Boulevard Bites

by Toni Locke and Sheila D'Amico

### Anne Fox alerts us to Adina Sara's online story, "Traveler's Mind" (restlessme.com home page or archives), about her trip to Costa Rica with her husband. Adina writes The Imperfect Gardener" column in the Metro and has recently published 100 Words Per Minute Tales From Behind Law Office Doors. ### Youth gangs repeatedly loot the Dimond Safeway! Branch manager Ed Cabral invites the public to come in and view the surveillance tapes. What's with the empty Oakland Police Department substation at the front corner of the store? ### Councilmember Desley Brooks tells the Metro the Millsmont Farmer's Market will reopen for the season on Saturday, June 4. They will have face painting, live music by the Oaktown Jazz Performance Workshop and other bands, and a jump box to welcome back the Market. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Market will run through the last Saturday in October. ### Neighbors from Melrose/High Hopes NCPC are working with government officials, local businesses, and other neighbors to assure that any new businesses at the former Albertsons site on High St. and at the strip mall across from Fremont high school are ones that the community can support.