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At Home on the Road
Albert Richmond
The Oakland Lady Ballers have been one of the winningest youth teams in the Bay Area. Thelast time we reported on the Lady Ballers, they had just finished...
A Visit of Mayoral Proportions
Dennis Evanosky
The offer seemed incredible at first. Our Home Alert group simply needed to get on a waiting list, and Mayor Jerry Brown would visit us, listen to our problems...
Fortunate to Be Alive
Dal Sellman
" stroke is a brain attack," say the signs on the walls of Alta Bates Hospital. That is what I experienced in May. While dozing at home, my body at ease, it...
[Photo caption:] Gardeners from Sweden and Germany near the Potsdamer Platz U-bahn (Underground) Station in Berlin look over Gordon Laverty's shoulder to readMarge's May '99 Metro "Tip of the Month" column. These folks liked both the Metroand the article!
Leona Heights Garden Club Tip of the Month
By Marge LavertyHot Summer MonthsOur gardens are relying on us for their welfare their food, their water, their cleanliness, and their shelter.
L-CAP News
Betsy Callaway
Street Redesign Money in the BudgetRepresentatives of all three major Laurel associations showed up at City Council on June 22 to speak in favor of funding for...
Laurel Liquors Building and Oakland Heritage
Maureen Dorsey
The Oakland Heritage Alliance has listed the Laurel Liquors building as fifth in this year's published "most endangered buildings" list.
Merchants Sidewalk Sale Along MacArthur
Maureen Dorsey and Betsy Callaway
Plans are afoot for a coordinated sidewalk sale September 11 on MacArthur Boulevard, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., sponsored by the Laurel Merchants Association and...
As We See It:
a column from neighborhood school children
Ms. Field's Class, Allendale Year Round School
This will be the last column written by this year's fifth-grade class, which will graduate tomiddle school in September.
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Bret Harte/Joaquin Miller NCPC News
Barbara Liston
This is a report from the lost middle zone. NCPC 22Y serves the area from Coolidge to 35th Avenue and I-580 to Skyline. Two groups have sprung up to serve this...
Bret Harte Community Collaborative Awarded $400,000 Healthy Start Operational Grant
Geri Murphy
Over a year ago the Bret Harte Community Collaborative was formed to assess the needs of our community's youth and their families and develop a comprehensive plan ...
Dimond Improvement Association News
Ann Nomura
The Dimond Improvement Association hosted a meeting with CalTrans' Deputy District Director Paul Hensley to discuss the lifting of the ban on trucks on Interstate ...
To Your Health
The Power of Belief
Paulette Avery, R.N., M.S.N.
Most likely you are familiar with the term "the placebo effect." The term refers to the power ofa person s belief to cause physical benefits from something...
Letters to the Editor
Metro Editor,We'd like to add our appreciation and thanks to the doctors Dorsey and Oakamoto for their donation of new curtains to Doug's Tattoo Shoppe.
Let's Get Prepared Now!
Barbara Liston
Metro readers, please come to a free two-hour class on how to prepare yourself for any emergency, from earthquakes to fires to Y2K.
Stars & Gripes
Barbara Liston
To submit your nomination, call 482-5384 and leave details and your name and phone number, or e-mail bliston\@jps.net.Stars to Dolores Siegenthaler, office...
Turning Post Office Plan Around
Trish West
The abbreviation "P.O." doesn't always stand for "Post Office." Teresa Miller and her neighbors had more of the vernacular in mind to describe their feelings when ...
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