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Not registered? No worries. Those in Contra Costa County wishing to vote in the upcoming election have until Oct. 24, 2016, to register. Visit www.cocovote.us to register online, or to learn how to register by mail or in person.

Tribune Contra Costa residents will find it easier to vote in the upcoming Nov. 8 General Election, as the Contra Costa Elections Office once again partners with local agencies to provide convenient “CoCo Vote-N-Go” drop off locations, prior to and on Election Day. There are six new drop-off locations in Contra Costa County for the November 2016 Election: the Discovery Bay Community Center, the Kensington Library, the El Sobrante Library, the Crockett Library, the Ygnacio Valley Library and the Dougherty Station Library.

Voters will now find the drop-off boxes at these new locations, in addition to all Contra Costa city halls and the County Administration Building, 651 Pine St., Martinez.

“We are excited to expand the CoCo Vote-N-Go program into some of Contra Costa’s local library branches for voters to safely drop off their vote-by-mail envelopes,” said Joe Canciamilla, Contra Costa Registrar of Voters.

“We urge voters to take advantage of this service.”

“The drop off locations at our libraries stretch into the deep parts of the county,” said DROP-BOXES: Page 3

Follow the money?

Martinez City Council candidates turn in financial statements MARTINEZ, Calif. – Financial statements listing campaign contributions and expenditures for Martinez City Council candidates were turned in late last month and recently made available to the public. The statements show hairdresser and local businesswoman Noralea Gipner far in the lead for campaign contributions, with fellow candidates John Stevens, Courtney Masella-O’Brien and incumbent Mark Ross trailing behind by tens of thousands of dollars.

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About 1,100 County workers in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) were on strike through the first week of October, marching and chanting in front of the County Administration Building, 651 Pine St., Martinez. The strike was over health insurance coverage and pay, with the SEIU asking for a 17 percent raise over three years; the County offered 10 percent. The union’s contract with the County expired in June, with negotiations taking place since that time.

The union claims there was little impact to County services during the strike, which ended Oct. 7.

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Each candidate is required to return California Form 460 to the City of Martinez, detailing every gift, monetary donation and campaign expense. The first filing was due Sept. 29 and covers the period from July 1, 2016, to Sept 24, 2016.

Here’s a look at campaign contributions for each candidate, cumulatively to date: Gipner received a total of $45,125 in campaign contributions. Donors include: Claudia Whitnah ($150), Bill Schilz ($250), Kathy Chamberlin

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County credit rating upgraded by Moody’s Moody’s Investors Service upgraded the credit rating of existing Contra Costa County lease revenue bonds from “A1,” rated as upper-medium grade and low credit risk, to “Aa3,” rated as high quality and very low credit risk. The Oct. 6, 2016, upgrade follows the implementation of a new rating methodology implemented by Moody’s in July 2016 to evaluate the credits of state and local government entities in the United States.

Candace Andersen, Chair of the Board of Supervisors, noted that “the upgrade from Moody’s is further affirmation that Contra Costa County is well regarded for its financial management and responsible budgetary practices by the financial markets.” The County’s Issuer Rating, an indicator of its general creditworthiness, remains unchanged at a favorable “Aa2.”

Last year, Standard and Poor’s affirmed its “AAA” Issuer Credit Rating (ICR) and “AA+” lease revenue bond ratings for Contra Costa County citing its “very strong economy” and “very strong management, with ‘strong’ financial policies and practices ....” Standard and Poor’s originally rated the County as “AAA” in 2012.

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Martinez Tribune | Oct. 14-20, 2016 The Crime Blotter and Arrest Log are compiled by Tribune staffer Danny Yoeono. For questions, email dyoeono@martineztribune.com.

Police Blotter

By DANNY YOEONO Martinez Tribune The crime blotter is compiled from public record and is not confirmed by Martinez Police or any other party unless otherwise stated. Some accounts may be unfounded.

Wednesday, Oct. 5 Just before 8:30 a.m., a white SUV was road-raging on Pacheco Boulevard by brake checking the car behind them and then following that car while swerving.

A man in a gray sweatshirt refused to stop sitting on the train tracks that cross Ferry Street at 11:19 a.m. He cursed when

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asked to move. He was arrested for public intoxication.

At 2:39 p.m., a tall and thin man in black clothing was seen doing drugs and urinating under a stairwell at the Senior Center apartments on Ferry Street.

A Haven Street resident noted an ongoing problem of their neighbor throwing lawn clippings into the front yard.

Thursday, Oct. 6 At 8:39 a.m., a man reported that his phone charger was stolen from his unlocked car on Starflower Drive.

At 11:04 a.m., a man in a black sweatshirt asked a civilian for change for a $5 bill. When the civilian took out his money to give change all of his money was snatched, adding up to a theft of $91.

A man in a long-sleeve shirt stole a bag full of food and alcohol from Lucky supermarket at 4 p.m.

At 5:47 p.m., a number of children were running in circles stating they were the “killer clowns” by the YWCA on Arnold Drive.

A Farm Lane resident claimed that their neighbor had stolen the resident’s keys and was refusing to return them.

Friday, Oct. 7 At 11:50 a.m., Martinez United Methodist Church on Church Street was purportedly burning things, with the smoke entering neighboring yards.

At 3 p.m., a man with a goa-

tee was continuously entering and exiting Contra Costa Federal Credit Union on Pine Street.

Talking strangely, he mentioned people were stealing from him.

A man with a beard in a wheelchair, drinking alcohol, was refusing to leave the premises of the Chevron gas station on Alhambra Avenue at 5:08 p.m.

He had a dog with him.

At 6:37 p.m., it was reported that in open space associated with Hidden Lakes Park, there was a filming of unclothed people. I need to see the footage if anyone has it, for news reasons.

At 8:19 p.m., a woman in blue scrubs was observed yelling derogatory remarks at passersby in front of the Amtrak station.

Saturday, Oct. 8 At 5:45 p.m., a car on Palisade Drive was reported to have all its doors open and smelled of marijuana, with its occupants shouting and being loud in general.

At 8:10 p.m. a bag-of-chipscarrying teen knocked on the door of a Warren Street resident and asked to come inside to look at the phone book.

Sunday, Oct. 9 A person on Estudillo Street allegedly was hearing a loud buzzing noise, like an electric hum, for a few hours in the beginning of the day. It’s probably just T H E H U M. (EDITOR’S NOTE: I heard it too! I believe it was originating from the roof of Campbell The-

ater ... probably their AC unit. I contacted the theater about it.)

Monday, Oct. 10 Today is a good day. Just an A-plus day. A real 10/10.

A man was walking on Muir Road near the movie theater wearing a headlamp and carrying a five gallon bucket around 5:30 a.m.

There was a water leak on Plaza Drive around breakfast time.

A car of juveniles driving on Alhambra Avenue near Franklin Canyon Road threw bottles and shouted obscenities out of the vehicle at 11:53 a.m.

A white truck parked by the Baskin Robbins on Arnold Drive was reported suspicious when its two occupants inside looked lethargic. Maybe they’re lactose intolerant.

Tuesday, Oct. 11 At 12:45 a.m., a man was seen hitting a white Volvo with his hands and feet while it was parked in the parking lot by the fishing pier.

A man in a blue beanie was throwing bottles and scaring patrons in front of the Safeway grocery store on Alhambra Ave and F Street at 6:33 a.m.

At 5:10 p.m., a coin purse was found at the Chevron gas station on Morello Avenue. It contained what appeared to be drugs. If no owner claims it, I will take it. I need it for coins.

Arrest Log Those appearing in the following listings have only been arrested on suspicion of the crimes indicated and are presumed innocent.

Arrests listed may not necessarily have taken place in Martinez.

Samuel Wurth, 23, was arrested Oct. 11 for allegedly receiving or concealing stolen property.

Max Taliaferro, 52, was arrested Oct. 10 for alleged battery on spouse, cohabitant or former spouse.

Michael Wiese, 27, was arrested Oct. 10 on driving with license suspended for drunk driving charges.

Clayton Conroy, 31, was arrested Oct. 9 on charges related to DUI alcohol/drugs, DUI alcohol with BAC greater than .08, and evading a peace officer.

Kendra Butlegroux, 21, was arrested Oct. 9 for allegedly possessing forged notes.

Jesus Garcia, 48, was arrested Oct. 9 for allegedly resisting, obstructing, delaying a peace officer.

Keola Wilson, 37, was arrested Oct. 9 on DUI alcohol/ drugs, DUI alcohol with BAC greater than .08 charges.

Kyle Salva, 22, was arrested Oct. 9 on DUI alcohol with BAC greater than .08 with injury charges.

Michael Hart, 52, was arrested Oct. 8 for alleged possession of controlled substance.

Tyler Lewis, 31, was arrested Oct. 8 for allegedly giving false information to a peace officer, and allegedly taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent.

Benedict Savinis, 62, was arrested Oct. 7 for alleged battery on spouse, cohabitant or former spouse.

Michael O’Brien, (age not listed), was arrested Oct. 7 for allegedly driving with drugs in system.

Shane McCauley, 31, was arrested Oct. 7 for allegedly being intoxicated in public.

Alexis Keller, 33, was arrested Oct. 6 for allegedly driving while license suspended.

Jason Jones, 37, was arrested Oct. 6 on warrants or holds only.

Jessica Peckham, 38, was arrested Oct. 6 on DUI alcohol/ drug related charges.

Mark Sanchez, 57, was arrested Oct. 6 for allegedly being intoxicated in public.

Christina Lopez, 28, was arrested Oct. 5 on charges related to resisting, obstructing, delaying a peace officer and DUI alcohol/drugs.

Leonard Castro, 58, was arrested Oct. 5. Charges were unavailable as of presstime.

Shawna Byars, 20, was arrested Oct. 5 for allegedly conspiring to commit a crime, possession of burglar’s tools and receiving or concealing stolen property.

Weather, Astronomical & Tides Friday, Oct. 14

Saturday, Oct. 15

Sunday, Oct. 16

Monday, Oct. 17

Tuesday, Oct. 18

Wednesday, Oct. 19

Thursday, Oct. 20

73º / 56º Cloudy

75 / 50º Partly sunny

76º / 50º Partly sunny, showers

74º / 45º Partly sunny, showers

74º / 49º Mostly cloudy

80º / 43º Mostly cloudy

68º / 43º Mostly cloudy

Sunrise / Sunset 7:17 a.m. / 6:31 p.m.

Sunrise / Sunset 7:18 a.m. / 6:30 p.m.

Sunrise / Sunset 7:19 a.m. / 6:29 p.m.

Sunrise / Sunset 7:20 a.m. / 6:27 p.m.

Sunrise / Sunset 7:121 a.m. / 6:26 p.m.

Sunrise / Sunset 7:22 a.m. / 6:25 p.m.

Sunrise / Sunset 7:23 a.m. / 6:23 p.m.

Moonrise / Moonset 5:57 p.m. / 6:34 a.m. (FD)

Moonrise / Moonset 5:57 p.m. (PD) / 6:34 a.m.

Moonrise / Moonset 6:37 p.m. (PD) / 7:46 a.m.

Moonrise / Moonset 7:19 p.m. (PD) / 8:59 a.m.

Moonrise / Moonset 8:04 p.m. (PD) / 10:10 a.m.

High Tides 12:26 a.m. (4.92 ft) 1:02 p.m. (5.15 ft)

High Tides 1:20 a.m. (4.99 ft) 1:34 p.m. (5.41 ft)

High Tides 2:15 a.m. (4.95 ft) 2:09 p.m. (5.68 ft)

High Tides 3:11 a.m. (4.89 ft) 2.47 p.m. (5.84 ft)

High Tides 4:10 a.m. (4.72 ft) 3:28 p.m. (5.87 ft)

High Tides 5:11 a.m. (4.56 ft) 4:14 p.m. (5.74 ft)

High Tides 6:15 a.m. (4.43 ft) 5:06 p.m. (5.45 ft)

Low Tides 6:46 a.m. (.30 ft) 7:21 p.m. (.36 ft)

Low Tides 7:26 a.m. (.46 ft) 8:11 p.m. (0 ft)

Low Tides 8:06 a.m. (.69 ft) 9:02 p.m. (-0.26 ft)

Low Tides 8:50 a.m. (.92 ft) 9:54 p.m. (-0.43 ft)

Low Tides 9:36 a.m. (1.18 ft) 10:48 p.m. (-0.49 ft)

Low Tides 10:26 a.m. (1.41 ft) 11:45 p.m. (-0.46 ft)

Low Tides 11:22 a.m. (1.64 ft)

Moonrise / Moonset Moonrise / Moonset 8:53 p.m. (PD) / 11:17 a.m. 9:46 p.m. (PD) / 12:20 p.m.

Temperatures from AccuWeather. Astronomical information by U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department. Water levels measured from Martinez-Amorco Pier. (FD is Following Day; PD is Preceding Day.)

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man ($35), Dennis Horack ($50), Janet Archibald ($50), Robert (Bob) Braun ($20), Kathy Braun ($20), Dan Corr ($25), Sarah Corr ($25), Elizabeth Corr Olson ($40), Barry (Evelyn) Cunningham ($20), Kathy Petricca ($5), Douglas Burgess ($175), Ralph Sattler ($40), Marty (Mary) Hoyer ($10), Vicki Anselmo ($20), Thomas Jordan ($100), Phil Raines ($200), William Wainwright ($180), Paul Mariano ($700), Donna Allen ($285), Barbara Chambers ($140), Carolyn Hill ($40), David T. Silva ($340), Claire Hayhurst ($180), Marta Van Loan ($350), Holly Parker ($50), Karin Spindler ($160), Brittany Chamberlin ($40), Rainbow Floor Covering ($120), Linda Martini ($120), Lisa Morrell ($140), Lita Gloor-Little ($45), Redmond O’Connell ($20), Gary Chan ($20), Roxanne Cole ($20), Odessa Caton ($20), Matthew Murphy ($20), Robert (Bob) Hanson ($20), Patti Hanson ($20), Larry Hanson ($20), Cynthia Shelby ($110), Lesley Stiles ($270), Pete Sabine ($20), Lynda Kilday ($55), Marian Aldridge ($20), Sharon Riccobono ($50), Teddi Alexander ($20), Dean McLeod ($40), Barbara McCullough ($20), Kim Poyadue ($125), John Remenarich ($20), Babette Hopkins ($120), Cindy Muth ($20), Kenneth Robb ($20), MJ Robb ($25), Beth Churchill-Raines ($40), Sheryl Justice ($20), Paul Murry ($20), Valarie Spessard ($20), Ron Swenson ($20), Olivia Martini ($20), Andrea Hector ($20), Dianna Martini ($20), Mark Hughes ($20), Cha Cha Hughes ($20), Bet-

sy Sweaza ($20), Ellen Anderson ($125), Bianca Olson ($20), Irene Bergamini ($20), Bruce Dye ($20), Zandra Balderama ($20), Michael Anseimo ($20), Kathy Anselmo ($20), Tom Coleman ($20), Terri Coleman ($35), Alistair Kettlewell ($20), Susan Kettlewell ($210), Scott Curtis ($20), Mary Hatch ($245), Keith Tate ($20), Wendy Koerber ($20), Barbara Hannafan ($20), Michael Thomas $220), Terri Stormer ($100), Susan Waterman ($25), Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 District 20 Pac ($500), Susan Stewart ($100), Dolores Wix ($200), Martha Hummel ($25), Nancy Jordan ($100), Richard Duncan ($250), Ann Cochrane ($200), Sally Figueiredo ($50), John Funk ($100), Barbara Crowell, Inc. ($225), Jerry Kramer ($50), Melissa Mussano ($50), Rosemary Garrick ($100), Robert Trebino ($100), Bisio and Dunivan ($300), Bryan Berthiaume ($100), 1000 Friends of Martinez ($2,500), Suzanne Hatch Schroder ($100), Carol Hatch ($200), and Margaret Carter ($200).

A loan in the amount of $830 came from Gipner herself.

Non-monetary contributions received include a calalily necklace from Eloise Cotton (valued at $160), pedicures from Oliva Thompson (valued at $180), portrait sessions from Franci Lucero (valued at $1,155), Natural Healings product baskets from Natural Healings (valued at $170), painting by Susan Kettlewell (valued at $120), food by Susan Kettlewell (valued at $20), a glass heart from Carol Rose (valued

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County Librarian Melinda Cervantes. “We are thrilled to take part in this program and provide an additional service to our communities.”

Contra Costa voters can drop their ballots at any of the drop-box locations, regardless of where they live. The distinguishable boxes will be available during the location’s normal business hours.

The postage for vote-by-mail envelopes this election is 68 cents; however, the drop-box service eliminates the need for those stamps. Staff members will have the popular “I Voted” stickers available for those who drop off their ballots.

For more information about voting by mail, call (925) 335-7800 or visit the Elections Office website at www.cocovote.us.

at $45), several jewelry items from Marion Vaeth (valued at $275), necklaces, earrings, wine and cookies from Nancy Peacock (valued at $374), a quilted wall hanging, quilt, salad and flowers from Gipner (valued at $60, $75 and $25), gift certificates from White Rabbit Boutique-Anne Mobley (valued at $30), a purse with hair products and gift certificate from Youphoria-Kelly Duarte Sumrall (valued at $205), use of Gay Gerlach’s house (valued at $500), bbq meals from Jim Tompkins (valued at $492), wine at fundraising auction by June Rogers (valued at $280), postage stamps and food

by Stacey Carver (valued at $47 and $12), tote bag filled with MAC supplies and five classes at MAC by Martinez Athletic Club (valued at $150 and $100); wine, cookies and flyers from Richard Rasmussen (valued at $106), a wine basket by Dave Silva (valued at $100), a bowl cozy and wall hanging from I’ve Been Framed-Cathy Riggs (valued at $110); mason jars, cookbook, wine, wine coaster and wine journal from Kim Poyadue (valued at $105), dessert set and bundt cakes by Korie Fagen (valued at $138), a wine basket from Bray’s Vineyard (valued at $75), a Giant’s tote from Cindy Shelby (valued at $45); a Parents Night Out, Dance Tuition and Friday Fun Night from Encore Gym (valued at $246), yardwork from K&J Landscape Care (valued at $50), a candy basket from Main Street Sweets (valued at $50), A Doterra giftbasket from Tamara Gerlach (valued at $90), food from Beth Churchill-Raines (valued at $20), a quilt and food from Cindy Tilton (valued at $660), food from Claire Hayhurst (valued at $20), food from Donna Allen (valued at $45), See’s Candy gift certificate from Joyce Cid (valued at $15), food from Lesley Stiles (valued at $250), food from Leslie Walsh (valued at $10), wine from Linda Kilday (valued at $25); tickets for Home Tour, Lemon Grass certificate and wine and food from Marlene Haws (valued at $115), a garden basket from Mary Hatch (valued at $125), food from Michelle Hall (valued at $30), food from Penny Fagen (valued at $12), use of Armando’s from Roy Jeans (valued at $400), and music from The

Floor Dogs (valued at $500).

Gipner’s campaign expenditures thus far include $10,143 in consultant fees and services, $4,803 for campaign sign, and other expenses for walk cards, printing, advertising, photography, office items and a mail piece.

Gipner had many miscellaneous increases to her cash, which were proceeds from the sale of auction items.

John Stevens, a Chief Operating Officer of a non-profit, has received a total of $31,739.64 in contributions, but that total includes a loan of $22,000 by Stevens to his own campaign. Donors as of the Sept. 29 filing date include: Kevin Greeley ($100), John Lill ($100), Stephen Fretz ($200), Michael McKay ($25), Annelyse Klapperich ($100), Dan Griffin ($40), Marty Bender ($25), Gary Hernandez ($200), Steve Bonham ($50), Anthony Cerbone ($100), Laura Lawrence ($50), Dorothy Buffington ($50), Richard Duncan ($100), David Lee ($50), Tony Angelo ($25), LG Galleries ($100), Elizabeth Bloom ($25), James Cunniff ($200), Thomas Vandewater ($100), Anthony Rishell ($250), Scott Busby ($1,600), Jerry Miller ($50), Mark Linnett ($256.70), Robert Poirier ($25), James Paulsen ($300), Larry Lippow ($800), Joseph Palmer ($40), Bambi Barker ($100), Rachel Unpingco ($200), William Schilz ($600).

Non-monetary contributions of food/beverage (valued at $215) were made to Stevens by Rachel Unpingco.

Food was also provided to Stevens’ campaign by Marty Ochoa, valued at $30.

Stevens’ largest expenditures were for campaign signs.

Attorney Courtney Masella-O’Brien comes in third for campaign contributions, receiving $6,435 in donations.

Donors include: Anthony Bettencourt ($100), Build Jobs PAC ($500), Michael Farrow ($100), Remy Goldsmith ($100), James Herrity ($250), Gus Kramer ($500), Erin Masella ($100), Brian McDonald ($250), Lisa Nevares ($100), Courtney Nicholas ($300), Bill Schilz ($500), Scott Busby Construction ($1,600), William Shrader ($250), Scott Tester ($250), Nadine Verrilli ($100), Lisa Winn ($100), and Doreen

Yerkes ($100).

Masella-O’Brien’s expenditures were for office supplies, filing fees, campaign literature and mailings, and professional services (legal, accounting).

Incumbent City Councilman and Realtor Mark Ross trails with a total of $8,700, including a loan of $7,500 Ross made to his campaign.

Donors include: Operating Engineers Local 3 ($1,000), and Colin Coffey ($200).

Aside from a filing fee and small bank fee, the bulk of monies from the Ross campaign have gone toward mailers and signs.

The next filing date for campaign donations and expenditures is Oct. 27. To view the statements in their entirety, visit http://martineztribune.com.

Thirty-five flags retired during event MARTINEZ, Calif. – Thirty-five flags were surrendered during the Oct. 11 flag retirement event at the Veteran’s Memorial Building in Martinez. The Diablo Valley Squadron Naval Sea Cadets will dispose of the flags in a respectful manner.

For those that didn’t make it to the event: the Veteran’s Memorial Building, 930 Ward St., Martinez, has a permanent drop-off box in front. Sometimes the VFW or American Legion empties it up to twice a week.

The Daughters of the American Revolution ask that Martinez “keep those good looking flags flying!”

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Datebook Saturday, Oct. 15 Cemetery Cleanup Day When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 15.

Where: Alhambra Cemetery, Carquinez Scenic Drive, Martinez.

Details: It’s fall again and time for the semi-annual Cemetery Cleanup Day. Everyone is welcome to participate. Bring your garden tools.

Cost: Free Info: Martinez Recreation, (925) 372-3510

The Pumpkin Dunkin When: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 Where: Rankin Aquatic Center, 100 Buckley St., Martinez.

Details: The Pumpkin Dunkin, a floating pumpkin patch, returns to Rankin Aquatic Center. Both pools are heated and all supplies for decorating the pumpkins are provided. Register by Oct. 12. Just want to swim?

You don’t need to pre-register, but the fee is 0-2 free, 3-17 years $2, adults $3 and seniors $2.

Cost: $3 ages 0-2; $5 3-17; $6 adults; $5 seniors (or see swim only fees above).

Info: Martinez Recreation, (925) 372-3510; www.cityofmartinez.org.

Main Street Arts Gallery Reception When: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 Where: Main Street Arts, 613 Main St., Martinez.

Info: Eric Carlstrom is a well known and respected artist of the Bay Area. He studied multiple disciplines of art at Contra Costa College-San Pablo and Laney CollegeOakland. He mainly works from his own imagination with bright colors and heavy black – they are unique.

Come meet Eric and see his fascinating work. He will also be at the Festival of Altars from 2-8 p.m. Oct. 29 (Main Street Plaza).

Cost: Free Info: www.mainstreetarts. net Worm Composting Workshop When: 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 15 Where: Mt. View Sanitary District Administration Building, 3800 Arthur Road, Martinez (call for directions; GPS gives inaccurate directions).

Details: At this free Home Composting Workshop you will learn how to make your own worm compost. The instructor, Todd Sutton, an expert with more than 24 years in the environmental field, has appeared on national television includ-

ing Discovery and History channels, and has educated thousands on waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and composting. All Contra Costa County residents are welcome. Reservations should be made.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 674-7831 or visit www.cccrecycle.org.

Sunday, Oct. 16 Martinez Museum Gala When: 12-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16 Where: Martinez Museum, 1005 Escobar St., Martinez.

Details: This event celebrates the museum’s 40th anniversary and its restoration. Enjoy food, interactive activities for children, a short program, and viewing of the museum. After months of being closed due to much needed renovations, the museum is almost ready.

Thanks to help from Shell and many community volunteers, the Borland Home at 1005 Escobar St., that houses the Martinez Museum, received a foundation, new flooring, fresh paint and many updated displays.

Cost: Free Info: Andrea Blachman, (925) 387-5385.

Tuesday, Oct. 18 Mother Goose Time

When: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18 (Tuesdays through Dec. 6) Where: Martinez Library, 740 Court St., Martinez.

Details: A lighthearted early literacy story time for the youngest crowd. Reading is accompanied with singing and play. Stories are followed by a simple craft for older children and stay & play with soft tactile toys for the younger set. Best for ages 6 months to 3 years old.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 646-9900 or http://ccclib.org Hidden Valley Soccer Field Ribbon Cutting When: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18 Where: Hidden Valley Park, Chilpancingo Parkway at Morello Avenue, Martinez.

Details: The City of Martinez invites the public to the ribbon cutting ceremony for another successful Measure H project.

Wednesday, Oct. 19 BART Presentation at AAUW When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19 Where: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 1601 Mary Drive, Pleasant Hill.

Details: Bart Director Gail Murray will be guest speaker at the Oct. 19 meeting of Pleasant Hill-Martinez American Association of University Women (AAUW).

Her presentation, “BART – It’s Time to Rebuild,” will provide an update on the system, current projects and potential projects and funding. The public is welcome to attend.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 228-7271.

Thursday, Oct. 20 Candidates Night When: 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 Where: Crockett Community Center, 850 Pomona St., Crockett.

Details: The Crockett Improvement Association is hosting this event. The 5th Supervisor District candidates, Federal Glover and Anamarie Avila Farias, will discuss the issues impacting the 5th District and Crockett. You may submit questions for the supervisorial candidates at: www. facebook.com/groups/ CrockettCIA. Additionally, candidates running for other local positions will be present to meet voters and discuss the issues.

Cost: Free Info: Mary Wais, (510) 7879826 or waisme@comcast. net.

Saturday, Oct. 22 Italian Catholic Federation Branch #13 Family Polenta Dinner When: 6 p.m. (no-host cocktails), dinner at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22 Where: Saint Catherine of Siena Parish Hall, 604 Mellus St., Martinez.

Details: Dinner (choice of chicken, sausage, Polenta). Proceeds benefit ICF scholarship program, which includes the St. Catherine of Sienna 8th grade scholarship, the Fulfilling the Promise Campaign, the ICF National Charity Thalessemia research at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, and others.

Cost: $20 per person 13 years and older; $8 children 6-12 years. Age 5 and under free when accompanied by adult.

Magazines & soft-back books needed!

Magazines and soft back books (no older than 6 months) are needed at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, 2500 Alhambra Ave., Martinez. The Auxiliary Volunteers deliver some 150 magazines each week to the 14 waiting rooms around the hospital and clinics. The magazines help make the long waits bearable. Bring magazines to the hospital lobby information desk or the Gift Shop. All personal labels are removed by the Auxiliary Volunteers before they are delivered. For more information please call the Gift Shop at (925) 370-5818, or email Rhonda.

Smith@hsd.cccounty.us.

Info: (925) 229-2665 Zombie Brew Crawl When: 2:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 Where: Main Street in downtown Martinez Details: The Main Street Martinez 4th annual Zombie Brew Crawl is happening on the streets of Martinez and everyone is encouraged to join the crowd. Zombies will be walking around the downtown corridor of Martinez, sampling beers from great craft breweries stationed at various small businesses along Main Street.

Cost: $25 in advance till 5 p.m. Oct. 7; after Oct. 7, $30 per person in advance till midnight Oct. 21; $35 at door (if not sold out). No refunds.

Info: http://zombiebrewcrawl.com

Tuesday, Oct. 25 Mother Goose Time When: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 (Tuesdays through Dec. 6) Where: Martinez Library, 740 Court St., Martinez.

Details: A lighthearted early literacy story time for the youngest crowd. Reading is accompanied with singing and play. Stories are followed by a simple craft for older children and stay & play with soft tactile toys for the younger set. Best for ages 6 months to 3 years old.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 646-9900 or http://ccclib.org

Friday, Oct. 28 Spooktacular Bazaar When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28 Where: Martinez Senior Center, 818 Green St., Martinez.

Details: Come check out the sale. Jewelry, cards, homemade crafts, baked goods and “White Elephant.” Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (presale $4, or $5 day of the event).

Cost: Free Info: (925) 370-8770

Saturday, Oct. 29 Dia de los Muertos Festival of Altars When: 2-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 Where: Main Street Martinez Details: Food, vendor booths, folkloric dance demonstration and interactive altars.

Info: (925) 228-3577 or mainstreetmartinez.org

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Datebook Halloween Trunk or Treat Spooktacular When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 30 Where: Main Street in downtown Martinez Details: Safe, fun and free trunk or treat and Halloween Spooktacular! Visit creatively themed and decorated car trunks and shops lining downtown Martinez, and collect candy and treats.

Cost: Free Info: http://mainstreetmartinez.org

When: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8 (Tuesdays through Dec. 6) Where: Martinez Library, 740 Court St., Martinez.

Details: A lighthearted early literacy story time for the youngest crowd. Reading is accompanied with singing and play. Stories are followed by a simple craft for older children and stay & play with soft tactile toys for the younger set. Best for ages 6 months to 3 years old.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 646-9900 or http://ccclib.org

Tuesday, Nov. 1

Saturday, Nov. 12

Mother Goose Time When: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1 (Tuesdays through Dec. 6) Where: Martinez Library, 740 Court St., Martinez.

Details: A lighthearted early literacy story time for the youngest crowd. Reading is accompanied with singing and play. Stories are followed by a simple craft for older children and stay & play with soft tactile toys for the younger set. Best for ages 6 months to 3 years old.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 646-9900 or http://ccclib.org

Antique Corner Customer Appreciation Day When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 12 Where: Antique Corner, 500 Ferry St., Martinez.

Details: Join Antique Corner for snacks and storewide sales to show appreciation to customers.

Info: (925) 372-9330

Sunday, Oct. 30

Saturday, Nov. 5 Will CANCELLED Mulders Foundation for Autism Golf Tournament When: Details: Event cancelled. Future event TBA. Info: www.teamwillpower.org

Tuesday, Nov. 8

Sunday, Nov. 13 Martinez Historical Society Presentation When: 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 Where: Veteran’s Memorial Hall, 930 Ward St., Martinez.

Details: Tom Zamaria, member and volunteer of the Martinez Historical ...

Society (MHS), will give a presentation on “Little Gems from the MHS Negative and Slide Collections. There are many interesting and beauti-

Become a part of Contra Costa history The Contra Costa County Historical Society (CCCHS) is hosting a scanning event. Bring in your photographs, negatives, documents and letters to the Scan-a-thon so they may scan them for possible inclusion into their database.

Scanning technicians will help guests make archival digital scans, give a copy for guests to take home, and keep a copy for public access in CCC Historical Society’s digital archive. Volunteers will also take down names, dates and places to set each photo’s context, and provide this detail along with the digital images. Over-sized documents as large as 16” x 24” and negatives up to 5” x 5” are easy to do with their large format scanner.

Each registered guest will receive a 30 minute session with a trained scanning technician. Depending on the size, condition and type of document or artifact, plan for approximately 10-15 scans per 30 minute session.

Additional time will be given to a guest if open time slots exist. Walkins will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Digital images can be saved as PDFs, JPEGs, or TIF files. Take home your digital images on a CCCHS 4GB USB flash drive for only $10. Tours of the archives will be made available throughout the day (subject to staff availability).

There is a $10 suggested donation at the door.

Reserve a 30 minute session today by visiting www.signupgenius.com/ go/20f0d4ba9ab28a4fc1-scanathon1.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 at the History Center, 724 Escobar St., Martinez.

ful images lying hidden in the negative and slide archives of countless historical collections around the country.

Because of funding, limited technical equipment and training, unfortunately, many of these images will remain hidden. Zamaria will present and discuss several of these wonderful images of Martinez history from the MHS collection. Snacks will be served.

Cost: Free Info: www.martinezhistory.org

Tuesday, Nov. 15 Mother Goose Time When: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 (Tuesdays through Dec. 6) Where: Martinez Library, 740 Court St., Martinez.

Details: A lighthearted early literacy story time for the youngest crowd. Reading is accompanied with singing and play. Stories are followed by a simple craft for older children and stay & play with soft tactile toys for the younger set. Best for ages 6 months to 3 years old.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 646-9900 or http://ccclib.org

Saturday, Nov. 19 Big Bag of Books Sale When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 19 Where: Martinez Library, 740 Court St., Martinez.

Details: Choose from a huge selection of gently-used books and fill a grocery sack for only $5.

Sponsored by Friends of

the Martinez Library. All proceeds support library programs for children, teens, and adults. Members may be admitted at 10 a.m. on sale day, but memberships are available that morning.

Cost: Free Info: (925) 229-4902 Scan-a-thon!

When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 19 Where: Contra Costa County History Center, 724 Escobar St., Martinez.

Details: Have your family documents, photos, and negatives scanned into digital copies that will preserve them forever. Large newspaper-size scanner will be available along with trained staff. Certain restrictions may apply.

Cost: Suggested donation to History Center of $10.

Info: www.cocohistory.com

Saturday, Nov. 26 Hometown Heroes Festival When: 12-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 Where: Alhambra High School, Performing Arts Building, 150 E St., Martinez.

Details: Fearless Music Studios presents the Hometown Heroes Festival to benefit Spidey’s Kids.

Take photos with Spidey and Disney characters. Arts & crafts for sale, bounce houses, cotton candy, live music, silent auction.

Cost: Admission is $5

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Platt: ‘Leadership is getting ahead of the issues ....’

Dear Editor, A large number of generalities are coming from candidates in the City Council election.

Both new candidates and incumbents fail to talk about solutions to important specific issues that would give us a truer idea of how they would lead.

Open space and park land protection is one such issue. The City Council has voted to convert open space to housing at least three different times in recent

years. And the draft of the new General Plan also includes converting open space to housing.

But that General Plan draft also states we need 29.5 acres of NEW park land to accommodate all the new housing.

Added to that is the pressure on existing park land coming from both the expanding demand for existing uses, as well as new uses, like dog parks and pickle ball. And we have only one site left in Martinez that

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could accommodate a major new park – even the mayor confirmed that at the March 18 City Council meeting. How can we protect our existing open space and park land?

Another major issue left unaddressed is the continuing over-development in housing projects that affects both “south of 4” neighborhoods and the downtown. The council has approved several projects that are very out of character for the surrounding neighborhoods, and hurt those neighborhoods and the larger community.

Paseos (Parkway Drive/Old Orchard Road and Howe Avenue), a massive block of houses with virtually no greenspace in or around them and too high and dense, undermines the existing neighborhood. Cascara Canyon apartments (Shell Ave-

nue a few blocks from the high school) went from a density of nine to 46 units packed together without greenspace and is on a dangerous curve students walk by every school day.

For the Seeno project (Laurel Knoll on Muir Station Road below Nob Hill and above Grace Episcopal Church), density went from seven to 76 units, again on a dangerous street. And two acres of open space were converted to housing to allow for that density. These are just a few examples. How can we keep over-development like this from occurring?

The draft General Plan offers an opportunity NOW for these candidates to show some leadership and tell us how they would change the plan to protect our existing open

space and park land, and keep over-development from undermining our neighborhoods. The plan will control our land use for decades, and will be passed by this next City Council.

Leadership is a key ingredient missing in our government over the years. The Alhambra Hills issue is a prime example.

No one is happier than I am to see the council get behind securing Alhambra Hills as open space, and I hope the council’s enthusiasm will continue well beyond the election period.

But leadership is getting ahead of the issues that are important to our community, not waiting until the public has led the way. The Alhambra Hills were under threat of development for over 25 years, and several of our politicians have been in office almost that long,

with all but Councilmember McKillop in government for at least the last 10 years.

Yet no one stepped forward in all those years to lead the public in saving Alhambra Hills when saving them would have been much easier. “Leadership” had to wait until after the council approved the Hills for housing, and after pressure from Martinez citizens, including the Alhambra Hills Open Space Committee which was formed in 2011, made saving the Hills a major public issue.

Leadership includes forming answers to difficult issues before the public is in crisis. I encourage the candidates to show us leadership on these two important issues now, and let us know what we can expect from them before we cast our votes.

– Tim Platt

‘We can’t afford more delay: support Measure D’ Action to deliver more revenue and ensure it will be wisely and exclusively spent fixing Martinez’ roads is overdue. So in August, the Martinez City Council took action to put a half-cent sales tax measure for roads on the Nov. 8, 2016 ballot: Measure D. Any further delay is, in fact, wasting taxpayer money and failing to address public safety, putting motorists, pedestrians and cyclists at unnecessary risk.

How big of a problem is it?

According the City’s most recent bi-annual street survey, completed in March 2015, the backlog of deferred maintenance for Martinez’ local streets and roads is approaching $37 million. The longer we delay repairs, the more the roads crumble, and the more it will cost to fix them.

So how did we get here?

Most of the revenue for transportation comes from state taxes on gas that have been declining

for several reasons. Better fuel efficiency and a growing number of alternative-fueled vehicles are big factors, and the gas tax has not been increased since 1994. So our revenues have been going down while our costs keep going up.

During the Great Recession, our declining local general fund money was focused on maintaining service levels, particularly for public safety, and the backlog of deferred road maintenance kept adding up.

Although road maintenance

is primarily state funded, we cannot rely on the State to fix this. For the past several years, the City Council has supported the Governor’s push for a statewide solution, but the Legislature has been unable to agree on one. Seeing no solution from the State, cities all around us are turning to their residents for help – as we did in 2008 for our parks, library and pool (and look how beautifully they turned out!).

Martinez’s poor quality roads are well-documented and not in dispute. But there is a solution that can deliver some of the much-needed revenue with as little impact on taxpayers as possible: Measure D. Given that a state 0.25 percent sales tax is expiring this year, passing Measure D would result in a net increase of only 0.25 percent to the Martinez sales tax rate. And it will be 100 percent dedicated to Martinez roads.

We need a solution now. The longer we wait to take action, the higher the cost. We simply cannot afford to let Measure D fail on Nov. 8.

Lara DeLaney Martinez City Councilmember

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7 “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis

Faith Billy Graham's ‘My Answer'

Only Christ can transform us from within

By BILLY GRAHAM Tribune Content Agency Q: Why is there so much violence in the world today?

You’d think terrorists and people like that would realize violence only makes things worse, but they never do.

What’s wrong with them?

Don’t most people want to live in peace? – Mrs. K.U. A: You’re right; if a vote were taken across the world today almost everyone would say they want peace – yet everywhere we look we see hatred and conflict and war. Our times are almost like those of Isaiah’s day: “The envoys of peace weep bitterly” (Isaiah 33:7).

Why is there so much violence in the world today, not just among nations, but also in our communities and schools and even our homes? We could list many reasons: economic inequality, injustice, greed, racial conflict and so forth. These are certainly real, and we have a responsibility to do everything we can to combat them. The Bible reminds us that “The Lord loves righteousness and justice” (Psalm 33:5).

Our real problem, however, is far deeper than this – within our own hearts and minds.

Have you ever thought about how peaceful our world would be if we truly loved others the way we should, and weren’t driven instead

by selfishness and pride and anger? Jesus said, “For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that ... all these evils come” (Mark 7:21,23).

This is why we need Christ, for only He can change our hearts and transform us into the people God wants us to be. Have you committed your life to Him? Then pray for our world and its leaders, and pray too that God will restrain the forces of evil. Someday, Christ will come again and all evil will be destroyed, but in the meantime, make it your goal to live for Him. Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Char-

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lotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the website for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.

I will bring the light of the gospel into my home

By JEAN B. BINGHAM The following is a talk given during the October 2016 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

For more information, visit www.lds.org.

In response to Sister Linda K. Burton’s invitation at April’s general conference, many of you have been involved in thoughtful and generous acts of charity focused on meeting the needs of refugees in your local area. From simple, one-onone efforts to community-wide programs, those acts are the result of love.

As you have shared your time, talents, and resources, your – and the refugees’ – hearts have been lightened. The building of hope and faith and even greater love between receiver and giver are inevitable results of true charity.

The prophet Moroni tells us that charity is an essential characteristic of those who will live with Heavenly Father in the celestial kingdom. He writes, “Except ye have charity ye can in nowise be saved in the kingdom of God.” Of course, Jesus Christ is the perfect embodiment of charity. His premortal offering to be our Savior, His interactions throughout His mortal life, His supernal gift of the Atonement, and His continual efforts to bring us back to our Heavenly Father are the ultimate expressions of charity. He operates with a singular focus: love for His Father expressed through His love for each of us. When asked about the greatest commandment, Jesus answered: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

“This is the first and great commandment.

“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

One of the most significant ways we

can develop and demonstrate love for our neighbor is through being generous in our thoughts and words. Some years ago a cherished friend noted, “The greatest form of charity may be to withhold judgment.” That is still true today.

Recently, as three-year-old Alyssa watched a movie with her siblings, she remarked with a puzzled expression, “Mom, that chicken is weird!”

Her mother looked at the screen and responded with a smile, “Honey, that is a peacock.”

Like that unknowing three-year-old, we sometimes look at others with an incomplete or inaccurate understanding. We may focus on the differences and perceived flaws in those around us whereas our Heavenly Father sees His children, created in His eternal image, with magnificent and glorious potential.

President James E. Faust is remembered to have said, “The older I get, the less judgmental I become.” That reminds me of the Apostle Paul’s observation: “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became [older], I put away childish things.

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

When we see our own imperfections more clearly, we are less inclined to view others “through a glass, darkly.”

We want to use the light of the gospel to see others as the Savior does – with compassion, hope, and charity. The day will come when we will have a complete understanding of others’ hearts and will be grateful to have mercy extended to us – just as we extend charitable thoughts and words to others during this life.

Some years ago, I went canoeing with a group of young women. The deep blue lakes surrounded by green,

thickly forested hills and rocky cliffs were breathtakingly beautiful. The water sparkled on our paddles as we dipped them into the clear water, and the sun shone warmly while we moved smoothly across the lake.

However, clouds soon darkened the sky, and a stiff wind began to blow. To make any progress at all, we had to dig deeply into the water, paddling without pausing between strokes. After a few grueling hours of backbreaking work, we finally turned the corner on the large lake and discovered to our amazement and delight that the wind was blowing in the direction we wanted to go.

Quickly, we took advantage of this gift. We pulled out a small tarp and tied two of its corners to paddle handles and the other corners to my husband’s feet, which he stretched out over the gunwales of the canoe. The wind billowed the improvised sail, and we were off!

When the young women in the other canoes saw how we moved along the water with ease, they quickly improvised sails of their own. Our hearts were light with laughter and relief, grateful for the respite from the challenges of the day.

How like that glorious wind can be the sincere compliment of a friend, the cheerful greeting of a parent, the approving nod of a sibling, or the helpful smile of a co-worker or classmate, all supplying fresh “wind in our sails” as we battle the challenges of life! President Thomas S. Monson put it this way: “We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.”

Words have surprising power, both to build up and to tear down. We can all probably remember negative words that brought us low and other words spoken with love that made our spirits u FAITH: Page 11

The God Squad

How pretending can help you achieve your goals

By RABBI GELLMAN Tribune Content Agency Q: Every year around this time I present a very scaled-down version of my sermon for the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This year’s sermon is a tribute to Father Tom Hartman, may his memory be for a blessing. This is the most important thing Tommy ever taught me. It is a message for all people struggling to pray …

I firmly believe that praying is actually pretty easy and you can begin to pray well today if you learn the single secret to prayer that I learned by dancing to an Aretha Franklin song with Father Tom Hartman.

Tommy and I were together at a book opening for our first book, “Where Does God Live?” Someone had hired a DJ for the party after the book signing and I definitely did not like that idea. I think I wanted disco dancers. Anyway, I was sitting alone and sulking at a table after the book signing while Tommy happily worked the room. He came over and said, “Marc, get up! Let’s dance.” I said, “Tommy, I don’t want to dance, and by the way, you’re not my type.” So Tommy just grabbed me and pulled me onto the dance floor and he started to dance, which is a very loose and very generous description of what Tommy was doing. I stood there, doing nothing. Then he looked at me and said, “If you can’t dance, then at least pretend to dance.” To keep him from bothering me further, I started to shuffle my feet.

Then I started to move my body just a little but without any real conviction. Then, the DJ played Aretha’s song “Respect” and somewhere between RES and PECT I was suddenly busting a move and waving my arms and smiling and yelling and … I was dancing. I was no longer pretend dancing. I was really dancing.

Afterwards, I understood what Tommy had gotten me to do even though he never thought that much about it. But on that day I realized that pretend dancing is the greatest secret not only of how to pray, but of how to do anything hard and important in our lives. Anything we want to learn to do, not just praying but anything, begins by first pretending to do it. You must pretend to golf before you can actually golf. You must pretend to be good at your job before you are actually good at your job. You must pretend to love before you can actually love, and you must pretend to pray before you can actually pray.

The great Hasidic master, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (17721810) understood pretend dancing: “Sometimes when people are joyous and dancing, they grab a man from outside their dancing circle, one who is sad and melancholy, and force him to join with them in their dance. Thus it is with joy: When a person is happy, his own sadness and suffering stand off on the side. But it is a higher achievement to struggle and pursue that sadness, bringing it too into the joy, until it is transformed. You grab hold of suffering and force it to join with you in the rejoicing!”

In addition to the Jewish teaching of lishma, other teachers and other wisdom and faith traditions have understood and taught the secret of pretend dancing. C.S. Lewis, the British philosopher, novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, Christian apologist, author of the Chronicles of Narnia, and prophet of pretend dancing wrote, “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.” Buddhism is a religion based upon pretend dancing. For Buddhism, all existence is pretend existence. The Buddhist philosopher Thich Nhat Hanh offered up the single best definition of pretend dancing I have ever encountered.

He taught, “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

This poem, “Praying” is by my favorite contemporary poet, Mary Oliver, and it is from her book of poems entitled, “Thirst”: “It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

So learning to pray is actually not as hard as it seemed at first. You just have to pretend dance with God. After you do that you might find that suddenly, without knowing it, your joy has become the source of your smile. Amen.

Send QUESTIONS ONLY to The God Squad via email at godsquadquestion@aol.com.

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Cross Country

Lady Dogs pick up two wins to continue run

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Sophie Hughes (left) put up one of the more solid performances from the Bulldogs in their first league loss to Clayton Valley Charter on Oct. 6, 2016.

(MARK FIERNER / Martinez Tribune)

Dogs turns it around after slow start

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune In a heavyweight fight sometimes a scrappy underdog can land an early knockdown.

It takes a lot to get up, but when you do the huge momentum swing can be the spark.

And it was the spark for the Bulldog football team.

They got punched in the mouth by the Ygnacio Valley Warriors on Friday night.

But they rebounded and won 48-13.

The Oct. 7 road win over the Warriors started off in the worst way possible. But Coach Alan Hern was impressed with his team’s ability to shut down the Warriors.

“Any type of offense that’s different like this [Ygnacio Valley’s] is really hard to simulate,” Hern said of the runheavy attack. “We don’t do anything similar to this, and you try and practice it the best you can, but you cant run it at the speed and precision that they do.”

Ygnacio Valley has been known for it’s running game in the past, but no one could have been prepared for the start the Warriors got off to. After recovering a shock onside kick

Bulldog runners keep up hot start to season with more medal wins

By JOEL TIMBRELL Martinez Tribune

MARK FIERNER / Martinez Tribune Alhambra junior tight end Zach Schuler makes a one-handed catch in the Bulldogs’ 48-13 win over the Ygnacio Valley Warriors in the DAL league opener on Oct. 7, 2016.

to open the game, the gutsy Warriors went deep on their first play from scrimmage.

Senior quarterback Kionte Zerai hit senior Antonio Rodriguez for a 32-yard touchdown pass, stunning the entire Bulldog sideline.

Not long after things seemed to come back down to earth. Daymyn Blalock marched the team down the field with big pass plays off 22, and 17 yards to Jackson

Norried and Trent Greene respectively to set up the Bulldogs inside the Ygnacio 10yard line.

Daniel Boyd would punch the ball in from one yard out.

That all seemed normal and expected from a Ygnacio defense that had allowed more than 30 points in three of their five games this season.

What wasn’t expected was the methodical drive the Warriors went on straight after that

ended in a 55-yard touchdown from shifty senior running back Darius McVay. The defense seemed stunned. Alhambra was surely the better team, and here they were looking like they might have to engage in a dog fight.

But then things settled down. The running game looked more lethal.

Boyd rumbled to a 21-yard gain that led to a 16-yard u ROUT: Page 10

Alhambra cross country runners made the short drive over to Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley for the 2016 Peter Brewer Invitational.

A total of 27 schools participated in the meet, including the Bulldogs’ new Diablo Athletic League rival teams Berean Christian and Northgate, both from Walnut Creek.

The description of the race reads: “The Canyon course is a challenging 3.0(varsity) and 2.1(junior varsity and Frosh/Soph) mile run, with hills, trails, and grass. The heart of the course is a hilly mile loop of trails and trees -- the Canyon -- that makes up the last 1.1-mile of the race.”

Medals were distributed on a top-25 basis, with the exception of the varsity races which awarded the top 30 finishers.

With normal October temperatures, the freshman boys were the first to race at 9 a.m.

Carson Edwards faced off against a tough group of De La Salle and James Logan athletes. As in previous races, he began with the lead runners and ended with the lead runners to cross the line in ninth overall in 13 minutes, 28 seconds. This performance notched Edwards a fourth individual medal win this season alone.

Gregori High’s Jackson Duchala won in 12:45, with De La Salle placing their athletes second, third and fourth to win the team title.

In the Frosh/Soph girls race Nicole Tria ran another strong race. Battling a trio of Oakland Tech runners and 107 other opponents, Tria was one of only four to finish the contest in under 15 minutes as she picked up the second Bulldog medal u MEDALS: Page 9

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Lady Dogs stay perfect in league play, win in straight sets

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune No team has managed to do it yet this season, and with half the league campaign done, it doesn’t seem like any one will be able to.

It’s not that the Bulldog girls haven’t been beat.

They haven’t even been challenged. Take their 3-0 win over Concord High School on Tuesday, Oct. 11. They jumped out to 9-2, 8-3, and 9-3 leads in all three sets.

Willie Marchesano’s team will qualify for the playoffs easily, but the difficulty of their league campaign, or lack there of, will likely hurt them in seeding.

Clayton Valley, the only team who could possibly challenge the Dogs, went 23-11 in the regular season, and only lost a single game in the now defunct Diablo Valley Athletic League. They got the

number six seed despite the strong record, and were dumped out in the second round.

However the Bulldogs, who only got a single game in the playoffs last year, would probably take that. The way they’re playing at the moment however doesn’t lead you to believe they will come up short.

Sure they haven’t had much competition, but even great teams can fall short when they are expected to dominate. And to their credit, Alhambra has yet to slip up.

If you ask Marchesano, he isn’t taking anything for granted, and to him, the Diablo Athletic League title is only the first goal he has set for the team.

And the team knows it. Because they haven’t let up. A quick 7-0 run fueled by a pair of Rachel Thompson aces and Erin Silva kills.

The set win was fairly easy, impressive kills by Gabby Chase and Makenzie Salva, and a key ace

by Mackenzie Goulding. That helped them jump

out to a 23-9 lead. The Bulldogs slipped up a bit, but because they put themselves in a place of safety, they could close out the set.

After a quick battle in opening points in the second set, the Bulldogs went on a 7-1 run. Sasha Marshall had a pair of kills, and Gabby Chase did so as well in the run. The spurt from the Bulldogs was capped by an ace by Maddie Gray, who also had 20 assists in the match.

A flurry of kills came from Sterling Parker and co. (Parker had nine to lead the Bulldogs0 in the final part of the second set. A thunderous kill from Salva and a well-place shot by Marshall secured the second set win.

The third set was similar to the first set. The Bulldogs had an onslaught that allowed them to take a huge lead so that by the end of the set, even a small hiccup wouldn’t cost them their 100 percent record in all sets in league play this season.

Carondelet comes back in overtime thriller

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune The Lady Bulldog water polo team were unlucky to get the result against a resilient Carondelet team that came from behind on Tuesday afternoon.

From the get go the Bulldogs were on the ropes in their Oct. 11 12-8 overtime loss. They took on a lot of pressure from the visiting Cougars and really needed to brilliant effort from their keeper.

Carondelet started bright on the offensive and managed to create some solid opportunities, the only thing that kept them off the score sheet was Anna Bernard, the Bulldogs’ senior keeper.

Bernard made four big saves on the Cougars’ opening possessions, including a double save from close distance.

Those saves allowed the Bulldogs to take an early lead despite

a poor showing in the opening minutes. Seniors Sarah Exner and Daria Dragecevic linked up for the first goal, with Exner putting a cross-pool pass on the mark and Dragicevic firing it across the face of goal.

Dragicevic returned the effort, but not to Exner, instead linking up with Amanda Beatie. Beatie scored from the left flank, firing a shot at the near post to score.

Everything was coming up perfectly for the Bulldogs. They weathered the storm, scored twice, and managed to continue on in the second quarter.

Exner skipped in a screamer, but Carondelet finally answered after that. The Cougars scored twice before Dragicevic scored her third goal of the afternoon to restore a two-goal lead to the Dogs.

But the tide had turned.

Senior Allison Carr scored the second of her game-high seven

MARK FIERNER / Martinez Tribune Anna Bernard (pictured above against Concord) had five saves in the first quarter alone of the Bulldogs loss to Carondelet on Oct. 11, 2016.

goals after knocking the ball off a Bulldogs player and taking it on her own.

The Cougars scored again, this time Kiki Mein scored, taking advantage of a kick out drawn on the Dogs.

In the second half the Bull-

dogs came out of the gate strong.

Freshman Kaylee Pond pump faked four times and took advantage of the fact that the Cougar defenders didn’t close on her to restore the Bulldog lead. Exner u OVERTIME: Page 10

MARK FIERNER / Martinez Tribune Sterling Parker (pictured above against Clayton Valley) had nine kills in a win over Concord on Oct. 11, 2016.

Girls tennis team hit with first loss of DAL season Alhambra’s tennis team were finally beat in Diablo Athletic League play after a 4-0 run.

The Bulldogs lost to Clayton Valley 3-6, but Coach Sarah GallagherI was very impressed with the girls performance. “[The girls] all came to win and give it their best,” the coach would say after the match on Oct. 6, 2016.

Number one singles player Callie Johnson had a closer result than the line would lead you to believe. Johnson had many long points, many deuces but ended up losing 1-6, 3-6.

Number two singles player Morgan Azevedo played some of her best tennis on the Thursday afternoon and looked very strong. She ended up losing 2-6, 2-6 in another closer than it looked match Number three singles player Sophie Hughes was fighting a calf muscle issue which was bothering her at the start of the match, but she pushed through playing some very good tennis losing 2-6, 3-6.

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in 14 minutes, 58 seconds.

Just under an hour later at 11:25 a.m. it was time for the varsity girls’ race.

Junior Marissa D’Atri went straight to the front of the field of 79 people and opened up a significant lead. At some point D’Atri, who almost certainly would have convincingly won the race, took an unfortunate wrong turn, giving up the lead to Northgate’s Jessica Boucher. She quickly corrected the mistake and turned back to the right direction, but it was too late to grab the win, as Boucher crossed the line in first at 20 minutes, 12 seconds.

Not all was lost though, because D’Atri, like Tria, finished high up in the results and at fourth place overall.

Senior Erica Cardinale nearly broke 22 minutes with a respectable 22:01 on the incredibly hilly course. Her performance earned her a ninth place finish and another medal.

The varsity boys were the last competition in which the Bulldogs brought home an award.

This season has seen the fastest four Bulldogs of Noa Nabeshima, Robert Viano, Trevor Oliveira-Smith and Connor Hayes finish in varying orders, but here it was

Viano who led the group with a closing time of 18:43, which was just a good enough performance for 28th place and the fifth medal of the day.

Stuart Hall’s Elijah Horwitz won in a blazing fast time of 16:30, while Sergio Lopez of Del Campo took second at 16:33.

Only a select group of Bulldogs will participate in the famous Mt. San Antonio College Invite, which will take place Friday Oct. 21-22. The meet is one of the country’s largest invitaON FILE / Courtesy tionals, with thousands of runners Alhambra runners (from left) Erica Cardinale, Marissa D’atri and Isa Mendoza stop in completing the 2.95-mile distance between the action for a photo in the new cross country uniforms. The trio competevery year. ed at the Peter Brewer Invitational at Castro Valley High School on Oct. 8, 2016.

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Lady Dogs breeze past title foe Eagles

By GERARDO RECINOS Martinez Tribune A season ago we were talking about winning the girls volleyball team winning a pair of games in league play and loving life.

Here we are a year later and not only have the Bulldogs won all their league games, but as of their Oct. 6 win over Clayton Valley, they’ve won every single set!

Before the clash, coach Willie Marchesano said he felt Clayton Valley would be their biggest test of the season. He complimented the Eagles, saying they were going to be the team who could thwart the team’s quest to a league title.

And the Eagles did contain the Bulldogs for a while. Their first set of the match against the Eagles saw Clayton Valley Charter take a lead.

After the Bulldogs finished off a long rally with a kill by Erin Silva, everything looked bright. But Clayton Valley reeled off two kills and a pair of aces by Erika Scheafer and a kill by Morgan McClain.

The Bulldogs answered back with an 8-1 run to get back in front. They had a nice tip over by Audrey Pardini who picked a nice spot with her shot. Silva followed with a back-row kill, and Gabby Chase had one of her own straight after.

Alhambra took the lead thanks due to five straight mistakes by the Eagles, but that allowed kills from Leslie Roofener and Makenzie Salva to get the win.

In the second set, there wasn’t much of a fight by Clayton Valley, and that was mostly due to a hot start by the Bulldogs, and on player in particular.

Chase started off her effort in the set with some nasty service. She reeled off some serves with a ton of dip, knuckling shots.

She collected four straight aces, and really sparked the Bulldog lead.

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MARK FIERNER / Martinez Tribune Makenzie Salva had four kills and six aces in the Bulldogs win over Clayton Valley Charter on Oct. 6, 2016. The Bulldogs are 4-0 in DAL play, and have yet to drop a single set.

At no point after that did the Bulldog relent their lead. Alhambra was working in all aspects of their game. At one point the Bulldogs were setting up fantastic moves.

Sterling Parker dropped a perfectly-executed running kill, going across her body to pick a spot on the opposite side of the court for the kill.

A 5-0 run by Clayton Valley forced the Bulldogs to take a deep breath before Silva got another one of her five kills on the night to win the second set.

In the third set the Bulldogs once again opened up a big lead, with consecutive aces

by Salva. The senior captain had six aces on the night.

For the rest of the set the Bulldogs just cruised to the finish line without much fight from the Eagles. It made it all the more special when they finished off the set and won their seventh out of eight matches.

The Bulldogs have only five matches left on their schedule, and all against opponents they’ve already beaten. At 12-6, the Bulldogs have already qualified for North Coast Section, and are ahead of the pace that lead them to a 19-10 record that earned them a number nine seed in last season’s playoffs.

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assisted Beatie for her second goal to double to the Bulldog lead soon after.

Alhambra had some trouble establishing a lead that would allow them to relax. Exner scored the team’s seventh goal, but Carondelet’s Carr scored twice in the early stages of the fourth quarter to level things at 7-7.

Gallagher: ‘I do think we will give Clayton Valley a run next time.’

Neither team was as tactical as they would have wanted to be with their final possessions, but they each managed to score once more.

With a chance to take the match, Exner scored with 3:21 on the clock.

However Carr scored again for Carondelet on a Bulldog kick out to

level things and force an extra time.

A tired Alhambra side couldn’t manage to find the back of the net in either overtime period.

Carr scored three times, but the back-breaker was a goal by Carondelet keeper Alex Brown scored from long range. The sophomore

took a shot at the buzzer that soared into the top corner.

The loss moves the Bulldogs to 8-8 on the season with three games remaining before the playoff push.

The Dogs take on Clayton Valley Charter, Tamalpais, and Northgate in their final three matches.

more confident with her position on the court,” Gallagher said.

In the number four spot, Caserra Alva played a player with a game much like her one. The two opponents got the ball back to each other well. Alva was down early in the first set but rallied back like she does, but not quite enough losing 3-6, 3-6.

Nicole Nelson, the number five singles player, was having the best match of her season playing tough. She was hitting hard, commanding ground strokes. She would easily win the first set 6-1, but her opponent fought back in the second set to tie up 6-6. Nelson rallied but came up short in the seven-point tiebreaker. The third set tie breaker went to the Clayton Valley player 10-8.

Despite the loss, Gallagher is confident that Nelson will get it next time the Bulldogs and Eagles meet up.

Number six singles player Rachel George got off to a rocky start losing the first set 1-6, but then re grouped found her game and came back in the second set to win 6-3. She took command of the third set tie break winning easily 10-1.

The number one doubles duo of Katie Foerste and Julia Giannini played the best match of their season on Thursday. They won 6-1, 6-4 in commanding fashion.

“They played so well as a team covering each other, covering the court, putting the ball away and seeing the open court to place their shots,” Gallagher said. “A great win!”

Number two pair, Sam McGinley and Bri Coria played very well coming from behind in the first set to tie it up but ended up losing in the tiebreaker second set.

It was a back and forth fight between the two teams. McGinley and Coria continue to move their game to the next level, according to Gallagher.

Number three doubles group Phoebe Tang and Rachele Swaigen played well as a team in their win. Gallagher said of the win, “They seem to know where each other is on the court and communicate well as well as support each other.”They had a great win 6-4, 6-0.

It was a really good day of tennis for the varsity, and the JV team kept up a good fight and went 2-7.

“All the varsity matches were competitive I am very happy with their play today. “It is difficult to come from never winning in our old to becoming a contender,” Gallagher said. “I do think we will give Clayton Valley a run next time.”

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touchdown by Thomas McDonald that ended with the senior from Texas putting an okie-doke move on a defensive back and leaving him in the dust.

“If we can establish the sweep action, there are a lot of things that come off of that,” Hern said of the emergence of the running game that set up the score. “If we start to see over play there are things we can do to make sure he

[Boyd] gets the football.”

They got Boyd the ball on the ground, he had two running touchdowns. They got him the ball through the air, hauling down a pass on a well run wheel route from the backfield to score.

Blalock was able to spread the ball around not just to Boyd and the aforementioned McDonald. He hit his favorite target of the preseason Greene for a four-yard touchdown, and also

found Zach Schuler in the seam for a 33-yard score.

Takeaways from the defense thanks to the likes of Eddie Taylor set up a short field and allowed Boyd to punch it in once more from close distance when the result of the game had long since been decided.

They even got a chance to turn on the style points, with a 98-yard interception return for

a touchdown capping off the dominating performance, and earning them their first Diablo Athletic League win, leaving them at 3-3 with everything to play for in the final four.

“We didn’t do poorly in the first half, but it was a good chance to see, ‘this is where we’re at, this is where we want to go,’” Hern said.

“Obviously the league championship is our goal,” he said.

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soar. Choosing to say only that which is positive about – and to – others lifts and strengthens those around us and helps others follow in the Savior’s way.

As a young Primary girl, I worked diligently to crossstitch a simple saying which read, “I will bring the light of the gospel into my home.”

One weekday afternoon as we girls pulled our needles up and down through the fabric, our teacher told us the story of a girl who lived on a hill on one side of a valley.

Each late afternoon she noticed on the hill on the opposite side of the valley a house that had shining, golden windows. Her own home was small and somewhat shabby, and the girl dreamed of living in that beautiful house with windows of gold.

One day the girl was given permission to ride her bike across the valley. She eagerly rode until she reached the house with the golden windows that she had admired for so long. But when she dismounted from her bike, she saw that the house was abandoned and dilapidated, with tall weeds in the yard

and windows that were plain and dirty. Sadly, the girl turned her face toward home.

To her surprise, she saw a house with shining, golden windows on the hill across the valley and soon realized it was her very own home!

Sometimes, like this young girl, we look at what others might have or be and feel we are less in comparison. We become focused on the Pinterest or Instagram versions of life or caught up in our school’s or workplace’s preoccupation with competition.

However, when we take a moment to “count [our] many blessings,” we see with a truer perspective and recognize the goodness of God to all of His children.

Whether we are 8 or 108, we can bring the light of the gospel into our own environment, be it a high-rise apartment in Manhattan, a stilt house in Malaysia, or a yurt in Mongolia. We can determine to look for the good in others and in the circumstances around us. Young and not-so-young women everywhere can demonstrate charity as they choose to use

words that build confidence and faith in others.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland told of a young man who was the brunt of his peers’ teasing during his school years.

Some years later he moved away, joined the military, received an education, and became active in the Church.

This period of his life was marked with wonderfully successful experiences.

After several years he returned to his hometown.

However, the people refused to acknowledge his growth and improvement. To them, he was still just old “so-andso,” and they treated him that way. Eventually, this good man faded away to a shadow of his former successful self without being able to use his marvelously developed talents to bless those who derided and rejected him once again. What a loss, both for him and the community!

The Apostle Peter taught, “Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”

Fervent charity, meaning “wholehearted,” is demon-

strated by forgetting the mistakes and stumblings of another rather than harboring grudges or reminding ourselves and others of imperfections in the past.

Our obligation and privilege is to embrace improvement in everyone as we strive to become more like our Savior, Jesus Christ. What a thrill it is to see light in the eyes of someone who has come to understand the Atonement of Jesus Christ and is making real changes in his or her life! Missionaries who have experienced the joy of seeing a convert enter the waters of baptism and then enter the doors of the temple are witnesses of the blessing of allowing – and encouraging – others to change. Members who welcome converts who might have been considered unlikely candidates for the kingdom find great satisfaction in helping them feel the love of the Lord. The great beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ is the reality of eternal

progression – we are not only allowed to change for the better but also encouraged, and even commanded, to continue in the pursuit of improvement and, ultimately, perfection.

President Thomas S. Monson counseled: “In a hundred small ways, all of you wear the mantle of charity. …

Rather than being judgmental [or] critical of [one] another, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life.

May we recognize that each one is doing her [or his] best to deal with the challenges which come [her or his] way, and may we strive to do our best to help out.”

Charity, in positive terms, is patient, kind, and content.

Charity puts others first, is humble, exercises self-control, looks for good in others, and rejoices when someone does well.

As sisters (and brothers) in Zion, will we commit to “all work together … to do whatsoever is gentle and

human, to cheer and to bless in [the Savior’s] name”? Can we, with love and high hopes, look for and embrace the beauties in others, allowing and encouraging progress?

Can we rejoice in the accomplishments of others while continuing to work toward our own improvement?

Yes, we can bring the light of the gospel into our homes, schools, and workplaces if we look for and share positive things about others and let the less-than-perfect fade away. What gratitude fills my heart when I think of the repentance that our Savior, Jesus Christ, has made possible for all of us who have inevitably sinned in this imperfect and sometimes difficult world!

I bear my witness that as we follow His perfect example, we can receive the gift of charity, which will bring us great joy in this life and the promised blessing of eternal life with our Father in Heaven. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

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dows alarm system, and tinted windows. Charcoal grey, black and grey interior. Only 1 owner, 11,000 miles, mostly highway. 6 speed, 20 inch rims on low profile tires. Stereo/ CD with 2 ten subs 1500 watt amp with separate over load capacitor, cold air intake and Greddy module. GREAT CAR, EXCELENT CONDITION NO SCRACHES DENTS WELL TAKEN CARE OF. FUN TO DRIVE!!!!!! Must sell due to medical reasons. $10,999.

David, (925) 681-9833. _________________________________________________________________________

Electronics

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STEREO SX components, twin towers, $800. Yamaha/ Mistubishi components, 4 sound towers, 1000 watts.

Call Edwin, (925) 432-9230.

Wanted

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CHRISTIAN FEMALE seeking Section 8 rental, on bus route. Please call (925) 917-0168. _________________________________________________________________________

LOOKING FOR SF Bay Area radio station recordings from the 1920s through 1980s, if possible with local station ID breaks. From music shows, talk shows, newscasts, live band remotes, sports recordings, etc. For example, stations like KTAB, KSFO, KGO, KYA, KSFX, KDIA, KWBR, KOBY, KSAY, etc. Willing to pay to have digital copies made. Call Ron, (925) 2845428. _________________________________________________________________________

LOOKING FOR TV audio soundtracks from 1950s-1970s, i.e. variety shows, talk shows, sports recordings, etc. Call Ron, (925) 284-5428. _________________________________________________________________________

LOOKING FOR Brian Piccolo Story movie (not the Brian’s Song movie). Saw it on KTVU Channel 2 back in mid-‘70s. Willing to take home recorded version of this movie. Call Ron, (925) 284-5428.

Auto & RV

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One owner 2004 ET4 150cc Vespa scooter in very good condition. Only 5765 miles – $2,400 OBO. Call Bob at (510) 552-3324 2006 MAZDA Rx-8 A/C, auto doors, locks, win-

TWO TIRES by Michelin, radial, size 185/65R15.

Used, good condition. $50 for all. (925) 939-2152. _________________________________________________________________________

TOYOTA CAMRY 4 door sedan, ‘92, black on black, limosine tint, new tires, electronic ignition, etc. $2,500 obo. Call Edwin, (925) 432-9230.

Marine

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FOR SALE New 12 ft Wenonah (canoe). Hardly used, includes two wooden oars, asking $300. Was $1,300 new. (925) 229-0968.

Homes for Sale

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RESIDENTIAL REAL Estate Sales, experience in Trustee and Probate Sales.

Complimentary Property Evaluation and Fair Market Analysis Provided. Michael Brionez, Broker, J. Rockcliff Realtors, (925) 2880477, michaelbrionez.com.

Commercial

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SHELL GAS STATION and convenience store for sale, great location in Folsom, CA, next to busy DMV, schools, biz district. Leave msg for Erin, (928) 377-7579.

Land

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$120,000 Vacant residential lot near downtown Martinez. Build your custom home! Michael Brionez, Broker, J. Rockcliff Realtors, (925) 288-0477, michaelbrionez.com. _________________________________________________________________________

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Land

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fieds@martineztribune.com or call (925) 229-2026 to place your free text ad today! *Boxed ads, graphics, etc. come with fees.

Garage Sales

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GARAGE SALE Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. Two generations of collectibles, 2160 Pine Street, Martinez. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. No early birds please. _________________________________________________________________________

WHOOOO WILL YOU BE? For Hallowe’en? Jay Gatsby? Eliza Doolittle? Tom Sawyer? Dress as your favorite character – shop at my big sale on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (no early birds, please).

There’ll be tights in the trees, hoop skirts hanging from the eaves! Prof. Harold Hill will be leading the band (listen for the 76 trombones). See you at 4701 Tahoe Circle, Martinez.

Legal Notices

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SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): Thomas Lynn Lowry II and Does 1-20. YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Alexander Zuniga. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.

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org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carto o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados.

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Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicious legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene drecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. CASE NUMBER: (Número del Caso): C16-01744. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Contra Costa County Superior Court, 725 Court Street, Martinez, CA 94553. The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Paul D. Hiles, Esq., 706 Main Street, Suite A, Martinez, CA 94553. Law Offices of Paul D. Hiles, 925.372.5600.

DATE: (Fecha) SEP - 9 2016.

Clerk, by /s/ D. WAGNER, Deputy. (Secretario) /s/ D. WAGNER (Adjunto). Publish 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/2016

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Omarr’s Weekly Astrological Forecast

By JERALDINE SAUNDERS Tribune Content Agency ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fight the good fight without a demonstration of might. It could be tempting to throw your weight around in the early part of the week.

Put ambitions in their proper perspective. Slow and steady wins the race.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can be affectionate and charming in private. But you may easily lose your temper in public. In the week to come it will be best to focus on close personal relationships and prove you can live up to commitments.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are just one of the family. During this week you may find that the secret to success consists of compromise, consensus and listening to advice. You might take the back seat to others but still come out ahead.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Remain poised to parry a partner’s pushy posturing.

You may feel manipulated by others in close connection as this week unfolds. Concentrate on keeping up your end of a bargain and others will respond in kind.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Make your move on the chessboard of life. Solve problems by considering logical sequences. Accomplish your goals via careful planning and forethought in the week ahead. Remain patient when dealing with emotional issues.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): Spread good will and good taste. Acting on your finer impulses might result in a smile or a sincere thank you perhaps when you treat someone to lunch or a gift.

In the week ahead you are wise about the true value of a dollar.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Everybody listens when you speak. You seem to have good judgment and a tolerant attitude so everyone heeds your every word. Ignore fringe elements that attempt to appeal to your base instincts in the week ahead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Blend business and pleasure to achieve your end.

Your heightened social aptitude gives you just the right touch to instill trust. You’ll go further this week by being outgoing and friendly than by following strict protocols.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will win if you are neat as a pin. If your organizational skills and ambitions have gone AWOL this might be a good week to remedy the situation. Avoid making major purchases for the next few days.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Enlist the encouragement of your inner efficiency expert. In the week ahead you can get further faster by carefully plotting and planning your path in advance. Shrug off an intense desire to take complete control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): You can be logical, responsible, and practical.

Don’t let a chance to impress friends and co-workers with your intellectual analysis pass you by. Earn brownie points for dependability as this week unfolds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Smile and the world smiles with you. As this week begins your charming ways can impress and dazzle others, so this is an excellent time to make new contacts.

Steer clear of taking financial risks for the next few days. (c) 2016 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

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Crossword ACROSS 1 Also 4 Hotelier Helmsley 9 Make small adjustments to 14 Post-ER area 15 First stage 16 ABBA’s “__ Mia” 17 Black-and-white cruiser 19 High-tech prefix with space 20 Memorial __ Kettering: NYC hospital 21 Teensy bit 23 Word on a penny 24 Yin’s partner 25 Black-and-white puzzles 27 When doubled, a Pacific island 29 Actor DiCaprio, familiarly 30 Black-and-white music makers 35 “The Jetsons” boy 39 Go over snow 40 Painkiller with a Meltaways children’s brand 42 “__ Maria” 43 2014 film about civil rights marches 45 Black-and-white companion 47 Outfielder’s asset 49 Brouhahas 50 Black-and-white flag 56 Take five 59 October birthstone 60 Curly-horned goat 61 Happen 62 Really casual “No prob!”

64 Black-and-white ocean predator 66 Pal of Threepio 67 Behave theatrically 68 Type 69 Way up or way down 70 Meeting of church delegates 71 Albany is its cap.

DOWN 1 Slightly sloshed 2 City in Florida’s horse country 3 Released from jail until trial 4 Diving lake bird 5 Picture that shows more detail: Abbr.

6 “Sesame Street” grouch 7 “Sweet!”

8 Gillette razors 9 HBO rival 10 “Totally awesome!”

11 Campfire glower 12 Modify, as a law 13 Go-__: mini racers 18 Tease relentlessly 22 ISP option 25 Like dense brownies 26 Little shaver, to Burns 28 Dial type on old phones 30 Ltr. add-ons 31 Eisenhower nickname 32 Days of yore, quaintly 33 Supporting vote 34 NBC show that celebrated its 40th anniversary in Feb. 36 Cause an uproar of Biblical proportions?

37 Fertility clinic eggs 38 Itch 41 Actor Sharif 44 Shoplifter catcher, often 46 Handheld burning light 48 Med. scan 50 __ Brothers: pop music trio 51 Dizzying painting genre 52 Coffeehouse order

Answers to last week’s puzzle

53 Bassoon relatives 54 Potentially infectious 55 Former jailbird 57 Tarnish 58 Tough hikes 61 Didn’t pay yet 63 Laughs from Santa 65 From __ Z (c) 2016 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, INC.

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High school culinary students to receive training at Loaves & Fishes MARTINEZ, Calif. – In an effort to build awareness of the services provided by Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa, along with its unique Culinary Training

Program, program students will be joined by executives and other management representing BAC Community Bank to prepare and serve breakfast to 100-120 indi-

viduals in need at the Martinez dining room.

Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa (LFCC) works diligently to feed the hungry of Contra Cos-

Chuck Barberini is a Realtor living in Martinez, specializing in listings, buyers, short sales, REOs & property management. $250 donated to Alhambra High School athletics for every completed transaction

ta County throughout the year. LFCC serves 14,000 hot meals each month that are designed to fill the nutritional needs of people for whom this may be their only meal of the day.

Through its Culinary Training Program, LFCC trains Martinez Unified District high school students in basic culinary skills to provide the introduction to careers in the culinary industry.

Students will prepare a complete breakfast to serve to individuals in need. The breakfast will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Loaves and Fishes Dining Room, 835 Ferry St., Martinez. All in need of nourishment are encouraged to come and enjoy the students’ creations.

Squirrel!

“MAN ABOUT TOWN” JOHN GRUBKA / Martinez Tribune

Tribune contributor John Grubka captured this curious fellow while on Docent duty during the Historic Home Tour in Martinez this past weekend. The tour featured a garden where rescued wildlife are rehabilitated.

Fire breaks out at county hospital MARTINEZ, Calif. – A fire broke out at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) last Friday, forcing the evacuation of two floors of the hospital.

Just after 2 p.m. on Oct. 7, firefighters responded to the complex at 2500 Alhambra Ave. The first and second floors of the hospital were evacuated with significant smoke detected on the second floor. Fire crews had the blaze under control within 30 minutes of responding.

While it’s unknown as of presstime what caused the fire, it is believed the fire started either in one of the hospital’s seven boilers or the boilers’ fuel lines.

No injuries were reported, however, two patients were transferred to other facilities. Several other surgery patients were moved to upper floors of the building while fire crews contained the blaze.

The emergency room was shut down Friday afternoon while crews assessed the situation, but regular hospital services were able to resume.

No significant damage was incurred, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Where in Martinez? ...

“MAN ABOUT TOWN” JOHN GRUBKA / Martinez Tribune

Where in Martinez is this artwork displayed? The first person to correctly identify the location will win two free tickets to Contra Costa Stadium Cinemas! Email admin@ martineztribune.com or post your guesses in the comments section at http://martineztribune.com. The winner will be announced in the next edition. Good luck!