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CUESA Names New Executive Director

Published: August, 2003 Lisa Capozzi has joined CUESA, the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, as the new Executive Director. Capozzi comes to CUESA with a 15-year background as a food service executive, manager, business owner, and trained chef. She is on the board of directors of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs and the California […]

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Coming Up: Oakland Walking Tours

Published: August, 2003 Saturday, August 2, Modern Downtown Oakland, 10 am – 12 noon Meet at 11th Street and Broadway, in front of the Marriott Hotel   NEW! Sunday, August 3, Montclair Village, 1 pm – 3 pm Meet at the corner of Thornhill Drive and Mountain Boulevard, across from the Montclair Women’s Club Building […]

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Bay Crossings On the Cover

Published: August, 2003 No need to get down no need to get low In the flow Rastaman that speaketh love is what he preacheth In the flow Politicans fighting to stop I from lighting But in harmony we’ll smoke the tree In the flow, in the flow What they really fighting is INITY Love for […]

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What’s Happening at the San Francisco National Maritime Museum

Published: August, 2003 AUGUST 2 Chantey Sing Past, Present and Future of C.A. Thayer AUGUST 3 Hercules Engineering Tour AUGUST 9 Living History: Day in the Life Pet Goats and a Charthouse of Her Own Living History: Set the Topsail Sailors’ Dogwatch AUGUST 10 Just What DO You Do With a Drunken Sailor? Singing Tour […]

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Peanut Butter Jam Celebrates Webster Street

Published: August, 2003 The second annual Peanut Butter Jam Festival is set for Saturday, September 6, 2003, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Live bands will perform Dixieland jazz, Latin, bluegrass, oldies, pop and rock music all day from two stages. The street will be lined with antique, arts and crafts booths, and the international food […]

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Bay Crossings Working Waterfront

Published: August, 2003 I own Seafood Suppliers along with my wife Signa. It’s a mom-and-pop deal. We’re referred to as a "first receiver, wholesale-to-wholesale" maritime seafood company. We don’t have trucks that go to restaurants or grocery stores. We sell to the people who do. We offload fish, but that isn’t the only thing that we […]

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World War II Ship To Sacramento

Published: August, 2003 Step back into history with a cruise on the river aboard the WWII Liberty Ship Jeremiah O’Brien from San Francisco on August 29 or return from Sacramento to SF on Tuesday, September 2. If you cannot take a day to ride the ship, just come to the Port of Sacramento on Saturday, […]

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I Lunch for a Living

Published: August, 2003 BC: What is the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group? CG: The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group is a trade association of [about 180] high-tech, biomedical, and related employers in Silicon Valley who work on issues that impact, not only the economic health of their companies and the region, but also the quality of life […]

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The Marine Transportation Security Act

Published: August, 2003 Will ferry passengers be faced with long lines at security check points, be required to pass through metal screening machines, need to have an up-to-date passport, be forced to remove their shoes and who knows what else, be asked to pledge allegiance to the commander-in-chief, and, failing all of that, be taken […]

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Your Tax Pennies at Work:

Published: August, 2003 The San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA) expects the number of Bay Area ferry riders to triple over the next fifteen years. The WTA’s plan calls for adding seven new ferry routes and expanding the six already successful ferry routes at a total cost of $646 million, including capital and […]