Leona Heights Garden Club Tip of the Month
Marge Laverty
Summer Propagation of Plants How to take cuttings from a friend's garden:For softwood plants, stem cuttings taken from spring to late summer during the active growing season are most easily and quickly rooted. They are taken from soft, succulent.

Coalition Presents Counterproposal for IES Incinerator
Sheila D'Amico
A coalition of neighbors and community action, health, labor, and environmental justiceorganizations recently presented a proposal to Integrated Environmental Systems (IES), themedical waste incinerator on High St., asking them to replace the in.

Laurel Community Action Project News
L-CAP Celebrates 5 Years
By Adina Sara How the time flies when you're building community! On June 13, L-CAP celebrates five yearsof neighbors working together to improve the quality of life in the Laurel business district. We have lots to be glad about.

Farewell to Dimond Library's Pat Haggarty
Dal Sellman
Supervisors and coworkers of Pat Haggarty, retiring research librarian at Dimond Branch Library, attribute to him all the admirable human qualities. They call him "responsible, dependable, committed, knowledgeable, compassionate, patient and friendly.

Onions & Orchids
Robert Puno
Please help us keep our community informed and aware. If you know of something or someone deserving of an onion or orchid in your neighborhood, send an e-mail to washpuno\@msn.com, or call 531-6279 and leave a message.Orchids to the High Street Pha.

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Photos Jody Berke
Seen at Sequoia School Dads' Club Pancake Breakfast in May.Honored guest Frances Bienati of Ann's Café fame, with Mark Buck, dad, and Frank Bienati, other half.Gary Barker serves them up. Nick Cavagnaro, club president, in the background. [ crop to right]Andy Norton helps a customer.

Does the Postal Service Serve You?
Residents in ZIP codes 94602 and 94619 have been concerned about their local postal service. In response, The MacArthur Metro would like to hear your stories about how your service has affected your life, for better or for worse.
Do you know of a postal carrier who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to deliver the mail, or have you witnessed something that fell far below postal service standards? Have your experiences at your local post office left you wide-eyed or red in the face.

Community Weights Quarry Future
Toni Locke
The Leona Quarry has been paving the streets of Oakland and the Bay Area for a hundred years. Now, quarrying has wound down, leaving the ugly gash that defaces the Oakland Hills where Edwards Avenue winds up to Route 580. Gallagher & Burke Gravel Co..

Not Quite Ready for Ribs
Dennis Evanosky
Don't let the thought of enjoying those Everett & Jones ribs at High Street and MacArthurBoulevard whet your appetite just yet. Restaurant owner Dorothy King must clear twoobstacles before she can transform the abandoned site that Laurel Liq.

Metro Street Scene
Sharon Higgins
The following question was asked of people attending the Bret Harte Middle School Expo on Saturday, May 12: If you were given an all-expense-paid trip this summer to anywhere and were able to take any one person, where would you go and whom would you bring along.

Nibble Your Way up the Bureaucratic Food Chain
Albert Goodwyn
Never received that bill? The check is truly in the mail but never got there? Who's in chargehere? The United States Postal Service (that is the name the Post Office went away 30 years ago)is a government-backed monopoly that can almost do as .