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Open Mind Music Curates Collections For Locals — By Jorja Siemons T

Curbside Pickup Offers Alternative for Farmers’ Market Lovers — By Jorja Siemons Bay Area residents’ passion for shopping local has not been stifled by the shelter-in-place policies. In fact, with the closure of workplaces and schools, many individuals have increasingly supported small busi- nesses, finding it one of t...

— by Jorja Siemons Amid the chaos and fear, the Bay Area is gathering. Using the Internet, neighborhood organizations, and a spirit of camaraderie, people are serving the needs of the elderly, the immune-compromised, and the young. Among these citizens are K...

RCPC 2020 ELECTION Be Heard — VOTE — by Jorja Siemons —by Leonora Sea, Rockridge Community Planning Council Chair The catalyst was a Nextdoor post. A refugee family from Afghan- istan needed a place to stay in the East Bay when they moved to America. Reading the request, Jessie Young and Ben ...

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Rockridge Residents’ Experiment with Every Day Holidays by Jorja Siemons When the pandemic forced Rock- ridge residents Allie Carr and Jason Goldberg to move their jobs and social lives online, they discov- ered that it was dangerously easy to fall into the same routine every day. The daily schedule became unev...

By Jorja Siemons

by Jorja Siemons by Judith Doner Berne Photo © Nikki Elisa Constantino Photo © Kristen Murakoshi Tracy Hamm is the Head Women’s Soccer Coach at UC Davis. Tracy Hamm first lived in Rock- ridge from 2002 to 2006 while attending U.C. Berkeley, where she was a...

By Jorja Siemons

by Jorja Siemons A poster hangs by the front desk in the Rockridge Library titled “What Does This Library Mean to You?” Scattered with public responses written on post-it notes, the poster is the work of the Teen Advisory Board (TAB), the onsite group that...

Italy is Worlds Away, and Right Around the Corner — by Jorja Siemons For Enoteca Molinari’s owner Joe Madison, nothing is more import- ant than the dinner table. Growing up, the world orbited his grandpar- ents’ dining room where the family would gather every Sunday to eat homemade pasta. Madison’s great-gr...

The program will be officially launched with detailed information at the November Town Hall. The appli- cation window will continue for one month, and successful proposals will be announced in January. n by Jorja Siemons O Today, Shoshin, located at 5914 College Avenue, provides not only in-home design services but also home furnishings and vintage pieces in its Rockridge shop, which opened for the first time last summer. “We love to spend one-on-one time ...

Happy Trails Lead to College Avenue Greater Rockridge Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council — Youth Alive! — By Karen Ivy, Greater NCPC Secretary O — By Jorja Siemons Atarot card deck, Rosie the Riveter Band-Aids, and match- ing salt and pepper shakers — these are the nifty, vintage-inspired goods that can be found at Happy Trails Home, Rockridge’s newest gift shop. While it only opened at 5854 College ...

Landscape Design Company Enhances The Local Outdoor Dining Experience — By Jorja Siemons D Rockridge restaurants currently offering outdoor seating A16 Alem’s Coffee Barney’s (patio in back) Beer Baron Crepevine Golden Squirrel Hudson Bay Café Kitchen Story Khana Peena Marica Millennium (patio in back) Oliveto’s Cafe Red Sea R...

1951 Coffee Supports Local Refugees One Cup At A Time — by Jorja Siemons Frog Park: New Equipment Unveiled February 9 — by Carol Behr, Lthe wellbeing of refugees, asylum seek­ ers, and special immigrant visa holders by providing employment and social networking opportunities. ast June, 1951 Coffee’s Rockridge l...

Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Oakland Nonprofit Champions the Incarcerated — by Jorja Siemons

OpEd width and breadth of all the emotions they will experience. Stop Giving Out Awards Like Candy —by Jorja Siemons I The more young people face sadness and frustration, the more they will come to accept failure as a learning experience — each time becoming less upset. If adults continue to give out awards like candy, children’s emotional maturity will ...