Alamo Today, August, 2014

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August 2014

Serving Alamo and Diablo

Save the Date - Alamo Music and Wine Festival Saturday, September 6

The Rotary Club of Alamo will be sponsoring the 32nd Annual Alamo Music and Wine Festival on Saturday, September 6th, from 3:30pm. to 10:30pm at Alamo Plaza. The fun-filled event will benefit the Alamo community and the music programs at six local schools including Alamo and Rancho Romero Elementary Schools, Stone Valley Middle School, Monte Vista and San Ramon Valley High Schools and the Lucille Mauzy School. The Festival will also feature a raffle with great prizes including the following: • VIP Tour for up to six people of ABC-7 News (KGO), hosted by Spencer Christian, includes a live broadcast sitting and pictures at the anchor desk with the news team. • A scenic two-hour flight for up to three people with viewing ranges from the San Francisco coast, the Delta or a tour of the Lake Tahoe area. • VIP tour for up to four people on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange • A Diamond Back Outlook Mountain Bike • A Day on the Bay - a sailboat tour of San Francisco Bay on the 34 ft. “Full Tilt” for up to four people including lunch on Angel Island • Cline Cellars Winery Tour and wine tasting for up to four people • Jacuzzi Family Vineyards Tour and wine tasting for up to four people • $100 gift certificate to Faz’s Restaurant

See Raffle continued on page 24

Two New Members Join the Alamo Council By Sharon Burke

Alamo’s Supervisor Candace Andersen has appointed Jill Winspear and Aron DeFerrari to the Alamo Municipal Advisory Council. Jill Winspear is to be a full voting member of the Alamo MAC. A native of Walnut Creek and an Alamo resident for ten years, Jill brings a wealth of business and community volunteer experience to the MAC. She has an extensive background in sales and marketing management. Jill earned a degree in fine art from UC Berkeley, and was the Managing Director of a fine Jill Winspear art gallery in Houston Texas. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation, as well as for the Diablo Regional Arts Association, where she is Marketing Chair and she has co-chaired DRAA’s largest fundraiser, “On Broadway,” multiple times. Jill told me one of her most rewarding volunteer accomplishments was when she served as the Scholarship Chair for the Alamo Women’s Club, helping to New Alamo Council Member Aron choose deserving local recipients of the AWC DeFerrari enjoys the Farmers’ Market with his daughter.

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Talking with owners, attendees learn the stories behind the classic cars.

Hot Summer Nights: Celebrating Classic Community Fun By Jody Morgan

In 1994, three friends decided to share their love of classic automobiles with fellow enthusiasts by staging a series of car shows. Initially the Danville Hot Summer Nights Hot Rod and Classic Car Show was held four times each year, but a half dozen years ago the decision was made to concentrate on two outstanding productions each summer. Thanks to the tireless efforts of a core team of volunteers, the show has evolved into a favorite family pastime. Showcasing downtown restaurants and retailers as well as local non-profits to crowds of as many as 15,000 spectators, Danville Hot Summer Nights Car Show, open free to the public, generates an old-fashioned sense of community spirit with a totally

See Nights continued on page 23

Alamo Residents Flock to Farmers’ Market By Sharon Burke

The new Alamo Farmers’ Market got off to a great start on July 27, with hundreds of Alamo residents showing up on a hot morning to check out the vendors from far and wide. Vendors I talked to came from Brentwood, Modesto, Morgan Hill and Sonoma. They brought fresh cage free eggs, jams and jellies, olive oils and vinegars, yummy baked goods, smoked salmon and salmon jerky, kettle corn, potted plants and seedlings, juicy sweet peaches, apricots and nectarines, vine ripe tomatoes, all

See Market continued on page 30

Volume XIV - Number 8 3000F Danville Blvd. #117, Alamo, CA 94507 Telephone (925) 405-NEWS, 405-6397 Fax (925) 406-0547 Alisa Corstorphine ~ Publisher Editor@yourmonthlypaper.com Sharon Burke ~ Writer

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