Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Four-legged Fun
It was a good day for a hike with four legged friends. Participants met at the Bear Creek staging area at Briones Regional Park with leashes, water and most critical - dog treats for a vigorous three mile walk up the Crescent Ridge Trail and beyond hosted by Dog ...
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Making Papale
Michael Edwards may live in Lamorinda, but his heart and his hands are in Hawaii. Edwards makes Lauhala hats, woven from the dried leaves of the Lauhala trees. ItÕs a skill he learned four years ago on the islands from ÒAuntieÓ Gladys Grace, a 90-year old Hawaiian ...Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The 1st Annual Lafayette Community Music Festival
Tom Stack, Town Hall Theater (THT) Board ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cal Shakes Talks Candida
Even before opening night, Cal Shake's third production, Candida, was stirring up a hornet's nest of reaction. Despite running out of cups, coffee, ice cream, but not energy, Artistic Director John Moscone and his cohorts drew a packed house of theater lovers to the ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
To Bounce or Not to Bounce...
What's round, black, usually enclosed and full of summer fun? Many families with children who don't want the maintenance of a pool but want their kids to turn away from electronics and get some great exercise opt to install a trampoline in their backyard. Little ones ...By Cathy Tyson
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Dry Launch for Rotary Canoe
The Rotary Club of Lamorinda Sunrise canoe has yet to touch water, but it was "launched" for show Friday morning at a regular Rotary meeting. The canoe is being built as a raffle fundraiser (https://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0507/Can-You-Canoe-This ...Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Running to Help Fight Homelessness
Kristi Conner took her motivation to fight homelessness to the streets, well actually the paved path around the Lafayette Reservoir. She's inspired to do something concrete about the problem after seeing panhandlers in San Francisco, and especially a fellow living ...By Cathy Tyson
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
THE APP RAP
WeatherBug
 Eric Pawlakos
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Theater Foundations Rally to Celebrate World Humanitarian Day Screening of Sergio at the Orinda Theatre
Eight years ago, on the afternoon of August 19, 2003, a suicide bomber parked a truck at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq-directly below the window of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights who was serving as the Secreta ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Repaving Closes Lafayette-Moraga Trail
Large portions of the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail will close temporarily to bikes and pedestrians and become a heavy equipment construction zone during trail rehabilitation work August 1 through late October this year, but the end result will be a smoother, wider, ...Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011
De Laveaga Train Depot Gets a New Old Look
Sometimes it takes a village. The members of Orinda's Historic Landmarks Committee (HLC) had been planning a major facelift for the de Laveaga train depot for a couple of years. The depot, located at the corner of Bates Boulevard and Davis Road at the Crossroads, is ...By Andrea A. Firth
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| Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Gathering 'Round the Railroad
Under a flowering and tree lined hummock, a lumberjack loads up the bed of his truck. A moose, stock still near a curtain of waterfall, regards a downstream fisherman whose knees are deep in a glassy pool. In the nearby town, a man reclines. He reads a paper and has ...By Diana LaScala-Gruenewald
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| Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Surprise! I'm Still Here! (Living with Incurable Cancer)Author: Jane Rubey
Jane Rubey is not a pessimist, although some might say she has reason to be one. She's more of a realist, but she's written what she calls her "missal of hope," and a "legacy for her grandchildren." Rubey was diagnosed in 2003 with incurable cancer (myeloma) and has ...Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Lilo Speaks: A Memoir, with Tom Adams
Lafayette resident Mike Heller called our attention to this book - it started us thinking about the importance of capturing oral histories before the stories are gone forever. Lilo Speaks: A Memoir, with Tom Adams is his mother's story; one she was reluctant to tell ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Children's Book Author Ginger Wadsworth
When the dog days of summer nip at our heels, there's nothing quite like finding a shady spot and reading. And the chance to engage a young friend in the colorful world of books is even better than stretching out by yourself. Ginger Wadsworth is a children's book ...Cathy Dausman
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