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April 2012 Easter Egg Hunt in Alamo
Serving Alamo and Diablo Feral Kevin
The Alamo Rotary Club is pleased to once again sponsor the Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 7th at 10am sharp! The Hunt will be held at Livorna Park, located at the corner of Livorna Rd. and Miranda Ave. in Alamo. All kids 12 and under are welcome. There will be acres of eggs to hunt for, and photos with the “Bunny” will be taken. The event is FREE! Just bring your kids and cameras, and enjoy this fun time for kids and adults! The hunt will be held rain or shine. This event goes extremely fast, so DON’T BE LATE or you may be disappointed! For more information, visit www.alamorotary.org.
Together We Give - Earth Day Presented by Alamo Women’s Club
Sunday, April 22, 1-4pm Community Donation Day Benefiting Local Charities See pages 2 and 6 for more information
Ultimate Configuration Not Yet Removed from County Roads Plan By Grace Schmidt, Mike Gibson, and Aron DeFerrari Contra Costa County is in the process of updating its County roads plan, and the widening of the Danville Boulevard/Stone Valley Road intersection, aka the “Ultimate Configuration”, is still in it. “Stone Valley Road/Danville Boulevard Intersection Improvements” is Project #5 on the Alamo Area of Benefit (AOB) list of projects that is part of the current County Capital Roads Improvement & Preservation Program (CRIPP)1. The currentAOB project list appears below. The County reports that the Alamo AOB fund, comprised of fees the County collects from developers who develop in Alamo, currently holds $2.1 million. Alamo Regional Area of Benefit - Project List Schedule - Current Ordinance 98-21
In January, 2008, the County added “Stone Valley Road/Danville Boulevard Intersection Improvements” to the list of traffic mitigation projects funded with
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Long before sustainable food guru Michael Pollan wrote his best seller The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in which he explored the complex subject of the industrialization of our food sources, a young and quixotic Kevin Feinstein was slightly ahead of the curve. As a college student at Florida State, Feinstein privately questioned the same subjects as related to the nation’s commercial food chain. With access to a relatively new information highway – the Internet – Feinstein Googled his way through the complex issues of agribusiness and inturn, re-programmed how he felt about our food system. Feinstein was a film major excelling in the technical aspects of his field of study. He assumed a career path in film would eventually lead him to California, but it was his transformation of consciousness, and the progressive food movement, which ultimately brought him to the state eleven years ago. Growing up in Nashville, Tennessee, Feinstein, had become accustomed to non-organic ways of eating. “We never had fruit, Kevin Feinstein, “Feral Kevin,” displays a bounty of both edible and toxic mushrooms. His mushroom foraging and I’d never seen a fruit tree,” classes explain how to tell the difference between the two. says Feinstein. “Once in college, and with a myriad of information at my fingertips, I started to explore food-source related issues, and it literally changed my life.” He has since made his living as “Feral Kevin,” local forager and food educator in the fields of ethno botany, organic gardening, mushrooms, nutrition, and more. As Feral Kevin, he leads edible wild plant tours and forays, and he teaches a crash course in mushroom foraging. He can also be hired for custom walks, talks, classes, tours, and birthday parties. He says that foraging has become quite popular, and while trendy at the moment, the practice is the base of cultural change in how we view food. Feinstein cautions that there are rules to foraging, and when asked if he saw the true-story film “Into the Wild,” in which Christopher McCandless (as played by Emile Hirsch) dies after eating poisonous berries, he allows, “McCandless did not know what he was doing. He was naïve.” Feinstein’s classes ensure that naiveté is transformed into enlightenment; he concedes that indeed, eating the wrong thing can be perilous, and he cautions against picking near parking lots and roads due to mercury in the soil. In his wild mushroom classes, he teaches a system for approaching the daunting subject. “There are so many types of mushrooms, and most of us have had zero exposure to them Volume XII - Number 4 as children, and yes, if you eat the 3000F Danville Blvd. #117, wrong one, it could be deadly.” says Alamo, CA 94507 Feinstein. Telephone (925) 405-NEWS, 405-6397 Fax (925) 406-0547 In his new book, The Bay Area Forager, Feinstein and his co-author Alisa Corstorphine ~ Publisher Editor@yourmonthlypaper.com Mia Andler (Director of the Vilda Sharon Burke ~ Writer Foundation for Nature Connection), sburke@yourmonthlypaper.com make the case that foraging promotes The opinions expressed herein belong to the writers, and do sustainability, helps fight the spread not necessarily reflect that of Alamo Today. Alamo Today
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