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By Nila Kim

Caltrans Sweep of Homeless Camps In Rockridge by Nila Kim, Assistant to Councilwoman Jane Brunner City Councilwoman Jane Brunner has announced that the city of Oakland and Caltrans have recently stepped up their efforts to clean up homeless encampments in the Rockridge neighborhood. Responding to...

ouncilmember Jane Brunner’s office has seen many changes in the last few months. New members to the office include Nila Kim, taking over Kate Whitlow’s job as Rockridge liaison and Brunner’s scheduling assis­ tant. Whitlow, who did an outstanding job for Brunner and for Rockridge, has moved to New York City. Kim is digging in and getting to know Rockridge since...

rk Corner a P G A monthly update on what’s happening at the FRO best community-built and maintained park in Oakland Nila Kim, newly hired aide to Jane Brunner, toured FROG Park with FROG Chair Jennifer Cooper. The two discussed key issues for FROG, including the new permanent restroom at Hardy Park, creek flow initiatives, and housing development affecting the g...

By Carol Behr

...ject; Kate Runyan, Oceanus Mural restoration project; Phase Two steering committee; Big Build captains, committee leaders and volunteers; City and County staff: Ignacio de la Fuente and staff; Jim Ryugo, Parks Facilities Manager; Zac Wald, Nila Kim and Kate Whitlow; Gene Mazza, Alameda County Public Works Agency; Luciano Cortes, FROG gardener; Rockridge Community Planning Council; Friends of Oakland Parks & Recreation; community maintenance volunteers.

...Mike McDonald, Ronnie Spitzer, Jimmy Pedersen, Jennifer Cooper, Theresa Nelson, Barney Smits and Carol Behr. We also deeply appreciate the assistance of Councilmember Jane Brunner and staff members Zac Wald, Justin Horner, Kate Whitlow and Nila Kim, as well as Public Works staff Jim Ryugo, Denise Louie and Lily Soo Hoo. The new restroom replaces the long-used Porta-Potty, pictured at right. – FROG Park Committee Community Workshop on Off-Street Parking Thursday, September 15, 6–8 p.m...

By Theresa Nelson

...oject while Mike was living temporarily outside the neighborhood. Ronnie Spitzer also worked on the final restroom phases. We appreciate the help of Councilmem- ber Brunner’s staff members Kate Whitlow, instrumental in getting funding, and Nila Kim for her major work getting CalTrans to approve the current location and working with other city staff, including Jim Ryugo of Public Works, on the project. Zac Wald, Brunner’s chief of staff, played an important role keeping the project mo...

By Annette Floystrup RCPC

...nd movies, readily agreed. Working with RCPC board member Annette Floystrup, Gabel next enlisted the support of the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) board of directors and City Council President Jane Brunner’s office, with aides Nila Kim and Maria Barra- Gibson facilitating a relationship between DVDs are the most popular circulating item in the Rockridge Library, with just over half checked out at any given time. 2,877 DVD titles await cataloging and security cases so the...

...Buena Vista Park facility, will be located at the current Porta-Potty site, be open seven days a week and be securely locked at night. If you have questions or comments, con- tact Denise Louie, restroom project manager, at 510/238-3682, or Nila Kim, staff aide to Councilwoman Jane Brunner, 510/238-7011. Celebrate Earth Day at FROG Park Saturday, April 17, 9 a.m. to noon. Meet at Hardy Playground (near Hardy Circle and Hudson/Claremont) FROG is organizing a fun Earth Day clean-up Satu...

...ithout the assistance of many City staff, community representatives, and project collaborators. FROG acknowledges: Dedication speakers: city of Oakland’s Public Art Program representative Kristen Zaremba, Councilmember Brunner staff member Nila Kim, Oakland Public Art Advisory Committee member Jennifer Easton, FROG past Chair Jennifer Cooper, and artist Mark Brest van Kempen. Other contributors: Markley Bavinger and Joel Peter, Measure DD Program; Eric Cabunoc; Christine Calabrese, A...

...ROG Park will soon have a new restroom similar to the one pictured at left (arrow above and left). It will be located near the Hardy Street turn-around. Photo and graphic: City of Oakland FROG Park Soon to Have A New, Permanent Restroom by Nila Kim, aide to Councilwoman Jane Brunner The starkly utilitarian comforts of por- table restrooms will soon be a thing of the past for visitors to Rockridge’s FROG Park. Thanks to community support and the efforts of Friends of the Rockridge Tem...

...operty. Also, it will not be affected by the BART retrofit construction slated for the summer of 2009. If you have any questions or com- ments about the restroom, please contact Denise Louie, restroom project man- ager, at 510/238-3682, or Nila Kim, staff aide to Councilwoman Jane Brunner, at 510/238-7011. Summer Reading, page 11 ¤ ¤ Library Wants Photos of Branch by Kristine Carraway, Friends of the Rockridge Library (FORL) Our Rockridge Branch Library needs photos. We’re putting to...

...ay – also slated for rebuilding and expansion – and presently serve as satel- lite stores to that much larger store. Why, they asked, would the College Avenue store then have to be as large as its current plans suggest? Attendance included Nila Kim, Assistant to District 1 City Councilmember Jane Brun- ner, and Barbara Ellis of Aroner, Jewel & Ellis Partners, consultants to Safeway. from page 1 store, incorporate the Union 76 property at College and Claremont into the site plan, and ...

...C Board Elections: You Can Do It Find the perfect volunteer opportunity to work on community issues. Get the process started now. See page 3. Apr 17 The Scoop on Dreyer’s Ice Cream Parlor... Caltrans Sweep of Homeless Camps In Rockridge by Nila Kim, Assistant to Councilwoman Jane Brunner City Councilwoman Jane Brunner has announced that the city of Oakland and Caltrans have recently stepped up their efforts to clean up homeless encampments in the Rockridge neighborhood. Responding to...

By Chuck Afflerbach

e m b a r k a t i o n o f t r o o p s a t P o r t Tampa preparatory to invading Cuba. – From p. 313 of Harper’s Pictorial History of the War with Spain, Vol. II, published by Harper and Brothers in 1899. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.) he pressed on, even when General Shafter was sending word to fall back. Lawton led a warrior’s life and met a warrior’s death. On December 19, 1899, he was killed by a sniper near the city of Manila. As usual, he was leading his m...

By Kristil Robarts

A business once called “sweat shop” is reborn as up-scale retail building by Kristil Robarts and Kimberly Leo Many Rockridge residents remember the old commercial building on College Avenue between Manila and Kales that had darkened windows and the constant hum of sewing machines coming from the interior. Out in the back, enterprising resident...