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The Food Mill, Inc. 75th Anniversary
Madeline Smith Moore
One summer day in 1968, Art Watkins, older brother of Kirk, was "stomping up and down MacArthur looking for a job and stepped in here [The Food Mill] and met Mr. Denis." In 1933 John Denis had opened the first Food Mill at 2952 Hopkins as a g.
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Food Bank Needs Us
Dal Sellman
' For ten years I volunteered to drive a van for a food rescue organization in Oakland, and I visited the Alameda County Community Food Bank often. The Food Bank has now moved into a spacious, well-organized location on Edgewater Drive off Hegenberger Road in Oakland.
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Your support helps keep the Metro alive! Become one of the Thousand Friends.
Laura Finkler James A. Barr You, too, can become a friend of the Metro. See page 2. ' .
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Join the Junior Girls' Rowing Team
Jo Ann Driscoll
One of Oakland's most successful athletic programs for young women, the Jack London Aquatic Center (JLAC) is recruiting high school girls for the 2008-2009 season of its Junior Women's Rowing Team.' JLAC invites interested girls and their families to an open house at 2 p.m.
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Peralta Hacienda Celebrates Oakland's Chinese Heritage
Nina Egert
In 1852, a troupe of Cantonese opera performers arrived in San Francisco hoping to benefit from the gold-mining profits of their fellow countrymen. Their subsequent performance of The Eight Genii at San Francisco's Tivoli Opera House w.
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