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Trails WholeChallenge Cloth Olive Hyde gallery puts Rediscover East Bay on textile exhibit. 23 Park trails for a chance to win prizes.
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Symbiotic gardening Crowd pleaser
Native plant pollinator There’s time to gardensstill have many plant pollinator-friendly benefits. 6 sunflowers in the garden. 6
Canceled parade Think By The Bay Nonprofit announces Fremont Fourth of Special program atJuly Parade 10 CSEUBcancellation. celebrates first graduation. 10 Courtesy of BACS
protect ● Threeresidents sites to from immigration get new facilities enforcement by 2026
By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa MENTAL HEALTH Resource Centers, like the one planned for Hayward, help people get stable before reintegrating with the wider community.
Day for freedom East Bay Area celebrates Juneteenth. 10
$32M health facility in Hayward ●Young State funds mental health rehabilitation performers showed their skills. facility to serve struggling populations
positive. Last year found a 3% decline in Alameda County’s homeless population. This is first decline since 2013. SILK ROAD Farima Berenji (left) and Bani Khalsa (right) of Simorgh Dancethe Collective Advocates believe mental demonstrated Persian dance. health rehabilitation centers In May, marking another By Connie Cheung (MHRCs) are also important in approach to creating safer and continuing care. Unlike more healthier communities, the a ny Bay A rea votintensive and expensive hospinonprofit Bay Area Communiers have long grown tal psychiatric emergency visty Services (BACS) was granted weary of the homeits,The MHRCs people to “get $32M by the state of Califorlessness crisis. In February, showhelp featured children, ● Library hosts dance performances, stabilized nia to build an 83 bed mental Fremont’s city council voted teens and before adults reintegrating representing martial arts demos and health crafting with the from widerthe community,” rehabilitation center 6-1 to finalize a law that bans cultures Philippines Yglecias explained. in Hayward called Waypoint encampments and prohibits to the far reaches of the silk Fewer than a third ofChina, counMHRC. The project was scoped storing personal property in road, including Japan, ties inand California have the MHRCs, based on Alameda County’s public places. Citing a list of India Iran. After perClub presented a host of talBy Victor Carvellas ac c o rd i n gthe t olibrary’s t h e sFukaya t at e ’s need has a concerns including “violence, formances, entedassessments, performers atand Fremont Department of Health. Most tentative completion date of evidence of fires, excessive Room quickly transformed into Main Library, entertaining a full o celebrate Asian Ameriare privately run where by organiza2028, said dance, BACS chief garbage and illegal dumping,” a crafting space, young house with song,operatinstrucan, Native Hawaiian and tions like could BACS,learn whose $111M ing officer Jovan Yglecias. Fremont decided to (AANcrack attendees abou mental music, martial arts and Pacific Islander After years of public funddown on someMonth, of the most visieven a performance by World HPI) Heritage on Saturing, trends are starting look — More on page 8 ble Tai Chi Champion Ethanto Zhu. day,signs May of 31,homelessness. Shine4Love Teens
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Upgraded Supervisor Márquez restrooms condemns coming to ICE raids Fremont ● Alameda County allocates $3.5 parks million to further
Alameda Supervisor At its JuneCounty 3 meeting, the FreElisa is speaking out montMárquez City Council approved a against a wave of recent $1.7 million agreement withICE the enforcement actions in the Public Restroom Company to Bay Area, calling them design, manufacture and“cruel install tactics” that haverestrooms left imminew prefabricated at grant communities feeling three city parks: Niles TownfearPlaful under siege. za, and Central Park Kennedy Play Márquez represents DisArea and Central Park Sailway. trict including Hayward, The2,upgrades are part of FreNewark, Union City, as well mont’s multi-phase Citywide as Fremont ’s A rdenwood, Park Restroom Replacement Bayside, Canyon Program, Height s/ and Remodeling Vallejo Mills/Niles East launched followingCrest, the 2022 Industrial, Lakes andMaster Birds, Parks and Recreation Northgate Warm Springs Plan, whichand identified aging neighborhoods. In a public restrooms as a top priority. The statement this week, city plans toreleased replace or remodel Márquez—the only L atsysina 16 restrooms across its park on Board of Supervisors temthe by 2027. andFunded the daughter of immiby a $15 million allogrants—condemned what she cation from the city’s Generdescribed the facilities federal goval Fund, theasnew will ernment’s ongoing attacks on replace restrooms that are immigrant families. outdated, non-compliant with “I standards, will not stay silent as our ADA and no longer families are targeted traumeet current buildingand codes.
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Mission Music Chamber music group rolls out rebrand. 12
WHS Foundation Fun at the fair Washington High School The Fair returns with alumni foundation classic treats and new12 donates to students. attractions. 15
Travel banconcerts Summer What yououtdoor need to Discover know about theTri-City new concerts in the restrictions. 15 area. 30