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Saturday, November 3, 2012

HOLIDAY Boutique & Luncheon - 11/3/12/SAT

Update: 11/3/12/1130

** The business cards of the fine vendors who had them available, when I visited the event at 11:15 am, are included in the "pdf," at the bottom of this article

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First Posted: 10/5/12

PURPOSE

To announce an annual arts and crafts sale, to raise funds for Saint Peter Martyr School (pre-school to 8th grade), in Pittsburg.

4th ANNUAL

GRANDPARENTS HOLIDAY
BOUTIQUE & LUNCHEON

Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012

Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Location:

St Peter Martyr School Cafeteria

425 West 4th street

Pittsburg

Admission and Parking: FREE

HUGE SELECTION OF UNIQUE GIFTS!

At least 20 arts & craft vendors will offer creative, skillfully-crafted gifts, for sale, including:

homemade jams;
cookies and candies;
knit and crochet items;
baby gifts;
lavender products;
aprons;
hand-made jewelry;
rosary beads;
scarves;
music boxes
and many more

FAMILY FUN!

The event might well be seen as an opener for the Christmas season, as Santa Claus will be enthroned in the Kindergarten room, to delight the children and to create photo opportunities. There will be face-painting. Children may be photographed, with a copy immediately printed out.

FOOD!

Enjoy a light lunch, with music

Homemade soup, fresh salad, and fresh-baked French bread

for only $5.00

TWO RAFFLES!

All-day and Grand Prize
$2 per ticket / 6 tickets for $10

Buy as many tickets as you can for the school fund!
Win great prizes!

All Day Drawings!

Each artist will contribute crafted gifts to be awarded to the winners. (At least 20 of these great gifts will be awarded)

Grand Prize Drawings!

A gorgeous, queen-size quilt
Sephora cosmetics
A large "San Francisco Giants" tote bag

For more information, call:

Terry Matejcek

925-432-7292

BEGIN A GREAT SHOPPING SEASON

SERVING A GREAT CAUSE!!

**BELOW ARE SOME OF
THE ATTENDING VENDORS
(Always support small businesses)

1101120 - Grandparents' Holiday Boutique Vendors Business Cards

Also, (with non-traditional business card) was: www.MtDiabloSoapCompany.com

Friday, November 2, 2012

City of Pittsburg: Successor Agency Oversight Board Meeting

Successor Agency Oversight Board Meeting

Date: 11/8/2012 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Location: Council Chambers
65 Civic Avenue
Pittsburg, California 94565

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City of Pittsburg: City Council Meeting - CANCELLED

City Council Meeting - CANCELLED

Date: 11/5/2012 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Location: Council Chambers
65 Civic Avenue
Pittsburg, California 94565

Meeting Cancelled

Thursday, November 1, 2012

DISASTER READINESS: Hurricane Sandy

First posted: 26 Oct 12

1. Purpose

To impart crucial information concerning personal readiness for Hurricane Sandy, currently threatening the east coast.

2. Because

People here, with relatives and other east coast contacts, may be able to offer practical support, based on the information provided in this article.
It is undeniable that a disaster in one part of the country tends to affect us all, directly and indirectly.
Besides, valuable object lessons are contained in disaster episodes, anywhere, which can be applied to meet other disasters more intelligently.
Regardless of the agency of the disaster (hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, fire storm, etc), many lessons can be used to increase readiness insights elsewhere.
Thus, this article seizes the chance to present relevant information for local consideration -- to better prepare us for our own potential "disaster-set."
Furthermore, at least in theory, we may not be immune to "super-storms" in the western region (see the blog article on ARKStorms).

3. Background

This afternoon, the following message was received from the U.S. Government:

Hurricane Sandy is moving up the eastern coast of the United States.
Learn how to prepare for the storm by visiting Ready.gov.
Follow the instructions from your state and local emergency management officials.
Use the National Hurricane Center's mobile website to track the storm on your mobile device.

Other salient national, state and local information is contained in:

US: the Wikipedia discussion of "Emergency Management."

US: the website for the "National Hurricane Center."

CA: the website for the "California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA)"

SFBA: the About.com listing of "San Francisco BAY AREA Emergency and Disaster Resources"

CCC: the website for the "Contra Costa County Office of Emergency Services (OES)"

ECCC: the website for "East Contra Costa County CERT Program"

PB: the website for the "City of Pittsburg Emergency Readiness / CERT Program"

4. Requested Action

Please send a link to this article, as appropriate, toward the east coast.
Please take a moment to examine the links and see if they can provide you with relevant information of which you may be unaware.
Please help this blog's readership grow, because...

5. A Future Vision

Over the near-term, this blog is planned to be used as a knowledge-vehicle to help individuals, families, and neighborhoods to (among other practical things) better organize themselves:

so as to methodically anticipate, prepare for, confront, endure, and recover from environmental hazards...
in order to help prolong their continued and healthy existence...
aided by their better coordination with each other and with the efforts of government and other pertinent social entities.

For this vehicle to be truly effective, a significant proportion of the local population must be made aware of and regularly monitor this deliberately evolving blog -- and other emerging systems (which will also be introduced by this "vehicle").
Simultaneously, we can share what we build, as we build it, with the rest of our world, to be adapted to suit unique conditions.

Maximum momentum build-up in readership growth is considered to be essential. When our populations can be reached, with regularity, all the many public service entities will have this very same vehicle (this blog sub-system and future others) available as a means to keep us even better informed. They will be able to reach us, almost instantaneously.
Without strong momentum, communication and resource gaps will be too wide to readily overcome within a reasonable time-frame.
In my humble opinion, there still exist many "gaps" to be closed between us "ordinary" citizens and the larger social systems designed to use the authority and resources we provide, to enable those systems to function and optimize themselves toward even better days ahead. Those gaps can and will close with determination, reason, time, and good will.

Thank you

All Original Content © 2012 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby suspend those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.

WORLD & LOCAL EVENT CALENDARS

Purpose

For your convenience, here is a useful link-list collection of event calenders pertaining, directly, to activities within the City and our ever-wider concentric territories.

General Event Calendars
Access to calendars may also found
by clicking the "Tab 4 - Events" menu option, on this blog.

1. CITY: Pittsburg

ALL: Google search for ALL Pittsburg Events
GOVT: Pittsburg City Events Calendar
COMMUNITY: PittsburgCa.net calendar
ARTS: Pittsburg Arts & Community Foundation Events Calendar
SCHOOL: Pittsburg Unified School District Calendars
MUSEUM: Pittsburg Historical Society - Museum
COLLEGE: Los Medanos Community College Academic Calendar
TRAINING: Pittsburg Adult Education Center

2. COUNTY: Contra Costa

3. ECONOMIC REGION: San Francisco Bay Area

4. STATE-REGION: Northern California

5. STATE: California

6. NATIONAL-Region: Western U.S. Regional Calendars

Google search for ALL West US Coast Regional Calendars

7. NATIONAL: U.S. National Events Calendars

8. GLOBAL: World-wide Event Calendars

Google search for ALL World-wide Global Events Calendars
World Event Calendar - Council on Foreign Relations (Significant events and anniversaries taking place around the world)

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If other calendars need to be added to this list, please let me know

THERE'S A LOT GOING ON

ELECTION ISSUE: Pittsburg HS Students to take LMC Courses?

For: Pittsburg Voters

From: Greg Enholm

Candidate for Contra Costa Community College District, Ward 5

Including all or parts of Antioch, Bay Point, Bethel Island, Brentwood, Byron, Clyde, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, Oakley, and Pittsburg

It used to be that hundreds of Pittsburg High School students were allowed to attend Los Medanos College while also taking their regular high school classes.

Because of budget reductions, only 164 Pitt students were allowed to take LMC courses in 2010 but now only 68 do. Denying hundreds of Pitt students the opportunity of taking a college-level or career training course at LMC hurts their ability to prepare for college or start a career and is wrong.

Watch this video to see what can be done to allow far more Pitt students to take LMC courses so they can be prepared for college or a career. Click on the following URL OR copy and paste the URL into your URL box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfTJkwI4mbc

Thank you

Cell 925.878.5515

11/1/Thur!! City-Neighborhoods / Autumn Meeting #02

First posted: 9/19/12

They're doing it again! Second Round This Year!

What a Public Service!

A. *NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS
(please see comment at bottom)

The City of Pittsburg's Neighborhood Team
is hosting TWO Neighborhood Meetings

1. The City wants to bring City Hall to the neighborhoods to talk with you about City projects, neighborhood projects, and local issues.

2. PLEASE JOIN US TO LEARN AND DISCUSS THINGS THAT MATTER TO US ALL

Por favor juntemonos para aprender sobre el trabajo de mejoramientos y discutir situaciones locales.

3. To have a specific issue addressed at meetings, please email the City prior to the meeting date at NeighborhoodTeam@ci.pittsburg.ca.us.

Si tiene algo especifico que discutir en la reunion, por favor de mandar un correo electronico a la ciudad, NeighborhoodTeam@ci.pittsburg.ca.us , antes de la fecha de la reunion.

GET INVOLVED -- TAKE PRIDE IN PITTSBURG

Involucrese – Tome Orgullo en Pittsburg.

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B. SCHEDULE

PLEASE NOTE: 1020 0510 -- CITY-NEIGHBORHOOD MASS MEETING SCHEDULE

I recently learned that not everyone can see the actual meeting schedules, in the graphic just below this note. It depends on your equipment and a host of other factors. Now that I know this, I can make allowances in future articles to prevent this. Meanwhile, here is another version of the schedule. Thanks for your patience.

Here is the schedule for this season's two City-wide meetings:

#1 -- 10/20/Sat -- 9:30 to 11:30 am -- Rancho Medanos Jr. High, Library -- 2301 Range Road
#2 -- 11/1/Thu -- 6:30 to 8:30 pm -- Marina Vista Elementary -- Multi-purpose Room -- 50 E. 8th Street

*ABOUT THESE MEETINGS

[Editor's Note -- the following reprint, from March 2012, is my continuing observations of these meetings]

Each meeting is a little different, so you won't waste your time by attending more than just one.

I attended two of the EIGHT meetings last November -- and they were absolutely fabulous. I wish I could have made all of them -- they were that pleasing and practical! At each one, citizens (and non-citizens) brought up different issues -- and Staff covered different points or expanded upon earlier ones -- so I learned useful things both times.

And I met, for the first time, distant neighbors, whom I now recognize and exchange waves with, as I move about our hometown.

And, it's always great to see the City Council Members (Vice Mayor Nancy Parent was at one of "my" meetings); City Manager, Mr. Joe Sbranti (presiding); and the contributions of Schools Superintendent Dr. Rondeau, and other officials and support teams. It seems that a lot of personal time is sacrificed on the City's behalf.

We continually benefit from a most favorable set of events, I'd say and do say.

And not to imply anything the Staff might be doing this time, but last time, they thoughtfully provided great snacks and very interesting hand-out publications and mementos.

And, it's inspiring to see our dedicated and brilliant City Officials and Staff investing their PERSONAL Saturdays to talk, comfortably, with us. And, their behind-the-scenes sacrifices, on our behalf, astound me each time I detect them -- or hear about it from others -- which are both quite often!

Please take time to show them how much we appreciate them and listen to what they wish to tell us -- and tell them what they need to know.

THIS IS ONE MORE REASON I APPRECIATE OUR CITY SO MUCH!!! And, I've seen a LOT of cities.

David Nelson

P.S. It's also WONDERFUL to note that this is the SECOND round of meetings in SIX MONTHS.