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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2023
YEAR 35
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Congratulations Congratulations Kiwanis Club awards CVHS graduate Emily Tran with scholarship
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Fourth of of July July Fourth
Independence Day is on Tuesday but the celebration comes early
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New President President New
Chabot College appoints Jamal Cooks, Ph.D, as new president
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INDEX INDEX Calendar ................ ................ 44 Calendar Classified Ads Ads ....... ....... 88 Classified Health& &Fitness Fitness...... ......12 12 Health Homes...................... 66 Homes...................... Horoscope ............. ............. 10 10 Horoscope Legal Notices Notices .......... .......... 99 Legal Our Town Town ................. ................. 33 Our Sheriff’s Report Report ....... ....... 33 Sheriff’s Sports .................. .................. 12 12 Sports Weather ................ ................ 22 Weather WWW.MYCVFORUM.COM WWW.MYCVFORUM.COM
RODRIGUES FARM
Urban Farm Camp
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County Seeks Public Input on Improving I-580
The agency is looking at the stretch of 580 from the Bay CASTRO VALLEY VALLEY FORUM FORUM CASTRO Bridge through the Altamont By Linda Sandsmark Pass, traveling through Castro If you travel on or near InCASTRO VALLEY VALLEY FORUM FORUM CASTRO terstate 580 and you’ve thought Valley as well as Oakland, San Leandro, Pleasanton, Dublin, it may not be the perfect way City kids can experience and Livermore. The study to get around, the Alamefarm life this summer at a looks at land a half-mile on da County Transportation unique camp close to home. either side of the freeway and Commission (CTC) wants to Rodrigues Farm offers weekly hear your ideas on how it could selected adjacent train stations. “Urban Farm Camp” sessions better meet your needs. for ages 6-12 through August Some things the agency 25. The camp features live Through June 30, they’ll is not looking at are letting chickens and ducks, hundreds accept the public’s ideas on an bicyclists ride on the interstate, of plants, farm activities, interactive website that looks at whether or not to lift the truck games, story times, and more. how the “I-580 Corridor” can ban on some of parts of 580, better move cars, mass transit, or the proposed Valley Link Lydia Rodrigues leads the train eastward from Livermore. bicycles, and pedestrians. camp at her sunny little farm The latter two have different That is “multimodal” in the on Montgomery Avenue in the terminology of transportation agencies studying them, said Cherryland neighborhood, beCTC Executive Director Tess planners. tween Grove Way and Blossom Lengyel. Way. That website is at https:// “The goal is that by the fehrandpeers.mysocialpinpoint. The corridor includes the com/i580tams/map#/. There end of the week, the kids will freeway along with the transit PHOTO BY BY LINDA LINDA SANDSMARK SANDSMARK are instructions for using PHOTO services serving the same understand how a regenerative Lydia Rodrigues Rodrigues of of Rodrigues Rodrigues Farm Farm is is hosting hosting an an the map contained within its farm works, that we’re all a travel pattern, bicycle and Lydia Urban Farm Farm Camp Camp this this summer summer for for kids kids ages ages 6-12. 6-12. webpage. see FARM on page 11 Urban see I-580 on page 10 By Mike McGuire
Unsafe Bicycles Take Over Roads, Freeway On Monday, June 19, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, SPECIAL TO TO THE THE FORUM FORUM SPECIAL the CHP responded to a call Summer is in full swing, and about a pack of bicyclists riding northbound on San the kids on school break are taking their bikes to the streets Miguel, north of Castro Valley to hang out with friends—but Boulevard. The group then are they doing so safely? Cal- rode onto Interstate 580 toward ifornia Highway Patrol (CHP) San Leandro. By the time the CHP arrived, the bicyclists had Hayward and many Castro already exited the freeway and Valley residents have seen entered the city. That’s where otherwise. the Alameda County Sheriff’s Recently, there have been Office (ACSO) took over. multiple sightings of a group of as many as 20 young Deputies say they were bicyclists recklessly riding on unable to issue citations or make any arrests because the the wrong side of the road, blocking intersections, running bicyclists had already scattered PHOTO COURTESY COURTESY OF OF CASTRO CASTRO VALLEY VALLEY NEWS NEWS FACEBOOK FACEBOOK PAGE PAGE PHOTO into pedestrians, and even into side streets in San Leandro endangering their own lives by neighborhoods, where San Le- WHEELIE WHEELIE UNSAFE UNSAFE BEHAVIOR: BEHAVIOR: This This group group of of riders riders briefly briefly took took over over three three lanes of of traffic traffic on on westbound westbound Interstate Interstate 580 580 last last week. week. Local Local law law enforcement enforcement is is riding on the freeway alongandro Police have jurisdiction. lanes reminding people people that that bicycles bicycles and and pedestrians pedestrians are are prohibited prohibited on on the the freeway. freeway. side automobiles. see BICYCLES on page 10 reminding By Alyssa Phillips