APPLAUDING OUTSTANDING CV STUDENTS
‘Student-Citizen of the Year’ Awards Event is Tomorrow
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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024
YEAR 36
NO. 16
NEXT FRIDAY
INSIDE YOUR
‘Spring for Education’ Fundraiser
FORUM
Olympiad Results
By Michael Singer
CV students compete in NorCal State Science Olympiad tournament
CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
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Free Program
Jenny Lin Foundation announces return of summer music program
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Old Castro Valley Library, one of three local sites recently recognized with landmark status.
Local Sites Recognized With Landmark Status By Michael Singer
CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
Senior Q&A
Two important probate rights that all seniors should be aware of
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INDEX Calendar ................ 4 Classified Ads ........ 8 Crosswords ............. 9 Homes ..................... 6 Obituaries ............. 11 Opinions ............... 11 Our Town ................. 3 Seniors ................. 10 Sports .................. 12 Weather ................ 2 WWW.MYCVFORUM.COM
Three sites in Castro Valley and one in San Lorenzo will now be recognized with historical and landmark status following a unanimous decision by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors at its April 11 meeting. The old Castro Valley Library, Whitecotton Cottage, and the San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery were given landmark status. The Lake Chabot Nike Missile
Base (Site SF-31C) atop Fairmont Ridge was named a historical district as part of the informal ordinance. Alameda County owns each of the properties. None are actively being used and all have suffered from years of neglect. The designation allows the county to preserve these sites and prevent them from being privately developed. However, the budget to restore these sites has not yet been determined. see SITES on page 11
After two years of focusing on student health and wellness, the Castro Valley Education Foundation (CVEF) is now setting its sights on raising funds to improve arts programs across all Castro Valley schools. The Foundation is holding its annual “Spring for Education” next Friday, April 26, starting at 6 p.m., at the Adobe Art Center. Tickets for the dinner are $65 apiece and are tax-deductible, along with donations for the silent and live auctions. Auction items include performing arts tickets to venues like the San Francisco Symphony, locally performed Broadway shows, and Castro Valley Center for the Arts. Local sporting event tickets, paraphernalia, vacations, getaways, and school-sponsored art-themed baskets are available. New this year are auctioned works by local artists, student art from across the Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), and AP Art Students. Returning this year will be “Dollars for Desserts,” a bidding game that brought in $500 for a single cake last year. “Do you know how many paint brushes you can buy with $500?” laughs see SPRING on page 2
CV Sports Foundation to Honor Local Legends By Lowell Hickey
SPECIAL TO THE FORUM
If you don’t already have tickets for Sunday’s Castro Valley Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies, you’re out of luck. The event is a complete sellout. Two teams and 14 individuals will be honored at the seventh biennial Hall of Fame
banquet at Redwood Canyon Golf Course. The first Hall of Fame class was inducted in 2010. The Castro Valley Sports Foundation, the non-profit group that operates the Hall of Fame, decided to honor two teams for the first time this year. In the past, only individuals with a sports connection were inducted. The initial
teams are the 1958 Castro Valley High boys’ wrestling team, which captured the local high school’s first North Coast Section championship, and CVHS’s 1994 NCS champion girls’ volleyball team. The 14 individuals in this year’s class include two baseball pitchers, a baseball coach, two soccer stars, a track champion, a volleyball standout, a
wrestler, a basketball coach, a thoroughbred horse trainer, a sports television commentator, two legendary equipment managers and a world-record holding pizza tosser. Pitchers Alex Williams and A.J. Vanegas both had stellar careers at Redwood Christian High and Stanford. Williams is still pitching in the Miami Marlins’ organization. Will
Tavis, a standout baseball and basketball player at CVHS, became a successful baseball coach at Chabot College. After brilliant careers on the soccer field at Castro Valley, Ali Sill and Jen LaPonte continued to excel in college and, in LaPonte’s case, in the professional National Women’s Soccer League. Kennedy Jones see FAME on back page