Sunday, September 25, 2011
Even greater bargains as sale continues today (without the food, music and kids' activities) and next Saturday.
The Friends of the El Cerrito Library stepped it up a notch Saturday, adding food, music, and children's activities to its already popular annual fall book sale. Jasper Patch of Well Grounded was already on hand sellling refreshments as dozens lined up in the parking lot for the 9 a.m. start of the sale. Shoppers soon descended on the outdoor book displays and packed the portion of the sale that stretches into a narrow section in the basement of the library. Many arrived with cloth bags and left loaded down with dozens of books that together cost less than a single new hardback. New also this year for the first day of the sale was live music, provided by Mike and Jan James, and an area for children, where young visitors picked up colorful …
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El Cerrito Library
6510 Stockton Ave, El Cerrito, CA
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El Cerrito's new recycling center is finally starting to emerge on the empty lot on Schmidt Lane that once was home to the aging, old facility, which shut down May 1.
The skeleton of El Cerrito's new and enhanced recycling center on Schmidt Lane is taking shape, as shown in these photos taken by Betty Buginas Friday. The aging former facility shut down May 1, and its lot was cleared to make way for the new one, expected to be completed in "early 2012," according to the City of El Cerrito, which operates the center. A small interim recycling operation continues at the edge of the site, where patrons can expect restricted parking. The new center "will include expanded opportunties for the collection and exchange of reusable items, improved pedestrian access and safety, and expanded collection for hard-to-recycle materials," according to the fall 2011 edition of "A Greener El Cerrito," the newsletter …
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City of El Cerrito Recycling Center
7501 Schmidt Ln, El Cerrito, CA
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Our water agency, East Bay MUD, will dig up San Pablo Avenue and Richmond Street a few years from now to add two large water pipes, an East Bay MUD engineer told the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce Wednesday.
Never let it be said that the folks who make water come out of our taps didn't give us advance warning about their upcoming big project in town. The bad news is that East Bay MUD (Municipal Utility District) plans to dig up practically all of two main thoroughfares in El Cerrito — San Pablo Avenue and Richmond Street. The reason is to add two big steel water pipes, each 36 inches in diameter. The good news is that the work won't begin until 2015 on Richmond Street and not until 2021 on San Pablo. Also, they'll do only one block at a time. And, possibly the best news is the project is designed to assure that water keeps coming out of our taps as the East Bay population continues to grow. "What this project is meant to do is to add capacity…
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Mira Vista Golf and Country Club
7901 Cutting Blvd, El Cerrito, CA
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Toni Mayer
10:27 pm on Friday, September 23, 2011
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