VOLUME L, NUMBER 13 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING DUBLIN • LIVERMORE • PLEASANTON • SUNOL THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 2013 Haven Slated to Take Over Thrift Store The board of Buenas Vi- Vidas board member Bill for dissolution of the non- clothes for her and her kids founders. The Haven added das Youth Ranch has deter- Sutcliffe. Buenas Vidas will profit. Haven board and staff the next day. " said King. a shelter for women and mined that Tri-Valley Haven continue to operate it. After members were present, and The Haven also operates children, legal services, and will take over operation of the non-profit legally goes offered information about Sojourner House, where the Valley's only rape crisis the Buenas Vidas Thrift out of business, the Haven what they can do to ensure men are allowed with their center. Store. will take it over, and con- a smooth transition for the children, and boys over Also added were addic- After serving youths tinue the operation. store. the age of 10. "One dad tion recovery, a community since the 1970s, Buenas The thrift store is not in Ann King, executive di- scheduled a job interview. services building (in 1996), Find Out What's Vidas is ending its service, any financial trouble. It has rector of the Haven, said that We got a voucher for him to support groups for teens, and disposing of its assets. been operating in black ink, the staff and board have been go to the store, so he could a sexual assault response Happening Changes in state rules con- thanks to volunteers and talking about the change in dress for an interview," said team, a food pantry, and a cerning placement of boys generous donors. However, management for awhile. King. homeless shelter. The state's Check Out Section A economic woes brought lay- Section A is filled with at the youth ranch made the number of customers and "We've been partners King said that the transi- funding that mission impos- donors has declined since re- with Buenas Vidas for a offs, which reduced the staff information about arts, tion is "bittersweet for us. to 35 employees. people, entertainment and sible. A plan to house girls cent press reports about the long time. We sent all of our Although we are privileged An anonymous donor special events. There are there instead also fell short Buenas Vidas entity going donated items to the store. In to be taking the thrift store, has offered The Haven education stories, a variety economically, so the ranch out of business. Some people return, they have served our Buenas Vidas is closing. $125,000, if other donors of features, and the arts and itself in rural Livermore will incorrectly assumed that clients, said King. That's a heart-breaker." match it by June. King said entertainment and bulletin be sold. the store had closed, said a "If someone comes to Tri-Valley Haven began the drive is getting close board. The Buenas Vidas store volunteer at the store. Shiloh (the women's shelter) with community volunteers to its goal. She is hopeful is open, though, and will The Buenas Vidas board in the middle of the night in in 1977 with a crisis line that the match will be com- remain that way, said Buenas met last week, and voted a night gown, we can get in the home of one of the pleted. Panel in Pleasanton Zone 7 Recycled Will Speak on Water Membership Affordable Care Act Focuses on Water Safety California Senate Major- By Ron McNicoll would not go toward any Zone 7 Water Agency is lobbying efforts for grants ity Leader Ellen Corbett has renewing its membership in for recycled water projects. invited a panel of experts to a recycled water association, Some members pay as much Pleasanton on March 27 to a move that brought ques- as $24,000 at that level of answer the public's questions tions from two former Zone membership. about provisions of the Af- 7 officials. Further, belonging to the fordable Care Act (ACA). The board voted unani- association would keep Zone The panel discussion is mously March 20 to con- 7 current on developments in scheduled to run from 7 p.m. tinue its associate member- the recycled water field, said to 9 p.m. at the Pleasanton ship in the newly expanded board members. Wholesaler Library, 400 Old Bernal Western Recycled Water Zone 7 is the guardian of the Ave. Coalition. underground water basin, as The session is intended to Former Zone 7 director designated by the Valley's cover the insurance market- Margaret Tracy of Liver- four water retailers. place that the state will set up more and Pleasanton resi- Purnell passed out cop- as allowed by the ACA. The dent Peggy Purnell, who was ies of an abstract of a paper act also mandates that every- a member of a groundwater written in 2000 by Herman one have insurance, and that advisory committee before Bouwer about consider- low-cost policies be offered it was terminated a decade ations concerning irrigation by private insurers through ago, objected to the mem- of treated sewer water being health benefit exchanges. Photo - Doug Jorgensen bership. sprayed over underground Both women said that water basins. Although some provi- Oakland A's mascot Stomper was on hand last Friday to encourage students at Vintage Hills Elementary School in Pleasanton to take part in Fun Fit Friday at the rejoining would encourage Bouwer's abstract says sions of the ACA won't come water recycling's expan- that usually studies on long- into effect until Jan. 1, 2014, school. For more on the event, see page 10. sion in the Valley, which term effects on recycled the public can sign up on or in the long run they said water in basins focus on after Oct. 1 this year. Dublin Starts Study for a 12-acre Parkland Acquisition could pose problems for the effects of nitrates and Speaking at the event will the Valley's underground nitrites, which are salts. be Bonnie Preston, an out- By Ron McNicoll absent. He was visiting Dub- build-out. The city's goal is water storage basin. They However, other chemicals, reach and policy specialist Dublin launched an ef- lin's sister city in Ireland. set at one acre of parkland called for a publicly noticed such as endocrine disrupters for the U.S. Department of fort to pick up 12 acres of If the park deal goes for every 1000 residents. hearing on the matter. The (with a source from birth Health & Human Services; parkland, and a separate 2 through, the city would save The city's population grew item was on the consent control pills in effluent) and Elizabeth Echols, regional acres near the East Dublin millions of dollars. Accord- larger than was projected calendar. other pharmaceuticals must administrator of the U.S. BART station for $4.6 mil- ing to staff, a fair market when the goal was estab- General manager Jill Du- be considered. Small Business Adminis- lion in exchange for the purchase of the 14 acres lished. erig and board members Zone 7 does test its drink- tration, and Diane Stanton, successful conclusion of a would cost the city $15 If the general plan amend- pointed out that Zone 7, ing water. It meets federal a special consultant with general plan amendment for million. ment were successfully which has no recycled wa- and state requirements. Du- Covered California. a developer. Adding a 12-acre park completed for developer ter project itself, would be erig said that every five Covered California is an The city council voted would also correct a current UP Amador, LLC, the city only an associate member. years, Zone 7 submits a independent public entity 4-0, with Mayor Tim Sbranti projected 12-acre deficit at (See PARK, page 5) The agency's $2300 in dues (See WATER, page 5) within state government. It is run by a five-member board appointed by the Governor and the Legislature. Parents Upset with Two of its members are appointed by the gover- Change in Children's nor, two by the Legislature, and the fifth is either the Theater Management Secretary of the California Parents with children each, checked references, Health and Human Services involved in theater through and negotiated the terms of Agency, or another designee, the City of Pleasanton were the contract. The recommen- serving as an ex-officio vot- not happy with the selec- dation was to hire BACT. ing member of the board. tion of Bay Area Children's Andrade-Wax stated that Appointed members serve Theatre (BACT) to run the the breadth of programs four year terms. program. available through BACT Although redistricting BACT replaces San Fran- would enable the city to pro- moved the 10th Senate Dis- cisco Shakespeare Festival, vide improved programming trict boundary out of Pleas- which had contracted with in the future. anton, that won't take effect the city to provide children's The $109,000 contract until 2014, so Corbett is still theatrical productions and calls for three mainstage representing the district. training since 2008. Shake- productions, one at the Ama- New boundaries for odd- speare Festival will continue dor Theater and two at the numbered Senate districts to perform Shakespeare in Firehouse Arts Center. This took effect this year, so Sen. the Park in Pleasanton. year's shows will be School Mark DeSaulnier in the 7th The city council approved House Rock Live, Willie District picked up Pleasan- the new management by a 3 Wonka, and The Secret Gar- ton, in an overlap with the to 0 vote.