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Trees brighten troops’ holiday
Aug 13, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
A local school, Antioch Charter Academy II, is doing a major fundraiser this year that has some really cool community options: we are selling fresh cut Christmas trees that you pre-order, and then ...
Back to School spree
Aug 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The Rotary Club of Brentwood partnered with Kohl’s Department Store for the club’s recent Back to School shopping spree. This annual event provides children from the Village Drive Resource Center ...
Community rallies for Ally
Aug 10, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Yogurt Pizazz, in Brentwood, will be donating 10 percent of its sales every Saturday in August to Allys trust fund to help Ally and her family survive this difficult time.
Local YMCAs offer freebies for families
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Mt. Diablo Region YMCA is now offering families free memberships to the Delta Family YMCA in Oakley or the Irvin Deutscher Family YMCA in Pleasant Hill if they enroll their child in a child car...
Vigilant support
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
More than three hundred friends and classmates gathered for a candlelight vigil Friday night at Freedom High School in support of freshman cheerleader Ally Jenkins. Ally collapsed last week and was...
East County getting Red Cross ready
by Ruth Roberts
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
We’ve heard the predictions. According to the U. S. Geological Survey, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake – or greater – will strike the Bay Area in the next 30 years. If we don’t already have an emergency...
Lions install new officers
Aug 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
An installation ceremony was held last month at DeLuna Ranch for incoming officers of the Brentwood Lions Club. Richard Adams, who has been an active member of the Brentwood Lions for the past five...
Special swings for Special Kids
by Ruth Roberts
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Some came for the golf, others for the dining and entertainment, but all came out last weekend to support the Special Kids Foundation and its plans to build an all-abilities playground on the site ...
Wish lists not just for parents anymore
by Ruth Roberts
Jul 29, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Every summer around the middle of July, Katie Bartling begins to get nervous. “As a teacher, I’m constantly thinking about what I need for the next year and I start putting together a wish/supply l...
Wish lists not just for parents anymore
by Ruth Roberts
Jul 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Every summer around the middle of July, Katie Bartling begins to get nervous. “As a teacher, I’m constantly thinking about what I need for the next year and I start putting together a wish/supply l...
Sweet success
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Oakley council members and Friends of Oakley board members Kevin Romick, Pat Anderson and Jim Frazier celebrate the success of the Friends of Oakley inaugural Chili Cook-off and Car Show last weeke...
Partygoers’ gift to local veterans: $21K
by Rick Lemyre
Jul 23, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
There were tears and smiles, hugs and handshakes, kudos and thanks, and it was all topped off by checks totaling $21,000. It was, in and of itself, a nice little party, but it paled in comparison t...
Keeping A Place of Learning alive
by Samie Hartley
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Despite a $500 donation from the Brentwood Police Officer’s Association earlier this month, A Place of Learning is struggling to keep its doors open. The community tutoring facility, which for thre...
Animal fundraiser
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Join H.A.R.P. (Homeless Animals Response Program) and Delta Discovery Cruises for a relaxing sunset dinner cruise on Sunday, Aug. 9. You may check in at 5:30 p.m. and enjoy the view from the top de...
Community funding in place for YMCA
by Ruth Roberts
Jul 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The Delta Family YMCA in Oakley has reached its community fundraising goal of $400,000, bringing the organization one step closer to its much-anticipated $6.4 million expansion. “This is just great...
Early-bird school nabs national prize
by Ruth Roberts
Jul 16, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Students at Old River Elementary School in Knightsen recently learned that time is indeed money – $15,000, in fact – and they have Staples Inc. to thank for it. As part of its First Bell program, t...
Ehler takes Rotary helm
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Brentwood Rotary Club observes a fiscal year that runs from July 1 through the end of June. Appropriate to the club’s tradition of Service Before Self, the club didn’t honor the new incoming sl...
Compassion gets an encore
by Ruth Roberts
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Members and volunteers of Brentwood’s Harvest Time Assembly of God Church are gearing up for the second Day of Compassion on July 18, and if turnout from the previous event in March is any indicati...
Cook-off to aid teachers
Jul 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Friends of Oakley, a community foundation, is hosting a competitive chili cook-off and barbecue on Saturday, July 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit Oakley teachers’ instruc...
Comedy show joins war on ovarian cancer
Jul 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The ninth annual Comedy Night, a benefit for the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, will take the stage Saturday, Aug. 15 at the Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive in Walnut Creek. Leo Fl...