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Fall/Winter 2009 Volume 2, Number 5

From The Harbor Bay Club

A Far, Far Better Thing Changing Lives Through Service ’s Sole Survivors Family Shoe Stores Thrive First Line of Defense FDA Protects Local Food LISA’S LETTER This Issue Of The Buzz

always love the change in seasons— mixer honoring Women in Business, which of these tough economic times—either lead to life’s most rewarding relationships. especially the shift into autumn, made for a busy evening of pampering and directly or through those who are close In this issue of The Buzz we explore some when the leaves change color and the fun. For more fun—and scares—don’t miss to us—but there’s often no better way to of those experiences. air is just a little crisper, especially at the Club’s famous Halloween party, held put things in perspective, give thanks, and A true heart for serving is often best night. And for all of you longtime this year on Friday, October 30 at 8 p.m. rediscover the blessings we all share than to developed in childhood, and there are no IAlameda residents, you already know that better examples of this than high school this time brings some of the best weather of seniors Norman Lee and Mei Liang, the the year. It’s great to see members and guests leaders of Encinal High School’s (Kiwanis) taking advantage of it with the Club’s many The experience of community service, whether as a Key Club. Check out their story on the outdoor activities. volunteer or recipient, can often lead to life’s most Kids Corner page. We’ve just come off an exciting month Also in this issue of The Buzz, we take at the Club. On September 12 – 13, the rewarding relationships a look at the rich history of a few family- Club hosted the Alameda City Tennis owned shoe stores in Alameda, a good Tournament for the first time. It was a huge example of the many multi-generation success, drawing more attendees over the families who long ago found something three-day event than the tournament had at the Clubhouse. All members and guests get involved with the many organizations very special about living and working seen in years. Congratulations to all of the are welcome. Call for more details. and volunteers that selflessly give to those here. We also pull back the curtains tournament’s divisional champions. A few With the holidays around the corner, who are really suffering in our community. on the FDA’s Alameda operation to see days later, the Club hosted a Spa Faire in we’re also entering a time of year to reflect The experience of community service, the many ways they help protect our conjunction with a Chamber of Commerce and to give thanks. We’ve all felt the effects whether as a volunteer or recipient, can often community and far beyond. Finally, you’ll notice that this edition of The Buzz marks its conversion from a bi-monthly to a quarterly publication, a Start your 2009 Holidays necessary change made to keep The Buzz Be prepared for the holidays, pamper at the economically viable while still maintaining its circulation, breadth of content, and yourself at the Spa at Harbor Bay! 39th Annual commitment to supporting our community’s non-profit needs. Alameda Holiday Happy Halloween and Happy Holidays to everyone! As always, we’d love to hear Home Tour your feedback on The Buzz. Feel free to email me with your comments and suggestions at [email protected]. Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Lisa Franzel $30.00 has been with H a r b o r B a y Holiday Tea Club for over 13 Gourmet Shop years, serving Crafts Boutique as Membership Raffle/Auction Representative, Marketing Director, and Assistant Tickets& Information: Manager before taking over the 510.629.6208 General Manager position in Massage • Hot Stone Massage •Acupressure • Facials• Waxing • Sauna 1999. Her philosophy is to live Salt and Sugar Scrubs • Mud Wraps • Manicures/Pedicures • Whirlpool life, including your passions, in Lash Tinting • Children’s Center • Steam • Open 7 Days a Week All proceeds benefit Alameda Family Services as much balance as possible while making an effort each day We served over 800 families to contribute to your mental, (510)521-5416 ext. 125 & 3,000 people in 2008-09. www.harborbayclub.comSaun a physical, emotional and spiritual www.alamedaholidayhometour.info health.

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Content

PEOPLE Features SPOTLIGHTS Sole Survivors 04 Jan Leverton 06 Two legendary Bay Area shoe stores are still family-owned 05 Dennis Lee and going strong 09 Steve Andrews 10 Unexpected Gifts 13 Seven stories demonstrating 12 Norman Lee and Mei Liang the ongoing, life-changing power of community service

Club Pages Fall/Winter 2009 Volume 2, Number 5 Fitness Published by 04 Harbor Bay Club Two New Classes for October General Manager, Lisa Franzel 05 Aquatics 11 Marketing Manager, Kerri Lonergan Escape from Alcatraz Managing Editor, Joel Williams Copy Editor, Patrick Runkle Graphics & Production, 08 The Spa Francisco Arreola Adult Time Out Article on Page 13 edited 16 HBC Team News by John Gorenfeld 09 Tennis 17 Club Events STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER HBC Hosts Successful Tournament Kerri Lonergan

STAFF WRITERS Mike Bauer Erin Brown Linda Gilchrist Columns Kerri Lonergan Leslie McGraw Lisa’s Letter Real Estate Update Paulette Staats 02 14

FEATURED WRITERS 12 Kids Corner 15 Mortgage Matters Debra Costner Peter Holmes 13 Local Profile 19 Community Events Dennis Pagones Food & Drug Administration Michelle Trippi PEOPLE SPOTLIGHTS On the Cover Kirk Cowan Lisa Franzel Representatives from all three of the upcoming holidays Dracula

Harbor Bay Club (Kaz Hashimoto), Lady Pilgrim (Kiley Lonsdale) and Santa (Vester 200 Packet Landing Road Emerson) get pedicures from Spa at Harbor Bay Nail Technicians Alameda, CA 94502 (510) 521-5414 Phuong (right) and Miss Amy (far left) as Spa Shoppe employee www.harborbayclub.com Danny helps out. Cover Photo by Kerri Lonergan

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MIND - BODY / FITNESS

Fitness Center News Holiday Fitness Tips During the Months of October and November, the Fitness With the holiday season Department will be offering a special on fitness assessments on the way, many people are for members only! Fitness assessments are a great way to looking for ways to stay on track with their start and maintain a fitness program. You will be scored on wellness goals. Here are five simple ideas. cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and strength. Measurements and body composition will be done to assess lean muscle mass, • Exercise at the beginning of your day. fat percentage, metabolic rate and other helpful information. You will be more likely to stick with it Having this information as a baseline for a starter fitness during these busy holiday times if you program or monitoring ongoing fitness success is a great motivator get that workout checked off your list and provides a way of healthy competition with yourself to do first thing. better. Our certified personal trainers can also provide you with • Eat before you go. Yes, that’s right. If exercise guidelines and suggestions for starting or continuing a you’re going to a party, eat a light healthy fitness program. Scheduling can be done at the front desk. The fee snack before you leave. It will curb your is $15.00. Please contact Leslie McGraw at ext. 119 for questions Photo by Kerri Lonergan appetite and help keep you away from or further information. too many high-calorie treats. • During meals, follow the 80 percent rule. Mind-Body Department Group Exercise Eat until you are 80 percent full. It takes Two new classes are starting in October! your mind about 20 minutes to register satiety. This gives your mind enough Harbor Bay Club would like to welcome Bonnie Machuca to Monday nights in the Signature Studio from 6:30-7:30 pm, time to catch up with your stomach our Pilates staff! Bonnie discovered Pilates while studying dance join Amy Haines for “The Medicine Ball Workout.” This is a without that over-stuffed feeling. at SFSU. Pilates opened doors into the realm of movement for fantastic class using our new medicine balls. Improve balance • Try to eat two to three meals and two her after three knee surgeries and recently having a baby. Bonnie and agility, functionally train your body to help prevent injury snacks per day. By keeping your blood joined Carol LeMaitre’s and Sharon Gallagher’s 1½ -year teacher and increase your cardiovascular output with strength training sugar levels stable, you will be less likely certification program at Sanchez Street Studios in . and sports specific movements. Classes are free and limited to to need that “quick fix” at the fast-food One thousand hours and four years later, she is happy to say 20 people. First-come, first-serve so get there early! joint later in the afternoon. that she is fulfilling her dream and excited about bringing her We’ve listened to your requests and are bringing back • Sleep seven to eight hours per night. knowledge to the members of the Harbor Bay Club. “Hula/Polynesian Dance” with a wonderful new teacher, Your body needs adequate rest in Alice Chong. Join Alice on Tuesday nights in the Sky Studio order to handle the extra demands and Bonnie is teaching the following classes: from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. This dance style is very graceful and stresses this time of year can bring. Pilates Mat 1, Monday 6:30 p.m. is set to a slower pace. You will also learn the native dance Studies have shown that the more rested Pilates Mat 1-2, Wednesday 5:30 p.m. of Tahiti which is a faster-paced dance done to Tahitian you are, the more productive you are. Small Group Reformer, Wednesday 6:45 p.m. drumming. All fitness levels are welcome. Don’t cheat yourself! She will also begin private sessions. Check the Pilates brochure The Medicine Ball Workout and Polynesian Dance classes or Appointment Plus for times and sign-ups. will run from October through December. For questions or For more information, contact Christine Naish at ext. 121 more information, please contact Nicole Will at ext. 145.

People Spotlight Jan Leverton As Leverton’s children grew older, she chose son’s high school graduation and thought, to go to cosmetology school. This provided “Oh my gosh—I have to do something!” Jan Leverton was raised her with a flexible work schedule that still Congratulations are in order, because she on a farm in Idaho. Shortly allowed her to be available to her children. She accomplished her goal of losing 112 pounds after marrying her husband, continues to work right here in Alameda at the just in time for her 50th birthday! Kevin, whom she met in We Are beauty salon as a hair stylist and Leverton likes the body sculpting class and trade school, she moved head receptionist. early morning indoor group cycling class. to Alameda. The Levertons Leverton joined Harbor Bay Club in 1993 and She also spends time at the pool, including felt it would be a great place later gave her husband the “gift of health”—a the aqua aerobic classes. “I really like the to raise children, and their membership at HBC. Leverton especially likes classes and the people at Harbor Bay Club. children, Troy, 24, and Megan, 20, attest to that the group exercise classes; she says that It is also a nice social thing for me; the theory. Coming from a farm, Leverton is comfortable “they push me harder than I would myself, social side of the Club motivates me to go. with the small-town feel of Alameda, where she helping me reach my goals.” A few years ago, Speaking of social, every Wednesday night feels safe walking or biking anywhere. She is also Leverton decided her goal was to lose weight Jan and Kevin go up to the Clubhouse Grill thrilled with having the big city so close. when she looked at the pictures from her for dinner.

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AQUATICS

Escape from Alcatraz People Spotlight

Dennis Lee lthough summer is over, there is still much activity at the pool. We have our popular D e n n i s L e e , a n Water Aerobics class that will continue e n t r e p r e n e u r i n throughout the year in the mornings, and industrial design for severalA lanes for lap swimming at all times. Private swim industries such as lessons are still available by appointment with some of alternative energy and our excellent instructors. Of course, our Masters Swim medical hardware, group will continue to meet year-round on Monday, lives in Alameda with Wednesday and Friday mornings. You can call ext. 113 his wife, Jeanne, and his two sons, for more information on any of these programs. Greg and Christopher. “Alameda has the On September 12, over 600 swimmers accomplished values of what other cities seem to have what for many years was thought to be an impossible forgotten or lost,” Lee says. Wanting to feat: they swam from Alcatraz to the mainland! There reap the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, were swimmers from as far away as Ireland and Australia Lee joined Harbor Bay Club in 1990. He and from each of the fifty states. Among those intrepid athletes were several members of the Alameda Aquatic started out his membership mostly in the Masters and the HBC Masters Swim group; Dick Fitness Center with step aerobic classes. Lyons, Howard Sidorsky, Mike Scheiss, Bob and Lisa “I enjoyed meeting some very interesting Ploss, Dennis Lee, Susan Corkhill, Simon Tonner, and and prolific members,” he says. George Carvalho, led by our co-Aquatics Director, Lee was introduced to triathlons when, Patti Popovich, took the plunge into the 60-degree on a whim, he participated in the first Photo by Patti Popovich water. To say this was a challenging swim would be annual Harbor Bay Trifest in 1990. From HBC member Richard Lyons displays the medal he received for an understatement. Not only did they have the cold recently swimming from Alcatraz to the mainland. then on, he entered in every Trifest water to contend with—some of them didn’t even wear sponsored by HBC and progressed to wetsuits—but the rain, lightning and choppy waters participating in other triathlon events— added an unexpected element of danger. All of our the water was clear below, then it was “Jump! Jump!” ranging from sprint and Olympic to half swimmers made it to the finish, some placing very well Once I was in the water and swimming, I felt jubilation and full Ironman distances. Lee believes in their respective age groups. Following is the personal even though the water was rough with chop and small that Harbor Bay Club offers the necessary account from HBC member Richard “Dick” Lyons: waves. I had to keep my strokes and really turn my head to tools and amenities to prepare for these breathe to avoid drinking seawater. I’d been in far rougher types of events, such as swim technique I awoke to a low rumble at 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning. surf many times, but I had not swum continuously through classes with former Olympic qualifier and When I looked outside, repeated thunder sounded and sheet rough water for such a distance. Masters coach Linda Gilchrist and weekly lightning lit the sky. I worried that the 14th Annual South I stopped to savor the moment and looked around. The spin classes with great instructors. End Rowing Club (SERC) Alcatraz Invitational Swim swimmers were starting to disperse; I could see yellow swim would be canceled. caps ahead of me, behind me, to the left and to the right. And, Lee finds that running with other After months of anticipation, was I to be denied All else around was gray, and Aquatic Park looked tiny in HBC members on the “Island City” has my first open water swim, an iconic swim redolent with the distance. It started to rain again and along with it came contributed to his success. the tales of attempted prison escapes, treacherous tides, distant lightning. I picked up the pace. I knew that if the Lee has many accomplishments cold water and sharks? My wife, Christine, and I drove lightning continued, the monitors would pull people from including the recent swim from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park. Already, at 6 a.m., there were several the water. to San Francisco and numerous century hundred people in line. The distance is about a mile as the crow flies, but it is bike rides. He also appreciates that I donned my “farmer john” wet suit and joined my closer to a mile and a half as a swim because the tides force HBC is home to many elite Ironman friends from the HBC Masters swim group. The weather you to swim in an arc. Compensating for the tide was the triathletes, whom he has met and trained cleared slightly and the swim was on. After a short and most challenging part. I swam a zigzag course, adding to the with since becoming a member: John incomprehensible briefing, we marched three blocks down distance and the time spent in the water. When I reached Felts, Ironman finisher and qualifier Jefferson Street to the pier where we boarded a Blue and the beach, a line of SERC volunteers said “good job, good for the Ironman 70.3 Championship in Gold ferry. job” and handed me a medal. November 2009; John Nesbit, Canadian The ferry was packed with nearly 600 swimmers, I spent 56 minutes swimming and finished in the first and Hawaiian Ironman finisher; Richard most in wet suits. It stopped 125 yards southeast of half of the field. As a first-timer not going for speed, this Velenzula, Ironman finisher; and Lilla Alcatraz. We were instructed to jump three at a time was a pleasant surprise. In the SERC sauna afterwards, Rados, Vineman Ironman finisher and from each door about ten feet down into the water and one veteran said that it was the roughest water he had seen to start swimming immediately for shore so that the next for that swim. All and all, it was a memorable experience, finisher of many half-Ironmans. swimmers could jump in. The monitors held us back until worth repeating.

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By Michelle Trippi fit shoes the old-fashioned way, Doumitt, is retired but still with the original Brannock involved. “Dad still comes in device—remember that flat and helps out. After all these ere in Alameda, metal foot-measuring tool that years, I still get old-school shoe where the spirit kept us entertained as kids? selling tips and tricks from him. Photo by Michelle Trippi of shopping As they have since the very He will even get right in there Tony Doumitt (pictured) and his wife Angie are the third generation of owners l o c a l l y i s beginning, Brown Brothers and give a foot massage every of the family shoe store business, Doumitt Shoes in Alameda. a l i v e a n d serves customers whose great- now and then.” Hstronger than ever, it is no grandparents, grandparents and Doumitt Shoes got its surprise that there are many parents have been customers start in the early 1930s, when Doumitt name and reputation In 1999, Bob decided strong local businesses boasting from the old days at the store’s Tony’s grandfather relocated to for quality grew and a second to retire, selling most of the generations of family ownership. Oakland location. There are Alameda from Portland with store opened in San Francisco. locations to his partner. Tony In particular, there are two many tales of customers who eight-year-old son Bob, leaving In the 1950s, Bob, then in his took over the remaining shoe stores that are Bay Area were “dragged into the store by the family’s grocery business mid-twenties, joined locations, and, in 2005, Tony legends: Brown Brothers Shoes dad or grandpa for work boots.” up north. Beginning as an the family business and wife Angie, tired of a 54- on Lincoln Avenue and Doumitt Decades later, they are now orthopedic shoe retailer selling and set up a small mile round trip commute, Shoes on Park Street. dragging their kids in today so as through the Great Depression section in the store opened up the 1501 Park Street Greg Brown, the fifth- parents they can buy footwear. and World War II in an for shoes that location. No longer carrying the generation current owner of “Over the years, you name Oakland storefront appealed to a orthopedic shoes that started Brown Brothers Shoes, tells it, we’ve seen it all come through l o c a t i o n , t h e more high- it all, the Doumitt Shoes of us that the store got its start here at one time or another,” f a s h i o n today remains focused on on the east coast in the 1880s. Brown said. This includes m a r k e t . high-fashion and trendy shoes, His great-grandfather retired many professional athletes That was all particularly targeting early and closed the stores back east, such as Oakland Raiders it took for teens and young adults. After moving the family west in the Darryl Russel, Stewart the “small” purchasing shoes, customers late 1920s. Finding retirement Swaggert and Anthony f a m i l y can also enjoy sweet treats—the boring, Greg’s great-grandfather Dorset. Other customers business to Doumitt family has opened a opened up shop in 1930 in his include Mike Norris of become a major gelato and panini shop right home at the intersection of 34th the Oakland A’s, Detroit chain of shoe stores behind the shoe store. Street and East 14th Street in Tigers pitcher Dontrelle in the Bay Area. In How a b o u t a f o u r t h Oakland. Willis and Phillies star the early 1960s, the generation of family ownership? Brown Brothers Shoes . Doumitts opened “There in fact are three young became so popular that the C e l e b r a t i n g i t s a store in the Sir Doumitts—Elise is 16, family opened six additional fourth year in Alameda, Francis Drake Hotel, Christian is 13, and Carly is stores. After World War II, Doumitt Shoes has also another store on Powell 8,” says Tony. “Whether or however, only the original built a sterling local Street, and yet another not I would encourage it is still Oakland location remained reputation for quality in Palo Alto. In the 1980s, debatable. I’d rather have them open. In 1981, after 50 years over many decades. Doumitt Shoes opened up be doctors, movie stars, athletes, at its East 14th Street location, Proudly operated by Tony its first mall location, at astronauts or some other more Greg’s dad, Jim, moved the and Angie Doumitt, who the Serramonte Center in lucrative profession, so they store to its current location in are the third generation Daly City. In 1991, with the help can take care of us when we’re

Alameda. of owners in their family Photo by Michelle Trippi of a business partner from outside even older and more wrinkled The service is friendly and shoe business, Tony tells Greg Brown, the fifth-generation of the family, the family opened than we are now!” relaxed, and the salespeople still us that his father, Bob current owner of Brown Brothers Shoes, twelve more stores.

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Adult Time Out: Our Paths to Massage

Rejuvenate Yourself ur massage therapists are worst waitress in the world, so I was persuaded here seven days a week, by friends to study massage at National Holistic offering Swedish, deep Institute. I love bodywork and the constant By Debra Costner of hormones, including adrenaline tissue, sports, pre/post-natal, learning it requires—much like acting—and and cortisol. Too much adrenaline can acupressure, neuromuscular will probably do it until my arms fall off. reprogramming, mud wraps, body scrubs and o one can deny that life today is cause high blood pressure, anxiety, O hot stone massage. They are available from 10 busier than ever. With the kids insomnia and depression. Too much Eva: a.m. to 9 p.m. during the week and 9:30 a.m. I became a massage therapist because back in school, you finally get cortisol kills cells that are important N to 7 p.m. on the weekends. bodywork is such a positive, caring way to the new schedule together and routines to your immune system, and also promote wellness. I am worked out, and then—here come the has been linked to increasing weight Ann: thrilled to be literally holidays! gain. Massage has been shown to I am continually amazed using my own hands First is Thanksgiving and plans with significantly reduce the levels of both at the memories, wishes, to help people. It is so family and friends. Next is creating your these hormones in the body. and simple muscular gratifying to facilitate “to do” list and picking out just the right All kinds of massage have been found tension our bodies the deep, healing level to be beneficial can hold, and always of relaxation massage and, in fact, it is not astonished to see how can provide. I really, even essential to much massage can help truly love what I do. massage the areas each of us to move forward with greater of the body that ease. I believe that safe touch in a peaceful Jody: may be in pain. environment can be greatly beneficial for body, My philosophy in life is compassion, which Any massage— mind, and spirit, and I am committed to the is felt through my from the feet to art and science of bodywork. genuinely nurturing the face—imparts touch. I take deep tissue multiple benefits Lisa: massage to a new level to the recipient. My path into the with my fluid style and A massage will healthcare field started breathing techniques 10 years ago when that not only aid s t i m u l a t e t h e I became a massage relaxation, but also lymphatic fluids therapist. I am currently foster deeper healing. ©iStockphoto.com in the body that completing my master’s A graduate of a world- strengthen the degree in traditional Chinese medicine and renowned school, Educating Hands School of present for everyone, then cooking and immune system. The physical action of look forward to offering my services to Harbor Massage, I have been licensed and practicing cleaning for out-of-town guests, and of massage pumps oxygen and nutrients Bay Club members. since 1991 using various modalities. Currently course there are also all those holiday into vital organs, improving circulation I am teaching deep tissue massage, pathology, celebrations to attend. and promoting tissue regeneration. Laurie: and anatomy and physiology at World School Perhaps the one good result of this And don’t forget the little ones After much research of Massage. economic downturn is that many people while you’re taking care of yourself. and visits to different have reassessed their priorities and come Some facilities, including Harbor Bay schools, it became Lynn: to realize that taking care of oneself is Club, have realized that parents are in clear that massage and I learned a very right-brained approach time well spent. So, this holiday season, great need of their services, and provide bodywork was exactly to bodywork at the Kripalu Center for keep in mind the importance of your childcare for their clients. It is the what I was looking Health and Yoga, and own well-being. Don’t let the rat race of ultimate in convenience to know that for in a career. I have received a more left- day-to-day living wear you down, leaving the kids will be well cared for, which completed over 600 hours in education, brained training at you vulnerable to illness and disease. will allow moms and dads to relax and received my Certified Massage Therapist the Swedish Institute Taking time to de-stress is extremely enjoy their spa treatments. certification, and cannot wait until I get back of Massage Therapy in important, as we have come to realize So remember, the best defense into school. For me, massage is a win-win. I feel New York City. I have the multitude of negative physical against the potential harmful effects of good providing bodywork to those in need and been massaging for consequences that stress has on the stress and illness is to create a healthy, my clients are always happy to see me. more than a decade, and I still marvel at all body—everything from high blood stress-free system that can easily defeat Katja: that mankind has learned about the human pressure to ulcers to insomnia. the attack on your body in short order. I started doing massage body throughout the centuries. I approach The specific effects of a body that is So put yourself on the top of the “to 26 years ago to every massage without preconceptions, consistently under stress are manifold: do” list this holiday season, and include support myself while using my training and experience to be increased activity of the sympathetic massage as a powerful addition to your pursuing theater. I tried present and provide, to the best of my nervous system and the constant release health regimen. waitressing, but was the abilities, what is needed.

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Harbor Bay Club hosted a Harbor Bay Club’s Junior Tennis doubles event to celebrate the successful 96th Annual City of Program and Junior Halloween season. Participants Alameda Tennis Tournament League are back! School is back may bring themselves and a over the weekend of September in session, which means the East partner, but participants’ actual 11th! Despite unfortunate Bay Junior League and the Junior playing partners will be a mystery. weather, the Alameda City Tennis program have returned The “ghost” partners will be Tennis tournament was a to Harbor Bay Club. Kids ages revealed after all competitors huge success, and saw over four and older can either pick the have arrived. This event is for 100 participants contend in racquet up for the first time, or members only. To sign up and for an entertaining, competitive improve on their game skills in one more information, contact Mike three days of tennis. It was the of the following sessions: peewee on Bauer at 521-5414 ext. 126. first year that Harbor Bay Club Wednesdays from 4 – 4:45 p.m., hosted the event, which enjoyed beginner on Wednesdays from 4 – Christmas begins early for Photo courtesy of ARPD its most successful attendance 6 p.m., or intermediate/advanced Tennis Members at Harbor Bay In the top men’s division in the City of Alameda Tennis Tournament 2009, Hein Tu (left) defeats Torry Zaches by the score of 6-2, 7-5. numbers in years. Here is a list on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Club with the Twelve Hours of the tournament’s champions: 4 – 6 p.m. Members and non- of Christmas! As a Christmas Men’s Singles 3.5: Christopher members alike are welcome. present to Harbor Bay Club Tournament will then be held for Get ready for Holiday Kids Brownlee. Men’s Doubles 3.5 Our East Bay Junior League, tennis members, Mike Bauer session participants the following Tennis Camp. From December : Chris Zimmerman and Steven which is intended for intermediate will be holding complimentary day, Sunday, December 13, 28 to 31, Harbor Bay Club will Zimmerman. Women’s Singles and advanced players only, begins group sessions on Saturdays, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Please be hosting its Annual Holiday 3.5: Corina Hill. Women’s with its first league match on Friday, beginning on November 21 contact Mike Bauer in the Tennis Kids Camp. The camp will Doubles 3.5: Caroline Hauck October 2. Interested players can and ending on December 12. Department for more info. involve kids in drills, games and and Melissa Abadia. Men’s join at any time during the season. Each day will have a theme: a activities. Emphasis will be on Doubles 4.0-5.0: Zach Bruce Members and non-members are holiday stroke, mistletoe volleys, Montclair Friday Night Mixer: fundamentals, including rules, and John Clay-Morris. Men’s welcome to participate. For more snowball serves, and a member/ Harbor Bay Club will be hosting sportsmanship, etiquette, proper Singles 4.0-4.5: Matt Thornton. information on Junior Tennis or guest stocking stuffer in which a mixer this October with technique and consistency in Men’s Singles 5.0: Hein Tu. EBJL signups, please contact Mike each attending member can Montclair Tennis Club. The two hitting the ball. Students will Men’s Doubles Seniors: Manny Bauer at 521-5414 ext. 126. bring a complimentary guest. clubs will compete in friendly further develop each of the major Abellon and Pat Thompson. Saturday sessions will be split matches. The event will be held tennis strokes and play tennis Men’s Doubles Super Seniors: Halloween Mixed ‘Ghost’ between women’s hitting clinics, on a Friday, with the date to be matches. The camp is available Henry Diy and Pat Thompson. Doubles Event: On Sunday, which will take place from 1 – 2 determined soon. Keep an eye to both members and non- Mixed 7.0: Scott Badler and October 25 at 10 a.m., Harbor p.m., and men from 2 – 3 p.m. on the tennis bulletin board for members. For details, call Mike Annie Young Bay Club will be hosting a mixed A Twelve Hours of Christmas up-to-date information. Bauer at 521-5414 ext. 126.

People Spotlight

Steve Andrews levels, and is also an active educator, serviing Andrews is also remarkably involved as an instructor at Pacific Coast Banking in the community, with participation in a 1998 was a banner year School. dizzying array of nonprofit organizations. for Steve Andrews—he At Harbor Bay Club, Andrews first joined as Among others, he is the current chairman of helped found the Bank of a tennis enthusiast. Later, he discovered the Adopt-A-Classroom, a director of Alameda Alameda and he joined Fitness Center, where he works out Tuesday Meals on Wheels and an advisor to the the Harbor Bay Club! and Thursday mornings. Additionally, five Alameda Food Bank. Andrews also serves Andrews has a long years ago, Andrews started masters swimming as a director emeritus for the Alameda professional history in classes with Linda Gilchrist. Most recently, Chamber of Commerce, Gnomus, Inc., the the banking industry, he started attending core classes with Heidi Alameda Boy Scout Council, the Pleasant including as president and CEO of the Bank of on Mondays and Thursdays. His swimming Hill Chamber of Commerce, and the Alameda. He directed the initial capitalization and efforts have produced impressive results— Alameda Rotary. formation of the bank, and currently oversees a Congratulations to Andrews for completing the In the past, Andrews has served as staff of 65 employees in all facets of commercial following open water swims: Donner Lake, 2.7 chairman of the Alameda Boy Scouts and retail banking. Andrews has testified about miles; Alcatraz, 1.5 miles; Lake Berryessa, 2 Learning for Life program and the Alameda the banking industry on the federal and state miles; and Folsom Lake, 2 miles. Boy Scouts Food Drive.

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FEATURE ARTICLE Unexpected Gifts: A Bountiful Harvest through Community Service

By Michelle Trippi volunteer work with the APC. “Painting the mural room and kitchen will soon help the youth and children by providing n the spirit of the holiday season, their parents with proper food and eating we’ve collected some inspirational habits needed to live a healthy life,” said reminders of how serving within our Goodwin. “Healthy children grow into very own community not only serves successful adults.” the greater purpose of helping others inI need but can often lead to meaningful Alameda Family Services’ Head personal relationships and a deep sense Start Program of gratitude. These reminders all share Single mom Linda Rutherford admires the common thread that connecting the impact Alameda Family Service’s with people through community service, Head Start Program has had on her whether as a volunteer or recipient, can children and her life. Head Start—a bring life-changing experiences of personal comprehensive child development growth to everyone involved. More than program that has been serving low- any tangible object, these experiences are income children and their families for truly life’s “unexpected gifts.” over 40 years—offers preschool and socialization experience for children Photo by Kathy Miranda The Alameda Point Collaborative ages three through five. Head Start Melvin Kahn and his Alameda Friendly Visitor, Kim Bostram sing the song Kahn composed, Pregnant and already the mother of also involves and supports families “Why We Need Obama.” two children, Tiffany Goodwin found by connecting them to a community herself homeless and living in her car. support structure. Summoning the strength to better her life Rutherford’s second daughter started many things in his life to help others. One jackpot!” Kahn chimes in: “No, I’m the and that of her children, Goodwin found the program when Rutherford was example is a specialized cane for the blind one who hit the jackpot!” a home and support at the Alameda Point nine months pregnant with her third that Kahn invented. He provides the cane Collaborative (APC), a west end non- child. Giving her all to the program to anyone who might benefit—for free. The Alameda EastBay profit working to end homelessness. “I and becoming as involved as possible, Kahn, a recipient of Alameda Friendly Miracle League am most thankful for the APC,” Goodwin Rutherford soon saw that she wanted to Visitors (AFV), a local non-profit offering Driving to work one morning, speech said. “It gave me a chance to rebuild what give back to the program that helped her companionship to seniors and anyone therapist Roberta Rockwell was listening domestic violence had destroyed.” Not so much. After being asked to serve on the who is homebound, has been writing a to a radio show about a baseball league for only was Goodwin’s life transformation Head Start Policy Council, she discovered book about his life with the purpose of disabled kids. “As I parked, there was one remarkable in itself, but even more that education and literacy was a passion inspiring others and giving hope to other of my favorite special students, Nicholas, unexpected was how she would inspire that she could not ignore. blind persons. Kathy Miranda, Director who despite his physical disadvantages is and change the lives of others. Currently enrolled as a student herself of AFV, tells us that when she met Kim determined to play for the San Francisco Goodwin is not only a resident of the in early childhood education courses, Bostrom, a potential AFV volunteer with Giants,” Rockwell said. APC; she is now also a staff member and Rutherford says that because of the editing skills, she thought this was a good With Nicholas as the inspiration, the a volunteer. Employed by the APC in the opportunities and support Head Start match for Kahn. It ended up being a Miracle League of EastBay Alameda was career center, Goodwin has a chance to provided to her family, she was able to match made in heaven for two people who born. Rockwell explains that when she work one-on-one with other residents, go to school, volunteer for the literacy share an interest in politics, writing and first approached family and friends with helping them find jobs or enroll in program and work as a student teacher for music. Kahn said, “It’s wonderful to have this crazy idea of building an adapted school. Volunteering when time allows, the Head Start program. “I am dirt poor, someone lighthearted, fun to be with and baseball field, a huge number of people Goodwin’s last project was to help paint but do not feel like it,” Rutherford said. opinionated. It’s just what I needed!” responded enthusiastically. The effect on the walls of the mural room and a new “I feel very rich and truly blessed by the Not only is Bostrom just what Kahn the volunteers putting it all together is kitchen that is being built for the APC’s support of the community and the Head needed, Bostrom can not get over how evident, a life-changing experience for Growing Youth Project. Start program.” positive and appreciative Kahn is and the everyone. “It was then, at our first meeting, Goodwin says she doesn’t know where lifelong friend she has found. She feels with people I had never even met, that I she and her children would be without Alameda Friendly Visitors that too many people have lost the lust knew something very special was not only the APC and its commitment to end Melvin Kahn, age 92, is a writer, composer for life, and she finds her visits with Kahn happening to me, but to all of us.” homelessness. She also knows that she is and inventor. He is also blind. Undeterred refreshing. Bostrom said, “The best thing The plans are now in their final changing others’ lives through her job and by his inability to see, Melvin has done is getting to know each other—I hit the stages. The City of Alameda has offered

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to lease an existing field in Estuary Shelter said that Lewis’s volunteer forward and help out. He tells us that church from was able to help a part Park, near the Coast Guard housing, work is very special indeed and more there are very dedicated staff members of his country,” she said. Rogers said that it has for the project. With a generous important than some people think: who have taught him that effective been wonderful to see the relationships grow donation from a local developer, “Volunteers provide a human touch teaching is about being a good person. over the past two years and to witness the local Nicholas and Rockwell are just with the care and playtime they give “I correct all of the homework, excitement. “Our entire church was involved waiting for the Navy to pass the land to the . This is turn makes the cats sharpen the pencils and assist children in raising money. It was an entire community to Alameda. “There is no date set for better pets that acclimate to their new if they need to leave the classroom,” coming together for the love of others.” opening day, but you can bet it’s going environments faster—they can be more said Quick. “It may not seem like In the spirit of the season, it is wonderful to be amazing,” said Rockwell. loving to their new families and give much, however it keeps the teacher to be part of a community that gives, and, in back the love they received from Lewis teaching without interruptions and turn, gives back. As Melinda Rogers said of her Alameda Animal Shelter and our other volunteers.” their mind on the classroom.” Getting program—and it is fitting for all of Alameda— Often the deep gratitude from back as much from the children as he “It is possible to see modern day miracles!” recipients nurtures a strong desire to Ruby Bridges Elementary gives, Quick said that the children give back, and similarly, Alameda’s School always thank him for his help. “I enjoy community service volunteers receive For the past two years, John Quick has working with them, it is a joy. This isn’t as much in their joy of serving as those been doing everything the teachers have work, it is a vocation.” If you are interested in helping neighbors whom they are helping. asked of him. He has learned a lot at any of the organizations Some of those neighbors are the very Ruby Bridges Elementary School—from Bay Farm Community Church mentioned in this article, special furry feline friends which are the students! Quick, a retiree who Alameda even comes together here’s how they can reached: readying for their new homes with worked in the technology industry, said when helping others outside of our the help of Barbara Lewis, a very that he first decided to volunteer as a community. Approached via e-mail • Alameda Family Services dependable volunteer at the Alameda teacher’s aid because he wanted to keep by a minister in Nairobi, Kenya with Head Start Program Animal Shelter. busy, but not too busy to keep him from an invitation to assist in the teaching (510) 929-6350 Lewis, who logs over 200 hours fishing, one of his great passions. of pastors, Bay Farm Community www.xanthos.org a year in volunteer work, makes sure Not seeking a traditional job, toying Church also filled a need to help that the feline visitors are fed, cleaned, with the idea of becoming a grammar provide clean water to a small African • Alameda Animal Shelter brushed and pampered while they are school teacher and seeing the need for village by helping them build a well. (510) 337-8565 in their temporary home at the Animal time as well as money as help for our Previously, the closest water source to www.ci.alameda.ca.us/animalshelter Shelter. Tina Aedo of the Animal troubled schools, Quick decided to step Peters Village, a small village outside of Nairobi, was a three-hour walk away • Bay Farm Community Church from town. “Without water, there is (510) 769-2002 no food and life becomes unbearable,” www.bayfarmchurch.org said Melinda Rogers, an Alameda volunteer from the church who has • Alameda EastBay Miracle League been on two missions to the village. (510) 521-9371 Creating a borehole for a well in www.alamedaebmiracle.org Peters Village was very hard work—it not only changed the lives of the • Ruby Bridges Elementary School villagers forever, it also changed the (510) 748-4006 lives of the volunteers. Rogers says that www.rubybridges.alamedausd.ca. emotions ran high upon completion schoolloop.com of the project. “When we walked down the path to see the finished • Alameda Friendly Visitors borehole project, we all cried and (510) 748-0342 drank the water. It was clear, cool and www.alamedamealsonwheels.org delicious!” Rogers reflected on the day of celebration and described it as • Alameda Point Collaborative Photo by J’aime Felix a dream-like experience: “Even the (510) 898-7849 Local residents of a small African village outside Nairobi, Kenya are the first to get a taste of Vice President of Kenya came to the www.apcollaborative.org the newly opened well, built with the help of Bay Farm Community Church in Alameda, at the dedication, because he was from this dedication ceremony. area and he was thankful that a small

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Youth Department People Spotlight Special Events Norman Lee and Mei Liang

Wednesday, October 28 is our Children’s Center If you’re looking for a strong local Halloween Party. This costume party for members reminder of the blessings and of the Harbor Bay Club takes place in the benefits that flow from community Clubhouse. The party runs from 3:30 p.m. to 5 service, look no further than Norman p.m. and includes games, a craft, snacks and trick- Lee and Mei Liang, co-presidents or-treating around the Club. Kids ages 3 to 10 are of the Kiwanis Key Club at Encinal welcome, as long as they are potty trained. Younger High School. As seniors, Lee and children are welcome to accompany us for the Liang lead a team of about 50 club trick-or-treating at 4:30 p.m. as long as they have members, the largest Key Club within their East Bay division, a parent along with them. Sign up in the Children’s and together they support innumerable community service Center starting October 1—the cost is $8.00. needs within Alameda on a volunteer basis. Whether The Children’s Center Holiday Party will be on it’s helping set up a fair on Webster Street for WABA, Wednesday, December 9 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. serving meals at Mastick Center, cleaning up the beach, This party is free to Harbor Bay Club members or supporting UNICEF and any number of other local non- between the ages of 3 and 10, potty trained of profits, Lee and Liang are at the ready to organize their course. Enjoy snacks, games, crafts, stories and a team to help. special visit from a friend from up North! A perfect Photo by Kerri Lonergan Developing a heart to serve came naturally and photo opportunity in our Clubhouse! Sign-ups enthusiastically for both Lee and Liang. “It started when begin Nov. 1 in the Children’s Center. 23 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Extended care will be I was with the Junior ROTC as a freshman,” explains Lee. Spend this season taking a ride on the Polar available from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pricing “They started getting involved with community service and Express! Have fun this winter doing sport activities, and brochures will be available at the Harbor I was hooked. From there, I wanted to get into other clubs making holiday crafts, cooking and exploring the Bay Club and on our website starting October 1. like the Red Cross, the Alameda Youth Committee (ARPD) Bay Area on an awesome field trip. Polar Express Polar Express Camp is open to members and non- and the Key Club. I just love helping people out.” Camp will take place on December 21, 22 and members alike. For Liang, the call to service began even earlier, in middle school while she was tutoring kids in reading at an Oakland church. Also starting in Key Club as a freshman, she quickly saw how much she could help and how much help was Flu Season is Here needed. “Serving all of the hungry for the Salvation Army Here are some ways to educate your family about every Christmas, I couldn’t believe how many hungry people how to stay healthy throughout the flu season! there were and how appreciative they were,” Liang says. “I • Wash hands frequently, using soap and water, just love seeing the smiles on people’s faces.” Helping with for at least 20 seconds at a time. When my son so many causes keeps Liang constantly on the go, but she was little, we taught him to sing a simple song, loves it. “I’d much rather be out and about helping others such as “Happy Birthday,” while washing his than being home staring at a computer,” she says. hands to make sure he took enough time to do Besides the personal fulfillment they receive, the so. Alcohol-based hand cleaners and sanitizers cumulative hours of community service that Lee and Liang are also effective; consider purchasing small are racking up will also likely pay academic dividends after bottles for your children to keep in their desks high school. As Kiwanian Scott MacAskill and Jeffrey Smith, at school, or larger sizes for your children’s the EHS Faculty Advisor, explain: “The average Key Club teachers to have in their classrooms. graduate has racked up at least 400-500 hours of community • Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. service, some as many as 1,000 hours, and has acquired This is the way germs are spread. tremendous leadership and organization skills. That opens • Cover your mouth or nose with a tissue when a lot of doors in college. Last year’s co-president received coughing or sneezing. If you don’t have a a full academic scholarship to Harvard in large part due to tissue, teach children to cough into their Photo by Kerri Lonergan his community service hours.” elbow. Make sure to throw away a tissue as Keeping a box of tissues nearby can help reduce the Lee and Liang are also both quick to point out that the soon as it has been used. spread of germs during flu season. club is, above all, fun. “We all get together for a lot of fun • Stay home if you are sick, and stay away from social events and have a great time together,” says Liang. sick people until they feel better. “We love it”. For more information on how to get involved in • Stay well and get plenty of sleep, eat healthy For more information, visit the Centers Key Club as a teen member, or if you represent a nonprofit and exercise. Make sure to set a good example for Disease Control website at: looking for volunteer support, please contact Scott MacAskill for your children by following all the above www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/talkingtokids.htm at (510) 282-5447. rules yourself.

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Local FDA Office Working for the Health of Our Community

By Debra Costner manufacturing establishments, devices and drug manufacturers, imported few years ago, when products, plus blood supply and tissue California vegetables were supply,” Cassens explained. “So our making people sick, it inventory is pretty diverse.” was time to call in the Diverse indeed. Their work goes way Alameda office of the Food beyond the produce aisle, dealing with Aand Drug Administration (FDA) on a wide range of companies, according Harbor Bay Parkway, where government to Janet McDonald, a spokesperson scientists deal with threats ranging from for the agency and 20-year FDA bad spinach to swine flu. veteran. “San Francisco of course has “We are famous,” says FDA official a huge import business, as does Hawaii Barbara Cassens, “or should I say which we also cover,” she says. “We do infamous, for our work on the spinach investigations for cause, follow up on outbreak of 2006 that occurred out trade complaints, investigate food-borne of the Salinas Valley.” Testing more illness outbreaks.” than four hundred samples for E. The FDA isn’t just a health Coli bacteria, scientists quickly found department but a law enforcement the organism behind the outbreak. agency “with dual responsibility,” says And they were so accurate, they McDonald. FDA workers also perform Photo by Luis Solorzano could pinpoint the farm it came from. “mail blitzes” to ensure post office safety, Field investigators are the government’s first line of defense as workers go directly to the farms that produce our nation’s food supply and collect samples for the FDA’s Mobile Lab Deployment “We found matching DNA from an and as well as product recall audit checks. in Salinas, CA. environmental field that was located in “We do compliance work such as Salinas,” Cassens says. following up on an inspection or recall, Cassens has directed the FDA office to check if we need to send out a warning for five years, working her way up from letter, or obtain an injunction, or put out approving the H1N1 flu vaccine for Cassens, “and many of them even have the job of field investigator. “The work an import alert,” explains McDonald. release to the general public. doctor-level degrees. We have podiatrists, is very rewarding and satisfying, and “We determine what remedies need to Since moving the FDA offices in we have general medical doctors, and we that’s why people stay,” Cassens says. be made in any situation.” 1993 from San Francisco to Alemda, even have a dentist working for us, so we Though officially known as the San Luis Solorzano, director of their local community involvement has encompass a wide variety of sciences.” Francisco District Office, it’s actually right investigations at the FDA, says the scope grown. “We have groups come in from After a recent congressional here in Alameda—a federal agency covering of the agency’s work is so large that it the local schools and tour the laboratory, report found that the FDA was a broad geographical area that includes “regulates approximately thirty-five cents and we give them demos,” says Cassens. understaffed nationally, the local office not just all of California that’s north of of every dollar spent in the USA.” “For instance, we demonstrate our non- is looking for new hires. “We have Bakersfield, but all of Nevada, Hawaii Even before a product reaches the destructive way to test for heavy metals finally received funding to expand our and, in the Pacific, Guam and Micronesia. marketplace, the FDA is involved. “If in various products, which of course staff,” she says, “when we have been High-tech scanning gadgets are the firm is in our district, an inspector are very dangerous, especially to small short staffed for more than 6 years.” key to FDA work in 2009. “We were would go out and perform a pre-approval children.” Right now over a hundred people the first FDA office to pilot the use inspection, not only of the facility where It’s another part of the job Cassens work at the Alameda office, plus an of the XRF hand-held unit in a field it’s produced, but we also verify clinical appreciates. “We like to reach out to the additional staff of fifty, stationed in investigative operation,” she says. “We trials, such as those performed at UC community and work with students— seven satellite offices located strategically had to teach our investigators to use Davis or Stanford,” says McDonald, “our it gets them excited about science!” throughout the geographic area they cover. the tool so we could screen many more inspector would go out there to check The doors at the office are open to And like any company with limited products without physically taking the the clinical trial as well.” curious students. “We also have summer resources, they concentrate their efforts package apart – doing a non-destructive Most recently the office has been hires which involve both high school and on the most vulnerable products. analysis as we call it – which allows us in the headlines for approving the college level students, that come into our “We try to prioritize and focus the to test easily and make better decisions new H1N1 flu vaccine for combatting labs and work and also do some field most time on those areas that present on-site.” the swine flu outbreak. FDA officials work,” she says. the greatest risk,” says McDonald. FDA workers also bring along a are working closely with the National A number of these interns eventually We may give little thought to the mobile laboratory that allows them Institutes of Health to check clinical look to find work with the FDA. “Our safety of our food and medication. But to complete testing in the field. “Our trials for best dosages, accelerating access staff has degrees in biology, chemistry, FDA officials in Alameda are working job as a field office is to inspect food to new diagnostic tools, and ultimately food science—which is my degree,” says around the clock to keep us safe.

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other key categories, like food and turned the corner, but the absence, they are not occupants Indicators Show clothing purchases, department situation may feel like a downturn of their houses, and sometimes store retail, entertainment and for a good while longer. must rent out the house or sell. Recession Has restaurant spending, and sporting Either of these events makes goods. They were all up for the Tax Credit Changes them ineligible to retain the month, after having been mainly $8,000 credit under current law. Bottomed Out down for well over a year. The first major change to the Ineligible buyers must then repay One reason for the pick-up $8,000 first-time homebuyers’ the credit to the IRS. The new in consumer spending—People tax credit began moving through bill would waive the repayment By Dennis Pagones expansion. But there’ll be no feel more confident about the Congress, giving hope to real estate requirement when a service sudden, splashy return to economic direction of the economy in the groups pushing for an extension of member must sell a home within he deep recession boomtime anytime soon. months ahead. They see the stock the entire program before it expires the 36-month period because of that has gripped Bernanke’s point about the end market up, so their retirement on November 30. The chairman a transfer to a new duty station the U.S. economy of the recession was underscored funds and 401(k) plans are of the House Ways and Means or overseas, and would count by the throat since by a 2.7 percent jump in retail sales bouncing back. They see home Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel service-related absences toward December 2007 is for the month of August, according values stabilizing or growing in (D-New York), combined several the 36-month requirement. T“very likely over at this point,” to the Commerce Department. most areas, so their equity is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben That’s an important indicator beginning to increase again. Bernanke recently said. But there because the key to pumping up the The one big negative—and it’s One reason for the pick-up in consumer was a big footnote in Bernanke’s economy again is to get consumers definitely a drag for housing—is speech last week in Washington: spending, and that appears to be the unemployment rate, which spending—People feel more confident Don’t look for a dramatic recovery. happening. Not just for auto sales, Mr. Bernanke said won’t be coming It’ll be more like a slow moving, which got a big boost in August down fast, even with the end of the about the direction of the economy in the plodding sort of improvement from the government’s “cash for recession. Nonetheless, the vast months ahead. where the economy inches toward clunkers” program, but also for majority of Americans who do have jobs have seen their real wages rise this year, up 5 percent. All of this is feeding into the smaller bills into the “Service Regarding our Alameda real housing sector in key markets, Members Home Ownership Act estate market, the average length such as Southern California, where of 2009” last week, with a floor of time for houses on the market August sales were up 11 percent vote expected soon. increased from 44 days in July to compared with the year before, This bill is intended to 55 days in August. However, on according to MDA DataQuick. correct a flaw in the original tax a positive note, selling prices held Even prices are rising slightly. In credit legislation, which required at 99 percent of the listing price. Alameda County, 1,538 homes all buyers to occupy and own This is a continued reflection of sold in August, up 21 percent from their first home for 36 months the perceived value of Alameda August 2008. In Contra Costa, to fully qualify for the credit. The real estate. To stay informed on 1,587 homes were sold in August, program presents issues when local real estate market trends, down 8.4 percent. A total of 7,518 military, Foreign Service and go to HBRinfo.com and click new and resale houses and condos intelligence agency personnel are on “Our Resources” and then closed escrow in the nine-county transferred overseas. During their “Market Trends.” Bay Area last month. That was down 14.3 percent from 8,771 in July and up 4.0 percent from Dennis Pagones 7,232 in August 2008, according to MDA DataQuick. Dennis Pagones is president of Harbor Signs of better days ahead Bay Realty. Since 1984, Harbor Bay Realty remain purely anecdotal. Real has served the residential, commercial, estate industry leaders say and relocation real estate needs of transactions are finally coming the entire East Bay as well as leasing, together, while home sales rentals and property management. As are rising and new mortgage a full-service company with over seventy dedicated products are returning to the professionals, Harbor Bay Realty knows and covers market—with more stringent the market like no other firm. Over the years they have underwriting, of course. An acquired unparalleled expertise in dealing with real increasing number of economists estate matters unique to our area. say the region’s economy has

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MORTGAGE MATTERS

Last Call for Federal Stimulus! Or is it?

By Peter Holmes is used to create a fraction: 15,000 30, 2009. See your tax advisor for your backed securities and up to $200 billion ($90,000 minus $75,000) divided by complete details and eligibility. of agency debt. The Fed’s September inally. In the wake of all of 20,000 ($95,000 minus $75,000) times Translation for local real estate: Buy a statement continued that “the Committee the economic tinkering from the $8000 credit amount. In this case, home before the current November 30 cut off will gradually slow the pace of these the U.S. government during 75%, or $6000 of the credit would be date, and you could realize unprecedented purchases in order to promote a smooth this recession, I actually get to disallowed, getting the buyer a $2,000 tax benefits. transition in markets and anticipates that use some of that Latin that I tax credit. they will be executed by the end of the wasF forced to learn in prep school. Those first quarter of 2010.” many years ago, the Jesuits taught me that Translation for local real estate: the plural form of the word “stimulus” is Buy a home before the current November 30 cut Refinance out of your adjustable rate “stimuli.” mortgage now or consolidate debts through And that’s exactly what we have off date, and you could realize unprecedented a refinance. Rates will stay artificially low received from the Bush and Obama tax benefits. for another few months. Administrations under Ben Bernanke’s clever guidance: a whole lot of economic 3. Lastly, a host of new banking stimuli. In light of a slowly improving regulations could be on the horizon, national economy, many of these programs Remember that this is a tax credit, 2. The Fed’s Purchase of Mortgage which could limit homebuyers and home are slated to expire soon. What does this which reduces your income taxes by a Backed Securities. The Fed noted in refinancing opportunities by additionally mean to homeowners and, particularly, dollar-for-dollar amount of the tax credit. its September meeting that “the Federal tightening both FHA and conventional homebuyers here in Alameda? If, for example, your entire tax liability Reserve will continue to employ a wide lending guidelines. The possible creation was $0 for the year, the IRS would send range of tools to promote economic of a new federal regulator could have Let’s take a quick look at the incentives you a check for the entire amount of the recovery and to preserve price stability.” unintended negative repercussions. still out there: tax credit, up to $8,000 for purchasing the This includes keeping overnight rates Translation for local real estate: Buy, home in 2009! The credit is valid on all near 0 percent for an extended period sell or refinance while you still know the 1. The First Time Homebuyer Tax home purchases where settlement occurs and purchasing a total of $1.25 trillion of landscape. This current market is ripe for Credit Program is currently scheduled to from January 1, 2009 through November Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage- building wealth for the future. expire November 30, 2009, but there is already talk of extending into the spring of 2010. This is a big one. This program is available to buyers who haven’t owned CA. Dept. of Corp. Peter Holmes / Mortgage Specialist a principal residence in the last three License #4150025. years. It provides a tax credit of the lesser 510-749-7772 Credit on Approval of $8,000 or 10 percent of the cost of a Fax 510-749-7749 Pholmes@ sterlinghomeloan.com home, which can be used to reduce, or www.sterlinghomeloan.com in some cases, eliminate the purchaser’s Rates as of income tax liability. This 2009 credit is 510-749-7772 Integrity EXperience Va l u e September 30, 2009 not repayable if the home continues to be Loan Program Rate APR Program Notes the buyer’s main residence for three years after the purchase date. The full amount Conforming 30 yr fixed 4.875 4.9 Loan amounts up to $417,000 of the credit is available for eligible “High Cost Area” Conforming 30 yr fixed 5.5 5.62 Loan amounts up to $729,750 homebuyers with adjusted gross incomes Conforming 30 yr fixed, 10 yr interest only 5.5 5.62 Loan amounts up to $417,000 of no more than $75,000 per year (single) “High Cost Area” Conforming 30 yr fixed, 10 yr interest only 6 6.24 Loan amounts up to $729,750 and $150,000 per year (on a joint return). 4 4.127 Loan amounts up to $417,000 The amount of the credit phases out Conforming 5 yr fixed ARM above these limits, up to $95,000 and Conforming FHA 30 yr fixed 5.25 5.39 3.5% down loan amounts to $417K $170,000, respectively. Conforming FHA 5 yr ARM 4.125 4.23 3.5% down loan amounts to $417K The new law, courtesy of the Obama Jumbo FHA 30yr fixed 5.75 5.79 3.5% down loan amounts to $729,750 Administration’s economic stimulus, Prime Jumbo 30 yr fixed 6 6.24 loan amounts up to $2M provides a formula to reduce gradually the 7.125 7.129 loan amounts up to $2M credit for those who exceed the income Prime Jumbo 30 yr fixed Interest Only limits. If a single person makes $90,000 Prime Jumbo 5/1 ARM 5.75 5.89 loan amounts up to $2M a year, for example, the excess amount All pricing shown above with 1 point cost Call for 0 point financing rates!

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HBC TEAM NEWS

The Harbor Bay Club considers its most treasured amenity to be its people. We take tremendous pride in the commitment by our entire Harbor Bay Club staff to ensure that the attention and care provided to our members and guests is second to none. It's the dedication to personalized Leadership Team customer service that makes the member and guest experience at HBC so special. Every month HBC likes to recognize and reward an individual member of our staff whose performance stands out and represents the Lisa Franzel highest marks in professional service, attitude, appearance, punctuality & team spirit. The award includes a framed certificate, $100 General Manager club cash, lunch, celebration, special parking space and entry into a year-end grand prize. Please join us in acknowledging the following HBC team members whose exemplary performance over the past months helps us continue to set and maintain the highest levels of Mike Bauer service in the industry. Director of Tennis July 2009 Associate of the Month Erin Brown Julie Craig - Clubhouse Grill Youth Director It could be said that our July 2009 AOM winner has it all! The Clubhouse Grill’s Julie Craig proves that a person can balance work Joanne Connell and family and still have time to experience all life has to offer. Membership Accounts Manager Born in Alameda Hospital, Julie is a true Alameda original. She was one of the first classes to attend the then-new Amelia Earhart Elementary School. She also attended Lincoln Middle School and , where she was involved in leadership, Vester Emerson cheerleading, TV/media and theater arts. She was lucky enough to be involved as a lead in the first major production held in the Membership Kofman Auditorium, Grease, which paved the way for future ACLO and other productions to be held at that venue. Julie then attended Chabot College in Hayward, majoring in theater arts and English. She was an Irene Ryan nominee for theater, was a part Linda Gilchrist of many productions, and was involved in the conception of the WRAC center for the English department, where she was a student Patti Popovich teacher for two years. Aquatics Julie says her favorite part of working at the Harbor Bay Club is that, as an Alameda resident, she knows many of the members and their families who come into the Clubhouse Grill. She also enjoys meeting new members and welcoming them, and showing Camille Lingley them just what an amenity the Clubhouse is. Clubhouse Grill Manager Camille Lingley says, “Julie is a great asset to our team. She Bar Manager is very helpful and goes above and beyond the scope of her duties. Julie is always someone that I can trust and rely on.” In her time away from the Club, busy mom Julie enjoys spending time with her two children. She has a daughter, 7, and a son, 4. She is a room parent at Amelia Earhart School and a campus volunteer. She also is a substitute teacher at her son’s preschool. She enjoys reading Jane Austen and Shakespeare, is an avid fan of both music concerts Kerri Lonergan and theater productions, and is eagerly awaiting the time when she can return to stage herself. Considering the apparent ease and grace with which Julie tackles all of her Marketing Director responsibilities, I think it is safe to say we can expect to see her name in lights again in the very near future! Leslie McGraw Fitness Director August 2009 Associate of the Month Vince Piro Steven Tom - Aquatics Facilities Manager Alameda native Steven Tom was speechless when he received the August 2009 Associate of the Month Award! His manager, Linda Gilchrist, had this to say: “Steven is a constant positive presence in the Aquatics Department. He takes ownership Paulette Staats of every assignment he is given and is diligent about meeting the needs of the students in his classes and swim groups. He Spa Director is wise beyond his years and is a remarkable influence on the young swimmers he mentors. We are lucky to have him as an employee!” Manyee Wong Li Born in Alameda, Steven attended Amelia Earhart elementary school, Lincoln Middle School and now is a senior at Accounting Manager Alameda High School. An excellent student, Steven is already guaranteed a spot at a school in California’s prestigious U.C. system. After deciding which campus to attend, Steven plans on studying engineering. Lisa Young Steven first started his career at Harbor Bay Club as a volunteer with Coach Carol Wallace’s HBC Swim Team. When Director of Customer Service he was old enough to get hired, he was a junior coach for the team and later went on to obtain his lifeguarding certificate. He currently lifeguards and teaches swim lessons. His favorite part of working at Harbor Bay Club is working with the children and the rapport he enjoys with his Lorena Atilano coworkers. Cafe Supervisor When Steven is not coaching or teaching swim lessons, he is swimming himself! He currently swims for both the Alameda Alagators (an age-group USS team) and the Alameda High School Hornets Swim Team. He also plays water polo for the AHS Hornets. It’s safe to say that Steven is comfortable in the water and in his Bill Doyle role as a coach and swim instructor! Membership

Jennifer Kennedy Front Desk Supervisor e Clubhouse Grill Christine Naish Appetizers Salads Sandwiches House Specialties Mind-Body Coordinator 1. Bu alo Wings $4.99 1. Classic Caesar $7.99 1. Grilled Chicken $8.99 1. Pasta Primavera $9.99 Sauteed Garden Vegetables, tossed 2. Onion Rings $4.99 2. Crispy Chicken $9.99 2. Turkey Club $9.99 in White Wine and Olive Oil Audrey Owens Black Olives, Tomatoes, Egg and Crispy served on Whole Wheat Toast 3. Zucchini Sticks $5.99 Chicken in a Honey Mustard Dressing 2. Fish and Chips $9.99 Housekeeping Supervisor 3. Caprese Sandwich $9.99 Golden battered Cod lets, 4. Cheese Quesadilla $3.99 3. Fresh Garden $7.99 served with a Side Salad, tossed in served w/French Fries and Carrots, Cucumbers, Onions, and Tomatoes Balsamic Vina grette Andy Tupman 5. Appetizer Sampler $11.99 Cranberry Coleslaw 4. Mediterranean $8.99 4. Classic Burger $7.99 Tennis/Activities Coordinator Chicken Strips, Bu alo Wings, 3. Salmon Dinner $13.99 Cheese Quesadilla Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Feta Cheese, Onions, 1/2 lb. Angus Beef Carrots, Kalamata Olives and Champagne North Atlantic Salmon poached with Vinaigrette Dressing 5. Harbor Bay Burger $8.99 Dill and served with Rice and Nicole Will 1/2 lb. Angus Beef, with Fresh Vegetables Group Exercise 5. Side Salad $3.99 Grilled Onions and Mushrooms 4. Chicken Caesar Wrap $9.99 6. Garden Burger $7.99 Tender Hearts of Romaine, Sliced Coordinator This is just a sample of the menu for Harbor Bay Club’s Clubhouse Grill! Full Menu Chicken Breast, Parmesan Cheese Vegetarian Option and Caesar Dressing, wrapped is available on our website: www.harborbayclub.com. Clubhouse Grill Hours are: in a Flour Tortilla Alex Wolfe Monday - Friday 5pm - 10pm. Takeout Orders available, please call All Sandwiches served on Ciabatta Roll Webmaster (510)521-5416 ext. 132 after 5pm to place your order. with your choice of side.

16 Fall/Winter 2009 www.HarborBayClub.com (510) 521-5414 EVENTS CALENDAR Harbor Bay Club Membership Calendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Sign up for the 1 Pilates Mat 1& 2 – 2 Intro to Step – 3 WEEKLY SPECIALS Children’s Center Sky Studio Signature Studio October 2009 Halloween Party! 10:45am 12:00-1:00pm ext. 115 for details Monday Night Football

Bodyworx/Core – 4 New Class!! 5 Fitness Walkers – 6 Stretch N’Tone – 7 Group Cycle – 8 Hi/Low Aerobics 9 Intro to Cycling 10 $3 All Beef hot dogs Signature Studio Medicine Ball Workout Meet outside Sky Studio Signature Studio Signature Studio 12:00-1:00pm. Bring $4 Draft beer 10:30am Signature Studio Clubhouse 12:05pm 8:00am 9:15am water bottle and towel. 6:30pm 8:30am ½ price Appetizers Make an 11 Tai Chi Chih 12 Power Tone – 13 Aqua Challenge14 – Pilates with Props 15 Group Cycle – 16 Intro to Yoga – 17 5-7 pm appointment Sky Studio Signature Studio Meet at the Pool Sky Studio Signature Studio Sky Studio today to get a 11:35am 12:15pm 6:30pm 5:30pm 5:30pm 12:15-1:15pm Facial! 2 for 1 Tuesday’s Fundamentals Kickboxing 18 Core Control 19 New Class!! 20 21 Group Cycle – 22 Pilates Mat 1& 2 –23 24 Buy any well drink, draft Pilates Mat 1 & 2 of Pilates Sky Studio Signature Studio Signature Studio Polynesian Dance Signature Studio Sky Studio Sky Studio 12:15-1:45pm. beer or house wine and 9:15am 12:15pm Sky Studio 5:30pm 8:00am 10:45am 5:30pm Sign up in Pro Shop. get the next one free.

Bodyworx/Core 25 New Class!! 26 Step Aerobics – 27 Children’s Center 28 Gentle Stretch – 29 Call the Spa 30 Go Scare 31 ½ price Appetizers Signature Studio Medicine Ball Workout Signature Studio Halloween Party! Sky Studio Shoppe today someone! 10:30am Signature Studio 9:00am 3:30-5:00pm in the 12:05pm for a Mani/Pedi It’s Halloween! 5-7 pm 6:30pm Clubhouse appointment! Ladies Night Every Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Wednesday New Class!! $6 Appletini’s, Bodyworx/Core – 1 Power Tone – 3 Hi/Low Aerobics – 4 New Class!! 5 Hi/Low Aerobics 6 Intro to Step – 7 Medicine Ball Workout Signature Studio Signature Studio Signature Studio Adult Fitness Swim Signature Studio Signature Studio Signature Studio Lemondrop’s & Cosmo’s 10:30am 12:15pm 6:30pm Meet at Pool 9:15am 12:00-1:00pm 6:30pm 7:15pm ½ price Appetizers Kickboxing 8 Group Cycle – 9 Fitness Walkers 10 Group Cycle 11 Pilates w/Props12 Aqua Aerobics 13 Intro to Cycling14 5-7 pm Signature Studio Signature Studio Meet outside Signature Studio Sky Studio Meet at the Pool 12:00-1:00pm. Bring 9:15am 10:30am Clubhouse 5:45am 5:30pm 10:30am water bottle and towel 8:30am Family Night Every

Your skin will 15 Sunrise Yoga – 16 New Class!! 17 Dance Boogie – 18 Group Cycle 19 Adv. Pilates Mat 20 Intro to Yoga 21 Thursday thank you for calling Sky Studio Polynesian Dance Signature Studio Signature Studio Sky Studio Sky Studio 15% off all kid’s meals the Spa Shoppe to 6:00am Sky Studio 9:15am 8:00am 12:00pm 12:15-1:15pm book a Facial! 5:30pm $3 Draft Beers 5-8 pm Bodyworx/Core – 22 Don’t forget 23 Fitness Walkers 24 Hi/Low Aerobics 25 Thanksgiving 26 Day after 27 Fundamentals of 28 Signature Studio to book your Meet outside Signature Studio Club Hours: Thanksgiving Pilates – Sky Studio 10:30am appointment for a Clubhouse 6:30pm 7am – 3pm Club Hours: 12:15-1:45pm. massage! 8:30am 7am – 8pm Sign up in Pro Shop.

Sign up for the Kickboxing – 29 30 The featured classes are just a small sample of what Harbor Bay Club has to offer. EVENTS Signature Studio Children’s Center November 9:15am Holiday Party! To view the full schedule of club member activities, visit www.harborbayclub.com. ext. 115 for details 2009 Happy Hour BBQ Friday, October 30th, Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5-8 pm Friday, November 20th, New Class!! 1 Call the Spa 2 Aqua Aerobics – 3 Group Cycle – 4 Intro to Step – 5 Polynesian Dance Shoppe today Meet at the Pool Signature Studio Signature Studio 5-8 pm December 2009 Sky Studio for a Mani/Pedi 10:30am 5:45am 12:00-1:00pm Food and drink specials 5:30pm appointment!

Bodyworx/Core – 6 Pilates Mat 1 – 7 HBC Member Holiday 8 Children’s Center 9 Fitness Walkers – 10 Pilates Mat 1& 2 – 11 First Day of 12 Annual Spook-tacular Signature Studio Sky Studio Party! Holiday Party! Meet outside Sky Studio Hanukkah! 10:30am 6:30pm 6:30 - 11pm in the 3:30-5:00pm in the Clubhouse 10:45am Halloween Party Clubhouse Clubhouse 8:30am Friday, October 30th

Count on the Spa13 New Class!! 14 Power Tone – 15 Dance Boogie –16 Pilates with Props 17 Group Cycle – 18 Intro to Yoga – 19 8-11 pm at Harbor Bay for all Medicine Ball Workout Signature Studio Signature Studio Sky Studio Signature Studio Sky Studio of your holiday gift- Signature Studio 12:15pm 9:15am 5:30pm 5:30pm 12:15-1:15pm giving needs! 6:30pm Karaoke with Frank & Gloria Fundamentals Kickboxing – 20 Tai Chi Chih – 21 Group Cycle – 22 Pilates Mat 1 & 2 23 Christmas Eve 24 Merry Christmas! 25 26 th of Pilates – Sky Studio Friday, November 20 , Signature Studio Sky Studio Signature Studio Sky Studio Club Hours: Club Closed Today 12:15-1:45pm. 9:15am 11:35am 10:30am 5:30pm 5am – 3pm 5-8 pm Sign up in Pro Shop.

Bodyworx/Core – 27 New Class!! 28 Step Aerobics – 29 Dance Boogie –30 New Year’s Eve 31 Signature Studio Medicine Ball Workout Signature Studio Signature Studio Club Hours: 10:30am Signature Studio 9:00am 9:15am 5am – 3pm 6:30pm

www.HarborBayClub.com (510) 521-5414 Fall/Winter 2009 17 Alameda Food Bank in partnership with Boy Scouts of America present… Scouting for Food Drive November 7th – Door Hanger Distribution Why We Need Your Help! November 14th – Food Pick-up The increase in joblessness and homelessness has resulted in a 16% increase in AFB’s demand in the past year The number of Alamedans annually served by AFB is nearing 5,000 30% of the Food Bank’s annual supply of non-perishable goods is dependent on the Scouting for Food event!

We are accepting donations of non-perishable items, especially... canned corn, canned fruit, chili w/beef, canned tun, The Boy Scouts will be distributing door hangers to homes beef stew and rice on November 8th, please fill a bag and leave for pick-up on November 15th. Alameda Food Bank Donation Bins can also be found in: P.O.Box 2167 Alameda, CA Alameda Marketplace, Alameda Power, and Color Me Mine or directly to Alameda Food Bank: (510) 523-5850 1900 Thau Way, Alameda, CA 94501 www.alamedafoodbank.org

register at http://montecarlo2009.eventbrite.com

18 Fall/Winter 2009 www.HarborBayClub.com (510) 521-5414 COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR Upcoming Community Service Volunteer Opportunities & Fundraising Events

Oct. 17, “2nd Annual Family Harvest Festival & BBQ” – Growing Youth Project (AYP) Farm – 2600 Barbers Point Road C 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This is a FREE event hosted by Alameda Point Collaborative (APC). Come help celebrate the abundant harvest from AYP’s farm and APC’s 10th year as a vibrant, resourceful, and supportive housing community. Enjoy farm-fresh food and BBQ, music and dancing, raffle prizes, pumpkins and activities for the kids. Donations welcome. RSVP by Oct. 5th. For more info call Aimee at (510) 898-7845 or email: [email protected].

C Oct. 23, 24 & 25 “Haunted House” – Alameda Teen Program / ARPD – Veteran’s Building – 2203 Central Avenue F 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Come have a spooky good time at this popular event! Proceeds raised will benefit the ARPD’s Alameda Teen Program. Tickets: $7 18 years or older, $4 under 18. Call (510) 747-7529 or visit www.ci.alameda.ca.us/arpd.

C Oct 24, “Wesla Whitfield & Mike Greensill” – Alameda Free Library 2009 Concert Series – Alameda Free Library F 8:00 p.m. Come hear your favorite American Standards in this second of three “Live @ the Library” concerts benefiting the Alameda Free Library. Doors open at 7:00. Tickets are $25. Light refreshments available. For more information call Luzanne Engh at 521-2094 or visit www.alamedalibraryfoundation.org.

C Oct. 30 Halloween Party – Alameda Point Collaborative – APC Service Center – 667 W. Ranger Ave. V 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Come help us celebrate Halloween with the children of Alameda Point Collaborative. Volunteer tasks include set up, food preparation, facilitating children’s games & clean up. For more info contact Alyssa Pluss at (510) 898-7835 or email at [email protected].

Nov. 6, 7, 13 & 14 “The Music Man” – Alameda Children Musical Theatre – Altarena Playhouse, 1409 High Street C 7:30 p.m. ACMT presents Meredith Willson’s classic musical “The Music Man”. Tickets: $13 for adults, $7 for children under 17, seniors and military. Nov. 8 & 15 Group discounts are available. For more information call (510) 521-6955, email [email protected] or visit us at www.acmtkids.org. 2:00 pm

Nov. 7 “Broadway’s Greatest Moments” – Alameda Civic Light Opera – Kofman Theater C 8:00 p.m. ACLO’s fall fundraiser featuring dozens of wonderful Broadway song and dance numbers with your favorite ACLO star performers! Nov. 8, Have a ball and support Broadway in the East Bay. For more information please call 2:00 p.m. (510) 864-2256 or visit www.aclo.com.

C Nov. 14 “Dance for a Cure” – Breast Cancer Research – Eagles Hall – 2305 Alameda Avenue F See ad on Page 7 of this issue of The Buzz for more information on this event

C Nov 21 “ Jazzschool Advanced High School Jazz Workshop” – Alameda Free Library 2009 Concert Series F 8:00 p.m. Come enjoy this last performance of the “Live @ the Library” concerts benefiting the Alameda Free Library. Doors open at 7:00. Tickets are $25. Light refreshments available. For more information call Luzanne Engh at 521-2094 or visit www.alamedalibraryfoundation.org.

C Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Dinner - Alameda Point Collaborative – APC Service Center – 667 W. Ranger Ave. V 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Come feel the blessings of serving! We need your help with our annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Volunteer tasks include set up, food preparation, serving & clean up. For shift information and sign-up please contact Alyssa Pluss at (510) 898-7835 or email at [email protected]. C F Dec. 3 Annual Holiday Sale — Girl’s Inc. of the Island City – Girls Inc. Girls & Teen Center, 1724 Santa Clara Avenue V Time TBD This event is open to children enrolled in our Girls and Teens Program and our Alameda Island Kids child care service. The sale is a chance for the children to purchase and wrap gifts at a cost of less than $1 for their families and friends. To donate gifts, gift bags, or other supplies, or to help volunteer, please call (510)521-1743.

V Dec. 3 “Craft Night – Alameda Point Collaborative – 677 West Ranger Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501 Time TBD Volunteers and supply donations are needed to help APC families make holiday crafts and gifts. Crafts include holiday decorations, cookies, soap, cards, gift bags, lip balm, picture frames & fleece scarves. For more info on shifts and donation needs please contact Alyssa Pluss at (510) 898-7835 or email at [email protected]. C F Dec. 5 Midway Shelter Run/Walk – Alameda Midway Shelter – Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal Bay Farm Island See ad on Page 7 of this issue of The Buzz for more information on this event

F Dec. 6 thru Dec. 20 Angel Tree Christmas — Bay Farm Community Church – 3189 Mecartney Road V You can make a child’s wish come true this Christmas! 1.5 million children have a mom or dad in prison. Angel Tree is a program that reaches out to the children of inmates and their families. There are children right in our own community who are among the most at-risk children in the nation. Angel Tree connects parents in prison with their children through the delivery of Christmas gifts to those children by community volunteers. For more info on how you can donate gifts, delivery, or other help, please call Kimberly Squire at (510) 769-2002 Ext. 10.

C Dec. 10 “High Winter Concert” – Alameda High School Music Program – Kofman Theater F 7:30 p.m. Come spend an amazing evening with talented local students! Mr. Jesse Randell presents student performances from the five music courses he teaches at AHS: Concert Band, Concert Choir, Musical Theater, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Band. A suggested donation of $10 will be collected at the door. Visit www.mpahs.org for more info.

C th F Dec. 12 39 Annual Home for the Holidays Holiday Home Tour – Alameda Family Services League V See ad on Page 2 of this issue of The Buzz for more information on this event

C Dec. 12 8:00 p.m. “Sounds of the Season” – Alameda Civic Light Opera – Kofman Theater Dec. 13 2:00 p.m. Nothing evokes the magic of the holidays like the music that accompanies this special time of year. Join us for a special holiday performance featuring some of the most memorable holiday music, performed by your favorite ACLO stars. For more information please call (510) 864-2256 or visit www.aclo.com.

C F Dec. 19 “The Nutcracker” — Alameda Civic Ballet – Kofman Theater 2200 Central Avenue See ad on Page 18 of this issue of The Buzz for more information on this event

Event Code Key: V = Volunteer Opportunity, F = Fundraising Event, C = Community Event To have your nonprofit event considered for inclusion in The Buzz Community Events Calendar, please send your information or a press release to: [email protected]

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