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Brunner Names Susan Killebrew Community Hero Susan Killebrew and family, pictured at right, display the Community Hero award she received from Jane Brunner at the 2004 North Oakland Summer Picnic. In part the commendation reads: “As the primary force behind the lower R...

By Susan Killebrew

Peralta Elementary Plans 125th Birthday Festival Bash by Susan Killebrew Peralta Elementary School is celebrating over 125 years of helping children learn, and the entire community is invited to join the party. This year’s Peralta Spring Community Festival will high- light Peralta’s long and rich history as one...

By Susan Killebrew

Peralta Elementary Spring Community Festival May 15 by Susan Killebrew T

By Susan Killebrew

...out more about making a tax-deductible donation, call Peralta parent Marguerite Young at 654-1446. Individuals who can volunteer to help serve food, blow up balloons, or hand out prizes for an hour or two during the festival should contact Susan Killebrew at 655-2737.

Design for ironwork gate created by Peralta student Billy Hurth, to be fabricated using LRPG yard sale profits. by Susan Killebrew Oare still too young to attend Peralta.” n Saturday, October 1, the Lower Rockridge Parents’ Group (LRPG) held its fourth annual community yard sale to benefit Peralta Elementary School. More than 30 neighborhood households participated, t...

...nge of backgrounds. He said that this experience is useful to him every day as he interacts with people who appear before him in his courtroom. To find out more about the Peralta Spring Festival or to volunteer at the event, please contact Susan Killebrew at 655-2737 or suchard2@earthlink.net. Visitors to the Peralta Spring Com- munity Festival will be able to find out We at Claremont are determined to continue making progress on the SPI, but we also want to remind our parents that there ar...

...corner of College & Broadway is especially repulsive, but I also get irritated every time I have to pass the ones at Claremont/Colby & Claremont/Forest. I consider them pol- lution, and resent the fact that we have to see them every day. — Susan Killebrew (April 19)

Help us celebrate the long and rich history of Peralta’s learning community: contact Susan Killebrew at 655-2737 or suchard2@earthlink.net for details. The Rockridge News Needs Your Help V

... rich tradition of providing quality education, and has been referred to as “the best kept secret in the Oakland Unified School District.” Thanks to good publicity from sources such as The Rockridge News, the secret is finally getting out! Susan Killebrew Peralta Parent and Lower Rockridge Parents’ Group Member The pruners are clearly not getting the training they need. Since PG&E made a net profit of $372 million in the last quar- ter alone, it certainly seems possible for the utility to p...

...pm, City Hall. Agendas and details at www.oaklandnet.com. The Greater Rockridge N’hood Crime Prevention Council Saturday, May 15, 12 to 4pm, Peralta Elementary School, 460 63rd Street. Proceeds to benefit Peralta Parent/Teacher group. Call Susan Killebrew at 655- 2737 for more information, or to volunteer. Writer’s Support/Critique Group The Lion King. The Newsletter, “North Oakland Senior Times” provides a schedule of classes and a lunch menu (suggested donation: seniors age 60 + $2; $4 fo...

Education Blooms at Peralta School  A view of the new playground garden dedicated last spring, featuring an amphitheater, cobblestone paths, flower and vegetable beds and a wooden sunflower fence created by Peralta students. by Susan Killebrew As students arrive each morning at Peralta Elementary School, they pass through the 63rd Street and Dana Street entrances along walks lined with penstemon and salvia and terracotta pots spilling over with trailing geraniums.  Micci Martin...

looking to build a stronger sense of com- munity focused around the neighborhood school. It has formed neighborhood play groups, sponsors community meetings, and hosts a monthly Sunday brunch. For more information, call Susan Killebrew at 655-2737 or e-mail lowerrockridgeparents @yahoo.com. PHOTO: LYDIA GANS by Lydia Gans As you drive up Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, look to your left when you get to 58th Street. You’ll see a young cypress tree that promises to grow into ...

...ittle faces? Make change? Set up or clean up booths and tables? If you’d like to spend an hour or so in the middle of a vibrant community gathering, the Peralta Spring Community Festival could use your help. Call Margit Birge (428-0366) or Susan Killebrew (655-2737) to volunteer. Tour Open Studios 2003 Frequently you’ll see a man there tend- ing the plants, a tall, vigorous man with curly gray hair and sparkling eyes. He is John Wagers, 84-year-old retired chemist, the man who energized the...