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Vol. 23, No. 51
State face mask mandate renewed
Bristow begins building new theater
Support for the troops
by Tony Kukulich
by Dawnmarie Fehr
Correspondent
Correspondent
STATE Wearing face masks in indoor public settings is once again required as of this week as health officials hope to limit a sudden spike in COVID-19 infections across the state. Guidance issued by the California Department of Public Health stated, “To ensure that we collectively protect the health and well-being of all Californians; keep schools open for in-person instruction and allow California’s economy to remain open and thrive, the California Department of Public Health is requiring masks to be worn in all indoor public settings, irrespective of vaccine status, for the next four weeks.”
The SEC started with 16 members and two ex officio appointments representing a broad range of Delta interests. Members served in a purely advisory role and had no official standing with either the DCA or the Department of Water Resources (DWR) – the state agency that will own and operate the tunnel if it is approved and constructed. In a January 2020 memo to SEC members, Carrie Buckman, DWR environmental program manager, clarified how feedback from the SEC would influence the project’s design. “DWR has requested the DCA design the proposed project
BRENTWOOD Bristow Middle School has broken ground on a new theater on land shared by the Brentwood Union School District (BUSD) and the City of Brentwood. Once completed, the theater, expected to be directly behind the school’s gym on the northwest part of campus, will be approximately 17,000 square feet with 300 adjustable seats. This theater will bring Bristow up to par with the district’s other two middle schools. “We had a theater completed at Edna Hill Middle School that holds about 300 audience members and a stage and classrooms,” said BUSD Superintendent Dr. Dana Eaton. “It’s just beautiful. And we had a theater at Adams Middle School, but it wasn’t completed with seats. We just put in these beautiful telescoping seats. Bristow didn’t have anything, they just performed out of a classroom.” Construction on Bristow’s new theater is scheduled to be completed by the end of next summer so the theater can be used for the 2022-23 school year. Funding comes from Measure B, passed by Brentwood residents in 2016, that promised voters it would give every middle school a performing arts theater. With the completion of Bristow’s theater, that promise will
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he community came together Dec. 14 at the Veterans Memorial Hall in downtown Brentwood to pack over 300 holiday care packages for military service members stationed in the U.S. and beyond. To view more photos from the event, see page 4.
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Tunnel advisory group comes to an end “ We were outraged. The problem is that I
by Tony Kukulich Correspondent
REGIONAL The work of a stakeholder committee created to provide input on the design of the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) tunnel came to an end as its last official meeting was conducted earlier this month. The Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority (DCA), the agency responsible for the design, construction and financing of the single-tunnel project, approved the creation of the Stakeholder Engagement Committee (SEC) in October 2019. The SEC’s role was to offer feedback on the tunnel’s design and identify
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Karen Mann, president of Save the California Delta Alliance the impact of DCA activity on the people who live, work and recreate in the Delta region. “The Stakeholder Engagement Committee will give a muchneeded voice to the opinions, expertise, and concerns of Delta residents, business owners and other stakeholders as the DCA explores engineering and design proposals,” said Sarah Palmer,
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DCA board member, at the time the committee was approved. “The DCA is committed to transparent and robust outreach with the sharing of ideas that will incorporate local knowledge, history, and geography into a world-class engineering project that respects the Delta as place, home, and ecosystem. We cannot do this without the Delta stakeholders.”
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