CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
YEAR 34 INSIDE YOUR
FORUM NEWS
Students, School District Stand by Business LGBTQ+ Murals at CV Schools Facade MAC MEETING
By Michael Singer CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
Car Into Store Eight people injured after car crashes into Trader Joe’s store
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Rosh Hashanah Castro Valley Jews to celebrate new year in new synagogue
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Age and Exercise You may be surprised by how age is factored into an exercise routine
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The installation of privately funded murals celebrating LGBTQ pride at Castro Valley schools was the center of opposing rallies outside the Castro Valley Unified School District Regular Board meeting last Wednesday. A group of about 15 people held signs outside the district office in opposition to the installation of LGBTQ murals at each school site. A few of the protesters spoke out during the public comment section of the meeting. The group was organized by Bay-Area Against Mandates and Gays Against Groomers and gained national attention among conservative social media outlets. “We both agree that schools should be a place of education, not where fringe/alternative lifestyles are pushed on impressionable young children. We further believe that queer theory and gender theory have no place in our children’s classrooms or education. We
Facelifts By Amy Sylvestri CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
Local business owners, you could be eligible for a free facelift from the county. The Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) heard a plan to improve facades around town during their Monday night meeting. The MAC got an update from the county’s Economic and Civic Development Department (ECD) about its efforts regarding business attraction, the beautification of the commercial areas, and promoting community identity. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL KUSIAK The ECD said the facade improvement program means A mural of the modern Pride Flag like the one here at the District offices welcomes everyone at each site within the Castro Valley Unified School District. local businesses can apply to the county for up to $40,000 are not ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ or Groomers representative Frank signs of support for the murals (with no cash match) or ‘anti-BIPOC’ as our groups Rodriguez said in a statement. at a time when many in the $80,000 (with a cash match) consist of members who would In contrast, about 200 stuLGBTQ community feel like for improvements such as new be classified into both of these dents and supporters of Castro they’re under political attack. signs, paint, lighting, landscapcommunities,” Gays Against Valley Pride gathered with see MURALS on back page see MAC on page 10
CV Library to Host Ohlone Land Discussion By Mike McGuire CASTRO VALLEY FORUM
The Muwekma Ohlone people lived all over today’s East Bay for thousands of years, but today are landless and much fewer in number. The Castro Valley Library is hosting an online talk next Tuesday, September 27 on how that happened and what the tribe is doing about it now. The talk is expected to feature Alan Leventhal, a retired San Jose State University professor and anthropology lab director. He has been the tribe’s principal archeologist for the
past 40 years and has been active in their efforts to regain their federal recognition and to get some land back to rebuild their culture. That recognition, whose lack resulted in leaving the tribe landless, was lost because of an apparent clerical error in 1927 that has never been corrected. A state employee, charged by the federal government with buying land for displaced tribes, simply left the Muwekma Ohlone’s predecessors off a list of tribes in the area. He had been under investigation for PHOTO COURTESY OF FAR WESTERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH GROUP dereliction of duties at the time. see OHLONE on page 4 Digging for ancient Muwekma Ohlone remains near the Sunol Water Temple.