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U15 (Galaxy) Mustang Soccer Team wins BUSC Fall Harvest Soccer Tournament
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The U15 Mustang Soccer Team (Galaxy) won the Ballistic United Soccer Club (Pleasanton) Fall Harvest Soccer Tournament, winning all 4 games. The team consists of players from Danville, Alamo and San Ramon. Pictured (from left to right) George Opacic (Assistant Coach), Andy Berg (Assistant Coach), Juan Pablo Botello Deras, Jordan Miller, Matt Murdough, Nick Vomund, John Giagiari, Danny Tovani, Tyler Opacic, Ryan Tacconi, Navid Kazemi, Eric Wood, Alec Blanda, Aaron Lee, Hayden Berg, Rohan Dutta and Paul Miller (Head Coach).
The historic aviation beacon that has sat atop Mount Diablo since 1928 has returned to the summit after undergoing significant repairs. The 48th annual beacon lighting ceremony will take place at sunset on December 7th.
Save Mount Diablo Purchases: 1,080 acre, $7.2 million Curry Canyon Ranch On November 6, Save Mount Diablo announced that it had secured its top priority acquisition over the past 25 years, the 1,080 acre Curry Canyon Ranch, from the estate of Ettore and Geraldine Bertagnolli. The purchase price is $7.2 million and the group has three years to raise the funds to permanently protect it. “Curry Canyon Ranch is amazing in every way,” said Scott Hein, president of Save Mount Diablo, “from its huge incredible landscapes, and spectacular beauty, to its rich biological diversity and cultural history. Eight miles of fire road solves not one but four significant trail gaps. The acquisition is the culmination of decades of effort, especially
over the past five years, to secure the largest and most expensive property in Save Mt. Diablo’s history. This is Save Mount Diablo’s most important acquisition ever, and the most important for Mt. Diablo since North Peak was protected in 1980.” Lush, Diverse Landscape “This property is a ShangriLa of sycamore lined creeks, lush canyons studded with house-sized boulders rising from a fragrant isolated valley to exposed grassland ridges, with incredible views, bordered by a mile of rocky cliffs and wind caves-all supporting incredible biological diversity,” said Seth Adams, Save Mount
Diablo’s Land Programs Director. “Its dry rocky areas look like Pinnacles National Park or the Mojave desert. Its canyons could be the wet Pacific Northwest.”
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More than three miles wide, the 1,080 acre property is reached from Clayton (four miles away as the crow flies) See CANYON page 15