Wednesday, February 26, 2014
MOFD Updates GIS Evacuation Maps
Usually residents want to get into their neighborhood, but there are times, and situations, where the goal is getting out. A flood, wildfire or hazardous material spill may make a neighborhood uninhabitable and evacuation imperative. This is why the Moraga-Orinda Fire ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Program Focuses on Coping with Betrayal and Pain in Middle School
When you ask high school girls from the Sister-to-Sister series - a life skills program for middle school girls offered by the Lamorinda branch of the American Association of University Women - about the most painful memories of their years in middle school, half of ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Happy Hearts Walk for Henry
Henry Branagh, age 22 months, is all heart; perhaps more so than he should be. The lively Lamorinda toddler has severe dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged left ventricle, due to Barth Syndrome (www.barthsyndrome.org), but you wouldn't know it to look at him, ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, February 26, 2014
High Schools Prep for Stellar Spring Productions
For many of us, the word "musical" conjures up images from the most classic Broadway productions: Curly beaming while belting out "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in "Oklahoma" or Fantine executing a tear-jerking rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" in "Les Mis." So when you ...By Clare Varellas
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Glamour Guaranteed Oscar party at the Rheem features Academy Award winner Margaret O'Brien
The Rheem Theatre will be the place to be for non-stop Oscar entertainment March 2, including dining, dancing, discovering film memorabilia in the only Classic Film Hall of Fame, intertwined with a live Oscar ceremony broadcast on the big screen. Special guest ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Words That Change Our WorldLocal chef and the book that inspires his creativity in the kitchen
Adam Carpenter is fast becoming Lamorinda's carnivore troubadour. The 33-year-old executive chef at Bistro, the Lafayette Park Hotel's redesigned restaurant, is a culinary wizard whose poetry with pork increasingly finds its place on the establishment's plates and ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
THE APP RAP
App: Wickr by Wickr Inc.
For: iPhones and Android
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By Eric Pawlakos
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
"The Monuments Men"
"The Monuments Men" is the latest directing project by Oscar recipient George Clooney, and his frequent collaborator and co-writer, Oscar winner Grant Heslov ("Argo," "The Ides of March," "Good Night, and Good Luck"). They adapted the screenplay from the novel written ...By Derek Zemrak
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Safeway eScrip Changes Spark School Fundraising ConcernsOscar night party planned to drum up donations
Normally the purview of acclaimed actors during Academy Awards season, nausea and nail biting have also become habits du jour for members of the Miramonte High School Parent Club (MHSPC). It all started in October when the normally upbeat group learned that actions by ...By Laurie Snyder
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Isolation and Loneliness Can Be "Deadly" to Older AdultsPrevention is the key
It is a powerful statement to think that isolation might be debilitating to older adults and contributing to mortality. However, research done in the past few years, at UCSF and at the University College London, revealed that lack of social contact - "isolation" - is ...By Linda Fodrini-Johnson, MA, MFT, CMC
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
SMC Conference Facilitates Discussion of Critical Topics
Diverse and dynamic women, including ...By Amanda Kuehn
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Lots of Love at New Gallery Location
It's hard to quantify if there was actual love in the air at the Lafayette Art Gallery for a reception celebrating their new exhibit, "Love at First Sight," but there was clearly plenty of friendship and chocolate kisses. Many of the 28 member-artists of the co-op ...
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Emergency Path Realignment Scheduled for Sleepy Hollow Elementary School
While it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a multitude of agencies to straighten out a pathway within that village. That's what Lamorinda Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Dennis Rein and Moraga-Orinda Fire District Fire Marshal Kathy Leonard are finding out ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
1,000 Places to See
If travel journalist Patricia Schultz was an airplane, she'd be a supersonic MiG-25 Foxbat fighter jet. Or maybe a slightly slower, all-weather F-15 Eagle. At an appearance at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Jan. 29, she piloted a sold-out audience on a ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2014
The Big Business of TrashAccusations fly as $500M contract looms
As the Central Contra Costa Solid Waste ...By Sophie Braccini
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