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By Victoria Eisen

• Dispute resolution Margaret Pinter piles the ivy pulled from the eucalyptus. /Leonora Sea • Special needs trusts Please contact me for a free consultation or to schedule an appointment. Visit the RCPC Website for News and Events: rockridge.org

By Margaret Pinter

by Margaret Pinter and Susan Montauk Come celebrate Earthday in Rockridge, Saturday, April 22, 9 am ’till noon by working at one of several project sites. The City of Oakland will provide a limited number of gloves and tools so volunteers are encouraged to b...

By Margaret Pinter

by Margaret Pinter On Saturday, September 16, from 9 a.m. until noon, join your neighbors for a volunteer clean-up of Temescal Creek. We’ll meet at the DMV parking lot at the corner of Cavour and Redondo and will work along Redondo between Cavour and Clarke....

By Margaret Pinter

Meet across from the Claremont DMV parking lot at the corner of Cavour and Redondo. We will clean the creek bed through the Greenbelt along Redondo between Clifton and Clarke. by Margaret Pinter, DMV Neighbors In an event sponsored by the DMV Neigh­ bors Association and the city of Oakland Environmental Services Department, DMV Neighbors will celebrate Creek to Bay Day, with a volunteer clean up at Temescal Creek. Oakland’s 15th a...

By Margaret Pinter

Earthday Spring Cleaning in Rockridge by Margaret Pinter At the lunch sponsored by the DNA (DMV Neighbors Association) on Earthday following the clean-up projects, neighbors will honor Jackie Hoeppner-Freitas and her husband, Tony Freitas, who, along with their dog Reina, are retiring to the mou...

By Margaret Pinter

Questions? Contact Margaret, 510/655- 1767 or margaretpinter@aol.com. Design, Installation and Maintenance Native Plant Gardens & Stonework Me. I’ve been an Allstate Agent for 10 years. And riding bikes for 17. That means I can talk all day about insurance features and disc...

Kathryn Kasch (left) and Margaret Pinter having a great time weeding at § the corner of Claremont and Clifton. §

Bruce Paton Margaret Pinter Andra Pligavko Susie Poncelet Dare Porter Lorraine Price Courtenay Redis Brenda Reeves

... via www.scenicstreets.org. One of the volunteer Scenic Street crews pauses briefly for a photograph during the August 20 cleanup. Kneeling, Robert Firehock. Standing, from left: Lee Patterson, Laura Schlichtmann, Betsy York, Brad Dickson, Margaret Pinter. /Dan Kalb Left column, above, Councilmember Dan Kalb waters a sidewalk tree next to DaVita Dialysis Center.

...es 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 excellent coffee; to Eddie’s Liquors on College Avenue for ice; to Michael Perlmutter, city of Oakland Environmental Stewardship Supervisor, Brazile Clark, Daniela Milian-Cavanecia and t...

By Victoria Eisen

...oria@eisenletunic.com or 510/525-0220. [See project details below.] Two DMV volunteers have cleared a mound of ivy — partially visible at right and in photo below — from a very large eucalyptus tree along the Temescal Greenbelt creek bed. /Margaret Pinter Project Information Reprinted from Newsletter May 2014 Issue The project includes the following components:

Join the Rockridge News Team Become a Block Captain for the Rockridge News After summer break, the Rockridge News is back but a few blocks will not be getting their September issue; their block captains have moved or retired. Thanks to Margaret Pinter, Rachel Rusting and Gary Binger for their service as block captains. Now we need volunteers to replace them. It usually takes about 15 minutes to walk a route once a month — good exercise and a way to get to know your neighbors better. Let...

where she will be working for the next two years. Her husband suggested they could fly back monthly to deliver the Rockridge News but we didn’t take him up on it. Margaret Pinter, also of Miles Avenue, has been Block Captain for the 5100 block of Miles for many years. She is taking a break to spend more time with Block Captains 16B Both sides of 5100 Miles from Cavour to 51st Street. 16D Both sides 5200 Claremont, ...

BA9P1FPRHG.DTL for a report on a Porta Potty solution to restroom problems at a park in another part of the Bay Area. — Margaret Pinter WINSTON’S PLUMBING HEATING & ELECTRICAL lic.# 537739/554406 Since 1979 • Trenchless Sewers Design, Installation and Maintenance Native Plant Gardens & Stonework • Earthquake Protection • Tankless Water Heaters • Remodel & Repair 510-652-80...

...e wonderful if you would pull the foxtails out of your sidewalk and tree wells to help protect our local dogs. If you see me out front pulling a few of your weeds, I’m not looking for a gardening job, only hoping to avoid a big vet bill. – Margaret Pinter

... Lyons, Ian Reed, Mark Rogero, Gene St. Onge, Fernando Sorto. JANE BRUNNER’S STEERING COMMITTEE: Rose Barquist, Margie Calahan, Jennifer Cooper, Steve Costa, Bruce Douglas, Sally Fitzhugh, Beth Maher, Francesca McCros- sen, Theresa Nelson, Margaret Pinter, Jackie Hoeppner-Freitas. CONTRACTORS AND CITY AND COUNTY STAFF:

...dn’t dampen the enthusiasm of Rockridge volunteers on Earthday, Saturday, April 23. They celebrated by cleaning up trash and a wet winter’s bonanza of weeds, ivy and brush along 51st Street and Redondo Creek, and refurbishing FROG park: 1) Margaret Pinter rakes trash out of road culvert. 2) Kirsten Howe disciplines unruly weeds on 51st. 3) Bill Cwynar prunes a dump truck load of deadwood from big trees. 4) Oakland Tech students (from left) Austin Zumbro and Robert and Michael Shultz display...

Please join us. For more information: http://www.oaklandpw.com/creeks, or contact Margaret Pinter, 655-1767. 

 
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...nt sponsored by the DMV Neighbors Association and the City of Oakland. At noon, all volunteers were rewarded with a potluck and pasta feed held at Mike Bogart’s home across from the DMV. Many thanks to all who contributed and especially to Margaret Pinter, who organized the event, the hard workers, and the Colombo Club, which donated more pasta than 50 people could ever eat. Above, from left, volunteers Joanmarie Wood, Randy Molina, Josh Wojtkiewicz, Troye Mowrer, Paul Leimone and Adele Men...