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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022
YEAR 34 INSIDE YOUR
FORUM NEWS
NO. 30
Castro Valley a City? State Former Unhoused Law May Need to Change In CV Spearhead Cleanup of Creek
By Mike McGuire CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
Burton Brew New beer to honor CV native, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton
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Stay Strong Learn about the many benefits of strength training as we age
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CV Artist Dilip Nandwana’s art exhibit on display at Kenneth Aitken Center
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Castro Valley cityhood is not being pushed currently and would be unlikely to work unless current state laws are changed, long-time incorporation advocate Michael Kusiak told the Castro Valley Rotary on July 19. This is despite a study the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) of Alameda County is planning on the feasibility of incorporating—granting cityhood to— several unincorporated areas in the county. Each county has a LAFCO, which is independent of the county government, and any new incorporation would need its approval. The last new incorporation allowed anywhere in the state was in 2011 in Riverside County. LAFCO on its website was clear that the proposed Castro PHOTO BY MIKE MCGUIRE Valley study is not the kind of study people pushing for a new Longtime Castro Valley activist Michael Kusiak city would have to undertake, recently spoke with CV Rotary on the feasibility of see CITY on page 10 incorporation of unicorporated areas in the county.
By Michael Singer CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
San Lorenzo Creek has substantially less garbage in it this summer thanks to a multi-agency collaboration and hard work from some people who used to live along the creek banks. A partnership between Forstr.org and HomeBridge Connect between May 16 and June 6 this year resulted in 220 bags (more than 38.5 cubic yards) of garbage being removed from the creek area that runs parallel to Grove Way near Interstate 580. Workers filled 35-gallon collection bags donated by Caltrans and pulled them up to a staging area managed by Oro Loma District four Mondays in a row. The bags were then disposed of by Waste Management. The creek site is managed by Caltrans and the Flood Control and Water Conservation District.
“This is all litter not going down any drains,” said Forestr. org founder Yon Hardisty. “Thanks to your neighbors and Caltrans District 4.” The pickup is part of “Forestr Cleans,” an ongoing litter abatement program that works with current and previously unhoused individuals to clean up the lands. “Specifically for the San Lorenzo Creek areas, HomeBridge Connect asked us to help support their clean-up efforts,” Hardisty said. “They cleaned a good third of their targeted spaces in those four weeks.” Hardisty says Forestr.org along with Oro Loma and HomeBridge Connect is now planning for two more cleaning events and is seeking out local and corporate sponsors to help with the costs. The non-profit pays on a per-bag basis which helps not only cleans the creek see CLEANUP on page 2
Local Artist Celebrated with ‘Quilt Reflections’, High Tea Caroline Earhart’s journey to quilt-making had its beginnings when she and her husband Jon moved to Scotland in 1990 for a twoyear work assignment. Flash forward 20 years, and she’s now the featured artist at the Quilt Reflections Quilt Show on Saturday, August 6, hosted by the Castro Valley United Methodist Church Women in Faith. The Castro Valley resident will have many of her innovative quilts on display. In addition to the show, High Tea will be served.
Earhart’s friend and fellow artist Robin Rees tells the Forum that although Earhart had always enjoyed sewing her own clothes, she had never been a bit interested in learning to quilt. “During the couple’s first week in Scotland, Caroline says she saw a flyer in a store window advertising a beginner’s class in quilting,” Rees told the Forum. “Nevertheless, she signed up for the class hoping she might make some friends in Scotland. And in fact, in the first class, she met the two ladies who would
become her closest Scottish friends. That class set her off on a life-long love of quilting— and taught her that quilters make wonderful friends.” After Caroline signed up for the class, she remembered she hadn’t brought her sewing machine to Scotland, Rees added. No problem, she found a treadle machine in a classified ad in the paper and made her first several quilts on that treadle sewing machine. Caroline’s mother, both grandmothers, and some of her great-grandmothers were see ARTIST on page 5
Caroline Earhart