J onah Linville, 1.5, shares the latest Island City news with his buddy Curious George after apparently taking last week’s article to heart. “What’s Black and White and Read all Over?,” Jan. 21 encouraged parents and youngsters to connect while reading the local newspaper.
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Alameda resident, educator and playwright, Dr. Cindy Acker, has recreated her revolutionary play, Words That Made the Difference: Brown vs. the Board of Education for the zoom era. The performance will stream internationally on Sunday, Jan. 17, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Members of the Bay Farm School community and local cryptozoologists tipped us off about a recent sighting of a yeti on Bay Farm Island. The yeti is actually a product of the Gardner family, the creators of the Bay Farm Yeti Search.
Kin Projects, a collaborative project by All Good Living, came together to provide toiletry kits with basic essentials for Alameda schools to give away to homeless and kids in need.
On Thursday, Dec. 17, Encinal Jr. Sr. High School’s orchestra held its annual Winter Concert. The concert was held over Zoom with student musicians, parents, teachers and friends in attendance. Over 120 attendees were present for the hour-long event.
Alameda Troop 11 Boy Scouts (from left to right): Miles Grayson, Tanner Mackenzie, Cameron Page, Jeremy Harris, Austin Hensley, Gael Page, Shogo Stuck, and Nathaniel Basco aboard cargo of discarded trees bound for recycling during annual Christmas Tree Pick Up and Recycling Program in January 202
Earlier this month, Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft and the City of Alameda’s Social Service Human Relations Board honored three Alameda students — Henry Mills, Noa Joseph and Serena McIntosh — with Youth Services Awards.
(Pictured at the right): Pepper and Paige thank each other with a golf-club tap after a match during the Alameda Junior Golf Club’s (AJGC) successful 2020 season. The players all wore masks, as Pepper and Paige are doing, and practiced social distancing during their matches.
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