set precision arching to the hills Berkeley? I asked the same ques of Marin. As an incomparable view tion of Kenyon and here was his view-platform the bridge is an reply 1 opportunity missed. The Bay, the "True, it is not local, but some fabulous landforms of Marin and of my own work in the show is. I the details of the Richmond shore have a watercolor and cardboard are almost cut off from sight by 'painting* of oil tanks at Point its solid steel side-rails." San Pablo that I privately called •Homage to Standard Oil' and which was immediately rented for their
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We have been curious about the operation of the "Community Development Commission" - the citizen group set up to recommend spending the new "block grant" (the large chunk of federal money given to Richmond). Starting in April, funding for many city programs changed over from specific projects, such as Model Cities, Redevelopment, etc., to one block grant. On the local level, the manifestation of this is our Point Richmond Neighborhood Council, which meetings have been reported in the POINT COUNTERPOINT. Our representative on the city commission is Tom Butt, President of Interactive Resources. In order to find out more about the CDC we went up to City Hall late in April, to talk to Mr. Fred Stevens. Mr. Stevens' title is "Senior Management Services Analyst" and his group is called the "Manage ment Services Group". They work under the City Manager's office. Over the last year their primary tank has been to"perform the necessary analysis and prepare recommendations to implement the transit to Community Development." Mr. Stevens is in charge of that group. In other words, Fred Stevens knows what is going on. „ Mr. Stevens graduated'from San Francisco State with a science-business major and a few years later graduated from Harvard Business school. In 1971 he went to work for McKinsey & Co., a world-wide manage ment consultant firm based in Washington. Then he came to iiichmond. We started the interview at City Kali and then continued it over lunch at the Judges & Spares, where we talked about "701 Comprehensive Planning Assistance Funds". On May 19 the city council approved spending 3^0,000 of Richmond's money for this federally assisted program. We wanted to get through the hgovernmentese" and find out what it was about. Also printed here is a map which shows the distribution of Community Development Funds. Point Rich mond's piece of the pie is the renovation of the Plunge. We have also reprinted part of an article from the "Montclarion" - a weekly Oakland newspaper, which discusses how Oakland is doing with its CD funds. Reading this makes us in Richmond feel fortunate! In Oakland there is a power struggle between a powerful Redevelopment Agency and the City Council. They have not even decided how to use the block grant funds, whereas Richmond is ready to start spending the money. Fred Stevens says that Richmond has been planning for this eventuality for a long time, so the transition is a lot smoother. Part of this has to do with the city council sitting as redevelopment commission. Another notei You will need a key for some of these terms. "CD" means "community development", "CDC" means "Community Development Commission". "KUD" means "Housing and Urban Development". And- "HEW" means "Health, Education and Welfare." By the time you get finished with this interview you will know all about Community Development Commis sion. You may even know more than you wanted to know!
F.S. For social services. But not for the J.E. Mr. Stevens, these grant applications housing and urban development paxt. are written in a language which seems to be J.E. The projects are not limited to the understood only by city managers. Can you ex model cities area, right? plain the Community Development funding in language the ordinary person c a i understand? F.S. Currently none of the projects are limited to the model cities area. Under the new F.S. Its funding in the general area of block grant, community development program, there housing, community development, urban renewal. are no limitations, from a legislative point of Prior to the recent funding change, these view. The only limitations would be self-imposed, various programs, and there are about seveni as agreed on by the persons who have the authority water, sewers, open space, model cities, urban in the city, (the city council) The seven renewal, recreation and one moret were funded un categorical programs are now funded under one der seven separate categories. They are now block grant received by the city from KUD. The funded under one category and that is entitled major programs in the city that were the most "Community Development" and it is in the form of visible were urban renewal and model cities. a block grant which is the manifestation of Rrograms that were formerly operated by Redevelop revenue sharing. ment are also now coming out of this single grant. J.E. Do social services come under this J.E. Would that include the harbor and down grant? town? F.S. To the extent that HUD was funding F.S. Except to this extent. There were some social service programs, yes, but the fact is projects, for example, that had funding prior to that HUD didn't fund many social service programs. this, and once a project had been funded for a Health, education and welfare, even senior citi number of future years, it would continue. Pro zens programs, by and large are funded by the jects such as the downtown conceivably had Department of Health Education and Welfare, which scheduled for years in the future. So we have a also has forthcoming block grants or revenue couple of projects that the Redevelopment agency sharing. has that still would be funded by HUD for two to J.E. When will that start? three more years. This also goes for Recreation and Parks to a smaller extent. -The point is, any F.S. That's still to come out of Washing new redevelopment efforts scheduled would have to ton. When the idea was originated, it was coma out of the block grant now. supposed to be in various areas. J.E. So presently you still have to apply for a specific project? -S.O- 1 . COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Project Map «ITV OF RICHMOND AND VICINITY PROJECTS BY CENSUS TRACT CONTRA COSTA COl'NTY CALIFORNIA Flood Control 1970 Parchostcr Park * Parchester Center * Nevin Center Plunge Renovation* Boorman Park CENSUS TRACTS Mariposa Playlot Wilson School Park Development I 33rd Street Overpass DeAnza Center Fairmede Park Easter Hill Ball Park* Hilltop Green Park Richmond Auditorium Modification* Civic Center Neighborhood Facility* North Richmond By-pass Fire Station (New - Carlson & Bayview) SouAside Community Center (purchase building) North Richmond SDP* Nevin Center NDP* Home Improvement Loan Program* Rehabilitation Grants Frogiam* Neighborhood improvement program* Rehabilitation of Vacant and Abandoned Structures'* Demolition of Vacant and Abandoned Structures* Elderly Turnkey Housinc* Replacement of Nystrom and Triangle Projects* Code Enforcement P.elocation* Public Housing Modernization* Child Care* Economic Development* • Senior Citizen Nutrition Program* West County Discovery Center, Inc.* Child Diagnostic & Evaluation Center RUSD School Lunch Program* RUSD Summer School Procram Community Education Project Richmond Youth House Youth Board and Youth Center CITY-WIDE PROJECTS
Fire Station (renovations) United Council of Spanish Speaking, Inc. (Cultural Center) People Pledged for Community Progress (purchase buildinc) North Richmond Neighborhood House (construct two buildings) Ten Just >!en (multi-cultural center) Ecoloay Center West Contra Costa Health Care Corp.* Career Development & Trainina Project* Welfare Rights Organization (Social Resources Advocacy Center) West Contra Costa Club of the Blind Pullman Child Develooment Center Emergency Food Pantry Richmond Boys Club Secondary Bilinaual Education Project RUSD • Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments* J.E. I read in the Wall Street Journal F.S. Social needs - education, police about six months ago that Congress v;ns dissatis services, aid to the aped (gerontology) - almost fied with the way the block grants were being im everything that falls into the category of social plemented) that they weren't being implemented needs - health, education and welfare. The form with ns much social services programs as Congress that it will take here is developing this inven thought was appropriate, and now the HUD fellow tory of where the needs are, sort of by census (James Price who appeared at a recent city council tract. For example, there might be more of a meeting) said that he thought that Richmond's need for family planning counseling in the Iron block prant application was specially rood because Triangle, more need for gerontology in the North it stressed the same proprams that basically had and East sections, needs may be for home coun been HUD prorrams like housine and physical reno seling in North Richmond and this kind of thing. vation. Somebody told me that I was talkinp about And then maybe we can say that here are the pro a different block prant. What was the Wall Street grams that can likely address these needs. Journal referrinr to? However, it is important to stress the fact that this is not a program that is designed to talk F.S, The Journal has hit revenue sharinp about services that are going to be rendered by two or three different times. For example, there the city. is law enforcement revenue sharinp, peneral revenue sharinp and spcial revenue sharinp. Gen J.E. You mean this would be the city's eral revenue sharinp would po to the cities just recommendation to any agency that could actually for peneral purposes and with little or no run the programs? strinps attached. In the city of 'ichmond these F.S. Yes, more like that. Its really devel revenue sharinp funds are committed to fund a oping the plan rather than implementing it. bankrupt pension system for the police and fire There could be a coordinating role - maybe men. Aside from that there is special revenue assisting these groups to apply for services, sharinp for law enforcement for one, and commun make application for fundings to one place or ity development for the second and if Nixon's another. proprams were still beinp pushed, there would be one comine forth in health, education and wel J.E. Is this a new idea? fare. I'm not sure if that's ever poinp to come f orth. F.S. Yes, T»,any ideas such as this were fostered by organization such as the National J.E. Why do you think that that will not be League of Cities. Persons have been using that implemented? forum to talk about the need for integrating F.S. It was a Nixon propram and President social services into the plan that regular Ford has to pet his own way of doinp thinps. The cities form. In addition to the need for police houslnp and urban development thinp was so far and fire, that kind of thing. alone that all Ford had to do was sipn it. It's J.E. Let’s go back to talking about almost personal in that sense. If Ford thinks community development. Where were we? enoueh of special revenue sharinp as it applies to health, education and welfare, then that bill will come out. If not, it could fall by the way- side and cateporical fundine could continue. J.E. So basically the bippest impact in the city comes from the HUD chanpeover from I.odel Cities to Community Development, what do you think is poinp to be the result of citizen input? Up until now you've had professional city plan ners doin most of the planninp on these projects. Do you think that the citizens' outlook and at titude is poinp to chanre? F.S. Sure. It will, and in a positive way. There will be more of a realistic reflection of what citizens want. It will be what citizens have aeonized over and this will be an end pro duct of some kind of cot iromise. But that's still closer to the pulse of the citizens than the result of analysis by professional people without citizen input. But this really hasn't been the case in the city of Richmond, the way I under stand it. Thouph there hasn't been a marked re F.S. There are three types of block grant! quirement for citizen input, it has been there all community development, law enforcement and man along, as with the Recreation and Parks Commission power. Health, education and welfare will be that has had input into any recreation facilities slower in coming. In the city, seven programs that have pone on in the past. that were funded prior to 197^ under categorical J.E. Is that the case in most cities? and separately funded efforts now all receive funding through the block prant. The effect of F.S. Yes. that basically is drastic reduction in the (At this point we broke for lunch and went to the amount o*' funds that are available to cover the Judpes & Spares where we talked about the "701 seven categories - maybe as much as SO/’ cut in propram", which has four as total services. I think the city was receiving pects! (1 ) revision of the capi about *11 million a year previously. tal improvement propram (2 )eval J.E. Was that large amount because of the uation of city proprams (3 ) re competence of the city staff in applying for view of land use ordinances (i.e. zoning) and (4) the grants? social element for the peneral F.S. Yes, that's a point about this block plan. I asked A*r. Stevens prant program. It r.o longer rewards people who about social planning.) are pood grantsmen, because everybody gets theirs based on this formula! population, housing, over J.E. What is social crowding and poverty. That kind of thing. Funds planning about? What does it have been reduced considerably so there's less to mean? po around. F.S. As it is spelled out J.E. Where is the reward, now that it no there, I think what if means is developing an in longer rewards good grantsmen? ventory of needs and types of programs that can F.S. There is none. address these needs. J.E. What kinds of needs are you talking about ■ J.E. Assuming that the staff had been res J.E. Basically the people who had input at ponsive to the grants system, now the staff has the first meeting were the hill crowd who are to be responsive to another system, right? Won't not familiar with what is going on down town. the rewards have to come from below? you'll have But that is changing now. The hill people are to have a staff that will be able to work with learning more about and becoming more sensitive .juggling priorities of people on the local level to the needs of the downtown people and the asking for money. Will the staff now have to be youth and poor and downtown people are beginning different kinds of people with different talents? to participate a lot more in the meetings. So it is beginning to work pretty well. F.S. No. If you mean it will be necessary to hire different types of persons to be able to (At this point we were going to take respond more directly and deal with increased Nr. Stevens on a tour of Point Richmond poverty citizen involvement, the answer is no. Because, pockets, but our car battery turned out to be by and large, the persons that were involved with dead, so we left Mr. Stevens at a phone booth this in the Model Cities program did have a trying to get a ride back to city hall. Thank heavy compliment of citizen involvement with the you for the interview Mr. Stevens! You enligh A.odel Neighborhood citizens board. Bo they've tened me and some of the rest of Point Rich been dealing with that already, or trying. Under monders too, we hope!) Community Development, at least in the first year, there's been less citizen involvement than there was with Model Cities. J.E. Really? Why? l HB MONTCLARION, Oakland. California F.S. Under Model Cities the money was Wednesday, May 21, 1f,75 almost directly passed through to be administered by the Model Cities staff with the Model Neigh xri . borhood Board acting as a policy-making body. Now the money comes to the city and its not passed through to anybody. The council really is C ity to f responsible for it and they take advice from a community development commission. But they haven't delegated authority to the community development commission the way it was delegated to the model neighborhood board. J.E. CDC is a city-wide commission rather ‘bit© .'the fom llet1 If than a specific neighborhood commission. But when I talked to the staff about the hot lunch project, among other objections they said that the project money was all pigeon-holed or earmarked for certain areas, mostly model a n d im cities areas. Co I wonder if there is some feeling of vested interest on the part of the staff to their old constituents in the model neighborhoods. F.S. That's a good point. However if you look at it you wouldn't have expected it to be CD decMdo.3 I much different, because the model cities area was designated based on the greatest areawhere i s conducting the?; the greatest amount of need was. • i‘ff r hio-'el” phase of tlief J.E. There's no doubt about that. U: pro am - with thoi F.S. So that area continues to have the c ft- ;c peak'd aim of turning) greatest amount of need. Even under community t: e who! operation to tliej development, the criterion for target area sel The City Council mu si C f Manager’s office on July j ection is still the greatest amount of need. The decide the direction of its big difference i3 that now while needs are still 1,1976 the primary consideration, we can address need in v $12.7 million community At last • 'cck's v'o-'kresdon,; any geographical area of the city. development program, however. V-’P'-uTis raid that IT] J.E. Well, Point Richmond has about 16.2.» 1' Repeatedly - and from all I’ve pace of activity did not) poverty level, despite the fact that it has more sides — this admonition came pick up he. expected it wouldh than median 12th grade education, *11,000 median . out. at the 'council's work income and all these other factors. Still it be more likely a y ar and a; has this high poverty level which people miss. . session aimed at dealing with half or evrn two years before ' They don't seem to comprehend it. All the people the paralysis that has resulted redevelopment could let go of ' on the other side of the hill bring the averages from intcrmural squabbling CD. -- ’• way up, but you still have 203 families under the over die CD procram. poverty level. It usually isn't that way. rFf.AYING FROfll.EMS k| ' • Management expert Floyd F.S. Well, actually its not unusual. The Disputing this, Hyde shot • {Hyde was brought in fur people who are educated and have good jobs are b;o-k "the longer., the the more sophisticated when it comes down to advice in aiming the pro; ram f ii>o'i to city government citizen participation in anything. The day is to spend the federal money in fast leaving us when we are getting real grass h «'•1 'c
Doris Lessing's Summer before the Dark opens with Kate Browne The following films have been doing what she does best, solving a reserved to be shown in the West hounehold problem. The setting is Side library on eight Tuesdays from England, but it could be anywhere, 1:00 to 2:00. There will be no ad and the problem is how to serve tea mission charge. when the electric power has failed. Much to her teenage children’s en June 17 - Peewee Had a Little Ape; joyment, they build a fire outdoors Dream of Wild Horses; Anansi the to boil a kettle of water. Her Spider; Cuckoo Magoo husband finds nothing unusual about June 2Ip - Fatal Glass of Beer; Tum such efforts to keep the daily bling; Household Drug routine normal. Over tea, the sum July 1 - Brown Wolf; Dinosaurs; mer’s plans are discussed. The Foolish Frog house will be rented for the summer July 8 - Coral Jungle; Braverman’a because each family member will be Condensed Cream of Beatles; Legend away for their own reasons. of John Henry Kate is the epitome of middle- July 13 - African Animals; The class chic with expensive couturier Dragon; Insomnia clothes and perfectly-coiffed hair July 22 - Elsa and Her Cubs; Legend tinted to hide the gray. She has a of Sleepy Hollow; Alexander and the summer job helping with a conven Car with the Missing Headlight tion of world-wide importance held August - Great Annual Bathtub in Istanbul. Race; Paddle to the Sea; I Know an When the convention is over, Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly she travels to Spain with a young n a n who falls seriously ill. Kate manages to get care for him just We have also scheduled crafts before she is afflicted with the for children on eight summer Thurs same mysterious ailment. She gets days from 1:00 to 2:00. When I to London where she has no place to mentioned the plans to some Pt. go but to a hotel and later, when Richmond problem solvers, Thea and she is recuperating, to share an Dan Robertson and Jo Cunningham apartment with a young woman who volunteered time, advice, supplies, bas revolted from middle-class life and children. because she found it revolting. Kate, by reason of her ill June 19 - We’ll provide seeds, ness, i3 freed from everything but soil, and containers for you to contemplation. Haggard and old, plant a little garden to take home. her clothes hanging on her, the un June 26 - Popular Dan Robertson tended hair half gray and half red, will give a drawing lesson. rhe finds that she is invisible to July 3 - Carol Bold will show you the world, even to a friend she basic knitting stitches. Bring happens to see. As her health re knitting needles, if you can, and turns, she borrows a dress from her we’ll supply the yarn. young friend and finds that by the July 10 and July 42 - Andrea Hughes use of a scarf, by arranging her will teach macrame. ha:' r simply, and by walking in an July 2k - Elaine Reuter will show assured way, she can at will make you that leaf printing is easy, herself very visible. fun, and beautiful. As the summer draws to an end, July 31 - Create glue-on sculpture ba«e postpones going home, unwill from natural materials. ing to give up her new freedom. In August 7 - Use your imagination and the end she returns to her family scraps to make a collage. but retains one change as a remind er to be honest with herself. The Concours Winners: Doug Cuthbertson's Bugatti, foreground, Luther Martin's racer, left, and Dan Robertson's Red Mountain Burgundy Special, right rear. The P©int Richmond Grand Prix The Tucker Racing Team from Pied several days to give it its distinct mont turned back a strong challenge ive purple color. from Donna and Tom Powers' star-spang Third place in the racing went to led Scenic Avenue Special to win the Eleanor Hunn (Barbara Martin's sister), -■ first running of the Point Richmond of San Rafael, and fourth was won by a Grand Prix and Concours d' Elegance lumpy green car dubbed "The Pickle," on Sunday, May 25. entered by Washington School PTA Pres The race, which sort of grew out ident David MacDiarmid. of a similar event put on by the lo R.B. Read, the "S.F. Underground ? cal Cub Scout pack, drew 31 of the Gourmet," was starter for the races, wooden model cars to George and Bar and Independent Photographer Bob Fors- bara Martin's house on Nevada Avenue. burg judged the concours. The Martins supplied hot dogs and Racers entered a wide variety of i champagne and the racing teams brought cars, all carved from standard Cub salads, desserts and snacks. Scout kits. Chuck and Marlys Reynolds { The concours d' elegance also was collaborated on a ceramic mermaid (by j won by a Piedmont car, a beautiful Marlys) riding in a "boat" (by Chuck) replica of a Bugatti racer built by decorated with spaghetti seashells. It Doug Cuthbertson, formerly a Point was a very fast car, but alas, also resident. Second in the concours was way over the 5 ounce maximum weight. Luther Martin's candy apple blue racer, Ron and Theresa Albro's car was » and third went to Dan and Thea Robert- festooned with flower baskets and tiny ; 5 son. Dan, who missed the race due to chickens, and Pat and Ed Hoiland had a a broken ankle, carved his car and bunch of fresh flowers adorning their ^soaked it in Red Mountain wine for car. hearings, in which some astonishing revelations have been made about smog district operations in general* and about the role of our neighbor Standard Oil refinery management, (Editor's notei The Bay Area Pol in particular. lution Control Board has been hold The hearings were the fruit of a ing lengthy hearings on pollution long-standing dispute between variances recently. Betty Segal, Nathaniel Flynn, a conscientious a orofessional East Bay writer, has Senior Engineer and his superiors, attended them all. Betty, who a dispute which caused Flynn's co actually gets paid for her articles worker on several important pro in Pacific Sun in Marin County jects to resign rather than con and the Bay Guardian in San Fran tinue the struggle. Flynn is cisco, offered to write something claiming a "personnel grievance" fo~ the Point Counterpoint for based on his being removed from free because of her concern for responsibility, harassed, huriilia* th ? area directly affected by the ted and frozen in pay for maintain matter under discussion in San ing engineering standards too high Fr incisco. Thank you for your for the ex-oil company men who co itribution, Betty!) now are his superiors. Richmond residents stand to gain j The press has had troubles or lose more from the outcome of covering the hearings because they th ) current air-pollution inquiry run four days a week - Board of in San Francisco than anyone else Supervisors' regular meetings mean in the Bay Area. It is a pity more no sessions on Tuesdays - and be of them have not been attending the cause the hours set by Chairman
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Olusrm's p i z z a 'n t h i n g s 35 E .- RICHMOND GARRARD -•• ACROSS FROM THE •• * m ©m m / fresklu made pizzas to go oretcuj ••• BUGGIES , DOGS „ SALADS , m y i t - y o t r u i t P i_..j1 - M e ' Peter Arrigoni of Marin have been long and tiring, 9«30 a.m. till ELLIS'S (formerly Janiftefe) 6 p.m. or often later. Editors have pulled good reporters off f t r n k Shop the story for other assignments* this happened to George Dushek of 139 PAEicp^ACf 0 3 T -9 & 6 0 Channel 9 *s "newsroom" at the end of the first seven hearings, APPOINTMENTS NOT ALWAYS NCCESSARV which he was covering in greater depth than anyone else. The Inde ^ I olo CuIs (xt Canute pendent's reporter Jack Bradshaw turns up oocasionraiy. But oil 0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO company representatives, with tape 0 recorders, are on hand every o o single day. o o ontur How, where, and with what o results the smog district monitors o >. ClG £ 0.> o sulfur gases from the refinery has o been a major topic of the hear o ontact lens co., inc. ings. Nat Flynn collided with o o DAVID G. EWELL. O.D. district management first over o PRESIDENT Standard Oil's failure to install o o T e l e p h o n e (415) 235-5225 monitors in its flare stacks, in o 2 0 0 80. GARRARD BOULEVARD. RICHMOND. CALIFORNIA 9 4 8 0 4
Q OW. Vjnnnunw ------>00000000000000000 1 9 7 2 , and over the absence of cri oooocooocoooooooocooooooooooooda tical data about the refinery's expansion plans in 1 9 7 3 . The smog board members, some of whom were very much interested in developing CHAIN SAWS a comprehensive program of in sales' service stack industrial monitors in the District as far back as 1971, knew industry was reluctant* but not till this hearing did they know ECHO . MCCULLOCH that Standard Oil, by threatening a legal battle, had actually plOMeeR • SriHL blocked the installation of such te a s .JUTH t f # BOULEVARD Ric h m o n d . Ca l if o r n ia 9« boa monitors in the refinery. ZSb-0400 On Golden Gate Avenue the Dis trict maintains a ground-level monitoring station for sulfur gasses only. This is one-ninth of the "network" jointly maintained *-V ’'^ n l by the District, the refinery, and •j ■■ . A ?. C: : ■A ' i : J ■ 1 RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE 1 REGULAR GARBAGE SERVICE .1i w PIGGY BACK DISPOSAL SAVES > LABOR COSTS - up to 90% > EXPENSE - on dump charges and equipment CASTALIA
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- 21- Allied Chemical. Flynn, as part of his evidence of the ongoing WATERFRONT HOMES need for in-stack monitoring to ON SAN FRANCI5CO BAY replace these ground-level stations WITH DFEP WATER DOCKS. brought in readings for mid-January GET fT ALL TOGETHER [ which showed excessively high levels of sulfur dioxide, the harmful gas you can't smell, and hydrogen sulfide, the more notorious one BRICKYARD COVE that smells like rotten eggs. Both • 2 3 6 • 2 1 7 8 • are bad for human health. Sulfur dioxide also makes for "acid fall out" when there is moisture in the atmosphere, combining with droplets to make sulfuric acid which blights all forms of vegetation and can HARRY R MCDONALD spread over a wide area when blown JAMES L. MCDONALD by prevailing winds. You can un derstand why the refinery has been anxious to forestall any contin R & D PLASTICS uous monitoring of those stacks Injection Molding which are the main sources of sul fur gases.
• RESEARCH ft DEVELOPMENT 222 W RICHMOND AVE. Standard Oil and the smog dis PT.RICHMOND CA 94801 « PROTOTYPE * MINIATURE trict's No. 2 man Milton Feld- • SHORT RUN,* TOOLING PH. (4 1 5 ) 2 3 4 0 5 3 1 stein, have both argued that re MOLDS-ENGINEERING placing the troublesome sulfur recovery units at Allied with new equipment inside the refinery should solve all the problems. Nat Flynn produced ground-level readings showing that Allied is not the only source, and whatever is now coming from the refinery illegally is not going to stop when the new sulfur process goes on stream in the next month or so. Flynn wanted to hold up approval of the new sulfur units until in BALTIC stack monitors and other safe guards were gauranteed. James cSWe 1904 Talbot, another engineer of rank RICHMOND'S OLDEST BAR. equal to Flynn’s but with 19 years service at Chevron Research, took it on himself to ask District S E R V IN G THE FinEST D O m E STIC ^ FOREIGH counsel for a legal ruling grant BEERS • W IGES * WHISKIES ing the permit prematurely on the basis that a possible statute of limitations had expired. Talbot won, the permit was approved, and 1] soon after, Talbot was double-pro . o 0 O 0 • ■ moted to become chief of the newly-created division of Permit LuncHes. 135 pork Place Services. V/hat does this mean for point RiCHmonD mon. t h r u trl future safeguards of the commun 11 iOfim-Eoopm. pHOne 235-2532 ity's health and welfare? The best-known method of en forcing District regulations, be cause it is the most visible in the community, is the team of ' inspectors in their conspicuous blue cars. Normally, inspectors . assigned to refiheries are rotated every six months or so, 'Jerry fcagky $o maintain the highest level of 6r company- Realtors effectiveness. But Standard’s currently assigned Inspector John Dvorak has been on the same job "hi fhe old firehouse 23&Z27& for three years. He wrote only PACK PLACE POlHf RICHMOND four violation notices against the refinery in all of 1 9 7 ^, which fUIS 'FRI • 10-6/ SAT- iO'3 must be puzzling in retrospect to Point residents. Dvorak testified • m that he has a hard time writing violations, even if he sees any from where he normally parks on Crest Avenue, because by the time T j ; c he gets into the refinery to in spect, the word is out and the PLAYHOUSE, INC. problem has been controlled, at presents least temporarily. Since "favoritism" toward re fineries and chemical plants is Twrn&J the charge Flynn has levelled against the District, these exam examples are fairly easy to un derstand. Much of the District's response has been in the form of a technical filibuster - long 1 s a t s ; discourses on the "state of the * art" of instrumentation, complete with slides on one occasion, even thru, J u n e though both Board members and the press are anxious to get on with the show. The District argues MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE, INC. that it didn't push very hard for 105 Pork Place, Point Richmond in-stack monitors because they were either too expensive for Box Office Opens at 7:45 p.m. industry, or not reliable enoughi Curtain: 8:30 p. m. Admission $2 JO both lines of resistance came RESERVATIONS: 233-4295 straight from written communica After 5 p.m. tions from Standard Oil. On the Reservations Held Until 8:20 p. m. other hand, Flynn and others have THEATRE — 232-3003 said that the instrumentation will For Group Rates & Information Cell 524-5220 get better when it is demanded, an and that unless the District starts somewhere, nothing will vOsiSV MSWsfce * ever go forward. Fortunately for us all, the Environmental Protection Agency RICHMOND SUPPLY €0. has now intervened, formally dis dded Point Bdabtidwimt approving the District’s tolerant attitude on ground-level vs. in * PAINT • HARDWARE • CARDEII SUPPLIES stack monitors. This summer, . EPS's regional office will be 5 W. Richmond Ave. 23^1 Ob44 glad to receive letters on this IvtCKL' SAT. <9'30 A M .' A 00 RM subject (their address is - Paul Di Falco, Regional Director «*©«©*» **£*<£*> Environmental Protection Agency, 100 McAllister St., San Francis co, CA.) and next fall, presum ably, the agency will announce its decision. So the Flynn evi dence has been presented in a timely context and we should be grateful that this man has risked 833-1527 • S e r v ic e * his job and his reputation to do so. 101 w. R i c h m o n d a v e . COMPLETE auto refajre The District is internally as polarized as members of the Board over the Flynn revelations. En gineers and inspectors are obviously cheering Flynn oni the deputy director of Enforcement, Tom Brennan, has suggested that inspectors are often subject to criticism if they are too zealous in writing violationst the middle management ranks, where ex-industry men have important responsibilities ties, are where the Flynn opposi tion is cncentrated, under the direction of Warren Crouse, a for mer Phillips employee, and Feld- stein. Lower-echelon employees were ordered at first not to attend the hearings even on their LnSmimOfig S C c m m u own time. Vice-chairman Jelavich r e a l t o r * A I s j objected to this practice and the order was withdrawn. There is c f c M f o / t S obvious fear of reprisals against witnesses for Flynn, since the • COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL • INVESTMENTS * ACREAGE District has no civil-service protections. 235-1176 If it has become important to identify sympathies for industry 4521 BARRETT AVE. on the staff, it is certainly im 1 BLOCK OFF SAN PABLO AVE portant to change the manner of selection of the Board members, but that’s another long story. At present, each county sends one OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ supervisor and one delegate fnam 0 o o the Mayor's Conference - that’s o LUNCH COCKTAILS o how we had the plant manager of o Hercules, Inc. sitting on the MOM.FPr. MON- FUI. o board from 1965 to 1 9 6 8 , when K A M - 2 R M . o 11 -3 0 2 P.M o Hercules was, and is, one ofthe SUN-4-12 PM o "major sources" the District con 0 SAT. 4 'Z AM. 0 trols. An inspector produced THE o o evidence of a Hercules violation 0 notice that was cancelled, during o o those years, for reasons unknown. o o The hearings will very likely o run ten days more* it would o o encourage Nat Flynn if the public ‘ 32 WASHINGTON AVE. o he put ahead of himself were to o 2 3 3 - 4 2 9 5 o show up for the hearing, which o oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo takes place at 939 Ellis Street, the district headquarters in San Francisco. vIt would also he helpful to write the Environmental Protection Agency - see' address given in paragraph nine above. As they say, the Lord helps those who help themselves..• e.s. BREAKFAST- LUFCH DELICIOUS HAMBURGERS liO WASHINGTON AVL* PT. RICHMOND MON--SAT. 6-30A M TOZ'OOP.M SUNDAY 0=30 AM. TO 1200 P.M.
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GARAGE SALE □oaaDDDDaDDDrretatroaaDDaoDDaDaanooaoo Janet and David Falletti are moving to Fort Collins, Colorado L £ YI 5 • JARMAN SHOES this summer and will be having a garage sale Saturday, June 7, from PENDLETON SHIRTS 9 a.m, on. The address is ROUGH RIDER eiXJRTSlVEAR Nine Oregon Street in the Point. v ______u rn PURITAN S tt^ A H IR S Y'all cornel SHOP SlN C B iO Z * i3 6 WASHINGTON AVE. • PT. RICHMOND, CAi CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS 2 3 2 -4 l6 i That 50 pound perch that □DD□□□□□□□DDDO□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□DdndDJ washed up on Kellers beach was a 50 pound bass.
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^he flowerpot BABYSITTER WANTED - your home or mine. - tic peoples vticur- Two children, age 6 and 8 m v ir June 23 through July 11 (3 weeks) •otiiKMGD rr 813O-5 OO, Monday-Friday. Teenager ’flSH wir-K IT OK but must have references. SAIL IT $80 for the 3 weeks. Call 52 9-23*19
Tte new 8-ft. dmhu VARIETY HOUSEPLANTS designed by Jm'uewiit for sale for every use from call 237-6717 or 233-9*177 tender to sailboat racer to family TIMELESS WALK IN SAN FRANCISCO day ^sailer by Michelle Brant, $3.00 available at Ken Janes Antiques .SAre-seifPecuiNG and Accessories •OG-ZDPtr $650 compLere AVON CALLING DC WITT BOAT COMPANV Anyone interested in AVON pro 4725 BISSCLL AVfWUe ducts in the Point please call RICHMOND, CA 54605 4 ^ 2 3 2 -2 6 6 0 -- Beverly Price (415) 2 3 7 '5 0 2 7
Baby Hamsters for Sale $2 each Call Mike Price 232-2660 you are cleaning out your closets, bring it on over in the morning - and sell it. Tables will be set up. You can also bring your stuff over and leave it in the multi purpose room any time before the Washington School will wind up sale. its parent-teacher-student pro grams for the 197/<"”75 school year Jeanne Eger volunteered to on June *fth at 7*30 p.m. with an work up a brochure describing the assembly to be held in the audi many activites of the PTA so that torium at 7*30 p.m. Everyone is it will be available for parents invited to watch a play put on by next year, and will make it the children who have participated easier for new parents to become in the Music and Drama depart involved. ments activities. Alter the play Projects for next year were the PTA will serve coffee, punch touched on. One idea was scholar and dessert. Everyone bring your ' ships to the Lawrence Hall of favorite dessert to share! Science for children who are not This school year saw probably achieving well at school. more parents active in school We only fell down in one area. activities than in the last five That was the Parent Advisory years. Almost every PTA spon Committee - the parent input that sored event was a huge success - is needed to spend the federal I can’t remember any that money that the school gets. These weren't! Meetings were well- meetings were very poorly attended attended and parents seemed to be and the school got poor grades on , eager to give of their time and that from the evaluators. So lets • energy to make a go of it. 1975 try to make those meetings next also saw a lot of participation by year. We get some goodies from fathers in the PTA and other them - like a trip to the state school activies for the first time conference in the spring! in a long time. The PTA president was a man and, not that he was a The hot lunch thing is coming better leader for that reason, up before the City Council in the but David MacDiarmid turned out next two weeks. All parents are to be a very popular and effective STRONGLY URGED to attend these PTA President, and led the trend meetings. It will be on the back to school activity. Next agenda June 2, and then again year's President will be Jean either June 9 or 16. Watch the Hazeltine who really knocked her- 1 Rich. Independent Saturdays for self out for Washington this year- the council agenda. Jean was largely responsible for j.e. the success of the carnival. Kathy Lord will be the new treasu rer. Penny Greiner said that three years as treasurer was enough! The first Vice-President will be Teresa Fong, Secretary, Baibra Addison. The PTA did well money-wise. At the last meeting there was some thing like $500 in the kitty to start next year with. That was a month ago so it may have changed since then, A flea-market will be held ‘This I/ 1 of badrfirc-.T'.:. » C.I if ; V/o .success later but it sai’t so hoi v ow.” June 7 on the school grounds. If On May 1^, 1975. Dr. Linker came to our class to show us all the carts of the eye, and explain teLUNGE ed a" lot of things ’the class andj our teacher didn't know about. Hfc said he went to the slaughter The Plunge will be open this house and picked up some cow's summer! That is the latest word eyes. Then he cut the eye and from Richmond's Recreation and showed the class what was in the Parks Department, which originally eye. intended to close the Plunge Sam Martinez starting in June. A local resident interceded and asked that the Doctor Linker visited our indoor swimming pool be left open class on May 1^, 1975* He at least until construction starts, showed us all the parts of the which the city says will be late eye. It was very exciting when July but which may actually not showed us a real cow's eye. He occu^ until late August or Septem took the cow's eye and cut it ber. around the pupil and squeezed out The schedule will be swimming the lens. Then he took the lens ev?.ry day of the week from 1»30 to and let the class touch it. It 4: 30 and Wednesday and Friday felt like a soft mushy clear nights from 6:30 to 9*00 p.m. marble. After that h: showed us Adult swimming will be held noon the pupil. It had an oblong from 12 - 1*30 and from 5 - 6:30pm. shape. No classes will be given at the Kurt Medina Plunge - classes will be available at Kennedy Swim Center on Cutting. One day at Washington school The Kennedy Center has the same a man named Dr. Linker came to Jio irs - 1 O 0 to *H30 seven days Mr. Kyle's class. He brought a a week, starting when school is real cow’s eye, (Dr. Linker is out. The charge is 250 for chil an eye doctor.) Dr. Linker cut dren and 500 for adults. Season the lens out of the cow's eye, asses are available at about a and showed us different parts of 0 > discount. Children over six the human eye. years of age can come by them Mark Healy selves but under six must be ac companied by an adult. Lessons will be given at Kennedy. *I
Notes from Mr. Kyle’s Sixth Grade Class
I like summer Because all day I can slumber. Without having a care or anyone pulling my hair. But I'll miss baseball, football and basketball And "Quiet in the hall!” Goodbye, School And hello, pool. Margaret Garcia