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Starting at 10:00 A.M. and lasting until 6:00 P.M. on Saturday and ending at 5:00 P.M. on Sunday, downtown Castro Valley will be hosting the “Don’t Miss” event of the Fall Valley Eden Area Chamber of Commerce hosts this event for many purposes, but especially for bringing our entire community together for a celebration of Castro Valley and a reminder for all to shop locally as we have some amaz ing owners and businesses in ourEventcommunity.Co-Chairs Janella Anguiano and Todd Anglin are heading up this year’s event, which was started in 1972, ffty years ago! Many of the same traditions through the years will be continued including featuring local talent on two stages, businesses, arts/crafts, food/beverages (including local Twining Vine Wines), and the ever-popular KidsCo-ChairZone! Anguiano’s excitement is evident as she stated “We are so excited to bring back the long-standing tradition of the Castro Valley Fall Festival. The tradition began in 1972 and being that we lost two years to the pandemic, we are thrilled to bring in back on its 50th year! Being local business owners, Todd Anglin and I have had a blast co-chairing this event and are looking forward to seeing the local vendors, hearing the amazing bands, and seeing the community out and about and supporting our local business es.” The 2022 Fall Festival will be kicked off by our very own Castro Valley High School Madrigals, the premier audi tioned ensemble at the CVHS, selected from juniors, seniors, and a very few select sopho mores through a rigorous au dition process. The Madrigals is just one of the many musical groups, soloists, bands and talents that will be featured. Local businesses, schools, service organizations and so many other groups and individuals will be sharing their gifts and talents with our community. We also have the California State Assembly District 20 fnalists, Liz Ortega and Shawn Kumagai, doing an Open Forum at 6:00 P.M. on Saturday at the Main Stage Canopy at Redwood Road and Castro Valley Boulevard. In the true Castro Valley spirit of keeping everyone as safe as possible and allowing as much freedom as possible, the Boulevard entrances will be blocked to all vehicles by Castro Valley Sanitary trucks turning the entire Boulevard into one large open space. We are confdent that everyone participating will follow all County and State Health di rectives and all do our part for sanitation and safety through out the event. We are fortunate to have both the Castro Valley Sanitary District and Alameda County Industries (ACI) abating and handling 100% of the refuse during and after the event, just another great example of how Alameda County and other local agencies are all working together, including students from Redwood Christian Schools helping with set-up and take-down and throughout the Festival, to ensure a memo rable time for everyone! Please note that Castro Valley Boulevard will be closed between Redwood Road and Santa Maria between 9:00 P.M. on Friday night, September 9 to midnight on September 11, with Jamison as the detour route. The 2022 Fall Festival will also give everyone present a chance to meet our new Executive Director, Gary Slate. A local businessman for years, who has hit the ground running, stating “I am thrilled in this new role where we can quickly help grow training, resources, and new ideas for our business community. I look forward to imple menting many new ideas and support which will strengthen our Chamber of Commerce partnerships and development for all our local businesses throughout the entire Eden Area. This fantastic communi ty event will be one of several we host including the Castro Valley Light Parade, Famfest in Cherryland, and Showtime San Lorenzo, which bring our businesses and community together.”TheCastro Valley Eden Area Chamber of Commerce is proud and excited to host an event for everyone to enjoy! This event could not happen without the support of our Sponsors (see Sponsor pages - please stop by their booths to say “thank you”). We hope to see you there! –Board of Directors of the Castro Valley Eden Area Chamber of Commerce
You don’t want to miss September 10 and 11 in downtown Castro Valley when the Fall Festival returns for fun and excitement for everyone!
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Jay was born in Stockbridge, Ga in 2014. He moved to California at only 3 months old. His music roots go back to his grandfather Rob ert Brown from Hartford CT, who was a guitar player that would perform with his band in his free time. Jay became interested in music at the young age of 5 and began taking music lessons with Jim Bedford at Bedford Studios located in Castro Valley. He started off on the ukulele and quickly moved on to the electric guitar. One of his favorite songs to play is “Guitar Boogie”. He also enjoys strumming his power chords. He has been performing at the Alameda County Fair for two years. This weekend he will take the stage at the Castro Valley Fall festival.
- 5:00 BEDFORD STAGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 10:00 - 11:00 11:00 - 12:30 12:30 - 2:00 2:00 - 3:30 3:30 - 5:00 MADRIGALS (CASTRO VALLEY SCHOOL CHOIR) THE MICHAEL UDELSON TRIO (JAZZ) BAD BOY BRUCE (MODERN BLUES) TAKE COVER (POP CLASSICS) DEAD ENDFRIENDS (ROCK N’ ROLL) EARTHQUAKE (LEGENDARY ROCK BAND) SIENNA STRING QUARTET TRUE FITNESS (ZUMBA) DAUGHTERS OF CAIRO (BELLY DANCING) BEDFORD STUDIOS PRESENTS PALLEN MARTIAL ARTS NEWARK WADAIKO (JAPANESE DRUMS) BEDAZZLED DANCE STUDIO FLEET STREET (CLASSIC POP MUSIC) TROOP JOURNEY (BELLY DANCING) PHIL SANTOS VIOLINS DANCE LIVE DREAM CENTER BEDFORD STUDIOS PRESENTS CASTRO VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS ELVIS AND PRISCILLA/ SONNY AND CHER IN SWING (CV ADULT SCHOOL JAZZ BAND) LOS DADDIOS (CLASSIC ROCK) THE REVERBIVORES (SURF MUSIC CLASSICS) ALGO MAS (LATIN ROCK) PHANTOM POWER (CLASSIC ROCK) BANDSTAND STAGE SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 CASTRO VALLEY FORUM 2022 Fall Festival Special Section 3 3295 Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley lemonadeFree or Iced tea with ad Serving brunch, lunch and dinner daily Welcome Back Fall Festival! www.cannerykitchenandtap.com
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4 CASTRO VALLEY FORUM 2022 Fall Festival Special Section CVHS Madrigals, are the premier auditioned ensemble of their choral music program, and serve as vocal “Musical Ambassadors” of Castro Valley High School. These students study and perform advanced levels of choral liter ature, routinely earning Superior ratings from adjudicators and clinicians at the state’s top showcases and competitions- most famously in 2018, the CVHS Madrigals earned the honor of First Place Chamber Choir in the state of California. Today marks the frst public performance of the 2022-2023 Mad rigals, and they continue on to a jam-packed school year with the exciting honor of getting to perform in April at New York City’s prestigious Carnegie Hall. Madrigals are honored to kick off the return of Castro Valley’s live and in-person Fall Festival! continued from front page Castro Valley Boulevard will be the location for the 50th annual festival, which will see some 300 booths from vendors, schools, and commu nity organizations, along with food and drink, two stages of entertainment, kids’ fun, and a public debate between the two fnal candidates in the 20th State Assembly District race. Castro Valley Boulevard will be closed to cars between Santa Maria Avenue and Red wood Road, from Friday night at 9:00 p.m. to just before mid night on Sunday, to allow for event set up and dismantling. One can detour using Jamison Way, just to the north. An event this size requires more than 200 volunteers with the setup, two days of operations, and breakdown. Volunteers made up of members of the Chamber will partner with Castro Valley Unifed School and many other local groups to make the Fall Festival a Festivitiessuccess.begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday with the Castro Valley High School Madrigals and the Sienna String Quartet on two different stages and run through 6 p.m. that evening. Other Saturday entertain ment includes classic pop mu sic, dance, Zumba ftness, Jap anese drums, martial arts, jazz, rock bands, and belly dancing, on two different stages.
Sunday entertainment starts at 10 with In Swing, the Castro Valley Adult School’s jazz band, and the Troop Journey belly dancers. It includes classic rock and The Reverbi vores with surf music classics. For you Rock-n-Rollers out there, you can hear from Dead EndFriends, Earthquake, Los Daddios, and Phantom Power. Are you into jazz? Check out The Michael Udelson Trio and Castro Valley Adult School’s “In Swing.” Got a hankering for classical music? You'll want to check out the Sienna String Quartet and the Phil Santos Violins. And for something truly original, there will be performances of Japanese drums performed by Newark Wadaiko as well as a tribute to Elvis and Priscilla Presley and Sonny and Cher. The full entertainment schedule for both days is shown in the special section of this week’s Forum.
The Assembly District 20 debate begins at 6 p.m. on Sat urday and runs to about 7 p.m. It will be by the main (Band stand) Stage, at the corner of Redwood Road and Castro Valley Boulevard in front of the Chevron station and across fromCandidatesSafeway.Shawn Kum agai and Liz Ortega will put forth their views, with Michael Singer, managing editor of the Castro Valley Forum, mod erating. Questions sent in by Chamber of Commerce mem bers will be asked, along with questions given in writing by audience members at the start of the event. The moderator will select questions to give as good an overview of the issues as Thepossible.Chamber advises that many people attend the festival, and to allow some extra time to fnd parking.
CASTRO VALLEY FORUM 2022 Fall Festival Special Section 5 We love town.this Todd Anglin CLU ChFC, Agent Insurance |Lic#: OM86355 We love serving our Castro Valley community! Our latest adventure, chairing the 2022 Castro Valley Fall Festival, hosted by the Castro Valley/Eden Area Chamber of Commerce. We hope you’ll join us! Follow us on Facebook @Fall Festival 2022 for more info! We’d like to thank all of our sponsors who had a hand in making sure this awesome event was a success! For your Insurance needs, call Todd and for Real Estate needs, call Janella! We’d love to help! Scan QR Code for Fall Festival info! Call: JanellaAnguiano510-537-8100 , Realtor ® DRE#01369593 Call: 510-755-5199 DETERRENT THAT CAN PREVENT CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFT VALLEY TRUCK & TRAILER 510-889-8103 o CatalyticConverter ConverterCatalytic Is on the rise DESIGNTODIFFICULTEXTREMELYCUT BELT STEEL CABLES Parts & Labor - $399.00 THEFT Restore orked over 30 years in the public transit industry as a CFO / Historyadvisor/consultantofinnovative solutions Real experience; Proven Leadership on East Bay transportation watchdog committee; t bay native; from working class "transit dependent" family 88 0022 V 22 Paid for by Elect Murphy McCalley AC Transit Director 2022
Los Daddios, a local East Bay Band, serves up an eclec tic mix of rock, blues, country and new wave cover tunes. Pulling from a Detroit blues vibe, the band jams with raw Dad power with gritty vocals, guitars, keyboards, and a rock in’ horn section.
Phantom Power is an all Original Rock Group com posed of 4 Phantom Power Veteran musicians, Scott Eckardt (Lead vocalist) and Carlos Suarez (Guitarist) are the founders of this new exciting musical group, along with Matt Constant on Bass and Doug Lippi on drums they have written and released their frst full length album entitled “G2Y” GoodBye To Yester day. The band collectively have shared the stage with some of the top international touring superstars such as Motley Crue, UFO, Foreigner, Eddie Money, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Night Ranger and Slaughter just to name a few. These guys will be bringing their all original show to the Castro Valley Fall Festival on Sunday Sept. 11 and are hon ored to be a part of this event. It’s bound to be a great day of great food and live music!
The Reverbivores, based in Castro Valley, have been playing their unique brand of surf rock throughout California since 2016. They have released two albums that have gotten signifcant airplay across the international surf music indie radio and podcast community.
Fleet Street band is thrilled to return to the Castro Valley Fall Festival. Fleet Street band will be entertaining the crowd on Saturday, September 10, from 5:15 pm to 6 pm. You’ll enjoy Fleet Street band’s high energy, family friendly eclectic covers of songs that will have attendees singing and dancing in the street. Songs like the 80s classic Love Shack, by the B52s, 60’s Janis Joplin’s Piece of My Heart, and 50s Chuck Berry’s Johnnie B Goode. Fleet Street band has been enter taining throughout Northern California for more than 12 years. Castro Valley is home to the lead vocalist who is always thrilled to sing for her neighbors. See you at the Festival!
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2020’s “The Reverbivores Watch TV” was recorded weeks before the pandemic shut down the band (along with the rest of the planet.) Instead of practicing, touring, playing shows and writing music together, from summer 2020 through spring 2021, Tim Callendar (guitar), Tom Janci (bass), Adam Detrick (drums) and Jonathan Korn (guitar) and their signifcant others found themselves on biweekly Zoom sessions playing Dungeons & Dragons. By May 2021, the last goblin had been slain and the band reconvened at Jona than’s house in Castro Valley to brush the dust off their songs. It took until spring of 2022 for live music to begin coming back around the Bay Area. The Reverbivores have been repeat guests at the Cas tro Valley Fall Festival and always look forward to per forming for the home crowd. “We were pretty bummed that the 2021 festival didn’t happen,” said Jonathan, “But we’re super excited to have been invited to play the 50th anniversary festival in 2022. We love playing this venue and this year will be really special.”
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The Fall Festival got its start at the Castro Village Shopping Center in 1973. This brochure can be seen at the Chamber’s kiosk now on display at the Castro Val ley Marketplace. This year’s Fall Festival is this Saturday & Sunday Sept. 10-11. The year was 1972. Nixon visited China, “The Godfa ther” debuted, and we were all dancing to the “Crocodile Rock.” It was also the frst year a band of dedicated Castro Valley business owners joined together as the Chamber of Commerce to host their frst ever Fall Festival. First held in the Castro Village Shopping Center, the Chamber voted to provide a showcase for Castro Valley businesses and artisans while showing off Castro Valley as the “Heart of Good Living.” The event offered attendees a wine-tasting, fashion show, and art exhibit. The success of that frst year prompted a second event in 1973, which the Chamber offcially named the Fall Festival.
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The Alameda County Sheriff’s Offce in partnership with the Castro Valley Eden Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Crime Prevention Meeting for businesses located in Castro Valley and unincorporated Alameda County. The purpose of the meeting will be to provide de-escalation training and general crime prevention techniques. Attendees will be able to ask questions in an interactive environment. We look forward to seeing you!
“A community and cultural event in Castro Valley has long seemed an impossible dream, but this year of 1973 presented the magic momentum where a few inspired people saw a like ly possibility in a small largely unheralded event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce,” wrote Wayne Starkweather president of the Fall Festival who managed the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant when it was located on Redwood Road. We know more about the 1973 event because it was the frst to include a special hand out with all the names of the participants, coordinators, and sponsors. The mustard-yellow brochure can be seen at the Chamber of Commerce kiosk in a renovated telephone booth located at Lab 200 upstairs at the Castro Valley Marketplace. Dwight Perry of Perry’s Creative Promotions (previ ously Creative Printing) paid for an advertisement in that 1973 brochure. The Castro Valley Rotary past president and Chamber member said the Fall Festival was the event you wanted to participate in. “It was a fun, fun project to work on,” Perry told the Fo rum. “I remember Rotary had a beer booth and we did really well with it. It was a party at mosphere. We had no problem getting volunteers to help out with the beer booth.” The Fall Festival 1973 event included a raffe for a 25-inch Magnavox color television set courtesy of Castro Valley Radio, TV, and Stereo. The Chamber created a Treasure Map within the brochure where visitors could “Discover the hidden treasures in Castro Valley” and the “Little shops flled with golden values.” Treasure spots includ ed In Grandma’s Day, which sold art needlework quilting, Wedding & Custom Cakes by Muriel, and Decor Factors, which were located on Castro Valley Boulevard near Anita Avenue, and the Slim Cheese House, which sold imported and domestic cheese on Center Street, the current site of a pet grooming shop. The Fall Festival’s wine tasting included an array of varietals including champagne supplied by Paul Eaton’s Li quor Center on Center Street. Those partaking in the tasting received commemorative 8 1/2-inch wine goblets em bossed with the year. A scant 1,250 frst edition glasses were handed out in 1973. The art exhibit in 1973 was sponsored by the AAUW (American Association of University Women) with art works such as pottery, stained glass, and paintings ready for purchase. Their special guest that year was O. Lawrence Hansen who was known for his landscapes, portraits, and forals. The Minnesota native also owned the Gallery de Oro on Redwood Road. The Fall Festival fashion show included women’s and men’s fashions. The event was hosted by master of ceremo nies, Ed Hennessy who was advertised as a man, “with a fair for pleasing people, calm ing nerves and chasing away the blues.” Models paraded down the runway with frocks from Allu’s, Cahn’s, Daughtrey’s, House of Mumus, The Frances Shop, Kay’s Bridal Shop, and Grutman’s.FallFestival president Stark weather was joined in leader ship by frst vice president Jack Harrison, second vice president Betty Annable, treasurer Rich ard Kraft, past president Paul Eaton, and Board reps Ben Gurule and George Hartmann. In his note to attendees and the Chamber, Starkweather expressed his gratitude to the community and predicted good things for the future of the event.“With resounding pub lic and civic approval and cooperation, it is the founders’ deepest design to make it a total community involvement and that the Fall Festival becomes an annual Castro Valley cultural experience,” Starkweather wrote. Fifty years later, the com munity is again gathering this September to celebrate good food, artwork, music, and even a littleThisfashion.year’sFall Festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday, September 10-11 on Castro Valley Boulevard between Redwood Rd & Santa Maria Ave. Visit the Chamber website for more details at Edenareachamber.com.
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