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WANTED: Kitchens Kitchen Tour, from front page community building through programs like the Kevin Faughnan Memorial Community Grants Program. To submit or refer a kitchen for the tour, the Kitchen Tour Committee invites you to do so asap. For info, contact Kitc...

By Kevin Faughnan

by Kevin Faughnan, RCPC board member Eight kitchens, each with its own special qualities, are on the Rockridge Kitchen Tour Sunday, September 20, seven of them within an easy walk from our registration site at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church, des...

RCPC Land Use Committee Kitchen Tour, from front page kitchen design, but it’s also a chance to give back to Rockridge. In case you didn’t know, the biennial Kitchen Tour is the main fundraiser for the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC). Since the first Kitchen Tour i...

By Kevin Faughnan

2017 Kitchen Tour: Call for Candidates by Kevin Faughnan, RCPC board It is that time again as we begin preparing for the 2017 Kitchen Tour (KT), most likely to be held in late September, 2017. If you have a kitchen that has been remodeled in the past several...

favorite pastime — RCPC Vice-Chair Kevin Faughnan suffered a fatal heart attack. In his four years on the board, Kevin took on increasing responsibilities. He served as the liaison to the Rockridge District Association (RDA), improving communication and contact between the merchants a...

By Robin McDonnell

RCPC’s Kevin Faughnan Community Grant Program Helps Fund Climatescape by Robin McDonnell Climatescape is the newest recip- ient of the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) Kevin Faughnan Community Grant. The RCPC sets aside funds from the pro- ceeds ...

Money raised by the 2017 Rockridge Kitchen Tour will fund ongoing projects of the RCPC, such as the Kevin Faughnan Community Grants program, named in honor of the RCPC board member and Kitchen Tour chair who died unexpectedly in March. Proceeds will also support Town Hall presentations t...

The biennial Kitchen Tour is the main fundraiser for the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC). Since the first Tour in 1995, proceeds have gone to such worthy causes as completing the home for the library branch, the design and building of the play structure ...

...t www.oaklandartmurmur.com. Also, on June 25, 5-8 p.m., the Oakland Art Gallery in collaboration with Pro Arts will hold an opening reception for “Bay Area Currents 2009,” showcasing the cream of the crop of Bay Area artists as selected by Kevin Chen, Program Director at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. The gallery is located at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza, City Center, just across from the Rotunda building. It’s just a few steps from the 12th Street BART Station, so it’s easily a...

By Kevin Faughnan

...ading the first group along College Avenue. At 12:45 p.m., return to Halloween Central for spooky events, and silly, scary sing-alongs led by a serenading singer. Join this holiday fun for kids of all ages. Tour-Goers Stand Heat, Get in Kitchens by Kevin Faughnan, tour committee member It all came together for the Rockridge Kitchen Tour Sunday, September 20: The months of hard work spent planning for and selecting, photographing and describing the kitchens; soliciting advertisers, spon...

...ation. Brochure Advertising Our tour brochure offers print advertising space, and our website offers an online presence for the two-year period until the next tour — an excellent way to reach an interested and enthusiastic audience. E-mail Kevin Faughnan at advertising@rockridge.org. from page 1 tasteful and, sometimes, surprising. Be sure to see the bright, spacious kitchen with a butler’s pantry and stunning bridge view in the landmark Morse House and the impeccably appointed W. W. D...

kitchens to life. The Kitchen Tour has been held every other year since 1995 (except for 2021 when it was post- poned a year due to the pandemic). Please consider attending, volunteer- ing, sponsoring, or entering the 2026 Kitchen Tour next October. RCP...

For those new to the neighborhood, this autumn will mark the 13th biennial kitchen tour since 1995 and it will feature eight beautifully renovated, restored, or remodeled Rockridge residential kitchens. The Kitchen Tour is the primary fundraiser for the Rock- ridge Community Planning Council ( RCPC), the nonprofit community or...

Virginia Hamilton ��������������Co-Vice-Chair Lisa McNally ������������������������Co-Vice-Chair Michael Kan ������������������������Secretary Jennifer Daskal �������������������Treasurer Andrew Charman, Brendan Havenar-Daughton, Kevin Faughnan, William Kaufner, Gabe Kleinman, Don Kinkead, Greg Pasquali, Laura Schlichtmann, Samantha Weaver Contact the board: chair@rockridge.org For information: info@rockridge.org Newsletter Subscriptions Energy Savings now at www.RockridgeKit...

...lla Barsky stands next to a trash can with mosaic art she deisgned. “It represents our city, which I love,” he said. “We want peace and justice.” The RCPC Board dedicated funds from its Community Grant program, raised through its annual Kitchen Tour fundraiser, toward the mosaic tile artwork project. (Right) Mosiac tile art of neigh- borhood peackock ‘Kevin.’ “I love how this project enhances a central thoroughfare of our neighbor- hood and empowers young people to express themselves t...

By Karen Ivy

take it from us – read on for comments from 2015 Tour docents, many of whom return year after year. “I do know that I will be happy to encourage friends to sign up to be a docent at the 2017 Kitchen Tour!” Be a Tour Volunteer Be a Docent Volunteer The Tour isn’t just about kitchens; it’s the main fundraiser for the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC). Over the past two decades of the biennial Tour, proceeds have helped many local pr...

RCPC Financial Statement 2022 RCPC General Fund Income Contributions $345.00 Rockridge News $43,887.00 Kitchen Tour $22,648.44 Interest $22.99 Total Income $66,903.43 Expenses Rockridge News $42,251.90 Contractors $5,279.42 Insurance, Permits, Sales Tax $1,506.00 Misc Admin & Program Expenses $3,677.94 Kevin Faughnan Memorial Grant $661.50 Events $1,778....

...ressing this serious concern, and we will continue to oppose such poor use of this site. I invite you to engage with us. Whether you want to share your feed- back on a development site, apply for a community beautification project from our Kevin Faughnan Grants Fund, join one of our Committees, write an article for The Rockridge News, or attend our October 2nd Kitchen Tour event — I thank you for enhancing our neighborhood with your engagement. Have ideas, questions, or want to join ou...

By Judith Doner Berne

Council’s major fundraiser, and it provides RCPC with the financial resources to support the Kevin Faughnan Memorial Grants program, the Town Halls, the Halloween Parade, and many other neighbor- hood enhancements. However, the KT is more than a fundraiser; it’s a community-builder. Neighbors volun- teer on the KT Committee and as docents; a...

By Bill Kaufner

hood-improvement project but not sure where to begin or how best to fund it? The Rockridge Com- munity Planning Council (RCPC) is hosting a virtual Town Hall on November 19, at 7:30pm, to propose a new round of the Kevin Faughnan Community Grants Program. Join your neighbors at the virtual gath- ering where RCPC Board members will present the program: What it is; how it works; who is eligible; and how to apply. The RCPC Board voted to set aside $5,000 of the pr...

...Brett Moyer Diana Mitchell-Chavez Emily Hirschman Jon Gabel Ken Rich Kirk E. Peterson Matt Shintaku Peretz Partensky Travis J. Henry Warren Wells Andrew Martinez RCPC General Fund Income Contributions $1,235.00 Rockridge News $37,818.00 Kitchen Tour $10,878.49 Interest Income $23.47 Merchandise Sales $170.00 Total Income $50,124.96 Expenses Rockridge News $39,371.01 Contractors $2,688.00 Insurance, Permits, Sales Tax $1,398.00 Misc Admin & Program Expenses $2,345.79 Kevin Faughnan Memo...

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