Monday, July 30th
7:30-9:00pm
Live Oak Center
(that’s a 5th Monday, taking the place of our usual July and August 3rd Monday meetings)
Berkeley Kite Festival July 28 & 29
Go Fly A Kite!
Annual Berkeley Kite Festival
Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and July 29
Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley Marina
Mark your calendars! This is a really fun event for all ages!
www.highlinekites.com/Berkeley_Kite_Festival/
Sibley Volcanic Regional Park walk
Saturday, Jul 21 Sibley Volcanic Regional Park
Ron Sipherd 510 549-2908
Learn about this unusual part of the East Bay Regional Parks District on a 3-mile walk. From Berkeley, take Grizzly Peak Blvd. south until it ends at Skyline. Take Skyline south a short way to park entrance where we will meet. See www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley.htm
For a complete listing of BPWA’s Summer Saturday Walks visit: www.berkeleypaths.org/events/satwalks.htm
Workshops on the Strawberry Creek Plaza Proposal
Citizens for A Strawberry Creek Plaza and Ecocity Builders invite you to join us for a day of workshops on the Strawberry Creek Plaza proposal, July 13, in Berkeley.
Please RSVP to Elyce Judith at elyce AT singlesourcetelecom DOT com
A New Vision for Center Street Friday, July 13, at Berkeley City College Auditorium 9:00 -12:30 a.m. at Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street –
Morning workshop featuring A New Visions for Center Street with Citizens for a Strawberry Creek Plaza. Introductions and updates from Mayor Tom Bates, President of the Downtown Berkeley Association Mark McLeod, and representatives from Carpenter & Company. This will be followed by a presentation on San Luis Obispo’s very successful Mission Plaza project, including ideas for Berkeley, with current Mayor Dave Romero, Former Council Member and Mayor Ken Schwartz, SLO Chamber of Commerce representative Pierre Rademaker and City Administrative Officer Ken Hampian.
2:00 p.m. Meet at the Bank of America, corner of Center Street and Shattuck Avenue.
Guided Tour on the block of Center Street from Oxford to Shattuck and along Strawberry Creek on UCB campus by Citizens for a Strawberry Creek Plaza and Steve Maranzana, UC Berkeley
Office of Environment, Health & Safety.
3:00 p.m. At Alborz Restaurant, 2142 Center Street. Meeting focusing on economic revitalization and the Strawberry Creek Plaza Project, hosted by the Downtown Berkeley Association, featuring Michael Caplan, Acting Director of Economic Development for the City of Berkeley and Pierre Rademaker of Rademaker Design. Pierre is past president of both the SLO Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Association and chaired the design committee that developed the City’s Conceptual Physical Plan for the City Center.
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7:00 p.m. Evening event at the Gaia Building, 2116 Allston Way. Comments by Richard Register of Ecocity Builders and members of the SLO delegation, with time for audience discussion. How can cities be far healthier for both people and nature, now, and into the deep future?
Path Wanderers Work Party at Whitaker Path
Sunday, July 1, Berkeley Path Wanderers Association Work Party
Next Work Party
The next work party: Sunday, 1 July, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. — Whitaker Path.
We will continue building Whitaker Path on Sunday, July 1.
It’s always exciting to work on a new path and I hope you can show up and help. The materials for this path are paid for by a grant we received from the UC Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund. For more information on The UC Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund go to: http://communityrelations.berkeley.edu/ccpf.
DATE: Sunday July 1, 2007
TIME: 10am-12:30pm
PLACE: Whitaker Path
Top end: between 1138 & 1144 Sterling Ave, at the intersection with Whitaker Ave
Google Maps link
Directions: If you’re driving, head for Grizzly Peak Blvd and Stevenson Ave (Stevenson Ave is very near Muir Way). Turn down Stevenson Ave towards the bay, and at the end of Stevenson, turn right onto Miller Ave. Then take the first left, onto Whitaker Ave and continue downhill. The top of the path is beside the utility pole at the junction of Whitaker Ave and Sterling Ave.
We will have refreshments at the end, and will try to be quite prompt about the quitting time since there are many activities of all sorts happening in the afternoon.
Bring work gloves if you have them, and a mattock or sledge hammer if you have it, but I’ll have plenty of tools and extra gloves as well.
Phone me at 540-7223 if you have questions.
Charlie Bowen (Ms.)
BPWA Path-Building Leader
charlie_paths@comcast.net