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Wicked onboard: Krista Schaarschmidt, Colleen Kanowsky, Amalia Martinez and Miranda Kanowsky celebrate with their Weekly after winning first prize with their version of “Popular� from the play “Wicked� while on a Mexican cruise on Mariner of the Seas. The trip was to celebrate Colleen and Amalia’s graduation from the eighth grade.
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ing effort. “We’ve been here for 38 years,� Gary Harrington said. “Pleasanton has given much to us and we decided that we wanted to give back. So with your help after we receive the approval for what we hope to do, we ask that you share with us what will happen.� Added Nancy Harrington: “We’re very happy and excited about public art. You’ll hear a lot
more as we go forward. We’re thrilled to be able to do what we’ve done.� More than 200 attended the awards celebration, an annual event held to thank those who have served on Pleasanton commissions and committees during the past year, and their guests. Also there were former mayors and City Council members, regional elected officials and some of the past winners of the Mayor’s Award, a program that started in 1971. —Jeb Bing
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“We are always proactive, not reactive in meeting the needs of local businesses that drive our economy,� Wilson said. “We’ve kept our business license fees at $350 because we realize these businesses operate on a very thin profit margin and we want to help.� Besides “Innovation Tri-Valley,� the new research program that Livermore has under way near the Livermore Lab, Pleasanton appears to be in the best financial shape as the new fiscal year moves forward. Hosterman said a new, privately-financed independent living and care facility for seniors, called Stoneridge Creek, has been approved and should start construction by mid-2011 on Staples Ranch, a 124-acre undeveloped parcel owned by Alameda County southwest of the I-580-El Charro Road interchange. That property, which is scheduled to be annexed into Pleasanton in January, will also hold a new auto mall and eventually a retail center and possibly an ice arena. At the west end of Pleasanton, Safeway has the approvals to build a new Lifestyle supermarket with a retail center around it across from the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Bernal and Valley avenues, along the east edge of I-680. In addition, Clorox Corp. received final approvals Tuesday night from the Pleasanton City Council to add a sixth building to a corporate campus it is acquiring from the old Washington Mutual Bank near Hopyard Road and Stoneridge Drive. It plans to
JEB BING
At Tuesday’s Tri-Valley Mayors’ forum are (from left, standing) Mayors Tim Sbranti, Dublin; Mike Doyle, Danville, and Abram Wilson, San Ramon. Seated are Marshall Kamena of Livermore and Pleasanton Mayor Jennifer Hosterman.
move 900 employees into the new campus next year, including 700 from its corporate headquarters in downtown Oakland. Besides the economy, the mayors also agreed that traffic congestion, over-regulation by the state and global competition are among other major concerns. “We have to recognize that companies don’t have to be located in the U.S. anymore to do business here,� Kamena said. “Other countries are investing in business growth and innovation. We’re competing with the rest of the world, not just with each other or nationally. That’s why we have to continue investment here and to grow our skilled workforce.� Added Danville’s Mayor Doyle: “We need to continue to work together as a region to maintain this wonderful quality of life that we have here. There are good economic opportunities for businesses of all sizes.�
“Shop Local� campaigns in both Danville and Pleasanton also are promoting retail and restaurant businesses. Pleasanton’s kicks off this month; Danville’s has been under way with considerable success, the mayors said. Most important — and possibly unique — is the union of the five mayors, they said. “The fact that all five of us with different personalities and from different communities are sitting here as a team is the exception among California cities, not the rule,� San Ramon’s Wilson said. “This is what government is supposed to do ... putting away partisan politics and working on programs and issues that are good for all.� The Mayors Forum is held annually, sponsored alternately by each city’s Chamber of Commerce. This year, the Pleasanton Chamber hosted the event, held at the Palm Event Center in Pleasanton. N
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