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By Nicole Aruda

Peralta Yard and Bake Sale offers a wide selection of donated goods to choose from. Photo from: Nicole Aruda stuff to shop for, including tons of baby clothes and equipment, adult clothes, furni- ture, household goods, tools, art and books. The sale is the perfect way to celebrate Earth Day; recycle your old, unwanted stuff and find and reuse oth...

By Nicole Aruda

by Nicole Aruda This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Lower Rockridge Parents Group (LRPG) fundraising and community- building yard sale. Over the last ten years, LRPG has raised close to $30,000 dollars for Peralta; last year, the Yard Sale raised ...

By Nicole Aruda

by Nicole Aruda, Peralta parent The Lower Rockridge Parents Group (LRPG) held their annual Community Yard & Bake Sale in April to benefit Peralta Elementary School, and raised over $5,000, a new record for the community event first held in 2002. One hundr...

By Nicole Aruda

by Nicole Aruda On Saturday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Lower Rockridge Parents Group (LRPG) will hold its annual community Yard & Bake Sale, the proceeds of which will benefit Peralta Elementary, Lower Rockridge’s excellent public elementary school....

...Household goods, stuff for kids and much more. Gourmet Burritos by Guerilla Grub and old fashioned bake sale. Sat., Apr. 9, 9am to 1pm. Peralta playground, Alcatraz Ave. (just east of Telegraph). Free parking at St. Augustine Church. Info: Nicole Aruda, 547-7976 or nicaruda@earthlink.net. St. Augustine Spring Fling Fundraiser Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) Residents and business members of NCPC’s 12Y and 13X areas can voice their concerns about crime and public safety. 2nd ...

By Don Kinkead

...hared 50-50 with Claremont Middle School. Please come join us: Shop, have a snack, meet neighbors, make new friends and sup- port your wonderful neighborhood public schools. For more information on the LRPG or the Yard Sale, e-mail or call Nicole Aruda at 510/547-7976; nicaruda@earthlink.net. * “Form-based Code,” from Wikipedia. (For clarification only.) “Form-based codes address the relationship between building façades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to...

...bby Display Case: May: ■ ■ Nancy Elliot: watercolors. June: ■ ■ Lori Fisher: handmade dolls. Meet each other and families at play-dates on Sunday, 5/16 and Saturday, 5/29: 9:30am at Colby Park (61st Street between Colby and Canning). Info: Nicole Aruda, 547-7976 or nicaruda@earthlink.net. North Oakland Senior Center FOR CHILDREN: Toddler Story Time: ■ ■ Every Sat., 10:30am. Pre-School Story Time: ■ ■ 1st and 3rd Wed., 10:30am. Baby and Toddler Story Time: ■ ■ 1st and 3rd Wed., 10:30am, u...

By Laura Counts

12:30 – 8 p.m. 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 12 – 5:30 p.m. CLOSED by Laura Counts, Nicole Aruda and Susette Min It’s fair to say that everyone—whether living in Rockridge or any other neighborhood— wants to feel safe. But not everyone believes the recent hiring of private security makes our community safer. In fact, no one has presen...

...’t collect data, who will? How will it be shared and how will success be measured? How will funders make a decision whether to continue after the four-month trial? Will anyone monitor how this experiment is affecting adjacent Laura Counts, Nicole Aruda and Susette Min are active Lower Rockridge residents raising their children here. Between the three of them, they’ve lived in the neighborhood for 41 years. Temescal, Piedmont Avenue, and Grand/ Lakeshore). Questions or Comments? Anyone wi...

... School’s auction last year. This year’s auction on March 3, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., at the Uptown Body and Fender building at 401 26th Street in down- town Oakland, is slated to be another great party with dinner, drinks, a DJ spinning by Nicole Aruda and Heather Grillmeyer, Peralta parents

...ositive change in the world. We cannot list all the people who helped to make this year’s sale a success, there are too many. However, your hard work and generosity has made a positive difference in the lives of many beautiful children. by Nicole Aruda and Heather Grillmeyer We, this year’s LRPG Yard Sale Cap- tains, thank all those generous people

... Apr 17, 9am–1pm. Proceeds benefit Peralta Elementary School’s many programs. Meet neighbors and shop for clothes, books, household goods, tools and more. Peralta School playground on Alcatraz Ave. (between Telegraph. And Dana). More info: Nicole Aruda, 547-7976 or lowerrockridgeparents@yahoo.com. See story p.11 Hillcrest School Carnival Saturday, Apr 17, 11am–3pm. Old fashioned fun with games, a giant slide, live music, BBQ, Jamba Juice and more to benefit Hillcrest PTA programs. Hillcr...