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MAY 22, 2020
MIKE’S ESTATE PLANNING MINUTE
Callahan’s Coffee and Cones, Campos Family Vineyards, Vin Alegro and Golden Gate Gyro were among the vendors that set up shop on Cypress Point in Discovery Bay, Tuesday, May 19.
By Michael J. Amthor, Esq.
ESTATE PLANNING DURING THE VIRUS OUTBREAK These are crazy uncertain times. Given the virus outbreak, if you have not already prepared your estate plan you should do so now. We remain open, ready and willing to help you during this crisis. It is imperative that you create an Advance Health Directive to specify who you want to make health decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself. The Corona virus can easily result in the need to rely on others to make healthcare decisions for you. An Advance Healthcare Directive is the document that allows others to do so. Whether or not you are ill, preparing this document will give you peace of mind which is priceless given this current pandemic. Similarly, having a will or trust prepared also provides peace of mind knowing that your affairs are in order and you have done everything you can do help your family during this crisis. Health issues are on the minds of everyone right now. However, the vast majority of us will get through this with prayer and by following the guidelines to help prevent being infected. Once completed, your estate plan will
continue to be in effect long after this crisis is over. You should never put off having a plan in effect that addresses your money, your health and the distribution of assets upon death. Should you get infected, you will have much comfort knowing that you have appointed someone you trust to handle your health issues and that they have the legal ability to do so. Do not wait until you feel ill. We are committed to making ourselves available to assist you and have made arrangements for the signing and notarizing of your legal documents, even during the shelterin-place order. Contact us today to make a telephone or video conference appointment. You will feel relieved you are being proactive and doing what is best for not only you but also the ones you love. Be kind. Be patient. Be loving. We will all get through this together. If you have questions on this or any other estate planning topic, call me at (925) 516-4888. East County Family Law Group, 1120 Second Street, Brentwood www.eastcountyfamilylaw.com – Advertisement
What’s Happening AT LONE TREE
Lone Tree Golf Course is OPEN! The Golf Course & driving range is open under the new Contra Costa County Health Orders. • Social distancing of 6 feet or more to be maintained at all times. Reservations required, NO Walk-ins. • Walking rounds of golf encouraged. Carts allowed with only one rider and one bag per cart while available. • Prepayment strongly encouraged (can accommodate several days before); prepay online here or call Golf Shop at 925-706-4220; pay for other players in your group helps save your & others’ time. • Clubhouse & Pro Shop will be closed; phone in only; clubhouse bathrooms closed; on course bathrooms open. • No ball-washers or trash cans on course; cups reversed for easy ball removal/Pin must be left in; carts sanitized; Putting green closed. • Driving Range is OPEN, purchase balls from Golf Shop 925-706-4220 or on range attendant. Every other matt closed. • Face masks required in Clubhouse area. • Before & after round, NO congregating at all including in parking lot. • Enjoy your round or bucket, keep social distance at all times so all can play another day!
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Food trucks roll into town by Dawnmarie Fehr Correspondent
Discovery Bay has been the site of an effort to keep local restaurants and food trucks in business. Through a Facebook page called Food Trucks on Your Street, Discovery Bay, residents can schedule both food trucks and pop-ups from local restaurants to come to their neighborhoods and peddle their sweet and savory treats. The idea began as a larger, East County movement when Vivian Treff, owner of Boondoggies all-American mobile hot dog stand, was trying to envision a way for herself and others like her to continue to make a living. The shelter-in-place mandates have closed restaurants’ dining rooms and many people are supporting small businesses by ordering meals for takeout or delivery. But what of eateries that don’t have a brick-and-mortar location to serve customers? “I was dead in the water,” said Treff, a Brentwood resident. “Everything was canceled, all large gatherings were canceled . . . we didn’t know what to do. We started thinking about how we could shift gears in communion with the health department and city.” Treff came up with a plan and created a Facebook page called The Great Food Truck Race of Brentwood, Oakley and Discovery Bay. Residents were able to connect with local food trucks and restaurants with mobile carts and schedule them in their own neighborhoods. Amanda Dove of Discovery Bay took the idea and ran with it, starting the localized Discovery Bay Facebook page to keep things organized. “I built from (Vivian’s) concept, but with the hope that we could control the number of food trucks in town each day by creating a Discovery Bay-only calendar,” said Dove. “This way we could keep the food trucks from overwhelming the town — booking and promoting only one countypermitted truck per day helps both the food truck and the other restaurants in town.” Once the word spread, local restaurants like Callahan’s Coffee and Cones and Vin Alegro joined the movement with their own pop-ups. Dove said most of the trucks are locally owned, but some outside ones have come by special request. Michael Callahan is a Discovery Bay resident and business owner who has brought his Coffee and
Cones to the community through the Food Trucks on Your Street, Discovery Bay Facebook page Dove started. He said the business he gets at his pop-up has helped to augment the huge decline in foot traffic his shop has seen. “We are just trying to get people to buy ice cream,” Callahan said with a laugh. “We have a cart, and we sell all of our prepacked ice creams in half pints and pints. We try to offer the community options at their door at these private events.” Callahan added the events are going well and have enabled his business to continue to provide complimentary ice cream certificates to local schools and nonprofits as awards. “Things like that are important to continue,” Callahan stated. “It’s hard enough for the kids to school at home, and to not get recognized for getting on the honor roll while schooling at home would really make it horrible. These events are making it so that we are able to continue doing that.” Discovery Bay resident Terry Arellano owns Rita’s Italian Ice and Frozen Custard in Brentwood. She said as a local business owner who has been hurt by the pandemic, she very much appreciates the effort her community is making to keep family businesses like hers from closing. When the food truck events began, she and her husband pulled their cart out and began offering dessert all over East County. “We were struggling,” Arellano admitted, adding the business they’ve done at the private neighborhood events has saved them. She described an all too common situation that included reduced hours, laidoff staff, overdue rent and a bleak future. “These days, the store may make $300, maybe on a hot day on the weekend, $500,” Arellano said. “Then we go to the food truck events and in the first two days, we made $3,000. So it really has helped us.” Rita’s has been able to increase store hours and hire more employees. Arellano said they are being booked at events in Discovery Bay, Brentwood and Oakley. “We love having (the food trucks) come out on our street,” said Discovery Bay resident Christina Resendiz. “It was nice to get out, walk down a few houses to grab dinner and dessert without having to actually go drive to a restaurant or order delivery.” For more information, visit https://bit. ly/thepressnet_FoodTrucks. To view a slideshow, visit www.thepress. net/multimedia/slideshows
