The Pioneer Newspaper July 16, 2015

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Jazz festival celebrates sweet 16 By Bryan Cordova

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FAMILY SUES OVER HAZING DEATH

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HAYWARD'S 16TH ANNUAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

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Jazz, blues and gospel bands fiddled in Hayward City Hall Plaza last weekend during the 16th annual Hayward Russell City Blues Festival. The downtown lawn was filled with jazz fans either sitting, dancing to the music and bobbing their heads as they enjoyed the soothing sounds of artists such as Kingfish, Carl Weathersby and Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater. The festival was hosted by the West Coast Blues Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the, “perpetuation of Blues, Jazz and Gospel as an indigenous American art form,” according to their website. They host numerous festivals throughout the year in cities that have history with jazz like Los Angeles, Seattle, Oakland and Hayward-Russell City. Russell City is an unincorporated part of northern Hayward by A Street, which experienced a growth in African Americans after World War II, which birthed a wave of jazz artists including legends Big Joe Turner and Big Mama Thornton. Eventually West Coast blues was born, as artists in California switched up the instruments and replaced horns with harmonicas, which led Hayward to be a historic influence in Jazz history, according to the West Coast Blues Society. The city had musicians who performed throughout the numerous clubs found in the area during the 1940's, 50's and 60's. “I really enjoy coming to this show,” said Helen Leopold, Hayward resident. “I started coming about 10 years ago and this is the best show.”

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New stadium deal looks bleak for silver and black By Louis LaVenture SPORTS AND CAMPUS EDITOR San Diego businessman Floyd W. Kephart submitted a 20-page plan to Oakland and Alameda County officials last week for a development project that would provide a new stadium for the Oakland Raiders by 2019. The $900 million, 55,000-seat stadium also includes development plans for an area adjacent to the new stadium called Coliseum City that will consist of 4,000 housing units, 400 hotel units and retail space, according to the plan originally obtained by the Bay Area News Group. Kephart reported that the total price for the entire project would be just more than $4 billion. At the time this publication went to print, the Raiders had not commented on the proposal. The deal would require that current Raiders team owner Mark Davis sell 20 percent of the franchise to Kephart’s business, New City Development, LLC for $200 million according to the plan. This is the first time in the league’s history a new stadium proposal included a provision to allow the development company the option to purchase a portion of the team. “The Raiders, along with the NFL with the G4 money, which is a $200 million loan to the Raiders, would be able to

come up with $500 million. We’ve put $500 million on the table and we believe that we could build the stadium in Oakland that would be suitable for the Raiders and our fans for about $900 million. We would need the land and the infrastructure to be taken care of somehow,” Davis told ESPN’s John Clayton in an interview in June. The stadium itself would be completely funded by the Raiders and the NFL, which leaves a $400 million gap in funding the Raiders would be required to cover. The NFL has already committed up to $200 million in a statement made by Commissioner Roger Goodell at the owner’s meetings last month. According to Kephart’s statements, the Raiders would borrow $300 million from creditors, contribute $100 million of their own money and use half of the $200 million they would receive from the sale of a percentage of the team to Kephart’s company as well as sales of personal seating licenses for season-ticket holders to fill the funding gap for the stadium and parking garages on their end. New City Development, LLC would purchase just over 90 acres of land at the current site from the city and county for $116 million, which they would then put back into the new stadium. The city PHOTO BY LOUIS LAVENTURE/THE PIONEER

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O.co Coliseum is the current home of the Oakland Raiders and Athletics in East Oakland.


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