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September 2011 Bargains For Charity!
Serving Danville Our Community Remembers
The Blackhawk Museum Guild was organized in 1991 by co-founder Pat Behring The Exchange Club of San Ramon Valley along with local veterans’ as the volunteer entity of the world-class Blackhawk Museum, a non-profit corporation organizations is hosting the Tenth Anniversary 9-11 Remembrance Cerdedicated to “ensuring significant automotive treasures blending art, technology, culture, emony for the residents of the San Ramon Valley. and history would be exhibited for public enjoyment and educational enrichment.” The event will be held at All Wars Memorial at Oak Hill Park, located at 3005 Stone Valley Road in Danville, on September 11 and will begin at 5:50PM and conclude at 6:40PM. Immediately following the ceremony there will be a free community “American picnic” featuring hot dogs and ice cream. This event will feature prominent guest speakers, hundreds of Scouts with an array of American Flags, joint Police and Fire Department honor Guard and Fife & Drum Corps., a bagpiper, a flight of doves, renowned tenor George Komsky and many other patriotic contributions. Guest speakers include Winston Copeland, Rear Adm. Ret., decorated Navy Squadron Commander and Joe Viscuglia, 9-11 Survivor. There will be an essay contest based on the event with cash prizes for high, middle, and grade school student residents of the five San Ramon Valley communities. The essay title and prizes will be announced in a subsequent press release. The essay forms and instructions will be distributed at the event and will be available online at srvexchangeclub.org.
Guild members pose with some of the treasures people will be able to purchase at the 2nd Annual Blackhawk Bargain Basement Sale Committee members shown above from left to right front row are: Joyce Farrell, Barbara Fromm and Carol Ching. Second row: Mary Lou Paschal, Chairman Joyce Tucker, Dee Thompson, Honey Pettigrew, Pat Behring, Danielle Smith, Linda Swofford and Wynne Dalley. You will not want to miss this sale!
The almost 200 Guild members serve as docents and help with fundraising and operational activities. In the spring of 2009, Blackhawk Museum guild member Joyce Tucker flew to Berlin, Germany to see her newest grandchild. Due to unforeseen circumstances, she SRV Emergency Preparedness Fair spent three days in the hospital. Unable to speak German, she spent her time develop2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11 and the San Raing a new idea to raise money for the Blackhawk Museum. After spending many hours mon Valley Citizen Corps Council would like to invite you to remember and making lists of jobs and plans, she settled on the idea of holding a rummage sale. prepare at the 6th annual San Ramon Valley Emergency Preparedness Fair. When Joyce returned home, she presented the idea to the Guild Steering ComBoth the Town of Danville and the City of San Ramon along with various
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Taking Time to Talk with Trees By Jody Morgan
The art of bonsai culture seeks to distill the essence of a tree’s encounter with the forces of nature over the course of a lifetime by presenting in a container a miniature specimen carefully trained to express the struggles the tree might have undergone and overcome in the landscape. Developed in Japan from an even more ancient Chinese practice of growing trees in pots, the centuries old art made its first major debut in Europe at the Paris World Fair Exposition of 1889. Initially unable to make their own bonsai survive, Europeans began gossiping about “Oriental secrets” and “Japanese magic.” Today bonsai clubs across the United States, including our local Diablo Bonsai Club, eagerly share information about creating, caring for and exhibiting bonsai. Patience is the essential virtue practitioners of the art of bonsai require. Although the Japanese term bonsai loosely translates as “to plant in a basin,” putting a tree in a pot is just the beginning. Kunitoshi Akabane founded the Diablo Bonsai Club in 1981 to teach others the art that he first observed as a boy helping his grandfather tend trees in Japan. Known to his friends as K, Akabane insists that anyone willing to take the K Akabane holds a camelia in training time to properly follow the basic steps he teaches can successfully grow bonsai. For some, he admits, expressing the essence of a tree comes easily, for others it is a difficult process. But he believes any novice enthusiast willing to take the necessary time to move sequentially through the process of nurturing and training can produce a pleasing specimen. Volume II - Number 11 The first step, K explains, is to keep your tree alive. Sustaining a life is a responsibility. Pruning and shaping the tree 3000F Danville Blvd. #117, Alamo, CA 94507 come after you have lived with a tree Telephone (925) 405-NEWS, 405-6397 PRSRT STD for the first year. Once you have waFax (925) 406-0547 U.S. Postage tered daily, fed, repotted and studied PAID Alisa Corstorphine ~ Publisher the nature of your tree, you are ready Permit 263 editor@yourmonthlypaper.com Alamo CA to envision how the tree would age The opinions expressed herein belong to the writers, and do necessarily reflect that of Danville Today News. Danville in the landscape. Observing the not Today News is not responsible for the content of any of the
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