Sun Staff Report

Friends of the Alameda Free Library (FOL) has received a $2100.00 grant from Alameda County’s ARTSFUND program.

Rotary reached out to the Kiwanis Club of Alameda to collaborate on the project. Each signed on as a dinner donor.

Photo and story by Jimmy Olsen

Editor’s note: the writer penned this as a letter to the City Council.

With respect to all City Council members, please be reminded of the stated priorities outlined for the council on the city’s website:

• Preparing Alameda for the Future

• Protecting Core Services

Egrets return to their Alameda egret colony every year in spring to a calm accessible neighborhood by the water to an experience like no other in a Bay Area city. But they are high up in the pine trees on Bay Farm Island.

A question was submitted to me asking me to make a recommendation of how to handle the feeling of loneliness.

If you get Social Security or Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) benefits, your Part B (Medical Insurance) premium will get deducted automatically from your benefit payment.

If you don’t get benefits, you’ll get a bill to pay your premiums for:

1. Part B (Medical Insurance)

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people who are fully vaccinated, can resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic.

Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is reminding unvaccinated Californians that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, free and provides excellent protection from severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death.

On Monday, July 11, the City released its draft Vision Zero Action Plan, which contains more than 50 actions aimed at eliminating traffic deaths and severe injuries heree by 2040.

Visiting Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary at Crown Beach last week, I noticed a lonely looking flock of about six marbled godwits, large cinnamon-colored shorebirds, resting with their heads tucked into their backs during a high tide.