CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2024
YEAR 36
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CV’s Music Man Honored in DC Call for UCBPAC
By Mike McGuire
CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
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New Law
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Mission Trip
Redwood Christian High School’s mission to Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Castro Valley School of Music owner and audio producer Shane Sharkey got a welcome blast from the past last week when some of his earliest work was exhibited at the Library of Congress. By Michael Singer The Library, home to some CASTRO VALLEY FORUM of America’s cultural treasIf Alameda County expects ures, on Thursday, June 27, to take climate change serioushonored Shane and others ly, it must talk less and do more who had created the House of to develop a safe, connected, Blues Radio Hour from 1993 and continuous bicycle and to 2010. Hosted by actor Dan pedestrian network, bike advoAkroyd in his film persona cates said last week. as Elwood Blues from “The Blues Brothers,” the show At the Unincorporated featured live performances Alameda County Bicycle and and interviews from more than Pedestrian Advisory Com1,000 blues musicians. mittee (UCBPAC) meeting PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE SHARKEY FAMILY on June 27, county planning With some of those musicians now passed away, Castro Valley’s Shane Sharkey and his children visited Washington, D.C. for the department representatives presented the Community Clithe House of Blues archives first time last week, but the occasion was the Library of Congress honoring the music school owner. From left are, Olivia, Shane, Grady and Madison. mate Action Plan (CCAP) and preserve the oral histories of Safety Element Update. many of those who created and continued a uniquely American The 149-page report outlines Among those he interviewed “It’s amazing it’s being The Library of Congress musical form. ideas for getting people out of were pianist Mose Allison, preserved,” Sharkey told the will digitize the interviews their cars, encouraging mass Forum. “Some of the most and performances and make Sharkey conducted many of John Lee Hooker, BB King, transit, biking, and walking, those interviews in his first job Bobby “Blue” Bland, and, for important people in American them available to anyone via music are in there. Their con- the Internet. While the work is reducing greenhouse gas out of college at San Francisco good measure, two members of the progressive rock band tributions were enormous in ongoing, readers can follow its emissions, and improving State and helped produce the sustainability. show as well as choosing some Phish, known for their extend- inspiring other people to create progress on the library’s see UCBPAC on page 4 ed music jams. music.” see DC on page 4 of the performers.
Odor Permeates Public Market Neighborhood rebuild, though no timeline has recently suffered from a fire, been announced. but the smell has been like that Even after the clean-up work for the past few weeks now,” The fire is out. The cleanup and the removal of the source Pespitro told the Forum on of the fire and affected objects, June 18. In addition to writing has begun. But neighbors are noticing a rotting smell coming there is often a smell of burn- letters to the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (CV from the Lake Chabot Public ing in the air. The smell may MAC) and a few other poliMarket since it burned out in a come from burnt furniture, textiles, and even walls, floors, ticians, he added that he filed fire at the end of May. a complaint with Alameda On May 30, 2024, a devas- and ceilings. tating three-alarm fire engulfed However, while debris is be- County Health (ACHEALTH). the Lake Chabot Public ing cleared from the wreckage, In an email from ACHEMarket, collapsing the roof and neighbors like Kalvin Pespitro ALTH obtained by the Forum, destroying six businesses. Hans say the smell coming from the the county’s Environmental PHOTO BY MICHAEL SINGER Cho, owner of Mama Cho’s debris smelled like “something Health Department team noted BBQ and whose family owns was decomposing” and was that the business “has been Neighbors are noticing a rotting smell coming from the Public Market, confirmed becoming “unbearable.” directed to apply for a permit the Lake Chabot Public Market since it burned out in in June that there is a plan to see ODOR on page 3 a fire at the end of May. “I know that the building By Corinne Davidson
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