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By Keith Carson

Mary MacDonald, Chair of RCPC, will co-facilitate a session addressing the Transit Village concept with representatives of BART and Urban Ecology. This session will contrast the Fruitvale and Rockridge station sites, allowing us to explore the benefits o...

By Kathy Walsh

RCPC Chair Mary MacDonald, Rockridge resident and lawyer, started off the public comments with an over-

By Mary MacDonald

by Mary MacDonald, Chair of RCPC Zoning and Design Review Committee

By Mary MacDonald

by Mary MacDonald, Chair of RCPC Zoning and Design Review Committee

By Mary MacDonald

Applications for Two Vacancies Welcomed cues. Send a statement of interest by by Mary MacDonald, RCPC Chair May 27, 1995, to RCPC, 5856 College

By Mary MacDonald

The April Rockridge Community Plan- ning Council’s Board of Directors’ clec- tion retumed four incumbents to the Board for two-year terms: Cliff Cline, Mary MacDonald, Teresa Nelson, and Kathy Walsh. The Board has two vacancies created by the departure of Steven Belcher and Leigh Trivette.

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by Mary MacDonald, Chair, RCPC

By Mary MacDonald

by Mary MacDonald, Chair, RCPC

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“maximize the construction envelope.” As the meeting drew to a close, Mary MacDonald, a former RCPC chairwoman, took the floor, saying she “felt the emotion in the room” and could no longer remain silent. In perhaps the most dramatic statement of the evening, MacDonald told attendees that many of RCPC’s former board member...

...hompson Frank Giunta Elizabeth Allen Steve Belcher Glen Jarvis Michael Peltz Jean Astrinsky Bill Manley Andrea Walhof Lisa Curet Alisa Metzner Shelley Poticha Mary Lamprech Peter Eng Kathy Walsh Steve Borstad Theresa Nelson Ronnie Polonsky Mary MacDonald John Thomas Stuart Davis Gary Jereczek Lisa Haage Reed Holderman ➧➧A Tradition of Service, page 11

.........The Muse Claire Isaacs Wahrhaftig.... Writer Barry Kaufman...................Food Jo Ellis...................................Advertising & Poticha, Mary Lamprech, Peter Ng, Kathy Walsh, Steve Borstad, Theresa Nelson, Ronnie Polonsky, Mary MacDonald, John Thomas, Stuart Davis, Gary Jereczek, Lisa Haage, Reed Holderman, Shawn Hooks, Beryl Shore, Leigh Trivette, Cliff Cline, Ginny Palmer, Meredith Kaplan, Maya Byrne Nissanka, Ronnie Spitzer, Dan Pitcock, Susan Montauk, Bill Penney, Roge...

By Theresa Nelson

...s Balance Hydrologics, Inc. Jarvis Architects Sydney Johnson and Kyle Verrips Meredith McGovney Kaplan The Lee Family Linda Lemon and Michael Chervenak Sandra Lessenden and Jeffrey Ghent Madeline Lilley and Eric Faurot The Liu/Young Family Mary MacDonald John Maier Liz Maxwell and Jim Clarke Roger Mendelson David & Nora Mitchell Steve Mitchell and Kate Runyan Susan Montauk Theresa Nelson, Barney Smits & Madeleine Nelson Helen Francis Neville and John R. Neville Sarah Rainey Michael Reardon...

By John Gussman

... Pre-Incorporation: Ted Burton (1971-80) Warren Chupp (1981) Jack Brown (1981) Ray Perman (1982-84) Nina Robinson (1984-85) Post-Incorporation: Nina Robinson (1985-86) Barbara Anderson (1987-90) Brooke Levin (1990-91) Kathy Walsh (1991-93) Mary MacDonald (1994-96) Cliff Cline (1996-97) The Rockridge News, founded in 1986 by Don Kinkead, is published monthly in Oakland and is sponsored by the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC), a nonprofit public benefit organization founded to: pr...

By Jennifer Edmister

...his On the 2007 Kitchen Tour ¡ Jo Ellis, left, and Architect Kathy Rogers in Merry Ross and Pat Zimski’s kitchen. √ Kitchen Talk in Phil Tecau’s kitchen. Photos: Susan Montauk RCPC thanks all those who made this event possible: HOMEOWNERS: Mary MacDonald, Merry Ross &

...ce; and are subject to editing. To reprint a Rockridge News article, please contact the editor. Theresa Nelson, former RCPC chairwoman and longest- serving board member, and co-founder of FROG Park. Photo: Cy Gulassa Former RCPC chairwoman Mary MacDonald addresses the crowd at the opening of the new Rockridge branch library, August 1996. File Photo Newsletter Advertising/Deadlines Publication date of the next issue is  June 2, 2007  June deadline is May 19. Advertising rates are $26/colu...

By Gay Ducey

Maya Byrne Nissanka Susan Carrier .... Mary MacDonald ... Jacqueline Frost Jennifer Katz Don Kinkead Distribution Annette Floystrup Editing Are there community issues you’d like to see covered in The Rockridge News? Call 814-6060, or write to 5856 College Avenue, #130, Oakland 94618. Publicat...

By Nancy Dutcher

... the September Rockridge News! But, to paraphrase that great Beatles’ song, “I get by with a LOT of help from my Friends,” so the thanks should also go to Kathy Walsh, Trish West, Linda Sensabaugh, Ron Heckart, Joel Gomberg, Sharon Miller, Mary MacDonald, Annette Floystrup, Don Kinkead, Andy Young, Alice Sung, Glen Jarvis, John Thomas and numer- ous others who have given many hun- dreds of hours to our effort. Thanks also to my husband, Bill, for putting up with all those late dinners unco...

available within walking distance. Everyone seems to want a transit village these days, but RCPC Chair Mary MacDonald offered another thought: there’s no need to “create” a “transit village” where one already exists! Rockridge is an example of an area which has been a transit village for decades. Streetcars ran up and down College until 1955, connecting w...

...tor Martin Gomez, former Council- April 22, 1995, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. member Marge Gibson Haskell, Councilmember Sheila Jordan, Neighbors for Ifyou are 18 years of age or older and a Rockridge Library chair Nancy Dutcher, and RCPC chair Mary MacDonald. reside within RCPC boundaries (see map

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Rockridge News Production Kathy Walsh .. = .. Editor-in-Chief Trish West _._... sis Editor Valerie Knight _...... . Graphics; Layout Susan Montauk ....... Advertising Maya Byrne Nissanka — Billing Mary MacDonald ... Writing; Editing Don Kinkead ... rareseermees DISTFIDUTION

...working on the campaign are your neighbors. They include, to name just a few: Nancy Dutcher and Andy Young, co-chairs of the committee; Gity Baxter, Reine Brent, Winkie Campbeil-Notar; Ruth Friedman; Joel Gomberg; Earl Hamlin: Ron Heckart; Mary MacDonald; Alisa Metzner, Sharon Miller; Pat Rigby; Howard Rodkin; Penn Shearer; Laura Schlichtmann; Linda Sensabaugh; Kathy Walsh; and Trish West. They have put up signs, contacted voters and distrib- uted literature explaining Measure L. Thanks to...

By Jennifer Edmister

...th Kaplan, Don Kinkead, Marilyn Mansfield, Diane Mayo, Nancy Sale, Susan Shawl, and the RCPC board members DOCENTS: Adams, Shari; Alderman, Ann; Arakaki, Jahlee; Buresh, Trisha; Carolina, Carolyn; Critchfield, Pam; Crosby, Lynn; Davillier, Mary; Davis, Clay; Davis, Sherry; Del Simone, Ann; Emmons, Sue; Ewing, Aparna; Fenichel, Ellen; Friedland, Sandy; Galer, Robin; Garcia, Bill; Gomes, John; Hikida, Lyn; Hoffman, Anna; Jacobson, Diane; Kulberg, Sari; Kulka, Terry; Lappen, Sally; Levy, Mell...

... the Rockridge BART station, and the Medical Insurance Exchange of California’s (MIEC) expansion proposal for its office building on Claremont Avenue. She was also interesting to talk with, and I will always remember her wonderful laugh. — Mary E. MacDonald, Chair, RCPC, 1993-96 m b e e m r i e n Rg Dear RCPC: We are writing with the sad news that our mother, Kathy Walsh, died Tuesday, December 10. She had been suffering from Alzheimer’s