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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023
YEAR 35
CV Musician Pete Gidlund Releases First Solo Album
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By Mike McGuire
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CODE OF CONFUSION: County staff presented Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC) with three possible options for transitioning ZIP codes and place names at a meeting on Tuesday, February 21.
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE? ZIP CODE CONFUSION
· Option 1: Preferred Last Line (Place Name Change) · Option 2: Alternate Preferred Unofficial Do you know where you live? Are you Last Line Change sure? More than 27,00 parcels in the unin· Option 3: Full ZIP Code Boundary corporated area are currently in a gray area Realignment as far as their United States Postal Service Option 1 would have residents use their (USPS) address goes, so the County is procommunity’s name as the official “Place posing to clear things up. Name” when they address their envelopes. The 94541, 94552, and 94578 ZIP codes These are the unincorporated community are affected. For example, there are people names such as Ashland, Cherryland, and in 94578 who live within the boundaries of Fairview in places where city names are used Castro Valley but have a San Leandro adcurrently. dress. The confusion extends to San Lorenzo, For example, those parts of the unincorCherryland, and Hayward Acres. porated 94578 ZIP code currently use San County staff presented the Castro Valley Leandro as their address city/town, and now Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC) they’d use Ashland. The ZIP code would not with three possible options for transitioning change. ZIP codes and place names at a meeting on In Option 2, residents could use their comTuesday, February 21. munity’s name on their mail, but it would Alison Abbors, a planner with the Alame- not be official, and (in the case of the above da County Community Development Agency, example) they could use either San Leandro told the MAC about three possible options or Ashland on their mail. that the county can request from the USPS. see MAC on back page By Amy Sylvestri
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Castro Valley’s Pete Gidlund has been playing in bands and has been a music educator for decades, but he is releasing his first solo CD and vinyl LP on Berkeley’s Moon Scar Records on Friday, March 3. He introduces the album in person Saturday, March 4, at 9 p.m. at the Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito. Doors open at 8. The club is at 10753 San Pablo Pete Gidlund Avenue, just north of Moeser Lane. originally recorded in a yurt “Instrumental Works 2014- outside Abiquiu, New Mexico, 2021” contains Gidlund’s am- in 6 days in 2014, using only an bient work from the past seven iPad and its onboard microyears and evokes the landscape phone, a guitar, and a ukulele. of the Southwest. Side A was see GIDLUND on page 2
ACSO to Host Health, Wellness Fair this Saturday hands-on activities. Alameda County Health Care Services, CASTRO VALLEY FORUM La Familia Health Services, TiLooking to keep up with burcio Vasquez Health Center, your New Year’s resolutions La Clinical, Hayward Area and connect with your comRecreation and Park District munity? There’s a Health and (H.A.R.D.), Deputy Sheriff’s Wellness Fair this Saturday, Activities League (DSAL), Dig March 4, at Hayward Adult Deep Food Hub, ACSO Youth School in the Cherryland and Family Services, REACH neighborhood. Ashland Youth Center, and The event is open to all ages Kaiser Permanente are among and is a way for residents to get the groups participating in the involved in their own health event. plans and find ways to live The event is novel in that the healthier and happier lives. Alameda County Sheriff’s OfRepresentatives from multi- fice (ACSO) Crime Prevention ple public and private agenUnit (CPU) is hosting the cies will be on hand to lead see HEALTH on page 4 By Michael Singer