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Vol. 16, No. 33
Memory of volunteer lives on by Corey Hunt Correspondent
The legacy of a Liberty High School and UC Berkeley graduate turned Peace Corps volunteer is receiving international attention as questions mount regarding the health practices that preceded his death while serving overseas. N ick Castle succumbed to what has been described as a short but turbulent gastrointestina l illness in February of 20 13, just seven months a fter he a rrived in southern China to teach English in a rural community. He was 23 years old. His untimely death is now the subject of a New York Times investigation that is pushing the Peace Corps to answer questions about both alleged and acknowledged flaws in its healthcare sys-
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tern. As his story gains international attention, Castle's family hopes Nick's legacy will serve as an inspiration to others. "Nick was kind of a born diplomat. He liked helping people and was a lways civic-minded," said Castle's father, David, a sergeant with the Brentwood Police Depa rtment. " J imagine he probably would have come back, studied for his master's degree and then gone on to work at the state depa rtment." His mother Sue remembers her son as a driven young man who flourished when he a rrived at the UC Berkeley campus after spending his high school years volunteering around his hometown in Brentwood. " He really made it a home see Volunteer page 22A
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Liberty High graduate Nick Castle died at 23 w hile serving in the Peace Corps in China in 2013 .
by Kyle Szymanski The emergency water conservati on measures adopted by the Califo rnia Water Reso urces Control Boa rd in July ra ined down on the C ity o f Bre ntwood thi s wee k. The Brentwood City Council approved a pla n during its Tuesday meeting that pro hibits irrigating with city-provided drinking water between 8 a.m. a nd 7 p.m. da ily and requires residents to slash their water use by 20 percent as compa red to last year. Residents are now also banned fro m wate ring la nd scapes th at cau se run off to adj acent p roperties o r nonirri gated a reas, was hing their ca rs with a running hose not fitted with a shut-o ff nozzle, using wa ter in a fo untain or d ecora tive feature witho ut a recirc ula tion pump and applying water
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Interim City Manager Steve Salomon to paved areas. The state a llows fo r local agen cies to ask courts t o fine viola to rs up t o $500 a day, but city officials sa id they do not intend to pena li ze water wasters. " Our goa l a nd intent ri ght now is ou treach a nd educati on to teach residents how t o ge t into complia nce," said Assistant Director o f Public Works C hris Ehlers, who mentioned typical residents could cut their water u se by 15 percent just by watering o ne less day a week. Residential water use IS down 11 .8 percent 111 Brentwood compared to the
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sa me time last yea r, but the state boa rd o rdered increased conservati on measures, which mirro r th ose adopted by the council. The restrictio ns are expected to las t nine months. The cou ncil ra ised severa l conce rns about t he requirements, including whether the city would reduce its own water usage a nd how gardeners would handle the restri ctions. " Thi s city is drop-dead gorgeous, a nd a lot of it is becau se of the vegeta tion," said M ayor Bob Taylo r. "T a m co nce rned abo ut appea ra nce, but T wa nt to ma ke sure we a re in see Water page 22A
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