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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2024
YEAR 36
NO. 24
MAC MEETING
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ACFD to Use Vacant Property
Safe and Sane
Law and fire officials provide reminders, guidelines for July 4
By Amy Sylvestri
CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
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Love CV Day
CV community comes together for a day of service, camaraderie
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PHOTO COURTESY OF PATTI’S SWIM SCHOOL
KEEPING COOL: Students at Patti’s Swim School are learning how to swim and have safe fun in the pool. Temperatures are expected to slightly dip into the 70s today and tomorrow.
The Alameda County Fire Department has been given the green light by the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) to use a vacant civic property as a temporary station on the east end of Castro Valley Boulevard. The fire department wants to use the former Castro Valley Sanitary District property at 21022 Marshall Street as the temporary location of Station 25 while the current station is razed and rebuilt as part of Measure X upgrades. Measure X is a 2020 $90 million, 30-year general obligation bond for repairing and replacing out-of-date fire stations and see MAC on page 11
Remembering Willie Mays Groups Ask for Congratulations Rotary Club awards scholarships to four CVHS graduates
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Unincorporated Areas ‘Office’
Oakland Athletics and the New and Giants’ fans, Mays found York Mets. a fastball to his liking and In the 12th inning, with two bounced it up the middle for a Sports fans from around the outs, Mays singled to give the hit to score (Hayward’s Buddy) Mets a 7–6 lead. Mays’s at-bat Harrelson and put New York world came out to celebrate ahead, 7-6.” helped New York win Game legendary baseball player Willie Mays, who passed away 2 and even the series to one Former Castro Valley resigame each. (The ‘73 A’s won dent Jim Byers said his Willie last Tuesday (June 18) at the the Series in seven games.) age of 93. Mays moment was meeting his By Mike McGuire Mays had only two singles in hero during an autograph signAnd while the “Say Hey CASTRO VALLEY FORUM seven at-bats during the Series ing at a supermarket opening Kid” was born in Westfield, Unsatisfied with the Alabama, and spent the middle and did not perform well in the on Center Street near Grove part of his career with the San outfield; Hickey said when he Way in the early 1960s. structure of local Municipal wrote for The Daily Review Francisco Giants, Mays had “He was so nice, and I just Advisory Councils (MACs), many fans in Castro Valley and that year. a collection of community stood there dumbfounded,” the East Bay who had persongroups and individuals in Byers told the Forum. “He “There was even some al stories about #24, which the unincorporated areas are might have asked me what nostalgia intermingled in the they’ve been sharing. proposing a wider county position I played, but I don’t excitement, as 42-year-old Office of the Unincorporated recall.” Willie Mays, who will end Castro Valley Sports Communities to the Board of one of the greatest careers the Foundation member Lowell Byer, a travel writer and Supervisors. Hickey was there during Willie game has ever seen at the close consultant, said he came to Mays’s last hit and RBI when of this Series, delivered the In a letter to Nate Miley, the event in his very own SF he played his last game at the game-winning hit . . . To the Giants uniform and waited the District 4 Supervisor (who Oakland Coliseum in the 1973 mixed emotions of A’s fans patiently with his father, Robert represents the largest populaand the sheer delight of Mets’ World Series between the see MAYS on page 11 tion of unincorporated areas), By Michael Singer
CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
the other four Supervisors, and the county administrator, Susan Muranishi, the group argues that an Office would oversee and better represent the Ashland, Cherryland, San Lorenzo, Hayward Acres, Fairview, Castro Valley and Sunol areas. In addition to that new overseeing office, the groups want the county budget to clearly show what money is being spent on the unincorporated areas as a whole and by each county agency. see OFFICE on back page