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Vol. VII, Number 25 • July 14, 2006 www.PleasantonWeekly.com It’s all about Pleasanton INSIDE this week Fighting crime Stoneridge mall expands Cheesecake in the 21st Century Factory set to build, other projects sit and wait page 5 EXPANDABLE BATON SEMI-AUTOMATIC GUN Slip, slop, slap, slide Doctors, city officials and GUN MAGAZINES school activists promote sun safety page 5 PEPPER SPRAY Searching for child care Child Care Links offers daycare NEXTEL PHONE options for parents page 7 Historical HANDCUFFS Heather Museum On TASER Main offers new downtown tour Section 2 Mixed market Technology has U.S. house sales drop, but radically changed Pleasanton grows the way police page 30 do business page 12 Visit us on the web www.PleasantonWeekly.com a OPEN SUN 1-4 OPEN SAT/SUN 1-4 OPEN SUN 1-4 PLEASANTON TRACY LIVERMORE 31 CASTLEDOWN ROAD $1,675,000 521 CLARENCE BROMELL STREET $599,999 378 JEANNIE WAY $799,000 Castlewood Country Club—Something Very Special! Sought After Single Story. 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The logo is a service mark of Intero Real Estate Services, Inc. *Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Page 2 • July 14, 2006 • Pleasanton Weekly Around Pleasanton by Jeb Bing Newsman Barry Schrader, his wife Kay, head back to old hometown ong-time and distinguished been friends ever since, reminisc- newsman Barry Schrader and ing about news people we both Lhis wife Kay are packing up knew and worked with, including this weekend and will head out some at the Tribune we both see Tuesday on a 2,100-mile drive to now and then. their new home in DeKalb, Ill., a Like many couples who retire, growing city in the heart of corn and whose children have moved to country 55 miles west of Chicago distant locations, Barry and Kay are and also home to Northern Illinois going back to their roots in DeKalb Experience Matters University. Besides moving to a and also to Kay’s large extended quieter, less congested city of about family, including a brother and a 43,000 population, they’ll have the sister, and a 4,000-acre farm known Roy Dronkers winters and the summer humidity for its corn and cattle. Having sold to deal with for the first time since their home of 27 years in Livermore they moved here 37 years ago. Both and moved into Heritage Estates 18 Professional Real Estate Consultant since 1986 Barry and Kay are natives of the months ago, they’ll move into Oak DeKalb area, and for a while worked Crest, a Methodist retirement cen- together after Barry, following a ter on a picturesque 30-acre site at stint with a chain of weekly news- the edge of DeKalb. Although both 925.484.5200 [email protected] papers, bought a newspaper in their plan to become active in university dronkers.com old high school town of Genoa, also programs and DeKalb’s upcoming near DeKalb, and shared the duties sesquicentennial, their first prior- 900 Main St. Ste 101 of editing and laying out the paper ity will be to find medical special- in the days when hot type and lino- ists who can continue delivering type machines turned to offset and the excellent treatment both have cleaner publishing. had here. Kay has non-Hodgkin’s Barry and I go back a long way, nemphoma, which was brought both in terms of geography and under control by doctors at UC San profession. He grew up in the same Francisco using an experimental experience more small town as Clayton Kirkpatrick, drug called Zevalin. Barry had sur- who was later my City Editor when gery for prostate cancer in 1994, experience more I moved from Palo Alto to the and then radiation and now other Chicago Tribune as a reporter and treatments, including daily doses later Neighborhood News editor. of special medication, to keep it I recruited beginning reporters at under control. Three years ago, Northern Illinois University, where doctors found cancerous tumors both Barry and Kirkpatrick gradu- on the lining of his bladder, which ated, and then moved to Pleasanton required more surgeries and now in 1987 long after Barry had ended regular treatments. Unlike insur- his newspaper careers, which ance agents or eye care retailers included the San Bernardino Sun whose brands can be found across and then as editor of, first, the the country, medical specialists are newly-established Valley Times in tethered to their local practices and 1972 and then, from 1973-79, as hospitals. They couldn’t even iden- editor of the Tri-Valley Herald. In tify similar specialists in DeKalb, 1980, he jumped ship, as many of although the city has a new hospital us do, to better-paying public rela- and Northern Illinois now has its FITNESS. FAMILY. FUN. tions positions with Sandia National own medical school. Finding the EXPERIENCE A VACATION RESORT Labs and in 2001 to the Lawrence multitude of doctors they’ll need PLEASANTON Livermore National Laboratory, for ongoing treatments and exams RIGHT IN YOUR BACKYARD it’s a life thing where he recently retired. Although is at the top of their priority list our paths probably crossed as we once they get settled at Oak Crest. covered a few of the same news Barry plans to keep his email at his- Experience all the fun of a vacation resort assignments in the Chicago area, I [email protected], and hopes first met Barry at public functions his many friends in Pleasanton will at ClubSport. 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