A message from Mary Jo Sutton:The California native plant beds in Splash Pad Park are maintained solely by volunteers. If you are interested in learning about native plants and have a little time to spare, please join us on the 4th Sunday of every month. We work from 9 am – 12 pm but some […]
2020 December
Rotary Oakland: Three December Speakers & Lots of Giving
by Isaac Kos-Read – This month the Rotary Club of Oakland has an interesting line-up for its weekly Civic Thursday gatherings, which of course remain virtual. You can connect via Zoom as a Rotary guest or watch and engage live on Facebook every Thursday 12:30-1:30pm. This week they’re welcoming Nikki Shaw, an executive chef working with […]
Odds and Ends
For the July 2017 Splash Pad News, Margo Rosenbaum, then a student at Piedmont High, penned this wonderful article about Colonial Donuts. It was so well written, we could have predicted that a great career would follow. Sure enough, she’s now Managing Editor of The Aggie at UC Davis. Here’s a sample of her recent […]