School news
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Measure H kicks off!
a quick note to say I was at the Measure H kickoff this morning and everyone there seemed excited and passionate about the parcel tax to save programs in our schools. Below are some pix (these will be in the Sun Thursday, at least some of them). So this is what community activism looks like. Take a bunch of super-committed parents, teachers and residents who care more about the Island and kids and schools than they do their own hides and bam, baby: you’ve got game! Big stuff happening in the coming week: Tuesday is the big day, so watch for it on TV (the only reason I’d ever recommend…
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time out, time off, tune in again…
Hi again. Sorry about that. It’s been busy. I know I always say that, but it has. Why, just this week we’ve had crazybusy antics with the school budget and student protest walkouts (see http://www.alamedasun.com/ for the scoop), and Tuesday’s school board meeting when budget cuts were decided went until about 1:30 a.m. I was there. Ack. And: this coming weekend is LunaFest, an awesome women’s film festival that is a fundraiser for breast cancer research via Luna Bar (yum), as well as the Family of Women (my women’s group) and it’s also Junior Prom Night for Alameda High, and two of our girls are going (ka-ching! hair, nails, flowers,…
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zzz
Long weekend of no kids, household chores, fighting off an infection and more. I’m way behind in my NaNo but the bones are there. I thought today would be the day to catch up. Guess I was wrong. Off to bed now. But first… Happy 17th Birthday to my sweet Simone! (@right) Friday night was Homecoming at Encinal and also the Island Bowl, the cross-town rivalry game (EHS beat AHS). The seniors from the football team and cheer squad were honored, so we got to walk Simone across the field with a bouquet of flowers to celebrate her moving on from senior class to The Big World. It was a…
