Splashpad Newsletter
Splash Pad Calendar – July 2022
Splash Pad Calendar by Sheila McCormick July 1, Friday, 7-8pm *ZOOM* Rotary Nature Center Friends. Lakeside Chat #20 – Neighborhood Snakes: Meet Your Neighbors! Our featured guest will be environmental educator Audra Barrios of Things That Creep. Register here. July 4, Monday, 1-3pm *In Person* Oakland Municipal Band. A Selection of Patriotic Music. Location: Lakeside […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – July 2022
by Ken Katz In the face of a pandemic that’s dragged on for more than two years, it would have been reasonable to expect us seeing boarded-up shops throughout the Grand Lake District. To the contrary, over the past couple of months, we’ve reported on at least half a dozen newly opened businesses on Grand. […]
AIM’S Racial Equity Fund Newsletter
by Andy Naja-Riese I want to share good news with you: AIM has selected the Racial Equity Fund award recipients! We are so excited to share the names of the seven Racial Equity Fund recipients chosen for our Spring 2022 Cohort, out of many outstanding applications: Chestnut Street Granola Dragonspunk GRO Mac’d With Love Pound Bizness Raised […]
Farmers Market Update – July 2022
by Dan Foster Another Grand Lake Market participant, Starter Bakery, is transitioning to a brick and mortar location, this time in the Rockridge District as reported in The Oaklandside. New Grand Lake Farmers Market Interactive Map available on AIM’s website: To access the map, click on this link and then scroll down until you find […]
Splash Pad News – June 2022
Grand Avenue Merchant News – June 2022
by Ken Katz In the April edition of the Merchant News, we mentioned that when the office building at 3645 Grand was sold, everyone was advised that it would be repurposed for residential housing but that’s not what eventually happened. A couple of weeks ago, at an Open House for prospective tenants we found out […]
Farmers Market Update – June 2022
by Dan Foster Our Grand Lake Farmers Market webpage has just been significantly updated. As you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you’ll find an interactive map on which you can: Change the date to view the vendors expected to attend on that given date (or who attended on a past date) – […]
Splash Pad Calendar – June 2022
Splash Pad Calendar by Sheila McCormick June 2, Thursday, 7pm *ZOOM* Golden Gate Audubon Society: The Awe of Birdwatching African-American ornithologist John C. Robinson uses his own experiences to explain the multiple ways that inner city and minority youth and young adults can become motivated to discover and appreciate nature through bird-watching. He will discuss […]