2024 PRIMARY ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE MARCH 5
THE VOTING ISSUE
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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New District 9
Tim Grayson, Marisol Rubio vie to represent new District 9
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Meet the Artists Not to be missed art reception at CV Arts Center this Saturday
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Hike for Hope
Hope Hospice opens registration for 2024 fundraiser hike
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MARCH 5 PRIMARY
Considering Supervisors, Propostions By Michael Singer
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Next Tuesday, registered voters in Alameda County will weigh in on a number of issues in the non-partisan primary election, including possible changes to the Board of Supervisors, support for mental health and substance abuse treatment, and how recall elections are held. California’s Primary is on March 5. It’s an open primary, which means voters are not limited to only choosing their party when considering a candidate for a position. If no single candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the two candidates with the most votes will return for the November 5 election.
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NO. 9
FIRE DEPT. UPGRADE PLAN
Measure X Reviewed by MAC Board By Amy Sylvestri
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At last week’s Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) meeting, the council heard an update from the Alameda County Fire Department on the spending from Measure X. They also heard from County staff about the Community Climate Action Plan. Measure X is a 2020 $90 million, 30-year general obligation bond for repairing and replacing out-of-date fire stations and equipment. Assessed at 1.6 cents per $100,000 of assessed home value, it costs the average Alameda County homeowner about $142 a year. Eric Moore, ACFD Deputy Chief of Communication and Support, presented to the MAC about upgrades to Station 7 and Station 25 in Castro Valley. Station 7 is proposed to be completely rebuilt adjacent to the current facility on an empty plot of land at 6855 Villarreal Drive. The new building will be one story tall and act as a replacement for the existing facility, which was originally constructed in 1986. Station 25 is older; it was initially built in 1966 at 20336 San Miguel Avenue. Moore told the MAC that the old station doesn’t meet the ACFD’s see MAC on page 10
Lemmon’s Coaching Passion Led to Success including a 33-3 run to the Northern California finals in 2016. For that, he was selected to the 2024 class of the Castro The most successful Girls Valley Sports Hall of Fame. Basketball coach in Castro Valley High history had a wife Those closest to Lemmon who wasn’t an athlete and two insist that winning was only daughters who liked soccer part of the fun of coaching. and softball. “He coached because he Out of it, the late Jim Lem- loved to,” observed former Castro Valley athletic director mon didn’t just make lemonAndy Popper, who recruited ade. He made champagne. Lemmon died in 2020 at age Lemmon to coach at Monte 58, a victim of brain cancer, but Vista. (Lemmon died midway through his second year with not before leading the Castro Valley’s Girls Basketball pro- the Mustangs.) gram to a decade of success, “Other than spending time By Dave Del Grande
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with his family,” Popper participation in sports at least continued, “what brought him as much as his own coaching happiness was coaching. He success, according to his wife wasn’t ordinarily coaching his Carolyn. own kid. He wasn’t coaching Asked to identify what her club. He wasn’t coaching AAU. husband would claim as his He just wanted to be an old single-biggest career highlight, ball coach. I think that’s why Carolyn responded: “I’d say it people liked him and respected was a tie. In coaching, it was him and gravitated toward when they went to Sacramento him. He just did it for the love (for the NorCal finals). But I’d of doing it.” also say it was when (youngest daughter) Jessica got to go to A 28-year veteran of law the (NCAA) tournament (in enforcement who rose to the level of Lieutenant in the San softball) when she was at Saint Mary’s.” Leandro Police Department, Lemmon enjoyed his children’s see LEMMON on back page
Jim Lemmon