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VOL 38   •   NO. 11   •   ISSUE  NO. 392   •   DECEMBER 4, 2021              CIRCULATION: 5,800 Residences; 200 Businesses

Sponsored by the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC)  •  4900 Shattuck Ave., PO Box 22504, Oakland  94609

RCPC WELCOMES THREE New Board Members
In November, the Rockridge Community Planning Council’s board of directors made appointments to fill
two vacant elected seats on the board (until 2023) and the one non-elected seat (until 2022).

My wife Margie
Gelb and I
have lived on
Chabot Road in
Rockridge for 45
years. Our two
daughters, Josie
and Molly, were
born here and
now live with their respective families
in nearby Oakland neighborhoods.
I am a Professor of Law Emeritus
at UC Hastings College of the Law,
where I was the school’s founding
director of its in-house clinical educa-
tion program.
Prior to my tenure at Hastings, I
was the Executive Director of the
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
in San Francisco for 13 years. At the
Lawyers’ Committee, I represented cli-
ents on civil rights, public assistance,
and community economic develop-
ment policy matters.
I first came to the SF Bay Area in
1962 to attend UC Berkeley, from
which I eventually earned AB, MA,
and PhD degrees in political science.
My law degree is from the University
of Chicago.
In my view, a major challenge for
RCPC is to figure out how to best
support the development of affordable
housing throughout Oakland, includ-
ing here in Rockridge. n
A fifth-
generation San
Diegan, I have
enjoyed living in
the Rockridge
neighborhood on
Lawton Avenue
since 2008, from
which I have a
convenient commute to the UC
Berkeley campus where I teach and do
research in the Physics Department.
In addition, during the summer
months, I have been running an inter-
national, residential STEM summer
school program for high school stu-
dents at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. I also study some of the
mathematics underlying legislative
apportionment, redistricting, and ger-
rymandering. In my spare time, I enjoy
walking, reading, cooking, traveling
(before Covid), and, less frequently as
my knees keep getting older, ballroom
dancing.
During my previous terms on the
RCPC board, I focused on issues of
transportation, and hope to return
to working on these concerns to help
Rockridge remain safe, convenient,
efficient, and pleasant for pedestrians,
cyclists, drivers, passengers, and bus
and BART riders.  Please contact me if
you are interested in joining the RCPC
Transportation Committee. n
Hi, my name
is Zac Unger
and I live on
Oak Grove, in
a house three
doors away
from where I
grew up. My
kids tell me
that this means my life has gone
exactly nowhere.
I’ve been an Oakland firefighter
for 24 years, and am the president of
our union. As president, I am heavily
involved in local and state politics
and I hope to contribute my under-
standing of how to turn ideas into
progress in this unwieldy bureaucratic
environment. Both academically and
professionally, I’ve focused on miti-
gating fire risk in the urban wildland
interface.
RCPC can be instrumental in
preparing for the inevitable but pre-
venting the catastrophic. I also look
forward to working on pedestrian and
bicyclist safety.
In my free time, I balance fire
with water; I’m a whitewater river
guide and a passionate open-water
swimmer. I’m terrible at sitting still,
so you’ll definitely see me wandering
past your house sometime on a walk
to nowhere. Please stop me and say
hello. n
Mark Aaronson
Andrew Charman
Zac Unger
RCPC SURVEY

The Rockridge Community Planning Council Wants to Hear from YOU!

ave you filled out the RCPC survey? If not, there is still time to let the RCPC know what
you believe should be developed on the large vacant parcel at the Ridge Shopping Plaza
at 51st and Broadway. If you have already replied, please do not do so again so that everyone
has a voice. Find the survey online at https://bit.ly/3biMFOo; copy it into your browser; or
use your phone camera app and scan the QR code on the right. n
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Make Rockridge Your
Holiday Shopping
Destination
by Jody Colley, Marketing Director,
Rockridge District Association
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
leading up to Christmas. Rockridge
merchants will be extending hours,
offering sales, hosting pop-ups, and
throwing parties. If you are still
looking for gift ideas, prefer pur-
chasing online, or want a genuinely
unique shopping experience, the
Rockridge District Association’s
website (www.RockridgeDistrict.com)
is the place to go. The online guide
features a wide variety of carefully
curated gifts for kids, adults, pets,
home and garden. The website also
has a calendar full of merchant-hosted
events, holiday block parties, seasonal
dinners, trivia, karaoke, drag shows,
and other fun activities. n
The Rockridge News was founded March 1986 by
Don Kinkead, and is published monthly (except
August).  It is sponsored by the Rockridge
Community Planning Council (RCPC), a nonprofit
public benefit organization founded to: preserve
and enhance the unique character of the Rockridge
neighborhood; promote the health, safety and
quality of life of its residents; furnish a forum for
community involvement; and provide leadership
and representation of neighborhood interests.
This holiday season, make the
Rockridge district your destina-
tion for shopping and dining. Join
in the festive spirit that is invoked
when visiting College Avenue —
illuminated in lights and adorned
with decorations.
Enjoy live music at the Rockridge
BART Plaza every afternoon on
Rockridge News Production
Anna L. Marks ........................ Editor & Layout Artist
Jo Ellis........................Assistant Editor & Ad Manager
Susan Montauk................................Business Manager
Judith Doner Berne................................... Staff Writer
RCPC Board of Directors, 2021-22
Leonora Sea..........................................................Chair
Robin McDonnell..................................... Vice-Chair
Casey Farmer................................................ Secretary
Ashley Pandya.............................. Assistant Secretary
Ken Rich........................................................Treasurer

j  Enjoy Live Music at the Rockridge BART Plaza This Holiday Season  j

Bring a lawn chair, grab food to go from your favorite neighborhood
restaurant, and enjoy the live music. The schedule is as follows:
Friday, Dec 3 – John Vicino (1-4pm)
Saturday, Dec 4 – Kevin Patrick Radley (11am-1pm); John Rybak Friends
(1:30pm-3:30pm)
Sunday, Dec 5 – Catia Machado & the Brazil East/Bay Ensemble (1pm-4pm)
Friday, Dec 10 – Clifton Street Regulars (1pm-4pm)
Saturday, Dec 11 – Aidan Moore (11am-1pm); 300 Club (1pm-4pm)
Sunday, Dec 12 – Bob and Lenny Show (1pm-4pm)
Friday, Dec 17 – Frances Ancheta (11am-1pm), Jason Movrich (1pm-3pm)
Saturday, Dec 18 – Drumming Magic (1pm-4pm)
Sunday, Dec 19 – The Marchmen (1-4pm)

Mark Aaronson, Andrew Charman, Stuart
Flashman, Annette Floystrup, David Garcia, Kirk
Peterson, Ronnie Spitzer, Zac Unger
Contact the board: chair@rockridge.org
For information: info@rockridge.org
Contacting The Rockridge News
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about newsletter distribution? Want to volunteer to
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Redistricting Process Moves Forward in
Oakland and Alameda County
by Stuart Flashman, RCPC Board Member
A

adding back map A, plus four more
maps: E through H. Most of the new
maps now leave Rockridge mostly
as-is. All the maps are available on
the Commission’s website, along with
public comments. The Commission
also added more meetings, but the
deadline remains December 31st.
s reported in last month’s article,
“Redistricting — What’s At
Stake?,” Oakland is planning to
revise City Council and School Board
districts for the next decade, starting
with the 2022 elections. Alameda
County, and California, are redistrict-
ing, based on 2020 census results.
Oakland’s Redistricting Commis-
sion came up with four maps, labeled
A through D, and then narrowed
those to just B and D. The latter split
Rockridge between two council dis-
tricts, roughly along College Ave. Irate
Rockridge residents were among the
first to object (along with residents of
West Oakland, which was also split).
The Commission responded by
You can view maps, comments,
and remaining meeting dates on the
Commission’s website at: https://www.
oaklandca.gov/boards-commissions/
redistricting-commission. Alameda
County’s website has the new County
maps. n
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Land Use Committee Meeting
The next meeting of the
RCPC Land Use Committee
will be held on
Wednesday, December 29,
at 7:30pm, via Zoom.
Email landuse@rockridge.org,
or call (510) 652-5373 to attend.
The meeting is open to the public.
Check www.Rockridge.org for details.
Greater NCPC Meeting
The next meeting of the
Greater Rockridge Neighborhood
Crime Prevention Council is
Thursday, December 9, at 7pm.
The Zoom link will be published shortly
before the meeting. Please email subject
suggestions to: chair@rockridgencpc.com


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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Latest NIMBY
Code Term
annexing portions of Oakland to meet
Piedmont’s affordable housing obli-
gations rather than risk any impact to
their “neighborhood character.” Like
Piedmont, these authors suggest the
character of our neighborhood (single
family, “expensive”) means we should
simply relegate affordable housing
obligations elsewhere.
Not everyone takes this narrow and
self-serving view. Many people now
recognize that restrictive zoning was
deeply racist in its origins, intended
to keep people of color out of neigh-
borhoods like Rockridge by making
them unaffordable. To now assert
that affordable housing simply isn’t
financially feasible pays ironic tribute
to the sad yet massive success of such
racist and classist policies.
Things change. Change that creates
more equity, even in Rockridge, should
be welcomed. Remember that the
“horrific” event cited by one September
letter writer, the construction of Hwy
24, turned out to be quite positive: the
proximity of Rockridge to the freeway
and BART has helped cement its place
as one of the most coveted neighbor-
hoods in the East Bay.
I am not arguing against any market
rate housing. But suggesting we
should just rule out affordable housing
because racist policies have made it
expensive would reward a perverse
system. More affordable housing
would make Rockridge look more
like Oakland, which in my mind is
a good thing. I hope others join me
in supporting affordable housing in
Rockridge and speaking out against
this new NIMBY strategy, calling it
out for what it is, racist.
Tree Planting in
Oakland, Continued
Editor: For years we’ve heard
NIMBYs attacking the prospect of
affordable housing in Rockridge as
“changing the character of our neigh-
borhood” as though higher buildings
in transit corridors or rezoning to
allow more units per parcel would
somehow result in the immediate and
wholesale destruction of single family
homes in our neighborhood.
Now the NIMBYs have come up
with a new approach, reflected in not
one but two letters to the editor in the
September 2021 issue. Like Fox News
talking points, both letters assert that
“affordable housing in Rockridge” is
“not financially feasible” and/or “a
contradiction in terms.”
My question: to whom are these
missives directed? It’s not like the
authors of those letters are being
asked to foot the bill. Why do they
care if some developer decides to
build affordable housing in Rock-
ridge? Because the real issue, as one
author admits, is they are worried
that “apartment buildings will quickly
obliterate single family dwellings if R1
zoning is banished.”
Never mind the obvious specious-
ness of that assertion, and never
mind that Rockridge residents are
more privileged than almost any in
Oakland. Rather than share the good
fortune of this neighborhood with
anyone who isn’t extremely wealthy,
these authors would prefer to be like
Piedmont, which recently proposed
Editor: Cassidy Lundin’s article
“Why Plant Trees?” (October 2021)
refers at the end to Urban Releaf as
“dedicated to improving the tree
canopy in Oakland.” Unfortunately,
Urban Releaf suspended operations
in November 2019, and removed their
name from their space on 59th Street
— and is no more to be seen.
I also regret the author forgot to
mention Tree Team for Oakland
(TTfO) which has followed the
Sierra Club Tree Team (SCTT) that
attempted to replace City efforts
which had been suspended in August
2008. SCTT had planted more than
2,400 trees before it fell under the
Sierra Club’s blanket cessation of all
activities when the pandemic hit in
March 2020.
Local Club leaders then withdrew
their support for SCTT, and TTfO
is now in formation to resume those
services. TTfO sponsors weekly
pruning sessions (Sundays at 1pm,
variable locations around Oakland)
and will restart the planting program
in December.
TTfO has also assisted the City
with its first in 12 years planting
program which has put 300 trees in
parks and public spaces with TTfO
staff assistance and salvaged wooden
units to save money for the City oth-
erwise needful of new wooden stakes
from nurseries. Regrettably, some in
Oakland see more trees as a sign of
gentrification and destroy young trees
wherever they may be.
Tree Team for Oakland will accept
planting applications and provide tech-
nical assistance before forwarding tree
permit requests to the City; recently
only two of the 95 applications that the
team made were rejected.
Star Lightner
62st St.
40+ year Rockridge resident who was
born and raised in the community. n
The opinions represented in the Letters
to the Editor do not necessarily reflect
the views of  The Rockridge News, the
Rockridge Community Planning Council,
or the RCPC Board of Directors.
Arthur R. Boone
Kales Avenue
Rockridge resident off-and-on since 1976
and founder of SCTT in 2009. n


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The Impact of Racial Exclusionary
Policies on Rockridge
by Annette Floystrup
Elmwood as a single-family zone, was
to fill the gap left by expiring or absent
covenants in the affected area.
The U.S. Supreme Court finally out-
lawed race-based zoning in 1917 only
to have it replaced by racial covenants
on individual deeds. Although many
racial covenants had sunset clauses,
some lasted only five years, enforce-
ment was not outlawed until 1948.
Nevertheless, minority ownership of
single-family homes in the Vernon
Tract of the Rockridge flatlands can
be documented already in the 1920s.
Examples of non-white ownership
include Chinese, African-American,
and Sikh families.
Over time, zoning has evolved to
separate uses, with special zones
for multi-family and single-family
housing; high-density multi-family
housing; commercial, light, and heavy
industrial zones; and farmland. This
type of zone separation is common to
developed nations.
Federal policies have had the larg-
est impact on the inability of Black
Americans to gain homeownership,
and with it, the ability to build equity
in an appreciating asset thus creating
generational wealth. In the 20th
century, the single most toxic Federal
policy was created by the Federal
Housing Administration, established
in 1934, which furthered segregation
This is part one of a two-part series
on this topic.
My article in the June 2021 issue of
The Rockridge News, titled
“RCPC’s Place in Rockridge History,”
brought a very thoughtful reader’s
letter in response. The writer noted
that the Rock Ridge Park develop-
ment, which eventually gave the hills
neighborhood its name, was sold with
racial exclusionary covenants in its
deeds, and in 1909 advertised in the
San Francisco Call, “No negroes, no
Chinese, no Japanese can build or
lease in Rock Ridge Park” (see adver-
tisement circa 1910 on right).
Racial exclusion in Oakland was
created through deed restrictions,
zoning, societal conventions, and
federal and local lending policies. In
fact, a good argument can be made
that almost all existing housing in
the United States, whether privately
funded, government-subsidized, or
built using Federal mortgage-guarantee
funds, is racially biased in fact or
practical effect, and most certainly in
historic context.
The question is: Does that history
mean neighborhoods like Rockridge
are essentially and functionally racist
today?
Unfortunately, racism is in the
DNA of the founding of our country.
The Constitution of the United States
was written for the benefit of white,
land-owning men, and the ideals of
equality expressed therein excluded
most U.S. residents as they did not
apply to women or non-white people.
Countless laws dating from the
Spanish, French and English colonial
governments were passed to make the
status of indigenous and African-
origin peoples inferior under the law,
restricting their rights and treating
them as second-class citizens or prop-
erty. The status of women was defined
and controlled by men, and they
were considered the property of their
husbands or fathers. Indeed, to this
day, the United States has yet to pass
the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
to give women full equality with men
under the Constitution.
San Francisco began passing ordi-
nances in the 1870s that were designed
and intended to discriminate against
the Chinese, and when California cities
began to adopt zoning ordinances in
the early 20th century, a similar pattern
unfolded in many places. 
Berkeley’s first zoning ordinance,
adopted in 1916, may have been simi-
larly tainted. The planning criteria in
the ordinance were race-neutral, but
zoning decisions were largely guided
by petitions from landowners and the
advice of the planning commission (the
then-Civic Art Commission), whose
president, Duncan McDuffie, was an
active supporter of restrictive (includ-
ing racial) covenants. Much of the
impetus for the first zoning decision,
designating a portion of Claremont-
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Oakland’s $14.5M Fund
Award Is “Reconnecting
the Town”
properties, but as the ability to build
and retain wealth was denied them,
more housing became financially out
of reach. Now, as one of Oakland’s
priciest neighborhoods, Rockridge is
also among its whitest.
Despite this, some neighborhoods
remained integrated. Those of us who
grew up in the Rockridge flatlands in
the 1950s and ’60s lived with a diver-
sity that has been slowly disappearing.
I grew up here, and my classmates at
Peralta Elementary school included
kids from Japanese, Chinese, and
Filipino heritage, as well as Black
children whose families came here as
a result of the great WWII migration
from the South for jobs related to the
war effort. There were also immi-
grants from a number of countries
including The Netherlands, Cuba,
and me, from Denmark. The flatlands
were also largely working class. These
were my neighbors.
For in-depth information on the effects
of systemic racism on housing in the Bay
Area, see the Haas Institute for a Fair
and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley
publication, Roots, Race and Place:
A History of Racially Exclusionary
Housing in the San Francisco Bay
Area, and the excellent book by Richard
Rothstein, The Color of Law, which
examines local, state and federal policies
that mandated segregation.
Racial Policies, from previous page
efforts by refusing to insure mort-
gages in and near African-American
neighborhoods — a policy known as
“redlining.” The Fair Housing Act of
1968 was passed to fight the practice.
Even the GI Bill, a piece of sweeping
legislation aimed at helping World
War II veterans with benefits including
college tuition, low-cost home loans,
and unemployment insurance, func-
tionally excluded Black veterans from
gaining those benefits.
The wide disparity in the bill’s
implementation ended up helping
drive wider gaps in wealth, education,
and civil rights between White and
Black Americans. Much housing in
America was not only specifically
denied to Black Americans through
racist laws and policies involving
both the purchase of, and lending for,
On November 19, 2021, the City
of Oakland celebrated the
awarding of $14.5 million in federal
Rebuilding American Infrastruc-
ture with Sustainability and Equity
(RAISE) grants to fund transforma-
tive projects on Broadway and Martin
Luther King Jr. Way, restoring access
for historically redlined communities
to the waterfront with projects that
support reliable public transit and safe
walking and biking.
The Reconnecting the Town project
puts into action Oakland’s planned
and funded commitments to improve
physical mobility and digital infra-
structure across barriers as part of
the City’s broader efforts to undo the
harm from decades of injustices, in
parts of town historically impacted by
redlining. New fiber cable will extend
access to wireless internet for parts
of West Oakland that currently lack
access to OakWIFI (free public WiFi
service), a neighborhood that has his-
torically lacked access to public goods
and services.
Additionally, the cumulative
projects will result in long-term job
creation at the prevailing wage, and
will benefit Oakland businesses and
workers who suffered economic
hardship from a decline in economic
activity during the pandemic. n
To learn more about the current
local impact of these policies, see:
https://placesjournal.org/article/black-
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Violence Prevention and Intervention
— by Dan Kalb, Councilmember, District 1
and working on the street.
My staff and I meet regularly with
the OPD Area Captain for North
Oakland as well as DVP senior staff to
discuss recent crime trends in North
Oakland, OPD response and investi-
gation, and implementation of DVP
short and long-term strategies.
I am continuing to advocate for
robust staffing for OPD’s Criminal
Investigations Division and for our
well-regarded Ceasefire program,
lateral hiring of experienced law
enforcement officers from other
jurisdictions to fill key vacancies more
quickly, an increased focus on intelli-
gence gathering and greater emphasis
on what is known as Problem-
Oriented Policing. At the same time,
I will continue to support meaningful
investments in violence prevention,
rehabilitation and job readiness. n
Tsafety on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 5:30pm.
Our Department of Violence
Prevention (DVP) and our Ceasefire
partners also are working on how best
to stop this recent upswing in gun
violence. DVP is focusing on gang and
group conflicts that are contributing
to the violent behavior.
Over the holiday season, in order to
keep residents and visitors safe, OPD
will deploy tactical teams to support
the patrol officers who are respond-
ing to the armed caravans, dangerous
sideshows, and various violent
crimes. The teams are highly skilled
in de-escalation and using less lethal
options. OPD already had directed
uniformed officers from non-patrol
units to spend time assisting with
prioritized hotspots and patrols to
increase the number of officers visible
here have been numerous shoot-
ings in Oakland this year, and
more recently, well-organized, armed
caravans engaged in burglaries and
robberies in several East Bay cities.
The Oakland Police Department
(OPD) has reiterated that it’s commit-
ted to the full investigation of these
violent incidents and is working in
close coordination with nearby juris-
dictions also experiencing an upsurge
in violence.
Councilmember Gallo has joined
with me in calling for recommen-
dations from OPD, Department of
Violence Prevention, Measure Z Safety
& Services Oversight Commission,
Ceasefire, and Community Policing
Advisory Board on Reducing Gun
Violence in Oakland for the long-
planned Council meeting on public

City of Oakland Encourages Residents to Adopt
A Drain on Their Block to Prevent Flooding

Wmudslides, landslides, and man-
holes overflowing onto streets and
sidewalks), dial 311 from any phone
within Oakland or call 510-615-5566.
To sign up to adopt a drain, call
(510) 238-7630, or visit https://www.
oaklandca.gov/services/sign-up-for-
adopt-a-drain. n
inter is arriving, and could
bring with it rainy or stormy
weather that City workers, residents
and business owners can prepare
for now. Oakland Public Works and
the City of Oakland Department
of Transportation crews have been
making advance preparations to help
mitigate weather impacts and enable
crews to respond as effectively as pos-
sible to requests for service.
Volunteers are needed for the City’s
Adopt-A-Drain program to keep
storm drains near their home or
business free of debris. Oaklanders
currently adopt about 1,100 storm
drains, but many thousands more
drains are waiting. Volunteers receive
storm notification emails before
large storm events, and the City can
provide rakes, brooms, dustpans, bags
and other supplies. Remember: “Clear
the drain before the rain.”
For storm-related emergency
issues on public property and in the
public right-of-way (such as flooding,


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Born, Bred and
Rooted in Oakland
by Judith Doner Berne
Max Ornstil is Rockridge-born and
bred. That’s why, after four years
playing professional soccer for the
Portland Timbers, the 27-year-old
alumnus of Chabot Elementary, St.
Paul’s Episcopal and Bishop O’Dowd
is thrilled to be back in Oakland,
playing for the Oakland Roots in the
United Soccer League (USL).
“Dear Oakland, damn I’ve missed
you,” Ornstil writes on the Roots
website. “I know I’ve been gone for a
few years, but I’ve been working on
my craft. I’ve been watching from
afar and witnessing something special
happening. The Raiders left, Warriors
moved across the Bay, but Roots are
different. Why is it different? Because
it’s Oakland, and if you’re from here
you’d know they are the first profes-
sional soccer team in Oakland. You
know what they say, there’s no place
like home.”
Although a
defensive player,
he scored a goal
in his Roots
debut in August
at Merritt Field, a field he grew up
playing on. “To score a goal on Oak-
land soil was a dream come true,” he
told me, as we sat in the family room
of the Rockridge home where he grew
up and where he returned to during
his first months back in Oakland.
“I’m very emotionally attached
Dad Michael, Sister Madison, and mom Barrie Bulmore, are the close-knit
and sports-minded family of Oakland Roots defensive player Max Ornstil.
pastries. It’s a little bit of a bubble. I
wanted to experience other parts of
Oakland.”
At Santa Clara University, Ornstil
majored in finance and played sports,
but he didn’t see a clear future in
professional soccer. The best college
soccer players, he said, typically get
drafted. “My route was far from
traditional.”
After graduating, he had the
unpaid opportunity to play for a
Timbers’ developmental team and
slept in his sister’s dining room when
both lived in Portland and worked
for Adidas. “She was in corporate,
and I was folding t-shirts.” After he
was named Player of the Year, he
moved on to the Timbers’ practice
team where he earned a spot on this
USL top division team.
Still, “I see myself as more than an
athlete,” Ornstil said. That led to him
to become co-owner of a Portland
to this house” and to his family, all
of whom are sports-oriented. His
dad Michael, a mediation attorney,
played baseball and basketball for
the University of Miami; his mom,
Barrie Bulmore, was Cal’s first tennis
All-American and taught and coached
tennis at Head Royce School; sister
Madison is a sports agent for NBA
and WNBA players. A butterfly
tattoo on his arm “is a nod to my
sister whose Hebrew
name translates to
butterfly, as well as
to the importance of
personal evolution.”
He recently moved into an apart-
ment in the Bella Vista neighborhood
that he shares with an O’Dowd
high school classmate. “I got too
comfortable when I was living here
in Rockridge — going to the same
restaurants, Zachary’s and Gordo’s,
Cole Coffee, and La Farine for
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“As the parent of two high school
and college athletes, I am well aware
of the commitment necessary to excel
in a player’s chosen sport,” said Bar-
bara Leslie, a Rockridge resident and
president of the Oakland Chamber of
Commerce who has known Ornstil
since his high school days. “A love of
the game and natural talent are essen-
tial, but the more important qualities
include sacrifice, perseverance, and
maturity — which are rare. Max
embodies these qualities.”
He’s an Oaklander first, Leslie
said. “Yes, there is no disputing Max
is a talented athlete able to blast a
goal from midfield while defending
with ease, but what I believe is more
compelling is what he is doing off the
pitch. These are the things that matter
the most for our community.”
Max Ornstil, from previous page
studio he rents out for photo shoots.
As a kid, he said, he loved shoes and
clothes, and now models for clothing
and shoe brands such as Allbirds, Mer-
rill, Columbia, and Sorel. He also just
completed a year co-hosting a podcast,
Marathon Minute, with his dad.
The two are taking a break after
completing 20 episodes, broadcasting
from Ornstil’s boyhood bedroom,
now his dad’s home office. They
talk to athletes, creatives, and entre-
preneurs, because “I see myself as
an intersection of all those kinds of
things.” He picked guests, including
Roots owner Steven Aldrich, because
their interests and endeavors go
beyond their education and profes-
sion, he said. “The whole first season
has been a learning process.”
Soccer-related but away from the
actual playing field, Ornstil served as
player representative from his Portland
and Oakland teams, both part of the
USL Championship League. This fall,
after four years of negotiations, the two
sides signed the first collective bargain-
ing agreement for a professional men’s
second division soccer league.
“It’s a step toward making the USL
(which spans North and Central
America plus the Caribbean) a league
built to last and a step forward for
United States soccer,” he said. “For
me, to have been there from the start
and to see an agreement get passed is
special.”
Roots defender Max Ornstil tied
the score against the LA Galaxy
in a play that was featured as the
United Soccer League’s “Goal of
the Week” in mid-August.
To suggest topics for this column,
email judyberne@att.net. n
“He’s a neighborhood hero,” said
Glenn Van Straatum, former director
of coaching for East Bay United, who
has known Ornstil “since he was a
little guy.” As a teenager, Max helped
coach the younger players and spent
time talking with them. “He would
give back.”
“The position that he plays is one
of persistence and consistency,” Van
Straatum, who is now head soccer
coach at Merritt College, said. “Max
has grown up to live his dream. What
is so beautiful about him is that he
always stays the humble person that
he is.”
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In Memoriam:
Angel Vaughn
by Courtenay Morgan Redis
If you live between 57th and Alcatraz,
Telegraph Avenue and Colby Street,
you probably knew Angel — our
amazing and beautiful Oakland
postal carrier. It is with a very heavy
heart that I share news of Angel
passing away suddenly on November
6. The more than 50 neighbors who
gathered around “her” mailbox for a
candlelight vigil on the 13th speaks to
how many of us loved her.
Angel Vaughn was just 41 and
leaves behind her devoted husband
of 22 years, Broderick, her parents,
siblings, and seven children ranging
in age from 13 to 20 years old.
I have lived at three different prop-
erties in this neighborhood. In these
ten years Angel often stopped by to
chat about many topics including
how my son was enjoying Peralta
Elementary, what subjects hers liked,
and how she was planning to spend
her vacations. We compared what
costumes our kids were wearing for
Halloween, and talked about shoes,
music and chocolate. If my front
door was open she’d playfully shout
“knock-knock!” and I’d pop out with
fresh baked cookies or the latest
Trader Joe’s creation.
“Angel radiated happiness and love
to everyone she met. She was always
smiling. She loved her family so much,
and they loved her deeply in return.
Angel grew up in El Sobrante. She
attended De Anza High School, where
she met her high school sweetheart,
Broderick Vaughn. Together since,
they were one of the most loving
couples many had ever seen. On his
days off, Broderick would accompany
her on her route, carrying her heavy
packages. They were planning a cele-
bration of their 25th anniversary.
She had a sweet tooth for chocolate.
She loved movies. She was a huge fan
of Tom Brady (no matter what team
he was playing on). She was extremely
funny, with the best goofy side. She
loved Saturday morning manicures
with her girls. It was always a pleasure
to see Angel’s latest hair color, nail
design, and beanie on your doorstep.
And, of course, we all loved her color-
ful hair evolutions. She was everyone’s
Mom, Auntie, and friend.
She had the longest mail route, and
her postal family marveled at her
speed (and competitive spirit). Nearly
every day, she pulled her truck in
first to the post office at 4900 Shat-
tuck. Her postal family will miss her
strength, humor, love, and light. They
say she was a friend who was there for
them like family.
Angel, we love and miss you —
Please visit Nextdoor for
upcoming information about Angel’s
GoFundMe page, or email Courtenay
at soopercyclechic@yahoo.com.
Donations will go directly to help
with funeral expenses and to provide
support for her children. n


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Claremont Middle School’s Auction Wraps Up
by Sharon Flor, Auction Co-Chair

Eucalyptus Calls,
Who Will Answer?
by Susan Montauk,
RCPC Distribution Manager
Thank you to the entire Rockridge
community for a successful
Claremont Middle School online
auction that ran from November 1st
through the 12th. As a result, the
Claremont PTA raised over $39,000,
which will directly support our stu-
dents in the classroom.
The donations will be used for:
replacing books in the library that
were not returned post-Covid shut-
down; equipment for the science labs;
and string instruments for the music
program (to replace wind instruments
which could be problematic during
an airborne viral epidemic). This
will also fund enrichment programs,
restorative justice, athletics and more.
We want to express our sincere
gratitude to all the merchants and
restaurants along College Avenue that
donated gift certificates or items, and
to everyone in the community for
logging on and bidding. Thank you
— your support is vitally important to
Claremont students. n
Temescal Whole
Foods Market
Opens This Month
Bpizza-by-the-slice are available, as is
grab-and-go sushi by Kikka.
To give back to the Temescal
community, Whole Foods Market is
sponsoring the Bay Area Trails Chal-
lenge, an annual self-guided and free
hiking and bicycling program taking
place until Dec. 31, 2021, that encour-
ages people to explore the East Bay
regional parks and keep fit outdoors.
The store will also sponsor the
Twelve Days of Christmas with the
Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation, an
organization founded by Stephen
and Ayesha Curry to fight childhood
hunger, ensure access to education
and enable active lifestyles (see the
organization’s website for details).
For info, visit https://www.whole-
foodsmarket.com/stores/temescal. n
We welcome two of our newest
Block Captains: Dylan, 9 years
old, delivers to the 5500 block of
Lawton, and Carmelle, age 7, will
replace 25-year veteran Block
Captain Todd Morrish, and starts
her new route on Presley Way this
month.
y the time you read this article,
the new 31,011 square-foot Whole
Foods on Telegraph Avenue at 51st
will be open to the public.
The store features more than 2,700
local products including prepared
foods, a full-service meat counter
(with butchers to cut steaks to order
or debone poultry), as well as a
prepared foods section with an array
of made-to-order sandwich options
and a local charcuterie selection.
Customizable whole pizzas and
Many thanks to Emmi Govers for
her service as Block Captain for
her block of Eucalyptus over these
many years. Emmi is ready to hand
over the job to someone in her neigh-
borhood. It’s a lovely route — perfect
for a bit of exercise once a month.
Who will step up? Here are the
details:
· Route 03C: Along Eucalyptus in
Oakland boundaries (23 houses)
This job is monthly, normally fall-
ing on the weekend following the first
Friday of the month. Block Captains
receive their bundle on their doorstep
and then go door-do-door, delivering
to 23 houses. Newsletters must be left
on porches or porch railings (not in
mailboxes please, this presents a prob-
lem for the postal employees). This
route takes about 15-20 minutes.
Please email Susan at smontauk@
gmail.com or call (510) 547-3855 to
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Monarchs Find A
Home in Rockridge
Gardens
by Anna L. Marks
W
A Facebook group soon followed
and a website was launched at Polli-
natorPosse.org to provide resources to
the public. The site includes recorded
talks, lessons for kids, articles, plant
lists, and ways to connect and join the
Posse. Representatives of the Posse
can be found tabling at events, visiting
classrooms of all age groups, gath-
ering data, and, of course, planting
habitats — all as advocates for our
essential pollinators.
coast, Pacific Grove did not see a
single butterfly last year. There has
been a significant change in behavior
that seems to be centered in the East
Bay, particularly in temperate areas
like here in Rockridge where they
are hanging around and breeding at
unusual times of the year.
In response to this change in
behavior, Terry Smith and the Posse
have stepped up to gather data and
document this change for scientists
hile working as a park super-
visor at The Gardens at Lake
Merritt, Tora Rocha attended an open
forum talk about Pollinator Gardening
at Merritt College, and soon thereafter
saw a documentary called, “Queen of
the Sun: What the Bees Are Telling
Us.” It then dawned on her that plant
pollinators, like bees and butterflies,
rely on habitats maintained by home
and municipal gardeners, not just wild
spaces and farms.
“I realized I was removing the hab-
itat of local native bees that I hadn’t
even know existed. Then I realized that
nobody else I worked with knew that
either. That’s when we decided to build
the Bee Hotel. Fortunately, then Direc-
tor of Public Works, Brooke Levin,
gave full support to the idea and had
the City carpenter build the bee hotel
that’s on display in the gardens now.
We call it the Air Bee-N-Bee.”
When local science teacher Terry
Smith serendipitously ran into Rocha
in the gardens, they discovered
that Smith had been searching for
Monarch caterpillars for students to
raise in their classrooms, and Rocha
happened to have some in her office.
So began the posse… Oakland’s own
Pollinator Posse.
“This is a community science project that is
having real impact on policy decisions”
Perhaps the most important proj-
ect they’re working on right now is
tracking Monarch butterflies. Many
Rockridgeans plant milkweed to
provide habitat for Monarchs but,
according to Rocha, there could be as
many as 20 other species of butterflies
that can also be found in this neigh-
borhood including Gulf Fritillaries,
Buckeyes, Pipevine Swallowtails, Tiger
Swallowtails, and Red Admirals. They
all need different host (nectar) plants
for their caterpillars to survive, and
gardeners could be planting those as
well to support a broader ecosystem.
After a devastating drop in numbers
last year, they’re making a small
comeback, but nothing compared to
the numbers seen a few years ago.
In addition to very low numbers at
the overwintering grounds on the
and conservationists so effective plans
can be made to protect and restore
Monarchs and their migration.
“If you have any milkweed, if you
have monarchs that come into your
yard, we would really love for you to
join our community science project
and report on what you’re seeing. We
ask folks to report in once a month or
whenever they see new activity in their
gardens. You can find more explana-
tion and a link to the survey on the
website. This is a community science
project that is having real impact on
policy decisions,” Says Smith.
Rocha emphasizes that people
should avoid using pesticides and
herbicides, if at all possible, in their
gardens, as this is the biggest problem,
and to purchase pesticide free plants,
ideally from a local native plant nurs-
ery. Systemic pesticides, in particular,
make a plant toxic for the life of the
plant, which means it’s poisoning
every pollinator who comes to visit.
There are several varieties of milk-
weed, and, as it turns out, some of
them are not native to the area. These
non-natives can host a type of proto-
zoa that endangers monarchs and can
also trigger breeding during the wrong
times of year. These plants do not go
dormant in the winter, like the natives,
and, as a result, butterflies will con-
tinue to eat and lay eggs past the time
they should be migrating to the coast.
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7
$2,900,000
11/05/2021
3
1

5862 Chabot Ct                     $1,249,000
        $1,249,000
12
$1,500,000
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4
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         5841 Colby St                         $1,375,000
        $1,375,000
12
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        $1,595,000
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4
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15
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Photos by Anna L. Marks
Avid gardener and Boyd Avenue
resident, Julianne Sherback
(pictured above), has been enjoying
watching Monarchs go through
metamorphosis — from caterpillar
to chrysalis to butterfly — in her
assortment of milkweed.
Monarchs, from previous page
It’s also important not to over
manicure a habitat garden and to be
careful when cutting things back or
removing leaves. Native bees lay their
eggs in dead wood, hollow stems, and
loose soil, and many butterfly and
moth caterpillars wrap up in dead
leaves, which then fall to the ground.
When gardeners remove debris and
mulch every inch of bare ground they
can also eliminate habitat for these
essential creatures.
“A messy garden is a better garden
for a pollinator garden. We tell people
don’t rake the leaves and remove
them. Rake leaves under your shrubs,
sprinkle a little bit of compost, and let
nature do its job. The good news is it’s
healthier for your plants and saves on
buying compost and mulch.”
There is an ongoing conversation in
the Pollinator Posse FB group which
now has over 1,500 members and
offers additional information. Join the
group, sign up for their email list, or
contact them through the website www.
pollinatorposse.org. Join the Posse and
help the pollinators. n
How do you tell if you have a
non-native milkweed? If they have
yellow, orange or red flowers then
they’re not native. Or, if you have the
tall variety with white flowers and
large round seed balls, colloquially
referred to as “Family Jewels,” these
are the south African variety, and are
also non-native. Native milkweeds in
Rockridge all have white to pinkish
flowers.
You can plant the local native
variety, called Narrowleaf of Showy,
in the fall, but it does better if planted
in spring since it’s going dormant
right now. All non-native milkweeds
should be cut back without delay
unless they have caterpillars currently
finishing their season, or better yet,
replaced with a native variety. Anyone
interested can contact the Posse for
free Narrowleaf seed.
“Now would be the perfect time to
think about converting to the native
milkweed,” confirms Rockridge
resident and founding member of the
Pollinator Posse, Brooke Levin.


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Nuthouse Comedy Is Back
Ncomedian Clara Bijl (Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, SF Sketchfest,
Cobbs, Punchline), Jeff Dean,
San Francisco-based comedian
and writer by way of Reno, and
Oakland resident and top-notch
comedian Jonah Pollack (Oakland
Comedy festival, Comedy Soup,
Underground at Oakstop Comedy
in Oakland).
The venue is located at 5940
College Avenue. Tickets are
$15 online, $20 at the door. To
purchase tickets in advance, visit
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
nuthouse-at-the-golden-squirrel-
tickets-210176913807. n
uthouse at the Golden Squir-
rel is a weekly comedy show
in the heart of Rockridge. The
event was postponed on account
of the pandemic, but they are
back and ready to make you
laugh, every Saturday at 8:30pm
with a rotating lineup of some
of the best
comics from
the Bay Area
and beyond.
The show
is produced
and hosted by
internation-
ally unknown
law office of
dave karlinsky
725 washington st., suite 313  oakland, ca 94607
(510) 788-5700    www.davekarlinskylaw.com
Practicing exclusively in the area of trusts and estates:
• Estate planning

• Probate / trust administration

• Dispute resolution
• Special needs trusts
Please contact me during regular business hours to
      schedule an appointment.

Oakland Launches
New, Free Bulky
Waste Pickup
All Oakland residents can now
schedule no-charge large item
drop-off appointments with Waste
Management of Alameda County,
Inc. (WMAC), and apartment tenants
can now schedule curbside bulky
pickup service directly with WMAC.
Single-family households can now
set out four cubic yards of items,
plus recyclable items, including
mattresses, tires, TVs, and comput-
ers (up from three cubic yards) for
single-family residents and 1.5 cubic
yards for multi-family residences.
This builds on the progress already
made by the City’s successful Bulky
Block Party service event series.
“All Oaklanders deserve a cleaner
city and an easy, affordable way to
dispose of those items that won’t fit
in their usual trash bin,” Oakland
Mayor Libby Schaaf said. “Today
we’re taking big steps forward on
both counts, including making
access to service easier for renters —
an especially impacted community
in Oakland. Now all Oaklanders
need to do is pick up the phone (510-
613-8710) and take advantage of
these new free services.
“From Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30,
2021, Oakland Public Works staff
cleaned up more than 23,000 tons of
illegal dumping. Our crews are work-
ing harder than ever, but we know
our community is still feeling illegal
dumping impacts more than ever.
We also know that when we can trace
dumped material back to a source,
it’s more often than not an Oakland
household. With these free new and
improved services, no Oaklander
should have to dump their belongings
on the street or hire an illegal hauling
service.”
Visit www.oaklandrecycles.com
to learn more about the services
available; information on how to
combat and reduce illegal dumping;
and learn how you can help at
oaktownproud.com. n


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Perry Riani, Senior Associate
2016 Realtor of the Year
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Rockridge
1900 Mountain Blvd Oakland, CA 94611
1625 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94709
C: 510.813.3799  Perry.Riani@Compass.com
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