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6 THE INDEPENDENT • THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013Two Featured at Poetry at Ravenswood EventPoetry at Ravenswoodwill feature Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Barbara Brauerfor a Sun., May 19 reading.The City of Livermoreand Poet Laureate Cher Wollardpresent the latest in acontinuing series. The eventwill be from 2 to 4 p.m. withfeatured readings at 2 p.m.An open mic fillows after ashort break.Barbara Swift Brauer isa poet, a freelance writerand an editor whose workhas appeared in such journalsas Nimrod, West MarinReview, The MacGuffin,Spillway, California Quar-terly, and Banabe MountainReview, as well as severalanthologies, including Besidethe Sleeping Maidenand The Place That InhabitsUs. With portrait artist JackieKirk, she is coauthor ofthe nonfiction book Witness:The Artist’s Vision in TheFace of AIDS (PomegranateArtbooks, 1996). Her fulllengthpoetry collection, AtEase in the Borrowed World,was published this year bySixteen Rivers Press. Shelives in San Geronimo.Susan Kelly-DeWitt isthe author of seven booksof poetry plus an illustratedPhoto - Doug JorgensenCottage Preschool hosted a Mothers Day Lunch formoms on May 9 and 10. The students performed a playfor their moms and held a fashion show. A poem wasread by 4-5 year olds. The children thanked their momsfor all their moms do for them.short story “The Audience.”Her work has been includedin numerous anthologies includingThe Autumn HouseAn-thology of ContemporaryAmerican Poetry andWhen She Named Fire: AnAnthology of Con-temporaryPoetry by AmericanWomen. Her poems have appearedin Prairie Schooner,New Letters, North AmericanReview and many otherliterary magazines. She hasbeen featured on Writer’sAlmanac and Verse Daily,and was the recipient of aWallace Stegner Fellowship,The Chicago Liter-Susan Kelly-DeWittary Award, the BazzanellaAward for Short Fiction anda number of Pushcart nominations.She is a member ofthe National Book CriticsCircle and the NorthernCalifornia Book ReviewersAssociation.Admission is $5. Lightrefreshments will be served.Ravenswood is locatd at2657 Arroyo Road in Livermore.For more information,check out www.livermorelit.com,or contact CherWollard at 925-824-4824 orcherw@cherw.comFunds Sought to Help Restore 'Eye of Diablo'Save Mount Diablo hasundertaken the restoration ofthe historic “Eye of Diablo,"the Beacon lit once a yearatop Mount Diablo by localPearl Harbor Survivors tohonor those who gave theirlives at Pearl Harbor onDecember 7, 1941.The group of volunteersis in need of $100,000 to payfor the necessary equipmentand services to restore theBeacon.The Mount Diablo Beaconis the only one thatsurvives.In 1928, a navigationbeacon was placed on theMt. Diablo summit.The Beacon was originallylit by aviator CharlesLindbergh in 1928.The Beacon was shut offLas Positas to PresentWorkshop for NonprofitsThe Las Positas CollegeCooperative Collection willhost a free workshop fornon-profit organizationsseeking funds from foundations,corporations, andgrant-making public charities.The workshop will beheld on Thursday, June13, 2013 from 1:30pm to3:00pm in Building 2400,Room 2414.The session will be ledby Scott Ullman of the SanFrancisco Foundation Center.Offering tips and suggestionson how best toidentify funding sources fornon-profit organizations,this workshop highlights theelectronic resources availablefor use at Las PositasCollege's Cooperative CollectionCenter.The workshop will includea hands-on demonstrationof the Foundation DirectoryOnline, the FoundationCenter's top-tier searchabledatabase providing informationon more than 91,000grant makers and more thana million grant records.Registration is requiredand available online at http://grantspace.org/Classroom/Training-Calendar/Other-Locations/Grantseeking-Ba-sics-2013-06-13-Livermore-CA. For more information,contact Vicki Shipman at(925) 424-1355 or vshipman@laspositascollege.edu.Barbara Brauerdue to the west coast blackoutthe day after the attackon Pearl Harbor in 1941. Itwas relit on December 7,1964 by Fleet Admiral ChesterNimitz to honor thosewho served at Pearl Harbor.It has been lit once a yearon December 7th since 1964by Pearl Harbor Survivors toremember those who gavetheir lives at Pearl Harbor.For information, send anemail to BAnderson@savemountdiablo.orgor go towww.savemountdiablo.orgWenteAnnouncesConcertLine-upThe line-up for the 27thseason of The Concerts atWente Vineyards open withMartina McBride on Wed.,June 26.Tickets go on sale May19.On Wed., July 10, Underthe Sun Tour 2013 will hitthe stage. The tour featuresSmash Mouth, Sugar Rayand Gin Blossoms with specialguests Vertical Horizonand Fastball.Huey Lewis and theNews bring the "Sports"30th Anniversary Tour toWente on Tues., July 16.Counting Crows and theWallflowers perform Wed.,July 17.An Evening with Chicagois set for Mon., Aug. 5.August 19 will featureChris Botti.REO Speedwagon concludesthe season on Thurs.,Sept. 12.Concerts are performedat Wente Vineyards, 5050Arroyo Road, Livermore.For ticket information,go to www.wentevineyards.comTVAR to Participate in PetAdoption DaysTri-Valley Animal Rescue will once again participate inthe fourth annual Maddie’s® Pet Adoption Days on June 1& 2, 2013. TVAR will be at two locations: Stoneridge Mallin Pleasanton and PetSmart in Dublin.More than 200 shelters and rescue groups from eight communitiesacross the nation will participate in the adoptionevent, which will place thousands of pets into their foreverhomes. Maddie's® Pet Adoption Days is America's biggestfree pet adoption event.TVAR is a volunteer-based non-profit organization whosemission is to end the unnecessary euthanasia of homelessanimals. Last year alone, TVAR helped over 1000 animalsget adopted into homes in the community.For more information please go to www.TVAR.org
THE INDEPENDENT • THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013 7"Gas" (colored pencil)and jersey by KarenBarry; "Rolling Along"(oil painting) by BetteGoosman.DisplayFocuses onBicyclesPhoto - Doug JorgensenTri-Valley Socks held the annual Bras for the Cause walk and fundraiser over theweekend. Walkers raise money in pledges to help end breast cancer through researchand education. The downtown Pleasanton event raised money for the UCSF HelenDiller Family Comprehensive Cancer Program’s Breast Oncology Program (BOP),Axis Community Health, ValleyCare Breast Cancer Services, and HERS BreastCancer Foundation.A display of art, photographsand poetry about bicyclesand bicycling will beon display May 11 throughJune 30 at Prudential CaliforniaRealty, 1780 FirstStreet, Livermore, in theVine Cinema Plaza.The show, titled “EverythingBicycles,” wasorganized by Poet LaureateCher Wollard to celebrateLivermore’s role in the 2013Amgen Tour of California.A variety of paintings,colored-pencil drawingsand original shirt designs,as well as photographs andpoems by local artists andwriters, many depicting pastTour of California races, areincluded in the exhibition.The public is welcome toview the show during regularbusiness hours, Mondaythrough Friday, 9 a.m. to 5p.m., or by appointment withWollard, 925 824-4824 orcherw@cherw.com.East Bay Regional Park District and Local Officials Dig the Dirt May 1An extension of the IronHorse Trail in Pleasanton tolink the Dublin/PleasantonBART station with manylocal destinations was officiallystarted at a ceremonyheld May 1 on the KaiserPermanente campus in HaciendaBusiness Park.Pictured near Iron HorseRegional Trail are (fromleft): Beverly Lane, EBRPDBoard Member; Ayn Wieskamp,EBRPD BoardMember; Jack Bastida, Officeof Senator Ellen Corbett;Kristopher Kokotaylo,Office of Alameda CountySupervisor Nate Miley;Robert E. Doyle, EBRPDGeneral Manager; JerryThorne, Pleasanton MayorJohn McPartland, BARTDirector; Dawn P. Argula,Chief of Staff, Office ofAlameda County SupervisorScott Haggerty; Dick Quigley,Zone 7 Water AgencyBoard Member; ChristyStanker, Office of AssemblymemberJoan Buchanan;Josh Huber, Office of CongressmanEric Swalwell;Satinder S. Malhi, Office ofSenator Mark DeSaulnier;Don Biddle, Dublin ViceMayor; Karla Brown, PleasantonCouncilmember.“This 1.5 mile trail segmentis of extraordinaryvalue to the business communityand major employerslike Kaiser Permanenteand the other 4,000 workerslocated at Hacienda BusinessPark, said East Bayregional Park District DirectorAyn Wieskamp. “It isa significant investment inthe green transportation ofour community. And it is anexcellent example of localpublic agencies workingcollaboratively towards acommon goal.”The paved pedestrianand bicycle trail link providesa safe, non-motorizedroute for adults and kidsto travel between schools,homes, work and shopping.It is located primarilywithin the former SouthernPacific (SP) Railroad rightof-wayestablished in 1891and abandoned in 1977. In1998 a license agreementwas entered into by and betweenEBRPD and AlamedaCounty for the purpose ofconstructing a trail withinthis right-of-way.When completed, thetrail will offer a continuousmulti-use pathway extendingfrom Martinez on theCarquinez Strait to the SanJoaquin County line nearthe Altamont Pass. Thistrail is the second EBRPDproject funded by a $10MU.S. Department of TransportationTIGER II grant,hard-won with the supportof East Bay congressionalrepresentatives.
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