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Leonora Sea Miles Avenue My Rockridge roots run deep — I’m a fourth- generation resi- dent. I love the neighborhood, and believe in RCPC’s mission t o e n h a n c e Rockridge. Currently the Board Chair, I bring a perspective to our neighborhood organi...

Leonora Sea, Rockridge Community Planning Council Chair: trian-friendly” shopping district that could revitalize the area and retain the mystique of the area’s Craftsman homes. to protect and enhance the wonder­ ful qualities of all neighborhoods incl...

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Leonora Sea ������������������������Vice-Chair Jesse Ortega �����������������������Secretary Ronnie Spitzer ��������������������Treasurer Alden Conner, M C Haug, Don Kinkead, Andrew Masalin, Laura Schlichtmann Contact the board: chair@rockridge.org Me...

Leonora Sea ������������������������Vice-Chair Jesse Ortega �����������������������Secretary Ronnie Spitzer ��������������������Treasurer Alden Conner, M C Haug, Don Kinkead, Andrew Masalin, Laura Schlichtmann Contact the board: chair@rockridge.org Ri...

More info: contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, LeonoraSea@ comcast.net, or FROG, info@frogpark.org.

More info: contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association: LeonoraSea@ comcast.net; FROG: info@frogpark.org, or look up FROG Park and Temescal Creek on the city of Oakland’s Creek to Bay Day Web site: www.oaklandcreektobay.org.

Support Rockridge­— Join the RCPC Board — by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair The Rockridge Community Plan­ ning Council is looking for com­ munity members to join its Board of Directors and help further RCPC’s mission to “preserve and enhance the unique character of Rockridge, and to promote health, saf...

Casey Farmer Leonora Sea Kirk Peterson Robin McDonnell David Garcia Annette Floystrup

for 13 candidates in this contested election. Two ballots were disquali- fied for over-voting and seven ballots were provisional. The final tallies were: Leonora Sea 258; Robin McDonnell 173; Kirk 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

RCPC Board of Directors, 2018-19 Leonora Sea ������������������������Chair Alden Conner ��������������������Vice-Chair Casey Farmer ���������������������Co-Secretary Andrew Masalin, �����������������Co-Secretary Ronnie Spitzer ��������������������Treasurer Stuart Flashman �����������...

‘m Leonora Sea, new chair of the Rockridge Community Planning Council, looking forward to getting to know you, and your joys and challenges living in Rockridge. My goal is to grow and support RCPC

Stuart Flashman �����������������Chair Leonora Sea ������������������������Vice-Chair Jesse Ortega �����������������������Secretary Ronnie Spitzer ��������������������Treasurer Alden Conner, M C Haug, Don Kinkead, Andrew Masalin, Laura Schlichtmann, Courtney Welch Contact the board: chair@...

Committee: Ronnie Spitzer, Leonora Sea, Laura Schlichtmann, Eileen Ward

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Christina Wong Masalin, Jesse Ortega, Laura Schlichtmann, Leonora Sea

By Leonora Sea

Two Seats Open Up on RCPC Board by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair The Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) has two board seats that are cur- rently open and available to be filled by board appointment. Michelle Boyd and Matt Levy have resigned from the board as they have both relocated...

By Leonora Sea

RCPC Board Elections Planned for April 2022 by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair The 2022 Rockridge Community Planning Council Board election is scheduled for April 15 and 17, 2022. Now is the time to think about whether you may be interested in running for a seat on the RCPC Board. Six seats are up for ele...

By Leonora Sea

...needing service hours for school will receive a signed letter verifying their participation. Tools and gloves will be provided, or if you’d like to bring your own tools, make sure they’re well marked as yours. For more information, contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, LeonoraSea@comcast.net; FROG, info@ frogpark.org; or look up FROG Park and

By Leonora Sea

...elcome. Students needing service hours for school will receive a signed letter verifying their participation. Tools, gloves, and safety goggles provided. If you bring your own tools, make sure they’re labeled as yours. For more info, email Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, via LeonoraSea@ comcast.net, or look up Temescal creek on the city of Oakland’s Creek to Bay Day web site: www.oaklandcreektobay.org. by Gordon and Susan Piper Ever since the Oakland Landscape Committee (OLC) ad...

By Leonora Sea

...r, clear more of the creek channel, and maybe do some plant- ing. Tools and gloves will be provided by the city of Oakland (or bring your own, well-marked). We’ll have water, coffee, and snacks for volunteers. For more information, contact Leonora Sea, leonorasea@yahoo.com. To hear about more Temescal creek volunteer opportunities and the DNA annual National Night Out block party in August, let us know; you will receive an invitation to join our email list. Ashby Avenue Repaving Begins ...

By Leonora Sea

RCPC Election Slated for April 15 by Leonora Sea, Chair, Rockridge Community Planning Council Wednesday, February 24, 2021, is the deadline to declare your candidacy for the 2021 election of the Rockridge Community Planning Council’s Board of Directors. The election will be held on the t...

By Leonora Sea

CALL TO ACTION by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair T 1) Sign up for updates at: https://oaklandca19202.activehosted. com/f/114. he General Plan Update for Oakland’s 2045 General Plan is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for all Oaklanders to work together to create a visionary...

By Leonora Sea

Redistricting — What’s At Stake? Map drawing courtesy of Kirk Peterson, architect by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair On October 8, 2021, the Redistrict- ing Commission of the City of Oakland released four pro- posed maps for new Oakland City Council districts, since reduced to two, titled “B” and “D” respectively (see drawing on right for bou...

By Leonora Sea

Annual Meeting & Board Election April 15; Balloting Continues on April 17 RCPC by Leonora Sea, Chair, Rockridge Community Planning Council The Board of Directors of the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) is pleased to announce the date of the 2021 Annual Meeting and Board Election. Mark your calendar for Thursday, April 15...

By Leonora Sea

RCPC Election: Virtual Candidates’ Forum: April 8 by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair One week before RCPC’s Annual Meeting and Board election (see article at left), the Rockridge community will have an opportunity to hear from Board candidates and to pose questions in a Candidates’ Forum. This event will be hel...

By Leonora Sea

Will There Be A 2021 Rockridge Kitchen Tour? by Leonora Sea, RCPC Board Chair

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, RCPC Charr, and Kitchen Tour Co-chair he 2019 Rockridge Kitchen Tour is coming September 22, and the Kitchen Tour Committee is again offering sponsor- ship opportunities. Sponsors are vital to the success of the Tour, and it’s the perfect...

By RCPC Board Chair Leonora Sea

by RCPC Board Chair Leonora Sea, RCPC Board Vice Chair

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors hen Jeanine Harmon of Park Day School and Lynn Gitomer from the FROG Committee connected, a perfect match emerged. Jeanine is Director of Community Outreach and Service Learning at Park Day, and she was seeking a service lea...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea and the Kitchen Tour Committee here’s no better way to express it: The 2017 Rockridge Kitchen Tour was 4 rousing success. A good time was had by all —in fact, this year’s tour had many of the qualities of a large and successful community p...

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by Leonora Sea, Kitchen Tour committee Ko come in all shapes and sizes, and

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by Leonora Sea, Tour co-chair ockridge is known for its many

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, RCPC boardmember and DMV Neighbors Association chair Ow to describe the spirit of Creek to Bay Day 2016 in the Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt and Big Frog Park? One word: Abundance!

By Leonora Sea

Creek to Bay Day Comes Again to Temescal Creek and Frog Park by Leonora Sea, chair, DMV Neighbors Once again, it’s time for the annual Creek to Bay Day Temescal Creek and FROG Park cleanup. Join in on Saturday, September 17, 9 a.m. to noon, and be part of International Coastal Cleanup Day, a truly worldwide effort...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, chair, DMV Neighbors, and RCPC board member Next time you walk through the stretch of the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt between Clifton and Cavour streets, you may notice that the tree canopy is healthier and more open, that your dog’s coa...

By Leonora Sea

...- teer cleanup event between those two days, and it’s important to keeping this part of the park Rockridge neighbors and DMV Neighbors Association members spent one morning in June on an interim cleanup of the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt. Leonora Sea and creek on Creek-to-Bay Day, part of International Coastal Cleanup Day on September 17. See you then. healthy and safe. If you missed this cleanup, you still have a chance to help clean and green the Greenbelt Volunteering How-To How dif...

By Leonora Sea

May 7, 2016 10. Earth Day? Earth Day! by Leonora Sea, chair, DMV Neighbors I was asked recently why I continue to organize the DMV Neighbors Association’s Earth Day creek cleanup (this is my fifth year). My first answer: because it’s fun. Neighbors catch up with one another while raking and ...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, chair, DMV Neighbors One usually doesn’t notice how much creek water the Temescal pumping station moves through the supply pipe, but less than an hour after the creek turn-on at the end of the Earth Day cleanup, enough water had backed up...

By Leonora Sea

FROG, DNA Join for Earth Day Play by Leonora Sea, RCPC boardmember; FROG liaison for RCPC; DNA chair It’s time to get ready for spring and summer at our local open space gem, the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt and FROG Park. Come out for a community work day on Earth Day, Saturday, April 2...

By Leonora Sea

promoting a specific religious orientation. by Leonora Sea, RCPC boardmember A dozen Rockridge neighbors gathered at the most recent Rockridge Com- munity Planning Council (RCPC) Town Hall on February 18 to learn about the new Community Grants for Community-led Projects initiative of the RCPC boar...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors organizer and RCPC boardmember Yay! It’s raining, and our parched Greenbelt is soaking up all the lovely water. Sadly, the rains have come too late for at least one of the trees. The alder on the lawn at Cavour and Redondo d...

By Leonora Sea

...10 a.m. and noon. Meet at Chuck Fecher’s memorial bench on Redondo Avenue, and pick up some hot coffee and pastry to start the morning. Tools provided, or bring your own. Wear footgear that can get wet and muddy. Heavy rain cancels. Photos/Leonora Sea Nutsedge in the creek channel: public enemy number 1; a non- native, and depressingly hard to get rid of. Planting California native sedges instead would be nice. Leaf litter and tree debris clogging the creek. We will clean it out. C re e...

By Leonora Sea

Give Temescal Creek Some TLC on Creek to Bay Day 2015 by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Dear Temescal Creek, Get well soon, we miss you! Love, your Rockridge and Temescal Neighborhoods Once again, Lake Temescal is suffering from an algae bloom, and potentially could put toxins into the water of Temescal Creek. ...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Marguerite Young, recently elected EBMUD board member representing District 3 (Piedmont and a portion of Oakland including part of Rockridge; Orinda and El Sobrante; Moraga; and portions of Pinole and Richmond) convened a di...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, DMV site coordinator April’s Earth Day at FROG Park and along the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt was the usual blend of excitement, enthusiasm, hard work, and ultimate reward. Many volunteers spent three productive hours getting our neighbo...

By Leonora Sea

Pet Insurance ➧ S i t e C o ord in a t o r Leonora Sea displays the range of tools available to Cleanup participants. Susan Bernosky 510-450-9050 /Michael Perlmutter Specializing in Rockridge Real Estate

By Leonora Sea

DMV: ‘Get Ready for Spring’ by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors It’s time to get ready for spring and summer at our local open-space gem, the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt and Frog Park. Come out for a community work day on Earth Day, Saturday April 18, 9 a.m. to noon, sponsored by FROG a...

By Leonora Sea

Farewell to the Big Euc by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association The familiar sign-off to announcements of DMV Neighbors Association-spon- sored cleanup days along Temescal Creek – “Meet at the big eucalyptus at the corner of Cavour and Redondo” – will change soon. As I write,...

By Leonora Sea

it’s had ample water and time to grow into a giant. The fast growth hasn’t necessarily been good for the health of the tree. The people who planted the first trees soon discovered that California-grown eucalyptus wood cracks and /Leonora Sea california college of the arts Summer 2014 for high school students! art architecture design writing cca’s beautiful oakland campus is walking distance from the rockridge bart station scholarships available earn 3 units of college credit c...

By Leonora Sea

New Swings Coming to Frog Park Tell Us What Kind and Where Wet, Wild, and Wonderful Creek-to-Bay Day by Leonora Sea, DMV neighbors association Start with a creek in need of a little TLC, add a bunch of enthusiastic volunteers, throw in coffee from Alem’s and cookies from Bakesale Betty, and top off with a most impressive downpour and what do you get? Cr...

By Leonora Sea

... while, with the loan of the FROG EZ-up tent, sign-in sheets, snacks, and gift tote bags stayed fairly dry. Thanks to everyone who came, worked hard, got soaked, and made Creek to Bay Day at Temescal a rousing success. We On a sunnier day, Leonora Sea and Lee Patterson of DMV Neighbors Association demonstrate some of tasks accomplished on Creek-to-Bay Day. /D. Kinkead by Carol Behr, FROG chair, and Annie Suttle F ROG continues to make progress on plans to add baby and regular swings, al...

By Leonora Sea

by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors chair Bright and early on September’s Creek to Bay Day, lively and enthusiastic volunteers from all over the neighborhood and the larger community arrived at the DMV Neighbors Association check-in site on Temescal Creek. Arm...

By Leonora Sea

Neighborborhood volunteers take a break from Temescal Creek cleaning. /Leonora Sea

By Leonora Sea

site about all of Oakland’s watersheds at http://museumca.org/creeks/MapOak.html. by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors chair It’s been a busy summer along Temescal Creek. Warmer conditions than last year have encouraged lots of healthy new growth of the greenbelt’s trees, native bushes and grasses, and yes, unfortunately, weeds, blackberries...

By Leonora Sea

Join DMV Neighbors Ass’n for Temescal Creek Work Party, June 16 by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Ever notice the Adopt-a-Creek signs by Temescal Creek? There’s one at Clifton and one at Cavour. The “DMV Neighbors Association” (DNA) on the signs names a group of Rockridge and Temescal neighbors who live in the vicinity o...

By Leonora Sea

...and neighbors in Rockridge and Temescal to join in the Earth Day momentum to help keep the section of Temescal Creek between Clifton and Cavour clean and attractive. Join Lee Patterson, left, Iris Odonata, Linda Carroll and young Lila, and Leonora Sea Saturday, June 16, starting 9 a.m. /Don Kinkead Highway Commuter Advisory

By Leonora Sea

...sks are kid-friendly. Parents or guardians must sign for volunteers under 18. Snacks, coffee, and drinks for volunteers will be at the tables, and water will be available. As always, remember your sunscreen. For more infor- mation, contact LeonoraSea@comcast.net

By Leonora Sea

will be available. As always, remember your sunscreen. For more informatio contact LeonoraSea@comcast.net or inf frogpark.org.

By Leonora Sea

...s that can get wet if you plan to work in the creek bed. Families are welcome, and there are plenty of kid-appropriate tasks. Meet near the eucalyptus stump at the corner of Cavour and Redondo to sign in. To RSVP, or for more info, contact leonorasea@yahoo.com. In Rockridge since 1997 A c a m e r a s h y v o l u n t e e r a n d h i s mother pause for a photo during the Frog Park Earth Day cleanup. The DMV Greenbelt Cleanup offers many k i d - a p p r o p r i a t e opportunities to get i...

By Theresa Nelson

...e to home? Join the DMV Neighbors Association on the banks of Temescal Creek for our annual Oakland Creek-to-Bay Day cleanup Saturday, September 21. We’ll provide tools, caffeine and juice, and morning snacks. If you’re interested, contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, leonorasea@yahoo.com, and look for more information in the September Rockridge News. — Leonora Sea

...to participate. The DMV Neighbors Association will provide morning pastries and coffee at our sign-in table at Redondo, and light snacks afterwards. Everyone is welcome: Come for the morning or come for an hour; you’ll be welcomed. Contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, leonorasea@yahoo.com, or Ronnie Spitzer, FROG Park, rcspitzer@ yahoo.com. Come Play in the Creek: Temescal Creek and FROG Parks Interim Work Party, Mid-June by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors The DMV Neighbors Associ...

Avenue. Families and groups are welcome. Students needing service hours for school will receive a signed letter verifying their participation. Tools will be provided, or bring your own, well marked. For more information, contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, Leono- raSea@comcast.net, or find Temescal Creek on the city’s Creek to Bay Day web site: www.oaklandcreektobay.org. Learn more about where Temescal Creek originates and its flow through the Rockridge and Temesc...

By Stuart Flashman

Stuart Flashman’s Term as Chair Expires Following the Election; Board Elects Leonora Sea as Chair for 2018-19 Term Rept: RCPC April Annual Meeting and Town Hall by Stuart Flashman, RCPC Boardmember On Thursday, April 19, RCPC held its annual meeting and April Town Hall at the Rockridge Branch Library. Twenty-nine Rockridge res...

...financial aid, Jimmy Pedersen Barney Smits and Madeleine Nelson Councilmember Deidre Martin Dan Kalb Theresa Nelson Theresa Nelson Theresa Nelson Conner fills a bag Weirdest trash find in the Green Belt, ever. Theresa Nelson Ronnie Spitzer Leonora Sea Deidre Martin Deidre Martin Photos by: Theresa Nelson, FROG Park; Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors; and Deidre Martin, Environmental Stewardship

of the one-time home on College Avenue. Volunteer Laura Schlichtmann, an RCPC boardmember, helps clear the Greenbelt’s creek of invasive plants. /Leonora Sea Greenbelt DMV June Cleanup We Came, We Saw, We Weeded ... and Weeded and Weeded! by Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Take a stroll by the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt near Cavour and along Redondo, and admire the good work accomplished by the vo...

Cleaning Temescal Creek and Greenbelt.  Miles Avenue volunteers: Jill, Aven, Auntie Emo, Lyra, and Sandy. /Leonora Sea  Chabot School science classes group portrait. /A Chabot parent be polluting the Bay or clogging our little creekbed. Thank you to site captains Lee Patterson and Margaret Pinter; to Alem’s Café (across the street from the DMV) for excell...

By Don Kinkead

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...ork on weed and root removal in the creek channel. Families are welcome and there are plenty of kid-appropriate tasks. Meet at the picnic table near the DMV parking lot to sign in. To RSVP, or for more info, contact leonorasea@yahoo.com. — Leonora Sea

trees last year. The trees continue to do well, largely due to local community volunteers who watered the trees during last summer. We may need additional help this summer: please e-mail Leonora Sea at leonorasea@ yahoo.com if you can help. The next time you walk along the greenbelt, shop at the Farmers market, or visit the DMV, take a look at the new boulders, where you may envision the final restoration phases, which include plantin...

...Betty, coffee from Alem’s Café, and tote bags and Chinook Books from the city of Oakland for everyone. Come join us, and plan to stay after we’re done for snacks, drinks, and conversation on the lawn under the trees. For more info, contact Leonora Sea, DMV Neighbors Association, leonorasea@ yahoo.com, or look up Temescal creek on the city of Oakland’s Creek to Bay Day web site: www.oaklandcreektobay.org. Also, the Oakland Museum has a fantastic Web

By Stuart Flashman

...C Board election. The Board would also like to thank the board members who volunteered to help run the election: Elections officer Stuart Flashman, board members Ronnie Spitzer, Ken Rich, Andrew Charman and Zach Unger, retiring board chair Leonora Sea, and legal advisor John Gussman. n LAST CALL FOR KITCHENS Rockridge Wants to

By Don Kinkead

...�����������������������������Assistant Editor Crab season is set to open on December 15. & Community Calendar Judith Doner Berne �����������Eyes on Rockridge Susan Montauk ������������������Business Manager RCPC Board of Directors, 2018-19 Leonora Sea ����������������������Chair Vacant ��������������������������������Vice-Chair Casey Farmer ��������������������Co-Secretary Andrew Masalin ����������������Co-Secretary

By Stuart Flashman

All five candidates were handily elected, and seated a week later at a special board meeting. At that meeting, Leonora Sea was elected Chair, and Ronnie Spitzer was elected Treasurer. The other two offices, Vice-Chair and Secretary, and the fifth, at-large member of the Board’s executive committee will be chosen at the Board’s regular May meeting. Once the ele...