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DONATIONS FOR WILDFIRE RELIEF

Below is a message from retired ECDC president, Al Miller:

Hello Everybody;

I want to be sure you all are aware of a local food drive to help the people struggling to recover from the catastrophic wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties.

The Wildcat 4-H Club, of Fairmont Elementary School, is collecting items to take to the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa to supply evacuation centers throughout the affected area. They are in dire need of ready-to-eat, non-perishable foods such as snacks, fresh fruit, various nutritional bars, bottled water or other healthy drinks. These should be easy to open and easy to eat – many shelters do not have kitchens for heating and preparing food. Try to think what you would like to have, and donate some of that.

They have placed a donation box at Well Grounded Tea & Coffee Bar, 6925 Stockton Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530, (510) 528-4709, (Open 06:00 am ~ 06:00 pm). NO GLASS containers or perishable foods, please.

The first delivery will be Friday, October 13, with additional deliveries each week.

If we all give a little, we should end up with a lot.

Thanks for your help.

Al Miller

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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR YVONNE STEFFEN,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Yvonne Steffen’s daughter Diane has forwarded the information for the memorial service for Yvonne:

Place: Fireside Room
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
1 Lawson Road
Kensington, CA
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Time: 1:30 – 4:00

ECDC members are cordially invited. Those needing further information are welcome to email Diane at dsteffen26@gmail.com. And, Diane, thank you for inviting us!

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CENTENNIAL PARADE, SEPTEMBER 16 –
DIRECTIONS FOR WALKERS

The El Cerrito Centennial Showcase Parade will be held on Saturday, September 16. If you are walking with the ECDC, plan on arriving no later than 8:45 a.m. The staging area is the north section of the Safeway parking lot at 11450 San Pablo Avenue, corner of Hill Street.

If you drive to the staging area, plan on leaving your vehicle in the BART del Norte parking lot, not the Safeway parking lot.

The parade will proceed up Hill Street and turn right on Elm Street, which becomes Richmond Street. It will then turn left on Moeser Lane and end at Cerrito Vista Park. The entire parade route is 1.7 miles long and the organizers are hoping to keep a pace of five miles per hour.