Last month, I wrote about Splash Pad Park with an eye to its 20th anniversary in October 2023. This month’s follow-up discussion focuses on the past, present, and future of the SplashPad.org website and its namesake publication, The Splash Pad News. Each originated in late 1999 when the newly created Splash Pad Neighborhood Forum began […]
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Splash Pad: Past, Present, Future
Splash Pad Park will reach a milestone — it’s 20-year Anniversary in October 2023 — and I’m hoping we can celebrate with events honoring designer Walter Hood and all the folks who helped get the park built, as well as those who have done their very best to maintain, promote, and otherwise support it ever […]
Calendar – August 2021
Calendar – August 2021 by Sheila McCormick August 4, 6pm Oakland Public Library: Birds of Lake Merritt book launch event with author-illustrator Alex Harris This charming full-color field guide introduces us to fifteen waterbirds easily found in the urban wildlife refuge of Lake Merritt in Oakland. In his introduction, author-illustrator Alex Harris includes a history […]
Alyce on Grand – Preview
by Ken Katz As we reported last month, Alyce on Grand owner Alyce Preston was about to move (for about the fourth time) to a new location. This one two doors up the block at 3231 Grand—the former home of Oak Common. When interviewed on Friday (three weeks after reopening) Alyce confided that this may […]
Our Immigration Stories
The immigrant bashing this nation endured for the past five years is especially problematic and counter-productive given the fact that the United States is and has always been a nation of immigrants who are and have always been an essential key to our economic well-being. As our way of countering these attacks while simultaneously helping […]
2006 Chalk Talks Article
Chalk Talks Festival The Splash Pad Neighborhood Forum sponsored a CHALK TALKS Festival on September 16, 2000 at a time when many people were questioning the wisdom of spending substantial sums of money on a project so close to the freeway — arguing that the traffic noise rendered the space unuseable. The festival proved otherwise […]
Rotary Nature Center Friends Lakeside Chats
ROTARY NATURE CENTER FRIENDS LAKESIDE CHATS by David Wofford Our next Lakeside Chat with Hilary Powers of the Golden Gate Audubon Society will be on Friday March 5th, 7:00pm-8:00pm. Join us as Hilary takes us to some of her favorite birding spots at Lake Merritt. She will share her perspectives on the species and ecological […]
Splash Pad News – August 2019
All the News That Fits GRAND AVENUE Boot and Shoe was the subject of a major article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Janelle Bitker on July 10. While the headline was about owners Jen Cremer and Richard Clark changing the restaurant name to “Sister” (following the example of Rico Rivera who renamed Penrose, Almond & Oak), […]
Splash Pad News – June 2019
All the News That Fits GRAND AVENUE Grand Avenue businesses fared quite well in Oakland Magazine‘s annual Best Of the East Bay competition, walking away with nine awards, including two for restaurants on the Adams Point side of the freeway and also counting Zachary’s Pizza, which hasn’t yet opened in the vacant Camino space. Congratulations […]
Splash Pad News – February 2009
Please note that this archived edition of the Splash Pad News was retrieved from back-up files. Links that no longer work have been deactivated. This Apology is Followed by a Pregnant Pause Remember me! I’m the guy who used to put out this newsletter once a month on a fairly regular basis. In case you […]