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August 2011
VOL 16, NO 8
Big changes ahead for MVHS grad
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Montalvin Manor
This has been a summer to remember f o r 2 011 M o n t e Vista High School MVHS) graduate, Lauren Lindberg. She found her calling in film making, and she became one of the five finalists in Seventeen Magazine’s “Pretty Amazing Girl” contest. As a finalist Lauren won a five-day trip to New York with See FILMMAKER page 6
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By Dana Guzzetti
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Amended: Reliez Valley to District V, Morgan Territory to District III, small adjustments to er boundary in Pinole, Walnut Creek eand Antioch. Riv nto
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Found: path to passion
PRESORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID DANVILLE, CA PERMIT NO. 70
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Map of Contra Costa County Supervisorial Districts approved by Board ofDRAFT Supervisors on District July- Proposal 26, 2011 - 2011 Supervisorial 17D Amended Contra Costa County
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SAN Variance RAMON (6,368) Norris 9,112 Canyon 680 (6,094) 2010 Population 9,411 Total: 1,049,025 (6,061) Equal Distribution: 209,805
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Proposal 17D - Population Distribution Variance Variance High: 4.49% Low: -3.04% Spread: 7.53%
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The Contra Costa County Boardbyofthe Supervisors approved Map Proposal 17 D seen above, on a 3-2 vote as the proposed new 7.53% Prepared Department of Conservation and Development - GIS Group supervisorial district boundaries. On Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. the Board of supervisors will conduct a public hearing to consider adoption of an ordinance establishing the approved map as the new supervisorial district boundaries. Supervisor Gayle Uilkema represents District 2 which on the proposed map runs from the border of Orinda to the north, through San Ramon to the south. For more information visit http://ca-contracostacounty.civicplus.com. Map Created for July 26th, 2011 Board of Supervisors Public Hearing Contra Costa County Department of Conservation & Development 651 Pine Street, 4th Floor - N. Wing, Martinez, CA 94553-0095 37:59:48.455N 122:06:35.384W
What is it about Burning Man? By Denise Rousset
Postmaster: Dated Material
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Since its beginning in 1986 as a little gathering of 20 people burning an 8-foot statue of a man on Baker Beach in San Francisco, the Burning Man festival has evolved into a huge yearly celebration and temporary community in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Black Rock City becomes manifest once a year in late August for a week of performance art and participation by its more than 51,500 inhabitants (in 2010). It is described as a “Petri dish for experiments in the possibilities of large scale human collaboration” dedicated to radical self-expression. This year, for the first time, tickets have sold out,
and none will be available at the gate. Founder and Executive Director Larry Harvey, in San Francisco since the late 1970’s and involved in San Francisco’s underground art scene at the time, has overseen all of the explosive growth of the event since the beginning. By 1990 the statue was 40 feet tall with 800 participants at Baker Beach, but the actual burn had to be moved to the Black Rock Desert. Ninety people came out for the burn on Labor Day Weekend. Attendance jumped each year, reaching 25,400 by 2000 and reached over 49,000 by 2008. Last year the more than
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700 registered theme camps were centers of the basic experience of the festival. Harley K. DuBois, Burning Man’s Director of Community Services and Playa Safety Council says that the camps must always welcome anybody and everybody. “Theme camps are the interactive core of Burning Man,” she said. According to the their website, Burning Man is about people coming together in an extreme environment and having a participatory creative experience. It is fully dependent on volunteerism and is only possible because of the Black Rock City citizens who give their time and creativity for the benefit of the whole.
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