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Saturday and Sunday Strolls in East Bay Regional Parks

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7 years ago

July 28, 2017

By Ned MacKay

In partnership with the Kaiser Foundation HMO, East Bay Regional Park District offers Saturday and Sunday Strolls, a series of monthly outings that provide safe, low-impact physical activities to promote health and fitness. It’s part of a Healthy Parks/Healthy People program.

The next one is a walk on Sunday, July 30 along the shady East Shore Trail at Lake Chabot in Castro Valley. It’s about 3½ miles round trip to Huck’s Trail and back. Meet at 10 a.m. at the Marina Store. You can bring your dog, but the pooch has to be leashed.

Lake Chabot is on Lake Chabot Road just north of Castro Valley. Parking and dog fees apply. For information, call 510-544-3187.

For another easy, three-mile hike on Sunday, July 30, join naturalist Francis Mendoza at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont.

Francis will lead the group through the marsh, Ohlone Village site and Willows Trail. Wear sturdy shoes, apply sunscreen, and bring water. The hike is for ages 14 and older. Meet Francis at 1:30 p.m. at the Quarry parking lot. Coyote Hills is at the end of Patterson Ranch Road off Paseo Padre Parkway. There’s a parking fee of $5 per vehicle. For information, call (510) 544-3220.

Later on Sunday, July 30, there’s a twilight walk scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Tilden Nature Area near Berkeley, led by naturalist Trent Pearce. Twilight and early evening are good times to encounter more wildlife. Meet Trent at Tilden’s Environmental Education Center, which is at the north end of Central Park Drive. For information, call 510-544-2233.

Another hiking series in the regional parks is Tortoise Trekkers, led by naturalist Ashley Adams. Ashley and the Meanderthals, as she calls the trekkers, will take a leisurely stroll from 5:45 to 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, July 30 at Del Valle Regional Park south of Livermore. Starting at the Arroyo Road staging area, it’s a 3.7-mile walk from the dam to Heron Bay. If you come, bring a flashlight.

This activity is free, but registration is required. And it’s for ages seven and older. To register, call 888-327-2757. Select option 2 and refer to program 17491.

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A Safe Place, Bay Area Domestic Violence Community Organization, Opens New Service Center in Oakland

Oakland-Bay Area non-profit, A Safe Place, announces the grand opening of its newly purchased building in Oakland that will be a service center for families that have suffered from domestic violence. The new, two-story building has over six new service rooms for counseling, mental health support groups, legal services, children’s treatment, safe space for community engagement, and partnership activities.

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May 4, 2024

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Façade of the new community center for A Safe Place opening on May 10 in Oakland. Courtesy photo.

By Courtney Slocum Riley

Special to The Post

Oakland-Bay Area non-profit, A Safe Place, announces the grand opening of its newly purchased building in Oakland that will be a service center for families that have suffered from domestic violence.

The new, two-story building has over six new service rooms for counseling, mental health support groups, legal services, children’s treatment, safe space for community engagement, and partnership activities.

Domestic violence occurrences and offenses account for a considerable amount of all violent crimes in Alameda County. A Safe Place is attempting to provide a safe place for families to heal. A Safe Place is the only comprehensive domestic violence assistance program including a safehouse, in Oakland.

The grand opening celebration will also serve as a fundraiser to build out healing, therapeutic spaces for children and adult victims and survivors and survivors of domestic violence (male and female).

The new service center will expand the work of the organization, founded in 1976 when a group of women working in San Francisco came together to address the urgent need for a shelter in the East Bay. A year later, they founded A Safe Place (ASP) in Oakland. Run solely by volunteers, they set up a crisis line to offer crisis counseling and information to battered women and their children.

The organization serves over 500 adults and children annually through a host of services including crisis counseling via 24-hour crisis line, emergency motel and safehouse sheltering, mental health services (counseling and support groups).

Under the leadership of Executive Director, Carolyn Russell, the organization has grown from a single program into the comprehensive domestic violence and assistance program. ASP strives to meet the growing and diverse needs of our growing community.

The organization hopes to complete all the upgrades and therapeutic room improvements by August 2024. The public is invited to donate to the effort by using the website at www.asafeplace.org/donate. The organization also accepts in-kind gifts as well as items from the organization’s Amazon Wishlist.

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Mario Van Peebles’ ‘Outlaw Posse’ Screened at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre

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May 4, 2024

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Film director Mario Van Peebles, who also stars in “Outlaw Posse,” appeared at a press conference held at RBA Creative on MacArthur Boulevard hosted by the Oakland International Film Festival. Photo By Carla Thomas.

By Carla Thomas

The Oakland International Film Festival hosted a screening of “Outlaw Posse” at the Grand Lake Theatre on Monday. Special guests included director/actor Mario Van Peebles and his co-star, Oakland native Scytorya Rhodes. The film is Peebles’ second western, the first being ‘Posse,’ 13 years ago. Filmmaker Van Peebles shared his passion for independent artistry and producing projects with his son, Mandela, who also starred in the film, along with Whoopi Goldberg and Cedric the Entertainer. Next week, The Post will publish an in-depth interview featuring Peebles’ reflections on his work, future projects, and continuing his father’s legacy and Rhodes on her grandfather, a real-life cowboy.