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DeSaulnier joins family of Cindy Ramos to separate co-conspirators
Mar 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-30-11 830AM Senate Bill 906 will require that accused and convicted co-conspirators of violent felonies be jailed and prisoned apart. On Aug. 9, 2009, two assailants bruta...
Put the ‘clean’ back into spring cleaning
Mar 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-28-11 1155AM Ready to purge your piles, wash your windows or tackle the garden? Check out www.baywise.org for an easy how-to for your spring refresh. The Bay Area Pollutio...
County launches redistrict website
Mar 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-22-10 1100AM Local 2010 Census data are now finalized, and county governments in California are developing proposed maps to reflect the new population figures for supervis...
Buchanan honors Woman of the Year
Mar 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-22-11 950AM In a recent ceremony at the State Capitol in Sacramento, Assemblymember Joan Buchanan joined with her colleagues to honor Contra Costa County business leader L...
Calling all CCE Tax-Aide volunteers
Mar 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-16-11 710AM The AARP Tax Aide Program in East County, which provides free tax filing to nearly 1,500 people, is in danger of being discontinued after this tax season due t...
Economic injury loans offered to small businesses
Mar 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-15-11 1205PM Small, non-farm businesses in Contra Costa County are now eligible to apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)....
Barrel Tasting at Hannah Nicole
Mar 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
annah Nicole Vineyards and Winery is hosting its sixth annual Barrel Tasting Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 11-13, from noon to 4 p.m.
Military wives to receive scholarships
Mar 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-07-11 955AM Operation Homefront and the Saban Family Foundation have begun accepting applications for the 2011 Saban Military Wife Educational Scholarship. The scholarship...
Global NxLevel launches business planning class in Spanish
Mar 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-07-11 732AM In an economy where business owners are challenged to do more with less to keep their doors open, Global NxLevel for Entrepreneurs, a 12-week comprehensive bus...
Brentwood businesswoman promoted
Mar 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-02-11 405PM Scentsy, Inc., a party plan company that provides scented, wickless candles, has announced that Brentwood resident and Independent Consultant Melissa Lawrence ...
Park district helicopter pilot promoted
Feb 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02-23-11 830AM Well-known East Bay helicopter pilot Bill Probets has been named chief pilot of East Bay Regional Park District’s Air Support Unit. The 13-year veteran of the ...
Little Gym weighs in on sports training for children
Feb 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02-16-11 900AM Recent media coverage of sports training for babies and toddlers has given parents a lot to think about. According to The Little Gym, a children’s gym and fitn...
Interactive map links consumers to health insurance assistance
Feb 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02-08-11 115PM The Affordable Care Act is supporting a Consumer Assistance Program to help consumers in California who find it difficult to keep or use health insurance. The ...
Women get dressed for success
Feb 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02-04-11 355PM With an increasing number of women unemployed and looking for work, dressbarn’s annual Send One Suit Weekend program supplies women seeking a job an absolute n...
Contra Costa County Library launches Discover & Go
Feb 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02-02-11 305PM Looking for something fun, educational, and free to do with the family? Have guests coming into town and want to show off the area’s cultural highlights? The C...
Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate Conservancy fee proposal
Jan 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 01-25-11 730AM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District (Corps) has posted Public Notice SPK-2001-00147 to www.spk.usace.army.mil/regulatory.html. The Corps is ev...
Forum on aging focuses on balance, vision, opportunity
Jan 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 01-24-11 130PM The third annual The Best Is Yet To Be forum, sponsored by Diablo Valley Foundation for the Aging, will be held Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Heather Farm C...
School budget forums planned
Jan 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The Oakley Union School District is presenting a series of public forums to address the possible impact of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for the school district. “While we are encouraged by th...
Food Bank gets $10,000 boost from Calpine
Jan 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Calpine Corporation gave $10,000 in response to Supervisor Federal Glover’s appeal for donations to the Contra Costa Food Bank during these tough economic times. “Calpine, as a member of the Ea...
Calpine donates $10K to Food Bank
Jan 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 01-05-11 715AM Calpine, a major U.S. power company that delivers nearly 29,000 megawatts of clean, cost-effective, reliable and fuel-efficient electricity to customers and co...