HNA News: Big Neighborhood Watch meeting 4/15; Other disaster prep news, Saving Iceland; etc.

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Halcyon Neighborhood Association E-Newsletter*

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Items appearing in the HNA E-Newsletter are deemed to be of general interest to neighbors but do not necessarily reflect the views of Halcyon Neighborhood Association (HNA), its Steering Committee, or the Editor. The Editor's introductory comments express her own personal viewpoint.

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Items in This E-Newsletter

1. Big Neighborhood Watch Meeting, Sunday, April 15, 4-6 p.m., Chochmat HaLev (Prince at Fulton)

2. Childcare Announcement: Register Now for Coverage for Meeting on Sunday, April 15, 4-6 p.m.

3. Order Your Water Barrel for Disaster Prep: Watch the E-News for Details

4. Hate-Filled Propaganda Delivered on Prince and Webster Streets

5. Save Iceland: Supporters Needed at Landmark Commission Meeting, Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m., North Berkeley Senior Center

6. Halcyon Rejuvenation Project on Parks & Recreation Commission Calendar, Monday, April 23, 7 p.m., North Berkeley Senior Center

7. Get Ready, Berkeley Day 2, Saturday, April 28, 10 a.m.

8. Huge Multi-Block Yard Sale Scheduled for Saturday, June 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

9. Free Seminar Being Offered on Seismic Retrofitting, Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., 2701 College

10. Oakland Police Seeking leads on Dover Street Robbery

11. Teenage Gangs and Tagging Involving Willard Students

12. Cal Day, Saturday, April 21, and BAHA Tour, Sunday, May 6

13. Neighbor Mike Vaughn Appearing in Theatre First Play, May 3 - May 27

* For Your Calendar: HNA Dates Scheduled for 2007

* City of Berkeley: Useful Contact Information

Editor's Introductory Note:

One of our primary goals as a neighborhood this year is to help one another stay motivated to keep taking steps forward on disaster preparedness. To this end, we'll be hosting a BIG neighborhood watch meeting on Sunday, April 15 (see item 1). That means: Come one, come all! This will be our biggest meeting of the year. The Office of Emergency Services is sending a firefighter to present a time-condensed version of their two-hour workshop on Basic Disaster Preparedness. So if you've been meaning to sign up for this excellent course but haven't had the time, no more excuses: It's coming right here to our own neighborhood! Even if you've taken the class before, you'll receive a great refresher, including up-to-date information. And that's just half of the agenda for this informative meeting jam-packed with useful information on both disaster preparedness and crime watch. We're hoping to provide childcare so that parents will have an easy time attending (see item 2); please respond right away if you're interested. This meeting will be a BIG step forward for our preparedness both as individuals and as a neighborhood. Please be sure to come, and please spread the word!

-Nancy Carleton, HNA Co-Chair and E-Newsletter Editor

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1. Big Neighborhood Watch Meeting, Sunday, April 15, 4-6 p.m., Chochmat HaLev (Prince at Fulton)

HNA's BIG Neighborhood-Watch Community Meeting
focusing on Disaster Prep & Crime Watch

Sunday, April 15, 4-6 p.m., Chochmat HaLev (Prince at Fulton)

* Note to those who wait until the last minute to file your taxes: Tax Day this year is Tuesday, April 17, due to April 15 falling on a Sunday and April 16 being Emancipation Day, a holiday in D.C.

HNA includes neighbors living in the area bordered by Ashby, Telegraph, Woolsey, and Adeline. Come learn how you can upgrade your personal disaster preparedness as well as participate in a neighborhood plan that will save lives in the event of the Big One. We have invited the Mayor's Office, our City Councilmembers, the Office of Emergency Services, and Beat Officers, with the goal of strengthening our disaster preparedness and fine-tuning our Crime Watch for the warmer weather.

Our proposed agenda (facilitated by Dawn Rubin) includes:

4:00 Call to Order and Review Agenda (please arrive promptly)

 Introductions

            - John Steere re: Halcyon Neighborhood Assn.

            - Councilmember Kriss Worthington

            - Councilmember Max Anderson

            - Vicky Liu from the  Mayor's Office

            - Jim Hynes from the City Manager's Office

4:20    Nancy Carleton re: Emergency Supply Cache and Strengthening Neighborhood-Wide Disaster Prep Plans

            - Halcyon Emergency Plan Overview

            - Incident Command System Introduction

            - Need for volunteers to help further organize our neighborhood

            - Fundraising for additional supplies for cache (batteries, sheets, etc.)

            - Need for families to prepare themselves

4:30    Five Critical Steps to Prepare for Emergency (fir fighter presentation)

    1. Make a Family Plan

    2. Choose Long-Distance Contact

            3. Collect 5-day Family Supplies

            4. Prepare Home

            5. Know Neighbors and Organize

5:30    Crime Watch

            - Introduce Beat Officer(s) & Area Coordinator(s)

            - Recent Crime Overview

5:45    Q&A

5:55    Future Events & Next Steps (John Steere)

6:00    Adjourn & Clean-up (we will end promptly)

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2. Childcare Announcement: Register Now for Coverage for Meeting on Sunday, April 15, 4-6 p.m.

ATTENTION, FAMILIES:  We're hoping more parents will come to the neighborhood meeting on April 15 if kids can come too and have fun getting to know one another in an adjoining room.  We have a tentative plan to offer childcare at  $10/family for 2 hours. If we get at least 3 families interested, we will arrange with local teenagers to come work. We need to know ASAP.  Please email Dawn Trygstad Rubin at <familyrubin@comcast.net> to make a childcare reservation  and/or if you have teenagers who are interested in offering babysitting. Reservations will be REQUIRED -  there will be no drop-in childcare because we need to know number of kids in advance in order to hire enough babysitters. Volunteers to help coordinate this offering are welcome.

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3. Order Your Water Barrel for Disaster Prep: Watch the E-News for Details

Neighbors Susan Hunter and Mark Foy have been researching costs for 55-gallon water barrels and pumps for disaster preparedness. If we place a group order for 40 or more, we will receive a discount. You'll be able to sign up at the April 15 meeting. Details of the exact cost will follow in next weeks E-News (approximate price: $55, including pump and shipping). Remember to bring your checkbook to the April 15 meeting if you're interested in ordering a barrel for storing your family's disater prep water!

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4. Hate-Filled Propaganda Delivered on Prince and Webster Streets

A number of neighbors on the 2300 blocks of Webster and Prince have reported receiving delivery of the following nasty packet:

* An 11 x 17 poster with skull, Nazi swastika, and the headline "Sniper! We need you! Volunteer! . . . Racewar!"

* A tabloid called " The Insurgent: The Newspaper for Discriminating White People"  (the issue I saw had Timothy McVeigh on the front page).

* An 8 1/2 x 11 flyer headlined "Avenge the Zebra Murders!" filled with racist statements.

A neighbor on Webster reported this to the Police, who informed him that this packet was also being distributed in at least one neighborhood in the Claremont Hills as well as in North Oakland. The Police are taking this seriously as a hate crime (among other things, it arrived as many of our neighbors were celebrating Passover).

Please call the Berkeley Police nonemergency number if you have any information about who was dropping this off or to let them know of other streets where the material was distributed: 981-5900

As the sponsor of the City of Berkeley's official recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 15), District 7 Councilmember Kriss Worthington is also tracking this issue. He can be reached at 981-7170.

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5. Save Iceland: Supporters Needed at Landmark Commission Meeting, Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m., North Berkeley Senior Center

[Editor's Note: While HNA does not have an official position on this issue, we happily pass on information on items of interest to neighbors.]

Neighbor Claudia Polsky of Deakin Street passes on the following email, along with an website link if you'd like to help save Iceland: http://www.SaveBerkeleyIceland.org

Halcyon Neighbors, ice-skating friends, historic-preservation friends, green-building friends, and potentially sympathetic others:

 

Our family has come late but full-throttle to the effort to SAVE BERKELEY ICELAND from sale and destruction. As many of you know, Iceland under its current owners shut its doors this past Saturday, and the property is up for sale for $6+ million to developers.  The local press has been quick to pen Iceland's obituary, but to paraphrase Mark Twain, we think that "rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated."

 

The nonprofit group Save Berkeley Iceland has an excellent and visionary business plan to expand/rehabilitate Iceland as a modern ice rink, a multi-purpose community facility (cafe, gym, dance class room, possibly even a Warm Pool for arthritic seniors), and a solar-roofed "green" building. (See details at SaveBerkeleyIceland.org.) The rink would be operated as a nonprofit, and thus could run on slim margins and remain affordable to the neighborhood. All that the preservation effort needs are support and money - lots - and in a hurry.

 

Although our family consists of beginner skaters who are often found clinging barnacle-like to the rink rails, we are going to the mat to save Iceland for the following reasons:

 

1. Iceland is the most racially, economically, culturally, and age-diverse recreation facility we have ever attended, and as such embodies the building of local community.
2. Iceland fills a critical need for affordable indoor athletic facilities in an underserved area (South Berkeley).

3. 15 out of 18 kids in my daughter's South Berkeley public school class -  where 50% of kids are on free or reduced-price lunch -  said that they go to Iceland and would be very sad if it closed. Their Iceland stories and drawings made me cry.

4. The nonprofit formed to save Iceland has a solid business plan and an inspiring vision for advancing both community and green-building goals in a better, expanded, solar-powered skating and multipurpose recreation facility.

 

If any of the foregoing reasons grip you, or you have reasons of your own, please help us save Iceland!

Right now, I ask only for a small bit of your TIME.  Specifically: Can some of you join me at the Landmark Preservation Commission's meeting this Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m.  in the main room of the North Berkeley Senior Center (1901 Hearst at MLK), to make short statements that will convince the Commission of Iceland's value to the community?  As I understand it (corrections welcome), the Commission will be deciding whether to confer Landmark or Structure-of-Merit designation (or neither) on Iceland; either designation would be quite helpful to preservation and reuse efforts.  Although it would be great if anyone could additionally address the architectural or design significance of Iceland's amazing Deco facade, that is not essential -  see designation criteria, describing how what goes on inside a building can matter in addition to the building's appearance.  There are apparently one or two commissioners fence-sitting, and a strong showing will help sway them.  Public comments can address the role of Iceland in the community as a place for gathering/having fun, and the positive visual impact of Iceland on the neighborhood.

 

If you think you can make it, or want more information, please esmail me.  Many thanks in advance for any and all help. As Alice Walker says: "Anything we love can be saved."

Claudia Polsky <polskymermin@sbcglobal.net>

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6. Halcyon Rejuvenation Project on Parks & Recreation Commission Calendar, Monday, April 23, 7 p.m., North Berkeley Senior Center

We've been moving forward with plans to present to the Parks & Recreation Commission on Monday, April 23, concerning details for the three items included in HNA's successful grant application to the UC Chancellor's Community Partnership Grant last year, including Animal Cutout Entry Arbor at north end of park, Redesign/Replanting of south end of Park, and Halcyon Bird Sculpture (see below for a fuller description). Neighbor and landscape architect Michael Lamb has drawn up site plans, and the craftspeople involved will be submitting sketches (watch the bulletin board in Halcyon Commons Park next week for posting of this material). These plans reflect input received at two community workshops last year. If you'd like to come support HNA Co-Chairs Nancy Carleton and John Steere as they make the presentation to the Commission, please contact Nancy <ngc2@mindspring.com> or John <<jsteere@igc.org>.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Halcyon Commons Rejuvenation Project brings three new elements to this neighborhood-designed park in South Berkeley: (A) a gateway at the north end with the words HALCYON COMMONS and animal cutouts related to park history;  (B) a bronze-cast sculpture of a halcyon bird (a kingfisher associated with peace); and (C) a redesign and replanting of the incomplete southeastern corner - all with community design input. Because of the significant contribution of professional and artistic skills and volunteer labor, the grant funds go directly toward implementation, helping to build community as well as adding beautiful new features to this unique neighborhood commons.

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7. Get Ready, Berkeley Day 2, Saturday, April 28, 10 a.m.

The following information was received from the City's Office of Emergency Services:

Dear Friends,

On a single Saturday morning last year, Berkeley volunteers helped the City hand-deliver earthquake readiness tips to tens of thousands of Berkeley families. We're asking for your help again this year. We need to help our community prepare for a widespread health emergency, such as a flu pandemic.

 

Saturday, April 28, 2007 is "Get Ready, Berkeley Day 2," and we need hundreds of volunteers to go door-to-door in City neighborhoods and share the information families need to get ready. How can you help?

 

First, let us know if you can participate, and tell us how many others you can bring with you.

Second, help us recruit more volunteers. Forward this email around and talk to your friends, co-workers and neighbors. It's a great chance to get out, learn about emergency preparedness, and make a difference in the community.

** We especially need to know if you live in a secure apartment building. Let us know when you RSVP, and you may be able to help prepare your neighbors who might otherwise be out of reach.**

 

Third, come on down! Here are the details:

Who: You and your friends and neighbors

What: Deliver important emergency preparation material door-to-door

When: Saturday, April 28 at 10:00 a.m. sharp

Where: Frances Albrier Community Center in San Pablo Park (2800 Park Street) in Berkeley

Back at Frances Albrier after the walk, the Berkeley Fire Fighters Association is treating all the volunteers to a great BBQ lunch.

To RSVP or get more information, contact Tanya Bustamante at GetReadyBerkeley07@ci.berkeley.ca.us or call her at (510) 981-5342. Thank you for being involved in your community. It's people like you who make Berkeley a special place to live.

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8. Huge Multi-Block Yard Sale Scheduled for Saturday, June 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

In years past, HNA sponsored several hugely successful multi-block yard sales. Several neighbors have said it's time to do it again! The date is set:

HNA Multi-Block Yard Sale

Saturday, June 9, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

(set up by 9 a.m. recommended; when multiblock yard sales are advertised, dealers come early)

* Sale will be advertised widely in locals newspapers and on the web, and we expect a huge turnout.

* Sign up now - $5 checks to HNA required to participate (goes toward ads and flyers). Mail your check (or drop off) to: HNA Treasurer Susan Hunter, 3044-A Halcyon Court, Berkeley, CA 94705. Or bring your check to HNA's Neighborhood Watch meeting April 15, 4-6 p.m. at Chochmat HaLev (Prince at Fulton).

* In addition to being a chance to clear out your closets and garages, this event is a fundraiser for the HNA Disaster Preparedness Fund; on the day of the event, HNA representatives will ask you to contribute 5-10% of your proceeds (or more, if you're feeling generous); all of these funds will go directly toward purchasing supplies for the Halcyon Disaster Supply Cache, which contains materials to support neighborhood-wide Disaster First Aid, Light Search & Rescue, and a Command Center in Halcyon Commons Park following a major disaster (if you wish your contribution to be tax-deductible, you can make your check payable to BPFP -  Berkeley Partners for Parks -  earmarked for Halcyon disaster prep).

* Volunteers are needed to help post flyers and to set up signs at major intersections on the day of the event. Volunteers will also be needed the evening of Friday, June 8 to make the big signs to post at major intersections. Please call or email Susan Hunter <suze208@earthlink.net> or 517-0241 if you're willing to help.

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9. Free Seminar Being Offered on Seismic Retrofitting, Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., 2701 College

Neighbor Tory Finn of Wheeler Street sent the following information about a free seminar on seismic retrofitting:

In a recent Contra Costa Times review, as many as 80% of all seismic retrofits failed to meet basic performance standards. In a much more exhaustive review, which is based on the examination of thousands of existing Berkeley retrofits, Bay Area Retrofit found that the percentage is closer to 95%.

 

To learn more about this troubling statistic and what to do about it, Bay Area Retrofit and Maison Nouveau will provide a unique, in-depth educational seminar or retrofitting in the Bay Area followed by an open question session.  Here's some topics that will be covered:

*  Translating structural reports into plain simple language.

*  An explanation of the foundation and retrofit problems identified in most reports.

*  Evaluating whether a foundation needs to be replaced or not and what to do with conflicting reports.

*  Everything you wanted to know about seismic retrofitting.

*  Recent changes to the Berkeley Transfer Tax Rebate Program.

 

When and Where

April 25, 2007, 6:30 p.m.

Maison Nouveau: 2701 College Avenue (at Derby), Berkeley

Free and open to the public

 

To sign up for the seminar (helpful to us but not necessary) please go to: http://www.maisonnouveaurealty.com/seminars.html

 

To learn more about Bay Area Retrofit please visit: http://bayarearetrofit.com/

 

For more information about the event, call Maison Nouveau at 510-849-9900

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10. Oakland Police Seeking leads on Dover Street Robbery

A neighbor on Wheeler Street passes on the following alert received from the North Oakland Voters Alliance listserve:

"The Oakland Police Department is attempting to develop leads in the identification of 2 individuals responsible for an attempted robbery on Dover Street in North Oakland. The victims have reason to believe that these same individuals may have been involved in other robberies in this area. If you have reported a mugging in the area of Dover Street within the past few months, or know someone who has, please contact the robbery division of the OPD at 238-3326."

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11. Teenage Gangs and Tagging Involving Willard Students

Karl Reeh, president of LeConte Neighborhood Association, passed on the following alert:

Neighbors:

On Monday afternoon a week ago, just after Willard let out, many yelling young people ran down Stuart Street, in the street and along both sidewalks. We stepped out, saw Mr. Williams and another staff person in the street using walkie-talkies, and the Principal came by in his truck. Mr. Williams asked us to call the police, saying they had tried a number of times and got no help, and that they didn't know what was going on but were trying to deal with it, and they feared adults and weapons might be involved.

Today, after my stint of writer coach work at Willard, I saw the Principal in the hall and got the scoop. There is a quasi-gang called "Sham-Fam" involving some students from Willard and another middle school. Perhaps 10-20 students at Willard, more at the other middle school, "belong" to this clique.

The trigger to the approximately 90 students running down Stuart Street Monday was a MySpace "dis" of the group,resulting in a challenge to fight at a park below MLK. The police now know the names of those involved at Willard and at the other middle school, and no adults or weapons were determined to be involved.

The Principal asked that we let his office know any time any of us sees the tag SHAM FAM in our neighborhood; tagging has been much more a problem around the other middle school, but could show up here.

Kris Muller, 2200 Block Stuart
Forwarded by Karl Reeh, President, LeConte Neighborhood Association
(510 843-2602)

NEXT LNA MEETING: Thursday, APRIL 19, 2007, LeConte School, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

To join LeConte Chat go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lecontechat/

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12. Cal Day, Saturday, April 21, and BAHA Tour, Sunday, May 6

LeConte neighbor Steve Finacom passed on the following information:

"Cal Day"-   the annual open house at the UC Berkeley campus -  is Saturday, April 21, this year.

While this will bring a lot of people to the campus and South Campus on a Spring Saturday, it's also a great opportunity to see campus facilities for free - including ones that aren't regularly open to the public - attend lectures, performances, children's events, etc.

There's an extensive on-line program at http://calday.berkeley.edu/ and on the day itself you can go on campus and pick up a printed program /schedule from several informational locations.

Part of the program is oriented to new or prospective Cal students, but there's also a lot that would be of interest to parents or high school students soon to apply for college but not yet set on a college choice; many departments have programs describing what their majors are about, which would be applicable to other university settings as well.

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Also, the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association is having its annual House Tour on Sunday, May 6, in the Thousand Oaks neighborhood on the theme of "Among the Rocks." Many Le Conte residents may remember the BAHA tour in our neighborhood a few years back.

Most of the houses and gardens open this year will feature homes built around North Berkeley's large rock outcroppings. The tour is tied in with two lectures, April 26 and May 3. The first lecture is by Trish Hawthorne, a local historian (who once gave a great, illustrated, talk to the Le Conte Association back in the 1980s); the second lecture is by Jonathan Chester, author of the recently released "Berkeley Rocks" (which I reviewed in the Berkeley Daily Planet last week).

More information on the House Tour and the lectures, and links to descriptions of the book, can be found at:
http://berkeleyheritage.com/housetours/2007_spring_house_tour.html

There's a $35 cost for the tour ($25 for BAHA members), but you can go for free if you volunteer to help staff a house or garden for half the tour.

Steve Finacom

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13. Neighbor Mike Vaughn Appearing in Theatre First Play, May 3 - May 27

Webster Street neighbor Mike Vaughn is appearing in the Theatre First production of "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance" by John Arden, directed by Clive Chafer.

From the announcement:

John Arden's anti-war masterpiece is a modern classic. Four soldiers arrive in a mining town in the grip of a strike, and in the dead of winter. Their apparent mission - to recruit more soldiers for an unpopular foreign war - masks their actual intent: to confront its people with the realities of warfare. This is powerful theatre, laced with wit and passion.

SERJEANT MUSGRAVE's DANCE

May 3 - May 27

Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.

Sundays at 3 p.m.

Preview Thursday, May 3

Opening Friday, May 4

Pay-what-you-can Thursday, May 10

at the Old Oakland Theatre, 481 Ninth Street (at Broadway)

Box Office and Information: 510 436-5085 or http://www.theatrefirst.com

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* For Your Calendar: HNA Dates Scheduled for 2007

Dates set as of April 2007 (verify a few weeks before event by checking HNA E-Newsletter):

Sunday, April 15, 4-6 p.m., Big Neighborhood-Watch Community Meeting, Chochmat HaLev (Prince at Fulton)

Monday, April 23, 7 p.m., presentation at Parks & Recreation Commission meeting re Halcyon Commons Rejuvenation Project, North Berkeley Senior Center

Sunday, May 6, 4:30-6 p.m., Supply Cache Drill, driveway of 3044-B Halcyon Court and Halcyon Commons Park

Sunday, June 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Work Party in Halcyon Commons Park

Saturday, June 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Giant Multi-Block Yard Sale, throughout the neighborhood

Sunday, June 24, 6-8 p.m., Halcyon Community Potluck, location TBD

Saturday, August 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Work Party in Halcyon Commons Park

Tuesday, August 7, 6-8:30 p.m., National Night Out Against Crime, Potluck in Park 6-7:30 p.m., walk through larger neighborhood 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 30, 4:30-5:55 p.m., Disaster Supply Cache Fire Drill, driveway of 3044-B Halcyon and Halcyon Commons Park

Sunday, September 30, 6-8 p.m., Halcyon Community Potluck, location TBD

Saturday, October 27, Fall Mulching in Park with help from Cal volunteers of Berkeley Project

Sunday, October 28, 4-6 p.m., Big Neighborhood Watch Community Meeting, Chochmat HaLev (to be confirmed)

Sunday, January 13, 2008, 5-8:30, Post-Holiday Progressive Potluck, four locations TBD

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* City of Berkeley: Useful Contact Information

Police and Other City Departments:

Police Emergency Number:  911 (from landline) 981-5911(from cell; preprogram with this number)

Police Nonemergency Number: 981-5900

Neighborhood Services Liaison Jim Hynes <jhynes@ci.berkeley.ca.us> 981-2493

Public Works Customer Service: 644-6620 (streets, sidewalks, graffiti, sewers, litter, storm drains, street lights)

Tree Trimming/Planting (Forestry): 644-6566

Written Communication with City Council:

To comment to City Council, cut and paste the following email addresses:

City Clerk <clerk@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Mayor Tom Bates <Mayor@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Linda Maio <LMaio@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Darryl Moore <DMoore@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Max Anderson <MAnderson@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Dona Spring <DSpring@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Laurie Capitelli <LCapitelli@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Betty Olds <BOlds@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Kriss Worthington <KWorthington@ci.berkeley.ca.us>,

Councilmember Gordon Wozniak <GWozniak@ci.berkeley.ca.us>

Representatives for Our Neighborhood:

Councilmember Max Anderson (District 3) 981-7130

West side of Wheeler Street to west (except for Woolsey between Wheeler and Shattuck)

Councilmember Kriss Worthington (District 7) 981-7170

East side of Wheeler to east (includes block of Woolsey from Wheeler to Shattuck)

Mayor Tom Bates 981-7100

Zoning Adjustments Board:

To comment to the Zoning Adjustments Board regarding projects on their calendar, email:

Zoning Adjustments Board <zab@ci.berkeley.ca.us>

(best to submit your comments 10 days prior to meeting for inclusion in the advance packet to board members, but late submissions will be distributed the evening of the meeting)

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The Halcyon Neighborhood Association E-Newsletter:  The HNA E-Newsletter forwards occasional crime-watch notices as well as items of general interest to neighbors in the Ashby/Telegraph/Woolsey/Adeline area of south Berkeley (HNA's borders), including announcements about community-building potlucks, greening projects, disaster preparedness meetings, and work parties in Halcyon Commons Park. If you're receiving this email, you probably either signed up at a neighborhood event or a neighbor forwarded it to you. Please note that to prevent spam, HNA always uses bcc and does not share your email address with third parties. If you wish to be removed from this list, please reply to HNA Co-Chair Nancy Carleton/Halcyon Neighborhood Association <ngc2@mindspring.com>. Feel free to pass the HNA E-Newsletter on to other neighbors you think might be interested.

To submit items for the newsletter:   Email unformatted content or links (no graphics or attachments) to HNA E-Newsletter Editor Nancy Carleton <ngc2@mindspring.com>. Crime-watch reports and news about neighbors is especially welcome. Please note that due to the volunteer nature of the endeavor, the E-Newsletter does not typically include "letters to the editor" or "commentary," but will gladly include links to such items written by neighbors in the Ashby/Telegraph/Woolsey/Adeline area and published elsewhere (the Berkeley Daily Planet has a large section devoted to opinion).

HNA Listserve:  If you would like to receive messages (and participate in discussions) on the HNA Listserve, please reply to Halcyon Neighborhood Association <ngc2@mindspring.com> indicating your interest, and you will receive an invitation to join. [The HNA Listserve is currently inactive but can be revived if enough neighbors show interest.]

HNA Blog:  If you would like to view previous newsletters online (and comment via a blog format, though this is a relatively inactive blog), please visit http://halcyoncourt.blogspot.com/

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