Singing For Your Life, December 30, Noon – Midnight

This is the culmination of Arts First Oakland’s circle singing. Sing & meditate, gather & reflect, become inspired by the spirit of peace in music and transformation. at First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison Street (at 27th), Oakland.

Suggested Donation $10 and up, sliding scale, no-one turned away for lack of funds.

Telephone 510-444-8511 x15

January 9, Regular APAC Meeting

The Adams Point Action Committee is holding its regular meeting at 7 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Building on Grand Avenue at Harrison Street.

Among other things, we’ll be talking about crime and some recent thuggery at Whole Foods.

$187,000 Caltrans grant for HarriOak

This is somewhat belated (but still wonderful) news about a Caltrans grant HarriOak won in October. The money will be used to help city planners figure out how to re-engineer dangerous areas of Oakland Ave and Harrison Street. Planners will be focusing on slowing down traffic and making the area more inviting to bicyclists, pedestrians and public transit
commuters.

The grant is part of $8.3 million that was given to 49 local governments, community groups and native American tribes in California. A big thanks to the City Planning Department and to Wlad Wlassowsky, the transportation services director, who helped make this happen.

We’ll be posting further details about the grant and how you can participate to make sure it leads to real change.

Neighborhood Food Drive Redux

A big thanks to everyone who helped with the Thanksgiving food drive. Belinda Gilchrist-Day, the founder of Project Darries and the force behind the food drive, said that 38 bags of food and 50 turkeys were given away to people in our neighborhood who needed a helping hand.