CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
YEAR 35
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2023
NO. 1 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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New Year, New Offices, and New Opportunities
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Happy New Year With goals, it’s not about what you know, it’s about what you do
By Michael Singer CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
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PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN CARBONE
Sounds in Nature Explore the beautiful sounds made by wildlife in Coyote Hills Park
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Storms Destroy Roads And Force Evacuations Castro Valley rang in the new year with a Stage 2 Flood Alert and 7.66 inches of rain, more than anywhere else in the East Bay. The water runoff from the hills and streams destroyed parts of roads and flooded residential areas along the creeks. SEE STORMS ON BACK PAGE
Senior Q&A Does financial Power of Attorney end upon the death of principal?
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New Year, New State Laws
Last week, the Castro Valley/Eden Area Chamber of Commerce revealed it would hold a ribbon cutting at its new office in Ashland on January 12. It’s the latest in a string of announcements that the Chamber has made in the last few months, its leaders say, to better serve the western parts of unincorporated Alameda County. “It’s an exciting time for us,” said incoming Chamber Board President Todd Anglin. “With these new resources that arrived in the last few months, we can build on the Chamber’s solid base of service to our community.”
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The Chamber represents all the unincorporated areas of Alameda County, including Ashland, Cherryland, San Lorenzo, Hayward Acres, Fairview, and Castro Valley. The organization revived the Fall see CHAMBER on page 10
Suspects, Motive Sought in Murder
Detectives and crime lab personnel spent many The pay range for a posted or early February. April 24 hours at the scene collecting By Michael Singer job will have to be listed under marks Armenian Genocide Twenty-year-old Kyre evidence, including several CASTRO VALLEY FORUM a new law affecting employers Remembrance Day, honoring Thomas was shot multiple dozen expended shell casings, California passed almost of 15 or more before someone the millions killed during times while he was sitting in according to Alameda County a thousand new laws that are applies for the job, rather than World War I in Turkey by the his car near the intersection of Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) expected to take effect in 2023. applicants Ottoman Empire. Knox and North Sixth Street spokesperson Lt. Ray Kelly. Many of these laws began on often finding One COVID-linked conand police are asking for the “It appears the victim was !"#$ January 1, while others will venience for senior citizens is out what the public’s help to solve the the intended target of the %&' come into force later in the being eliminated. Drivers over pay was likely murder. shooting,” he said. Several ()(* year. 70, who could renew driver’s to be late in the Sheriff’s deputies respond- other cars in the area were People working at minimum hiring process. licenses by mail or online dur- ed to reports of gunfire last damaged by the gunfire, acwage will get a pay increase to California is also declaring ing the pandemic, will return Monday, December 26, around cording to reports. $15.50 an hour, and the mini- three new holidays startto having to do so at Depart10:15 p.m. They found ThomThomas’ grandmother, mum wage will rise as inflation ing in 2023. Juneteenth, on ment of Motor Vehicle offices, as suffering from multiple Bonita Thomas, said she was does. This is all due to Senate June 19, celebrates the end effective January 1. gunshot wounds. emergency grief-stricken at the news and Bill 3, passed in 2016, but the of slavery. Lunar New Year Veterans who qualify for medical personnel attempted to told local television reporters minimum wage got a boost special DMV plates for a adds a celebration from the save Thomas with life-saving that Kyre’s tragedy is that his from last year’s unusually high lunar calendars used in many service-related disability, measures, but he was prolife was just starting. inflation. see LAWS on page 4 nounced dead at the scene. Asian nations, in late January see MURDER on page 3 By Michael Singer
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