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In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
  Home Page - City of Alameda California
September 7, 2007; The City of Alameda is soliciting proposals from firms or teams of firms experienced in implementing Local Action Plans, with a focus on creating green building ordinances and creating community outreach information for the Planning and Building Department.
The City of Alameda is part of the Alameda County Climate Protection Project and is developing a Local Action Plan with the assistance of Stopwaste.org and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability.
September 10-14, 2007; The City of Alameda is in the third year of a partnership effort with the California State Coastal Conservancy�s Invasive Spartina Project to provide significant, timely control and eradication of invasive Spartina cordgrass infestations along multiple stretches of the Alameda shoreline.
www.ci.alameda.ca.us   (0 words)

  
  Alameda Real Estate Agents, Alameda Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Alameda
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Alameda is a one of a kind city with breath taking views of the San Francisco skyline and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Alameda provides those who live there with easy access to the San Francisco peninsula with just a short trip over the Bay Bridge or a ferry ride across the bay.
Alameda is also in close proximity to the Oakland International Airport.
www.homegain.com /local_real_estate/CA/alameda.html   (626 words)

  
  Alameda
Alameda is a city whose history dates back to 1872.
Although there are many parks, beaches, and bike trails that make Alameda a wonderful place to live or visit, most of these areas are some distance from the Ferry terminal and require biking, hiking or transfer to bus or taxi to access them.
One of Alameda's most unique attractions is the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet Museum located at Pier 3 at Alameda Point.
www.eastbayferry.com /where/alameda.html   (298 words)

  
 Alameda, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.
Alameda participates in a town twinning with Wuxi, China.
Alameda Terminal was the western terminus of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alameda,_California   (3472 words)

  
 Historic California Posts: Naval Air Station, Alameda
Alameda's 2327 acres had five 500-ft. wide asphalt runways -- the longest 5,000 ft. Initially, the airfield was painted in a camouflage pattern to guard against possible air attack.
Alameda, after 50 years of service to the fleet, was selected for closure by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
The (former) Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS) is the geographic center of the San Francisco Bay Area and occupies the western one-third of the island of Alameda.
www.militarymuseum.org /NASAlameda.html   (2840 words)

  
 Alameda News
Alameda school district officials are facing a budget shortfall after providing teachers with a pay raise.
Alameda police Detective Steve Deutsche was off duty Tuesday evening and driving through Oakland when he glanced at the woman in the nearby car and did a double-take: Her build, her hair -- it matched the woman...
The popular skate park overlooking the bay at Alameda Point is open again after vandalism forced its closure twice during the past eight weeks.
www.topix.net /city/alameda-ca   (633 words)

  
 Alameda Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This year, in pageant and in song, and in many other ways, Alameda members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) are celebrating a double milestone year by commemorating both the 175th anniversary of the establishment of the church and the bicentennial of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s birth.
For Alameda’s sister missionaries, who can often be spotted around town riding bicycles and speaking with Alamedans about spirituality, this year is a special year to commemorate.
Brad Paul is a member of the Alameda ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
www.alamedasun.com /islandspirit/82505islandspirit1.htm   (494 words)

  
 Community Profile for the City of Alameda
Alameda is an island city 12.4 square miles in size located in the San Francisco Bay, 12 miles east of San Francisco and separated from the city of Oakland by an estuary.
The City of Alameda, Bureau of Electricity serves the 12.4 square miles of Alameda, including the Harbor Bay, Marina Village, and Naval Air Station business parks and Coast Guard Island.
Alameda is served by the Alameda Unified School District.
www.edab.org /cities/alameda.html   (429 words)

  
 Alameda Legacy Home Tour - About Us
The tour is hosted by the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society (AAPS) and the Alameda Museum, both non-profit organizations.
Alameda, with its beautiful architecture and tree-lined streets is truly one of the best places to live in the Bay Area.
The Alameda Museum also operates The Meyers House and Garden Museum, filled with exquisite antiques, decorative arts and furnishings honoring the 1897 home and family of Henry H. Meyers, an architect of merit.
www.alameda-home-tour.org /aboutus.html   (620 words)

  
 Alameda County, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alameda County is a county in the U.S. state of California.
The county seat at the time it was formed was located at Alvarado; it was moved to San Leandro in 1856 where it was destroyed by the devastating 1868 quake on the Hayward Fault.
The annual Alameda County fair is held at the fairgrounds in Pleasanton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alameda_County,_California   (868 words)

  
 Alameda County Social Services
The Alameda County Social Services Agency is comprised of 2,400 men and women working collectively and in partnership with community-based organizations to serve the needs of the community.
In Alameda County there are close to 3,000 children and youth in foster care, in need of the support and security of a family.
The Alameda County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is seeking volunteers to represent abused and neglected children in the dependency court system.
www.alamedasocialservices.org /public/index.cfm   (224 words)

  
 U. S. Maritime Service Officer Training School Alameda, California
Maritime Service Officers School in Alameda, Calif. --- is the only station on our western coast where a seaman can come ashore, sharpen up his technical knowledge in up-to-the-minute courses, and return to his ship with gold braid on his sleeves and an officer's license in his pocket.
The training program at Alameda is as modern as tomorrow's super liners and complete enough to give the candidate all the confidence he needs for his new position on hoard ship.
The Alameda station is situated on the site of a former beach resort and amusement park but not even a suggestion of the pitchmen, the roller coasters, the picnic grounds and sun bathers remains.
www.usmm.net /alameda.html   (2305 words)

  
 Alameda Swimming Pool Association
The Alameda Swimming Pool Association has provided the city of Alameda and community, especially the children, with an unparalleled record of community service for the last fifty years.
The primary purpose of the program was for the benefit of the children first, and as an added feature, for their families and the swimming enthusiasts in the city.
The Alameda Swimming Pool Association (ASPA), a non-profit corporation, was formed to oversee the operation and maintenance of the two pool sites and their programs.
www.alameda-alga.com /ASPA.htm   (952 words)

  
 alahist.html
ALAMEDA, Spanish word for a grove of poplar trees, was originally a forest of giant coastal live oaks, wild flowers, thick under brush and poison oak, situated on a 2,200 acre peninsula, half marsh.
In 1884, the Alameda Pier was built, later ecoming the transportation connection for rail to ferries known as the "mole" when the Central and Southern Pacific railroads merged in 1894.
Alameda deeded the U.S. Government land in the west end for an elaborate 100 acre Army Base known as Benton Field, and another deed of 929 acres of tideland and sub- merged land in 1935, for $1, marked the beginning of Alameda as a Navy town.
www.alamedamuseum.org /alahist.html   (7356 words)

  
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Any Alameda resident registered to vote in the District, who is interested in serving on the Board, may submit an application to the District Clerk, as outlined in the Public Notice.
Alameda Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new, convenient, off-site laboratory drawing station.
Alameda Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of the Alameda Hospital Infusion Center and Cancer Services Program.
www.alamedahospital.org /archive.htm   (1661 words)

  
 Alameda Park | Planeta
The Alameda Park Development Project is quite ambitious.
If you walk just a few blocks south, you'll find the Museo de Arte Popular on the corner of Revillagigedo and Independencia in the Historic Center is now open from 10 am-6pm Tuesday to Sunday.
The Alameda Park is located in the heart of Mexico City.
www.planeta.com /ecotravel/mexico/df/alameda.html   (540 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/alamedamusic
Alameda is an indie five piece rock and roll band and are versatile performing from small coffee house gigs and clubs to full on rock shows and concerts complete with windmills, scissor kicks, and some pogo.
Alameda's first CD, "Everything's Rosy" is 26 songs recorded on analog 8-track with plenty of piano, guitars, organ, trumpet, mandolin, accordion, saxophone, theramin and French horn.
Alameda is a piano driven affair with Christopher and Allison sharing vocals and songwriting.
www.myspace.com /alamedamusic   (982 words)

  
 Alameda Point [ex Naval Air Station Alameda]
NAS Alameda closed April 25, 1997, and the NADEP closed September 30, 1996.
Within the Station's four square miles are a major airfield, deepwater port, aircraft and ship maintenance facilities, 1,513 units of family housing and barracks-type housing, industrial, retail, warehouse and recreational facilities.
Alameda is accessed by four bridges, two tunnels, two ferr y terminals to San Francisco, and a water taxi to Oakland.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/alameda.htm   (1196 words)

  
 The Alameda Architectural Preservation Society
Alameda was dubbed Bolsa de Encinal by Spanish explorers because it was a peninsula shaped like a purse (bolsa) and covered with oak groves (encinal).
In 1851 attorney William Chipman and carpenter Gideon Aughinbaugh established a town called Alameda (avenue of trees) at the east end of the peninsula.
Alameda became an island in 1902, when completion of a tidal canal severed the peninsula from Oakland.
www.alameda-preservation.org /index.php?id=10   (341 words)

  
 Alameda travel guide - Wikitravel
Alameda is in the East Bay of the Bay Area, California.
Alameda is an island, and as such it's difficult to get truly lost if you have your basic bearings.
The USS Hornet is a retired World War II aircraft carrier that fought numerous battles in the Pacific and also retrieved the astronauts of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 after splashdown.
wikitravel.org /en/Alameda   (365 words)

  
 Santa Fe NM Lodging ~ Romantic Santa Fe Lodging Packages
Inn on the Alameda offers a variety of exciting, educational, and romantic Santa Fe, NM lodging packages for you to choose from.
Mix two nights at the gracious Inn on the Alameda with a hands-on cooking demonstration by some of the foremost experts in southwestern cuisine.
The Inn on the Alameda knows that guy-time is just as important as the ‘girls getaway,’ and offers up opportunities for the boys to bond while exploring the majestic high desert surrounding New Mexico’s ‘city different’ by mountain bike.
inn-alameda.com /packages.html   (1548 words)

  
 Alameda, California Photographers - Wedding, Portrait, Commercial, Event and Other Photography Services
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www.marketingtool.com /channel/photo/b.465.g.4190.html   (1450 words)

  
 Alameda Legacy Home Tour - Map and Directions
Alameda is an island adjacent to Oakland near Oakland Airport
The Museum is in the middle of the block on the left.
There is a metered city parking lot across from the Museum with the main entrance on Central Avenue and the other on Alameda Avenue.
www.alameda-home-tour.org /map.html   (498 words)

  
 Alameda County, California CA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Alameda County is one of 58 counties in California.
The county is in the San Francisco-Oakland metro area.The estimated population in 2004 was 1,455,235.
This was an increase of.80% from the 2000 census.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=9768   (600 words)

  
 Alameda Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gee handles the criminal cases for the city of Alameda; juvenile cases and felony trials are handled by the Oakland courts.
In 2002, Gee was appointed to the Superior Court by the governor.
He was a member of the Amelia Earhart Elementary school Parent Teacher Association for seven years; he was also on the board of the Alameda Free Library Foundation, and has been on the board of Alameda Youth Basketball for the past four years.
www.alamedasun.com /local/3906local3.htm   (636 words)

  
 Alameda frets over cozy cinema
Alameda city officials have entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with another cinema operator to renovate a historic movie house and expand it into a multiscreen movie house near Park Street, in one of the city's redevelopment areas.
But from outside Alameda City Hall, it seemed that the city was picking on a little guy to further its own business interests.
City residents will have their say, and the planning board will determine whether it will accept Haskett's application to add boutique theaters to the list of conditional uses in the zoning area.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/11/BAG6CB97911.DTL   (870 words)

  
 School facts: Alameda
Alameda's program supports learning by providing a program in which a strong academic foundation and environment nurtures and encourages the development of every student's potential.
Alameda School provides a safe, nurturing child centered place for children to develop.
The Alameda School community is very active and involved in all aspects of the school program.
www.pps.k12.or.us /schools-c/profiles/?id=230   (518 words)

  
 Alameda Magazine
This time of year, grapes in California are getting ripe, and it’s time to think about harvesting them and turning them into wine.
Take a journey through Alameda’s history with antique clothing, industrial artifacts, model ferryboats and Victorian-era parlor and kitchen...
You've waited all year for this—our Best of Alameda issue in which we celebrate Island institutions and upstarts in 50 categories.
www.alamedamagazine.com   (0 words)

  
 cbs5.com - Alameda County Youth Tops In Murder, Sex Diseases
Alameda County females ages 15 to 24 exhibited the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea in California, where nearly half of sexually active adolescents reported having sex without a condom, the report said.
Black youths in Alameda County suffered a disproportionate share of the causes of ill health, including the highest poverty, foster care and high school dropout rates.
One-third of all 11th-graders said they felt so sad and hopeless in the past year that they stopped participating in their usual activities.
cbs5.com /topstories/local_story_348202953.html   (283 words)

  
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The MCC program for the City of Alameda is administered by the Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department.
From 1999 through 2003, seven Alameda households were assisted through the Alameda County MCC for more information about the MCC program, or to obtain a list of participating lenders, contact the Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department office at (510) 670-5246, or visit their website at www.acgov.org/cda/mcc_program/.
The (AHA) owns and/or manages 573 housing units throughout the City of Alameda and manages more than 1,600 Housing Choice vouchers that are given to low income residents to use in the private market.
www.alamedahousing.com /hsg_asst.html   (1394 words)

  
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