Teaching PŽtanque
Athenian School French teacher Mary Eid organized a trip from Danville to Lafayette with her middle school students last month to visit the P‚tanque grounds on St. Mary's Road, just south of the Community Center. A welcoming committee from the Lamorinda P‚tanque Club ...
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Moraga Man Promotes Alzheimer's Awareness
Zachary Smith of Moraga wasn't yet born when the first Alzheimer's advocacy forum was held, but he knows the intense toll this disease can take. Five years ago Smith's own grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's; she is now in the late stages of this disease.
By Cathy Dausman
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MAY - JUNE COMMUNITY EVENTS Orinda
Classic Film Festival This Weekend in Orinda and Moraga May 10-12 (See Moraga listing)
Reagan and Zoe's Mother's Day Walk for Breast Cancer
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MAY - JUNE COMMUNITY EVENTS Moraga
Classic Film Festival This Weekend
Don't miss the Classic Film Festival and Classic Film Hall of Fame Induction May 10-12 at the New Rheem and Orinda theatres. "The Sound of Music" will ...
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MAY - JUNE COMMUNITY EVENTS Lafayette
Free Concert at the Lafayette Reservoir
What better way to relax and enjoy the beauty of the Lafayette reservoir than with music from fine young and more mature musicians while soaking up ...
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Mothering a Mama Duck
This is a Mother's Day story about a man ... and some ducks.
Dan Brunicardi's Lafayette neighbors used to call him "The Mayor" because he looked out for his fellow residents. ...By Cathy Dausman
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Triathlon Lures 372 Athletes, One Bagpiper
Moraga's streets were filled with competing athletes April 27 for the 7th Annual Moraga Triathlon, but the energy was especially palpable at the intersection of Canyon Road and Camino Pablo where bagpiper Scott MacLeod serenaded participants on the bicycle leg of the ...By Chris Lavin
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The Scoop on Mom
Few things in life are as comforting as warm sun and ice cold treats! And when Mom buys, the smiles are glued to children's sticky faces. Lamorinda Weekly recently asked the younger set what they liked best about their mom-other than having her take them for ice ...By Cathy Dausman
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Classic Film Festival Weekend
The stars will be shining brightly on the weekend of May 10-12 in Lamorinda at the first semiannual Classic Film Festival and Hall of Fame ceremony. Described below are a few of the events occurring that weekend.
By Derek Zemrak
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See it Before the Hollywood Remake"Starbuck" arrives in Orinda
Already an international blockbuster and a future Hollywood remake, the crowd pleaser of a movie "Starbuck" comes to Orinda from Quebec for one week starting May 3. The Canadian flavor is something you won't want to miss in this efficient comedy about what it means to ...By Sophie Braccini
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The Great Senior Debate: Do I Stay in My Home or Move to Retirement Living?
Options exist today that our parents and grandparents never had. Baby Boomers will be more inventive in finding options for living in retirement.
The questions I receive from clients ...By Linda Fodrini-Johnson
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Not Everyone's Doing It!
For a few days last week the three Lamorinda high schools had a mysterious "78%" sign displayed on their campuses. Some wondered what it meant. The graduation rate? No, it must be higher than that. The meaning was disclosed April 19: 78 percent of freshmen and ...By Sophie Braccini
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Top Talent at the Third Annual Lafayette Music Festival
A constellation of fine musicians are getting together for one night only at the historic Town Hall Theatre Saturday, May 4. The oldest continuously operating theater company in Contra Costa County is a non-profit, and while the board runs the facility like a ...By Cathy Tyson
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Moraga Woman Always in the Wings
Kathy Ferber remembers always being "in the wings," immersed in a whole family of theater people. "Theaters were my playground," she said. They still are. Ferber has acted in Walnut Creek productions of Contra Costa Music Theater, Diablo Light Opera Company, ...By Cathy Dausman
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Czech Children Saved from NazisDocumentary screening at Orinda Library Theater to shed light on 1939 rescue
"The important thing is that one should not become indifferent to the suffering of others. That one should not stand by and just raise one's hands and say, 'There is nothing I can do. I'm just one little person.' Because I think that what every one of us does matters." ...By Laurie Snyder
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA