Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Lafayette Teen Makes a Difference at Indian Orphanage
To most, the word "orphanage" conjures images of grim buildings, hungry children and the various cruelties meted to Oliver Twist. However, thousands of miles away from Dickensian London, in a small orphanage in India, all preconceptions about orphanages are turned ...By Uma Unni
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Campolindo Alum Places First in Scrabble Championship
Moraga native Conrad Bassett-Bouchard won the North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) 2014 Top-Division Scrabble Championship in Buffalo, N.Y. that concluded Aug. 13. He finished with a record of 22-9 and won the first place trophy - and the $10,000 first ...By Submitted Conrad Bassett
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Battle of the Bands Returns to Lafayette
Battle of the Bands at the Lafayette Library is back and this time it is bigger and better. The teen event, which over 100 people attended last year and is now in its second year, is set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the library's ...Submitted by Patrick Brogan
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Big Brother is Watching
While some kids believe their biggest problem regarding social media is blocking their parents to prevent the occasional embarrassing "mom comment," they will one day or another realize there are concerns of much greater magnitude when it comes to outside parties ...By Lauren Kim
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
There's Gnome Place Like Home
Artist, mom and longtime Lafayette resident Carey Carpenter will have an exhibit of her charming, quirky gnomes at the Orinda Library during the month of September. While the gnomes have a home, sadly the Carpenter's home on Monticello Road burned almost completely to ...By Cathy Tyson
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
ALS Ice Bucketing Catches Fire in Lamorinda
Lamorinda residents have joined a cadre of thousands of people across the world who are taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, helping to raise tens of millions of dollars for research of the progressive neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Don't Miss the California Independent Film Festival
This year the 17th Annual California Independent Film Festival begins with the most spectacular opening night in festival history. The opening night film, "An Evergreen Christmas," a family film directed by Jeremy Culver, will have more expected cast members than ever ...Submitted by Lindsay Pirkle
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Siblings Support One Another to Pursue Their Dreams
Moraga native Katie Batlin has realized some pretty lofty dreams. Longtime basketball player, and graduate of Miramonte High School and Saint Mary's College, she has recently returned from an international adventure.
 By Amanda Kuehn
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Two Lamorinda Beehives Part of National Study on Colony Collapse
There's been a recent buzz about bees. According to annual reports issued by the USDA, honeybee loss has averaged at 29.6 percent over the past eight years, a rate that the U.S. government deems economically unsustainable. Bees are responsible for pollinating of a ...By Amanda Kuehn
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
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By Alex Pawlakos
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Velvet Waterfalls: Orinda Jazz Festival, Aug. 17
Music lovers will be groovin' again on a Sunday afternoon when the Fourth Annual Orinda Jazz Festival kicks off at 2 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Orinda Library Auditorium. Headlining from 5 to 6 p.m. will be Amikaeyla Gaston, a multi-award winning vocalist whose style is "like ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
A Literary Life
Saint Mary's College adjunct professor Jeff Chon is something of a renaissance man. Chon is equally knowledgeable in baseball and comic books as he is in Alice Munro's use of the retrospective narrator. At heart Chon is a writer, and he holds a Master of Fine Arts ...By Ryan McKinley
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Lamorinda's Specialties of the House
Summer is in full swing and back yards are sizzling with the sound of simmering beef. It has long been debated who first came up with the idea of slipping a juicy patty of meat in the center of a flaky white bun, but ever since Americans picked up the hamburger at the ...By Amanda Kuehn
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Senior Writing Course Opens Doors to the Past
"Dinner hour on the day of my seventh birthday is a local legend," writes 71-year-old Janet Clark in the opening paragraph of her essay "Friends for Dinner." The first piece in a spring anthology of senior writing, Clark's essay depicts a special memory from her ...By Amanda Kuehn
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Words That Change Our World
Former Saint Mary's College Gaels guard and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player Matthew Dellavedova can't remember which SMC coach handed him a page printed from Andre Agassi's autobiography, "Open," but he's never forgotten it.
By Lou Fancher
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA