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Come join us. Visit us at the office for “Time to Talk About North Oakland Village” offered the third Friday of the month from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. This Is an opportunity to learn and to ask questions about North Oakland Village for those curious about exploring membership and/ or volunteering.

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North Oakland Village Relocates

By Jody London

North Oakland Community Meeting ■ ■Saturday, March 12 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. by Jody London, Vice President, Board of Education and Director, District 1 The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has been California’s most improved large urban district for ...

North Oakland Senior Center Program Highlights: Computer classes; health Insur- ance counseling and advocacy program; exercise; trips, tours and theater outings; Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Groups. Hrs: Mon. – Fri., 8:45am to 4:45pm. 5714 Martin Luth...

North Oaklanders assembling at 11:30 am at the North Oakland Baptist Church, 1060 32nd Street, will parade down Adeline Street to 7th Street, turn up 7th to Broadway and link up at City Hall with marchers who started from Allen Temple Baptist Church. Th...

Save the Date: North Oakland Town Hall with Mayor Jean Quan, April 2 Just two months into her term, Mayor Jean Quan has arguably had more direct contact with the public than any of her recent predecessors, and she intends to keep it up. Mayor Quan, who formerly repres...

North Oakland Town Hall In lieu of Councilmember Jane Brunner’s Community Advisory Meeting: District 1 Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Jean Quan. Saturday, April 2, 10am to 12:30pm. North Oakland Senior Center, 5714 MLK Jr. Way (at 58th St.). See details: ...

North Oakland Senior Center ó ó Program Highlights: Computer classes; Health Insur- ance counseling and advocacy program; trips, tours and theater outings; Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group; AARP driver Safety classes; Farmers Market every Wednesday ...

¢ North Oakland Muiti-Purpose Senior Center Program Highlights: Computer classes; health insurance counseling and advocacy program; driver safaty: trips, tours and theater outings. Center hours: Monday — Friday, 8:45am to 4:45pm. 5714 Martin Luther King, ...

By Lydia Gans

North Oakland Neighbors For Peace  Protesters of the move toward war by Lydia Gans Fin Iraq gathered rom the whimsical display in Scout’s window featuring “Weapons of Mass Decoration,” to the person who tossed rocks through that window, to the many peo...

On the night of July 27, 1987, at the North Oakland Com- munity District Advisory Council, Rockridge received initial approval from this representative body of its request for $8,000 to develop its Specific Plan. As the quid pro quo for supporting this emergency request, other neighborhoods...

Oakland in Budget Solution Quandary, Mayor Tells North Oakland Meeting ROCKRIDGE BRANCH LIBRARY 5366 College Avenue 597-5017 HOURS: Mon, Tues: Weds, Thurs, Sat: Friday: Sunday: Library program details: See Calendar, page 15. by Chuck Afflerbach, Rockridge resident Mayor Jean Quan came to North Oak- la...

By Ellen Peterson

North Oakland City Council- woman Jane Brunner; 510/238-7001 e-mail jbrunner@oaklandnet.com Mayor Ronald Dellums; 510/238-3141 e-mail officeofthemayor@oaklandnet.com State Senator Don Perata; comments: http://dist09.casen.govoffice.com/ State Assemblywo...

• North Oakland Community Charter School (NOCCS): tutors to work with 1st to 4th graders, one-on-one or in small groups, on math skills, beginning reading and writing skills. Weekly time commitment of at least one hour. Located at College Ave. Presb. Chur...

North Oakland, Berkeley, Albany and Alameda. Len Lauro (510) 435-9586; lenlauro@yahoo.com. Electrical Remodels and Repairs Is your sump pump ready for the rainy season? I can help with that. I’ve been doing electrical work in Oakland and Berkeley for ov...

...se current approximately 350 members include residents, cops, city officials and reporters. by Janet Somers Oakland Police Lt. Lawrence Green, who three and a half years ago started an innovative Yahoo group allowing police and citizens of North Oakland to talk to each other, has left his post as North Oakland commander to head the department’s traffic division and serve as one of four lieutenants on the tactical squad. “People who did not know each other, from San Pablo-Golden Gate to th...

API Ratings for North Oakland Schools Schools Plan Stalls from previous page school rank Number of Academic students North Oakland Elementary Schools district’s children. With a few exceptions, students do NOT perform to a higher educational standard in most of them, a...

...t any district property. Thousands of new housing units are either under con- struction or in the permitting process in Oakland — and neither the School Board nor Ward want to sell sites that may be needed in five years. T Ward’s staff and North Oakland princi- pals are working with me to find creative solutions to keep schools open and stabilize enrollment. Our early childhood education director is involved because hundreds of preschool students attend the affected schools. A series of c...

The Global School: Charter Middle School Proposed for North Oakland ers more time to form close relationships with their students, identify their learning styles and areas of strength and weakness, and individualize instruction. The design team plans to conduct a series of focus groups throughout North Oak...

By Hiroko Kurihara

North Oakland Co-Housing is buying this property from Shasta Productions and has hired a development manager, Co-Housing Resources, to hire the architect and manage the nonprofit, 30-unit project. A meeting to discuss this and other projects, facilitate...

North Oakland lost a beloved member of its community in late January. Melinda Levine—artist, editor, writer, activist wife of former Oakland school board member Ken Rice and mother of Morgan Rice—died January 27 after a ten-month battle with leukemia. i...

North Oakland neighborhoods also suffer from a lack of sound planning. At the expense of our neighborhoods, the current city council has directed huge sums of money away from the general budget and into downtown redevelopment projects. In the meantime, ...

Square Dance In North Oakland Music by The Squirrelly String Band. Calling by Jordan Ruyle or Evie Ladin (with occasional guest performers). 1st and 3rd Fridays each month, 8 – 10pm. All levels welcome; all dances taught on the spot. $5-10 sliding scale donation. The N...

North Oakland Senior Center, 5714 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. age 15, Alex, age 13, and Andre, age 12, all attended. By contrast, it has been just five years since Brossard and his wife “worked hard to find a home in Rockridge because we love older nei...

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North Oakland Senior Times” for full schedule

By Jordan Ruyle

North Oakland Senior Center

North Oakland Senior Center 5714 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way: 597-5085

By Jordan Ruyle

North Oakland Senior Center

...ce at age 19. His father, Phil Green, is Twin Cities (Larkspur/Corte Madera) police chief and his younger brother, Phil, is an OPD homicide sergeant. Green lives in Antioch with his wife, Monica, an OPD dispatcher. During his five years in North Oakland, Green became known for re-vamping police culture here, vastly improving communica- tion between police and residents. of Jonathan Sprague and Kate Powers community is thanking her and appreciating her. And so it’s sort of like this natura...

By Jordan Ruyle

North Oakland Senior Center

By Jordan Ruyle

North Oakland Senior Center

By Jordan Ruyle

North Oakland Senior Center

North Oakland Senior Center

North Oakland Senior Times” for full schedule

By Mark Haber

North Oakland Senior Center

By Jordan Ruyle

North Oakland Senior Center

North Oakland Senior Center

North Oakland Senior Center

North Oakland Senior Center

a “watch list,” he said, and may have to be consolidated in future years (not next year) if enrollment trends continue. options in North Oakland modeled on the successes of the small schools movement is an option I fully support. Conversations about sharing space to bring additional money to a campus are happening. New marketing approaches are being considered to spread the word ab...

Ward’s staff and North Oakland princi- pals are working with me to find creative solutions to keep schools open and stabilize enrollment. Our early childhood education director is involved because hundreds of preschool students attend the affected schools. A series of c...

North Oakland Senior Center ■ ■Rockridge Ninjas Anime Club: Watch and talk about anime (Japanese animation). Second Tues. each month 5 to 6:30pm. FOR ADULTS Return of the concert series featuring Bay Area jazz musicians in a beautiful Julia Morgan venue...

North Oakland Senior Center ■ ■Tea Ceremony in Celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month: led by Miss Shin of Itsy Bitsy. Tues., 5/17, 7pm. All ages welcome. FOR TEENS ■ ■May: Merritt College Portrait Class. ■ ■June: Darril Tighe; abstra...

North Oakland Senior Times,” for a full schedule of classes/events, lunch menus, membership, and oppor- tunities to become a volunteer. More info: 597- 5085. ■ ■Puppet Art Theater: Tommy’s Pirate Adventure. Ortrun Niesar Senior Marketing Consultant Prud...

North Oakland Senior Center Flu shot clinic: Tues., 10/27, 9am to noon. ■ ■ Bring Medicare card. $3.00 suggested donation. Rummage Sale: Sat., 11/7, 9am to 3pm. ■ ■ Clean out your clutter (no furniture) for Indoor fundraiser. $10 per table for members; ...

North Oakland Condo Projects Modified as Economy Worsens; Some are Redesigned

North Oakland Bids Farewell to Police Lieutenant Lawrence Green

North Oakland sisters Tiffany and Indy Stevenson jointly own Mr, Sandman, and their creative energy is reflected in the merchandise and look of the store. The restful interior is strung with paper lanterns in colors emphasizing the rainbow of paja- mas....

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* North Oakland Community Charter School (NOCCS): tutors to work with 1st to 4th graders t on math skills, beginning reading and writing skills. Weekly time commitment of at least one f hour. Located at College Ave. Presb. Church, (next

By Ronnie Spitzer

North Oakland Neighbors (NON) will bring us up to date on the options for the 5ist/Telegraph lot. (Page 14)

North Oakland Community Charter School to Open in Rockridge

, North Oakland Community Charter School

Tuesday Dec 16 7:30 pm North Oakland Community Development District meeting; Sante Fe School, 915 54th Street. Wednesday Dec 17 7:30 pm RCPC December General Meeting, College Avenue Presbyterian Church. NOTE CHANGE IN DATE AND MEETING ROOM! Monday Jan 5 7:30 pm North Oakland ...

North Oakland representatives to the Committee are Randy Hamilton, Professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley and Golden Gate University, and Theresa Nelson, marketing and finance executive in private industry and public entities.

North Oakland Challenge To Campus Demolition Plans

North Oakland Recycling Center

North Oakland Recycling Center _ffers Curbside Collection

North Oakland, both residents and businesses, must deal with crime and drugs in real terms. Motels are used as substandard housing units which are inhabited solely by drug dealers and prostitutes. The people of the neighborhoods, near Telegraph in parti...

North Oakland’s growing professional and families with small children population, as well as its existing senior and long term residents, need better street cleaning, library, police/fire and other city services. Quality of life in the neigh- borhoods m...

Oakland School Board Director Jody London Invites you to a North Oakland Community Meeting, featuring Superintendent Antwan Wilson, Wednesday, November 12 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Chabot Elementary School, 6686 Chabot Road. • Meet our new Superintendent; • Learn about Oakland’s education priorities; • Provide your idea...

By Karen Ivy

OPD Bureau of Field Operations Area 2 (North Oakland), which comprises the commercial districts of Rockridge, KONO (formerly Koreatown), Temescal, Montclair, and Piedmont Avenue, plus surrounding residential areas. I get the statistics I publish monthly for 12Y and 13X from Oakland’s crime m...

...er 8, College Avenue Presbyterian Church (CAPC), 5951 College Avenue. For additional information, visit Musicthatcooks@comcast.net. Jeff Norman is a community artist whose award- winning projects explore the cultural and natural history of North Oakland, where he lives.

By Cy Gulassa

...ents and everybody in between showed up for a community debate on higher-density development last month, sponsored by City Councilmember Jane Brunner, who kept tempers leashed with threats to stop the meeting if things got out of control. “North Oakland real estate is hot,” she said. “Proposed projects include 845 new condo units. Add that to the 540 units for the MacArthur BART project, and you’ve got a total of 1,385 units. The condos are coming; the question is, how do we want them to ...

The North Oakland Recreation Center, with the fledgling Studio One program occu- pying a portion of the second floor, opened in 1949. A city-run arts program for adults and youth, Studio One eventually grew to fill the entire building. The program operated ...

Handmade Paper & Mixed Media Art Classes in North Oakland Learn papermaking and explore media (watercolors, acrylics & found materials) and techniques (collage, painting, printmak- ing). Two Wednesday classes (1-4 & 7-9: 30 pm) start 9/21/05. Linda 510.428-2915. www.LindaLemon.com. Kundalini Yoga...

Rockridge Branch Library North Oakland Community Charter School (NOCCS), 410 Alcatraz Avenue (St. Augustine Schoolyard), Sat- urday, November 13, 9am to 2pm. Clothes for all ages, toys, household items and more. Parking available. No early-birds. Sponsored by the After-School C...

“Ward’s staff and North Oakland principals are working with me to find creative solutions to keep schools open and stabilize enrollment. “Oakland schools will prosper and serve well the needs of the community if parents and administra- tors collaborate to make creative d...

...training staff and incubating future new schools. Wand charter schools, or leave the city for more affordable areas like Sacramento and Fresno. At a community meeting I hosted June 5, Ward said he does not want to close any more schools in North Oakland. But four schools (Emerson, Golden Gate, and Washington elementary schools and Carter Middle School) continue to be on