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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023
YEAR 35
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information about getting assistance were given at a community meeting called As of February 10, residents by Swalwell at the Shannon and businesses who suffered Community Center in Dublin damages from the recent last Thursday, February 9. storms have the choice of two Relief centers have been Disaster Relief Centers to visit opened at 7001 Oakport Street in the county, where federal, in Oakland, near the Coliseum, state, and local agencies will and at 4825 Gleason Drive, off have representatives on hand to Tassajara Road in Dublin, at help with paperwork. the county Public Works office. But they’ll only be open Information is available on for a few weeks, until about all aspects of recovering from February 24, so visit soon if the storms, including eligibility you need assistance. That’s for grants and loans to repair according to Mallory De damage and social service Lauro, district chief of staff to assistance if the storm affected Congressman Eric Swalwell, such basic needs as housing. who represents Castro Valley Officials from federal as part of the 14th District. agencies such as the Federal The deadline for FEMA Emergency Management Adassistance is March 16, though ministration (FEMA) and the one can add required addition- Small Business Administration al information after one has (SBA) will be there, along with applied on time, De Lauro said. state disaster-relief agencies The locations and other see RELIEF on back page By Mike McGuire
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More Than Art Public art Japanese American memorial dedication in Hayward
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Senior Q&A What happens if a will is lost around the time of someone’s death?
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PHOTO BY LINDA SANDSMARK
MEAT AND GREET: Castro Valley resident Kevin Fosdick, “pitmaster” Chris Jackson, and Bon Ramos (left to right) serve up smoked ribs and chicken at the Sacred Pig BBQ on weekends in the Fairview neighborhood.
Sacred Pig: From Riding Hogs to BBQ-ing Them Valle Dies Alameda County Supervisor Richard Valle dies at 73
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What started out as a friendship based on motorcycles for one Castro Valley resident has evolved into a mobile barbecue and catering career. Kevin Fosdick of Castro Valley met Chris Jackson some 15 years ago when they were riding Harley Davidson cycles. Now Fosdick helps Jackson with his popular “Sacred Pig BBQ” business, which caters for events, and is planning a restaurant in the Fairview area. “We met riding bikes, and now we’re barbecuers,” says Fosdick. Jackson has had quite a career change in the last several years. Working in pharmacy at UC San Francisco Oncology department since 2005, he says, “Pharmacy burned me out. I was working 70 hours a week making see PIG on page 10
Catering menu features ribs, chicken, beef hot links, tri-tip, brisket, and side dishes including ‘Mom’s Potato Salad’.
‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’
Rain Delays Won’t Stop This Musical It’s been a long, tough road Not only that, but the fallen for Chanticleers Theatre’s tree had uprooted another tree production of the popular mu- that now teetered dangerously sical “Little Shop of Horrors,” over the theater. The park which plays through March 5 was immediately closed by at the Castro Valley Communi- the Hayward Area Recreation ty Center Park. Department (H.A.R.D.), and Initially scheduled for fall everyone was advised not to 2022, the show had been go into the 99-seat theater moved to February, causing until the tree was cut down. its own issues. But by January, Only then could power and the cast and crew, under the phone lines be restored, and guidance of director Sue Ellen only then could rehearsals start Nelsen, were back at it, ready again at the nonprofit commuto come to their Wednesday nity theater organization with rehearsal one month before a rich history dating back to opening. That’s when they got 1948. the news. A tree had fallen next With only a month away, the to the theater and knocked out cast and crew worked together the power and the phone lines. see MUSICAL on page 4