The demands on your time can be overwhelming — and yet instead of easing up, they keep coming as seemingly everyone has a request.

I saw an interview with Merry Clayton. She was a back ground singer in the 60’s. The documentary Twenty Feet From Stardom included much of the work she did. She was a Raylette, when she worked with Ray Charles. She told a story of being in an auto accident and being hospitalized for five months.

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Karin Kim Jensen

At the September 21st City Council meeting, the Council authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Alameda Family Services (AFS) to provide clinician services to the City’s mental health crisis support pilot program.

A few years ago, the font on my email became very tiny. I explored trying to figure out how to change it, and I was unsuccessful. I called my daughter and asked her to help me. She told me to go to View, click Reset, and it would change. Indeed, it did immediately.

The Alameda Sun publisher Dennis Evanosky is a recovering alcoholic with 35 years sobriety. He hopes that this article might inspire someone to join him in his sobriety.

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Jennifer Williams was named the new president of the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Education Tuesday, Sept. 7. She replaced Mia Bonta, who was sworn in as Assembly Member for California’s 18th Assembly District (see story on page 1).

Harry Cline

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Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft