Our Community Resource Officer, Aaron Johnson, gets in early on our Dance for Oakland!
As more neighbors are lured into our Dance for Oakland, Bonnie Sita of East Bay Dance Center leads the way.
Our next general meeting is coming right up! When?
Tuesday, May 10, 7pm
Will this meeting be online, in person, or both?
This will be a hybrid meeting!
To join online, use this link:
https://fredfinch.zoom.us/j/7249858483
To join us in person, go to the Fred Finch Training Center:
3800 Coolidge Ave, Oakland, CA 94602
Here are some possibilities:
Here is a map of our neighborhood:
Have you felt it? That feeling that's going around? That feeling that Oaklanders are ready to connect and celebrate life together in Oaktown?
Saturday, May 14, 12-3pm at Dimond Park in Oakland
What's going on? So much is going on!
The Dimond Improvement Association is putting on its first annual community clean-up event Saturday, March 26, from 9am - 1pm. It’s called DIMOND SHINE DAY! And you can be part of it! It’s a great way to strengthen our community, get to know each other, and make the Dimond a vibrant, beautiful place!
Throughout the Dimond’s commercial area, volunteers will be fixing up planters, cleaning mosaics, picking up litter, weeding tree wells, painting lightpoles, and planting flowers.
Sign up today and choose your preferences for projects. On March 26, show up for refreshments, remarks from Councilmember Thao, and a free, collectible T-shirt! Join in, feel good, make a difference!
Are you concerned about our water supply? What does our future look like? Join your neighbors on Zoom to learn!
Many thanks to the Dimond Improvement Association for highlighting this life-critical issue.
Presentation by the Oakland Firesafe Council. Sneak peak:
Top 5 Most Important Actions:
- Register for AC Alerts
- Make an emergency plan
- Know Your Zone
- Build Go-Bags/Stay Box
- Help family, friends, and neighbors
We will quickly go through some of the hyper-local opportunities offered by neighborhood groups!
We will be voting for 22x Neighborhood Council Steering Committee seats. If you want to help build community, please consider joining us! Send us an email to learn more: 22xneighbors@gmail.com.
The van then showed up in front of our house and sat there for some time before our across-the-street neighbor brought it to our attention.
(We get a lot of cars parked in front of our house because of the businesses on Leimert, and I don't pay much attention. We have a long stretch of sidewalk out front and we're not bothered by the cars. It's a public street! Go ahead! Park!)
After our neighbor mentioned it, I used the handy-dandy Oak311 app to report it.
Another thoughtful Oaklander, one who pays attention to the 311 posts, suggested that I try to figure out who owns the van and contact the owner. It's probably a stolen vehicle, he said, and the owner probably wants it back! This other neighbor said that he has successfully reunited several vehicles with the owners. The city folks don't have the bandwidth to deal with abandoned vehicles in a timely matter, he noted, and they are not going to make much of an effort to find the owner, who could eventually end up facing a monster bill from the city for storing the vehicle. What a huge bummer that would be! Can you imagine?
Okay. I figured I'd see what I could do. I walked out to the van in my slippers. On the aide of the van, I could see the ghost of branding past. There had been a company name and phone number, but it been removed. If I looked from just the right angle, I could make out a phone number. It was for the van's previous owner. Fast forward, oh, five minutes or so, the current owners received a call that their van had been recovered. They were so relieved!! By nightfall, the van was gone.
Honestly, it's amazing what a slipper-wearing person can accomplish! Am I right? And a big HEY-HO for strong community!
If you have an abandoned vehicle on your block, consider trying to make somebody's day. See if you can find the owner. :-)