Alameda has a new place to purchase used books, and it’s inside the library.

The Preacher’s Daughter Café will be the location for a special fundraising art exhibit Sunday, April 24, benefitting the people of Cherkasy, Ukraine.

The City of Alameda is planning for more housing because we are facing a crisis. There are Alamedans sleeping outside, in parks, and in tents. There are Alameda Unified School District students who live with their family in cars. There are older adults living on Alameda’s streets.

Editor’s Note: Rabbi Steven Chester of Temple Israel of Alameda traveled to Poland with 24 other Reform Rabbis and Cantors recently to offer aid to Ukrainian refugees (“Alameda Rabbi Offers Much Needed Aid to Ukrainians,” April 12). Here is a summary of day 2 and 3 of his trip.

Most of us have seen small brown birds that flit from the ground to a bush or tree just as you start to look at them; they are common in parks and at bird feeders throughout Alameda — but the description fits more than one species of birds.

The Alameda Soccer Club (ASC) Islanders 2009 Girls Red team played a friendly match inside Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, the home of the San Francisco 49ers, Saturday, April 9.

Alameda resident Grace Zang gave a presentation at the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2022 annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. on April 5.

Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) is purchasing six new all-electric utility trucks to replace older gasoline powered trucks.

About 240 students from Eldorado Middle School in Concord visited Alameda Point to observe harbor seals on March 22. The school participates in an educational program sponsored by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito called Ocean Ambassadors.