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Patrick Daughton Named RCPC Champion

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ROCKRIDGE BRANCH LIBRARY In Memoriam Patrick Daughton October 5, 1944 – April 2, 2008 5366 College Avenue 597-5017 HOURS: Mon, Tues: Weds, Thurs, Sat: Friday: Sunday: Library program details: See Calendar, page 15. 12:30 – 8 p.m. 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 12 – 5:30 p.m. CLOSED A renaissance man, a ...

Newly-acclaimed Rockridge Champion Patrick Daughton, with his wife Barbara Havenar, displays the plaque presented to him by RCPC Vice Chair Annette Floystrup at the January RCPC Town Hall meeting. Photo: Ken Rice RCPC Board Thanks Retiring Board Member Stephanie Upp for Her Service

By Patrick Daughton

...e months ahead. Extensive landscaping and a public art installation are planned. To further its advocacy work, Friends of Studio One is seeking a local attorney and a local CPA or bookkeeper to join its board. If interested, please contact Patrick Daughton by phone at 510/652-1052 or by e-mail at pdaughton@earthlink.net. Through ongoing fundraising events and neighborhood house parties, Friends of Studio One has mounted an ambitious campaign to equip the renovated Art Center

By Patrick Daughton

by Patrick Daughton, Friends of Studio One Dseason. When scheduled, the event will be an opportunity for neighbors and the arts community to look at the $12.5 million state-of-the-art North Oakland facility and to meet the staff, tour the studios, enjoy a bit...

By Patrick Daughton

by Patrick Daughton R View of Studio One renovation from the front facing 45th Street. The roof is tarped to prevent rain damage. enovation of North Oakland’s Studio One Art Center continues unabated through the winter, on schedule for expected mid-summer com...

By Patrick Daughton

‘Light Pylons’ Sculpture Approved for Studio One by Patrick Daughton, Friends of Studio One A A New College for Downtown Berkeley Berkeley’s venerable Vista College will be rechristened Berkeley City College when the Peralta College system opens its newest facility on Center Street later this year. The new ...

By Patrick Daughton

SF Sculptor Selected for $100K Studio One Art Commission by Patrick Daughton San Francisco sculptor Cork Marcheschi was awarded a $100,000 commission from Oakland’s Cultural Arts department to create and install a public art piece for the Studio One Art Center, now undergoing renovation. The selection panel of arti...

Sadly, Patrick’s health has been declining over the last few years, but he remains active in local and city-wide issues. Our heartiest congratulations to him on receiving the 2008 Rockridge Champion Award. Ken Rice benefited from Patrick Daughton’s political wisdom when Daughton was his primary political adviser and campaign organizer during Rice’s successful District 1 school board campaign in 1996. Rice credits Daughton as also being an invaluable advisor during his four-year ter...

...e Avenue 597-5017 HOURS: Mon, Tues: Weds, Thurs, Sat: Friday: Sunday: Library program details: See Calendar, page 15. by Ken Rice At its January Town Hall meeting, the RCPC honored one of its most respected and beloved Rockridge residents, Patrick Daughton, for his years of selfless service to the Rockridge community when he was presented the 2008 Rockridge Champion Award by RCPC vice chair- woman Annette Floystrup. This is one of the many well-deserved community awards that Patrick has rece...

... bringing the board to its full complement of 14 members. Born and raised in Rockridge, the new board member cut his teeth in community service delivering The Rockridge News to neighbors with his late father, dedicated com- munity activist Patrick Daughton. Later, in college, he furthered his connection with the newsletter when he submitted articles seeking reader support for the Finca Project, an NGO (non- governmental organization) he founded, dedicated to small-scale reforestation and rel...

... Thursday, January 17, at 7:30 at the Rockridge Library. Following the presentation by the LWV, the RCPC will continue the Town Hall Meeting with updates and discussion of current projects. The RCPC will also be honoring Rockridge resident Patrick Daughton for his service to his community and his city with a Rockridge Champion award. Friends and colleagues of Patrick are invited to attend. “Ron Pardini, the farmer’s market pro­ vider, agreed to have his market close two Sundays a year when h...

By Karen Ivy

...projects: UnderBART improvements; Fourth Bore report; the new RCPC Website; various commercial devel­ opments Oakland retail today is less robust than when pictured in this photo from 1958. RCPC award presentation to Rockridge ■ ■ resident Patrick Daughton The Election Forum; League of Women Voters W Elwood’s, 17th and Telegraph, October 1958 /The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers. According to Conley

By Brendan Havenar-Daughton

... local community. Editor’s Note: Before going off to UC Santa Cruz and eventually the rainforests of Costa Rica, Brendan delivered The Rockridge News in his neighborhood for more than 10 years. He is the son of long-time Rockridge activist Patrick Daughton. We have also developed a unique cultural immersion program for students seeking an internship. Student interns stay with local

... uses of commercial space, affordable housing, streetscape improvements, open space, or creek preservation in Temescal or for the subject area of Telegraph Avenue, send an e-mail to Councilmember Jane Brunner at jbrunner@oaklandnet.com. by Patrick Daughton The drive to fund new furnishings for the Studio One Art Center is underway.

Celebration Out & About in Rockridge from page 3  Friends of Studio One staff an informational table during the Out & About street fair, Sunday, September 25. From left: Marian Gray, City Councilmember Jane Brunner, Patrick Daughton, Barbara Havenor, Maria Gibson-Barra. The fair was sponsored by the Rockridge District Association. rocking chair in the children’s room  refinishing damaged table tops  a fireplace mural for children’s room (to be juried)  board games,...

After-school activities for Claremont’s 300 stu- dents include a program of tutoring and homework assistance, mentored laboratories, drop-in rec- reation and club activities, and enrichment classes. by Patrick Daughton, Chair; OFCY Planning and Oversight Committee Ltored laboratories, drop-in recreation and club activities, and a variety of enrichment classes focused on youth empowerment and community service. Titled the Student and Family Education and ...

By Susan Montauk

...anning Council’s subcommittee, SCoR (the Schools Com- mittee of Rockridge), dedicated to creating a link between the commu- nity and its schools. SCoR members who stole time from work and summer vacation included Claremont PTA board member Patrick Daughton, 8th-grade science teacher Malia Dinell, librarian Mariece Batey, Norman Fowler, car- penter and husband of Mariece, and RCPC/ SCoR co-chairs Susan Montauk, Meredith Kaplan and Dan Pitcock. Jucy’s, a Col- lege Avenue juice bar, provided sm...