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Guard Auxiliary to host boating safety course on May 6

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will host “Boat America,” a full day boating safety class that covers an introduction to boating, boating law, safety equipment, safe boating, navigation, boating problems, trailering, storing, and protecting your boat, hunting and fishing, and water skiing and river boating.

Registration is open now. The course is offered at Brannan Island State Park, maintenance building, 17645 Route 160 in Rio Vista. The class is on Saturday, May 6 from 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

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The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary boating safety program’s goal is to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and property damage that occurs on U.S. Waterways by improving the knowledge, skills, and abilities of recreational boaters. This is a certified safe boating course needed to get the California boater card.

As of Jan. 1, 2023, California law requires all boat operators 50 years of age or younger to take a certified safe boating class and carry the California Boater Card to operate a motorboat. Some insurance companies offer a discount on insurance to boat owners who successfully complete this course.

For more details, contact Margie Balch, Public Education Coordinator, at (925) 768-1608.

Adams added, “It’s the most important land acquisition in the Mount Diablo area since 2013 when Save Mount Diablo signed its 1,080-acre Curry Canyon Ranch at the heart of Mount Diablo State Park and the East Bay Regional Park District optioned the 1,185-acre Roddy Ranch to create the new Deer Valley Regional Preserve.”

Park District Board Director John Mercurio called the acquisition “an important step toward a long-desired staging area at the end of Finley Road. Access to west-

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working and just getting better every day.”

Muse chose UCLA just after her junior season over Duke, Notre Dame, Stanford, Oregon State, Washington.

Muse got her first taste of playing at that level on national TV on ESPN2 a few weeks ago in the McDonald’s All-American game. She gave a glimpse of what’s coming to campus just south of Sunset Boulevard next year, while also impressing her next head coach at UCLA, Cori Close.

“We were like presidents of her fan club in the office,” Close said of the 6-foot, 4-inch Muse. “Everyone had the TV on in the office and everybody was watching it. Our players were in and they were all cheering for Amanda. I loved the way she ran the floor, loved the way she rebounded, and loved the way she finished her opportunities. That’s not easy to do in an all-star game.”

Muse scored 18 points on 6-of-7 shooting with four rebounds in that game. She dominated the paint much like she did at Heritage, while also adding in a highlight play of her own: a step-through layup just before halftime in the paint that left her

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Other commissioners were also concerned by the increased traffic on Stoney Creek Drive as well. Chairperson Anita Roberst said she felt the overflow traffic from the four restaurant drive-throughs could potentially lead to a blocked Stoney

Search-and-rescue demonstration at Discovery Bay Yacht Club on May 7

The public and Discovery Bay Yacht Club members are invited to a Search and Rescue demonstration at the yacht club’s marina on Sunday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.. There will be several classic vessels including: a 1946 Navy Tug, Admirals Launch, USCG Surf Boat and a Stephens 50, to name a few.

Captain Morgan will have the Marie Rose at the event for hospitality and awards.

“We will honor two fallen firefighters and the over 10,000 hours given to our Local and Delta Communities since 2012,” the club’s captain, John Garza, said in a press release. “Also, we will dedicate our new fleet and open our Water Rescue Training Season ern Morgan Territory Regional Preserve and southern Mount Diablo State Park has been limited over the years and this property is an important step toward improving public access.”

“The Park District thanks our partners for their contributions toward the acquisition, including the California Coastal Conservancy and Save Mount Diablo,” said Park District General Manager Sabrina Landreth. “The acquisition supports the Park District’s mission of habitat preservation and providing public access for recreation, and furthers California’s 30x30 Initiative goal of conserving 30 percent of the state’s lands and coastal waters by 2030.”

The district originally approved spending $11.4 million defender, Alabama commit Essence Cody, 22nd on the espnW top-100, flat-footed.

“My go-to move is always drop-step to the middle,” Muse said. “So when I saw that she was following me, I knew I’d be able to get her flat footed. So that’s what I did.”

The move surprised many, including the commentators, and even more, her new coach.

“I didn’t know she had it either,” Close said of the 18-year-old All-Bay Valley Athletic League player. Muse took the time to celebrate her accomplishments with her teammates, classmates, friends and family in the Heritage career center on Wednesday of last week before she graduates and makes her way to Southern California this summer.

“Kid works hard, but she’s surrounded by great people,” her father, Doug, said, thanking those at the ceremony.

“She’s amazing,” Heritage girls basketball head coach Mark Hurtado said. “We had been coaching her since she was in second grade, so I got to coach her at a younger level and you never know how that’s going to work out. But taking where she’s come from, she’s at that elite level. She’s ready for that.”

In the All-American game, Muse

Creek Drive.

“The overflow on the road is going to present a problem – there’s no question about it,” Roberts told the applicant, citing the McDonald’s restaurant on the other side of Sand Creek as an example of a similar concern. “Cars sitting in the street will pres-

… We will be on the grass at the Marina and near the vessel launch area.”

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Pet adoptions free through May 15

Contra Costa Animal Services (CCAS) has teamed up with the Bissell Foundation to help pets find their forever homes this May. Through May 15, all pet adoptions will be free, but a $25 licensing fee may apply.

The Bissell Pet Foundation is committed to ending pet homelessness and finding a loving home for each pet, CCAS said in a press release. CCAS’s partnership with the Bissell Pet Foundation has resulted in hundreds of pets finding their forever homes over the last three years and they hope to have even more success this May.

For more information, visit https:// www.contracosta.ca.gov/civicalerts.

to purchase the property last September. The property is located at the mouth of Riggs Canyon off Finley Road at the western edge of Morgan Territory Regional Preserve and the southern edge of Mount Diablo State Park.

“Acquisition of the Finley Road Ranch property will preserve forever one of the largest remaining pristine open spaces adjacent to Mount Diablo State Park,” said Park District Board President Dennis Waespi. “The California Coastal Conservancy grant provides vital funding toward the purchase of the property. Preserving the property is also a key step toward the state’s 30x30 initiative of conserving 30 percent of the state’s lands and coastal waters by 2030.”

To comment, visit www.thepress.net proved that she can not just hang with some of the best players in the country, but perform at a high level. Even then, Muse admitted to seeing its challenges early.

“Just the caliber of passing and the speed of the game, we all play so fast,” Muse said. “It’s fun to play in that fast-paced environment. Everyone’s just so talented.”

Now the challenge comes to doing it consistently while managing everything that comes with being at a major university.

“The freshman year is really, really hard no matter who you are,” Close said. “I always tell the parents of the freshman that every freshman wants to quit half a dozen times and transfer half-a-dozen times in the first year. It’s just really, really hard. And it will be hard for Amanda too, but that’s also why you grow so much.”

“It’s just more competitive, so much more pressure and so much more to juggle.”

Close explained some of the struggles that Muse will face in adjusting to the elite college game.

“The reality is, what used to be an ‘oohaah’ play is maybe a turnover or a foul in college,” Close said. “You have to sort of ent a problem, so that’s something that I hope you would take into advisement.”

Other topics at the meeting included a design review for previously approved modular classroom buildings at Vineyard Academy Christian School south of Grant Street between Adams Lane and Lone Oak find that new gear inside of you that maybe you didn’t even know you had. Amanda will come, and all of the things that she thought she was so good at, she’s like terrible at now. It’s just a new speed, and it’s going to be frustrating initially. She’s going to be challenged, and it’s going to be hard, and every freshman hits the wall at some point. Then it’s a matter of how they find a way around, over, or through that wall.”

Amanda now shifts the spotlight on the family’s basketball legacy to just her. If there’s one thing that everyone who’s either coached, played with, and those who parented Amanda will say is that she works hard and everyone around her played a role in not only brightening her spotlight here, but now moving it about six hours south.

“She’s here because everybody in this room had a part in helping her get there,” Doug said during the ceremony. “This doesn’t happen by just one person. It’s awesome to watch how hard she works, and she got here because people helped her get here and it’s all you guys.”

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Road and the continued development of an ordinance banning oil and gas drilling in Brentwood. The ordinance will go to the City Council for further discussion.

The full meeting can be watched online at https://bit.ly/42mc1U8

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