CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2022
YEAR 34
NO. 34
Rock & Roll for The Return of the CV Fall Festival
INSIDE YOUR
FORUM NEWS
By Mike McGuire CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
Goodie Bag Lady Local woman hands out goodie bags to those in need
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Don’t Stress Facts about stress and things you can do to help your reaction to it
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The Draft Concept Plan features multiple loop trails, with active attractions such as nature play areas, a dog park, a pump track, and workout stations.
NEWS
Share Your Voice Environmental justice community meeting via zoom tomorrow night
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INDEX Calendar .................. 10 Classified Ads ............ 8 Crosswords ............... 9 Health & Fitness ......... 4 Homes ........................ 6 Obituaries ................ 11 Opinions .................. 11 Our Town .................... 3 Sheriff’s Reports ........ 3 Weather ....................... 2 WWW.MYCVFORUM.COM
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By Michael Singer CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
After several meetings to discuss what to include in a new park in Castro Valley, residents have one more chance to discuss which features should take priority and add their comments through an online survey until September 19. Valley View will be a brand-new park for the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District (H.A.R.D.). The 24-acre open space on a hilltop on the west end of Castro Valley features noteworthy topography and sweeping views. It is located at Sydney Way between Stanton and Carlton Avenues. H.A.R.D. purchased the undeveloped site from the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) in 2014 to build a new park. The Master Planning stage of the project is currently underway. Over the last six months, H.A.R.D. has heard from the community through a series of in-person and see PARK on page 5
Castro Valley is indeed rocking as Fall Festival approaches, though not in the way music fans might expect. Rockhounds, though, are delighted. And there is rock-and-roll on the menu, with the rocks around town paired with the rolls coming from the new sushi restaurant Akemi in the Castro Valley Marketplace. A group called “Castro Valley Rocks” has paired discovering brightly painted rocks hidden around town, a pastime that became popular during the pandemic, with the reward of sushi rolls from Akemi in a weekly drawing.
The rocks were the brainchild of Castro Valley’s Kathi Finley some seven years ago when she and her family started leaving painted rocks around and encouraging friends and neighbors to post them on Facebook when they were found. At first, just a few people were involved. see ROCKS on page 4
College-Readiness Program, AVID, Expanding in CV Now after graduating from Castro Valley High School in CASTRO VALLEY FORUM 2019, she’s preparing to graduCastro Valley native Filson ate from UC Berkeley debt free with an internship program in Fugfugosh says she liked school and got good grades in Washington DC this month her classes but said she did not and aspirations to go into a law consider going to college until career. “Despite having to get up her mother forced her into a early for school, I ended up zero-period class at Canyon loving AVID,” Fugfugosh said. Middle School known as AVID, an in-school academic “I made great friends in the class, and I learned how to take support program for grades control of my own education. seven through twelve. “I wasn’t terrible at school. We also toured campuses around the Bay Area. Being I had a 3.0 GPA, but AVID able to walk the campuses and pushed me to think that not talk with students propelled me only college was meant for me, but I could accomplish it,” to succeed in college.” see AVID on page 2 Fugfugosh told the Forum. By Michael Singer
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