Vol. 12 No. 40 July 4, 2013 Alameda Sun is a publication of Stellar Media Group, Inc. 3215J Encinal Ave. Alameda, CA 94501 News: (510) 263-1470 Ads: (510) 263-1471 Fax: (510) 263-1473 CONTENTS CONTENTS HOMETOWN NEWS. . . . 2 LOCAL HAPPENINGS . . 4 NIGHTLIFE . . . . . . . . . . 4 SPORTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 OPINION . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 CLASSIFIED . . . . . . . . . 9 PUZZLES . . . . . . . . . . . 10 FOURTH PARADE . Inside For breaking news and other content, visit www. .com HOMETOWN Fire Wire page 2 Police Blotter page 3 All the doings of Island safety and law personnel Alameda Sun Almanac Date Rise Set Today 05:52 20:35 July 5 05:53 20:34 July 6 05:53 20:34 July 7 05:54 20:34 July 8 05:55 20:34 July 9 05:55 20:33 July 10 05:56 20:33 Alameda Sun JoanAnn Radu-Sinaiko JoanAnn Radu-Sinaiko Locally Owned, Community Oriented SPORTS Kung Fu Page 5 Martial Arts Studio students win first-place honors. HOMETOWN NEWS Summer Reads Page 10 Alameda Main Library hosts Teen Book Club for summer. HAPPY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE INDEPENDENCE DAY! DAY! FOURTH OF JULY Parade Program Inside Find out the official Order of the March for the parade. PUZZLES Crossword Page 10 Sharpen your pencils for that famed newspaper tradition. Sun Staff Reports Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) is warning customers of a telephone scam that has surfaced in Alameda. AMP has received several complaints from customers that someone impersonating a utility representative has called their busi- nesses or homes. The caller claims the customer’s account is past due and will be disconnected shortly. He or she then requests a credit card number to avoid the disconnection. AMP will never ask for credit card or debit card numbers and only provides courtesy calls to accounts that are already delin- quent. If you have any doubts, don’t give out any information. If you suspect you have become a victim of this scam, immediately call your credit card company and call the Alameda Police Department to file a report. Other Safety Tips If the AMP employee’s ID is not visible and you don’t see any other AMP logo, ask the individual to show you his or her badge. If you are approached by someone claiming to be from AMP, check to see if the vehicle is clearly marked with the AMP name and logo and/or ask for ID. If you have any doubts or concerns that a visitor or caller represents AMP, call AMP at 748- 3900 to check on the individual. Never provide unsolicited callers or visitors with credit card numbers or any other information that may compromise your finan- cial security. Hang up and call AMP customer service at 748-3900. Strike Complicates Alameda Commute Michele Ellson The Alamedan The morning commute out of Alameda was quiet Monday — until commuters hit heavier-than-usual traffic on freeways and the Bay Bridge. A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers’ strike left hun- dreds of thousands of Bay Area commuters to seek out other ways to get to work Monday — options that included ferries and buses, casual carpools or just working from home. U.S Census data show that about two-thirds of Alameda’s roughly 37,000 workers commute solo by car while 15 percent use public transit and 10 percent take carpools. Some 5.5 percent work at home, the data show. Hundreds of Alamedans took advantage of extra ferry service Monday, with cars jamming the Main Street ferry terminal’s park- ing lot and lines snaking along its edges. But an 8:15 a.m. ferry that workers said could hold 300 swal- lowed the line whole — including commuters who dashed up at the last minute — with room for more. “Is that all you got, Bay Area?” a ferry worker shouted to a sea of parked cars. A passer-by said the lot at the Harbor Bay ferry terminal on Bay Farm Island was similarly jammed. Casual carpoolers waited in their usual line outside Café Jolie on Santa Clara Avenue at Webster Street. Stacey McDermott said she left for work at her usual time and that cars had already pulled up to take passengers. She was expecting heavy traffic on the Bay Bridge. “A lot of people work from home, so we’ll see what happens,” McDermott said. A few moments later a Transbay bus pulled up to the stop on Webster Street, with seats to spare for the would-be carpoolers who hadn’t yet snagged a ride. AC Transit drivers opted not to strike today, with the leaders of their union — who, like BART’s union leaders, are negotiating a new con- tract — saying that they’d give 24 hours notice of any strike. Buses traversing the Island had room to spare Monday morning. The Posey Tube also appeared to be free of backups Monday morning. But once commuters got onto freeways, some said, it was a different story. Jay Cooke tweeted that buses that breezed across Alameda were “crawling” once they hit the I-880 freeway, and others said backups doubled their commutes. After 9 a.m., the commute site 511.org showed the drive from Alameda to San Francisco taking 36 minutes when it typically takes 22 minutes; a trip to Fremont was an estimated 29 minutes, instead of the usual 25 minutes. McDermott said later that her commute was “pretty normal,” with her carpool getting her into work 15 minutes late. Other said that surface streets were light, though Alamedans Celebrate Court’s Prop. 8 Decision Courtesy photo Alameda residents Jeff Dufford and Ed Bounds were among the first to get married at San Francisco City Hall following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that reversed Prop. 8 in California, clearing the way for same-sex marriage. AMP Warns of Phone Scam Buses that breezed across Alameda were “crawling” once they hit I-880. Getting There San Francisco Bay Ferry has added extra service between Alameda and San Francisco; AC Transit buses are running on schedule. The city has set up shuttles to run to and from its two ferry terminals and also relaxed park- ing rules around the terminals to accommodate additional commuters; they’ve also set up a valet bike parking station at the Main Street ferry terminal. More commute informa- tion, including schedules, casual carpool locations, free- way times and conditions and strike updates, is available at 511.org. STRIKE: Page 11 Dennis Evanosky Alameda’s Fourth of July parade honors Alameda’s mayors. The parade should also honor the memory of Carmelo J. Corica. If that name doesn’t ring familiar, you should know that Carmelo was known as “Chuck” to his many friends and “Honest Chuck” to his constituents. Corica was serving as mayor in the bicentennial year of 1976 when he and his associates came up with the idea of marking the occasion with a parade on the Fourth of July. Island City denizens agreed and Alameda has hosted a parade on America’s birthday ever since. Corica was born Nov. 12, 1923, in Tripi, a hill town with a medieval castle in northeast Sicily. When he was seven years old, his mother and father — Tony and Vinny — moved to the United States. The family set- tled in Alameda, and Corica spent the rest of his life here. He gradu- ated from Haight School and was a member of Alameda High School’s class of 1942. He briefly attended San Francisco Junior College before signing up for the U.S. Coast Guard. He served from 1942 to 1946 as a deep-sea diver. Corica came home after the war and worked as a barber in his father’s shop, Tony’s Barber Shop on Lincoln Avenue. (The Alameda Museum has a replica of the shop among its exhibits.) Corica, Lloyd Hurwitz and George Beckham successfully ran for City Council in March 1973. The trio attracted votes with their strong support of Measure A, which limited growth in the city. Corica co-authored the measure, which passed the same day he was elected to his City Council seat. Two years later Corica won the city’s mayoralty. Voters elected him to a second term in 1979. At the end of that term in 1983, Corica took a two-year break from politics. He successfully ran for City Council in 1985, and two years later he won a third term as mayor. Corica was an avid golfer and the city’s golf complex bears his Enjoy Fourth of July Parade Today Mayor Corica established tradition for nation’s Bicentennial Courtesy photo Former Alameda Mayor Chuck Corica often rode at the head of Alameda’s July Fourth Parade, an event he helped initiate. See the Sun’s event program inside. PARADE: Page 7 Dennis Evanosky Contestants, models, judges and others who made the event possible celebrate the successful completion of Alameda’s first “Ethical Fashion Show.” Students Hold First-Ever Ethical Fashion Show Ekene Ikeme The Supreme Court’s decision to lift the ban on same-sex marriag- es in California Wednesday, June 26, was a life-altering decision for gay and lesbian couples living in California including one Alameda couple. Ed Bounds, 63, and Jeff Dufford, 60, have been in a relationship since 1983 and have been living in Alameda for more than 20 years. After years of being denied the right to a state-recognized mar- riage, the two men were able to receive a marriage license Sunday, June 30, at San Francisco City Hall. “We always knew once DOMA was struck down, we would get married,” said Bounds. DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, was a federal law that allowed states to refuse to recognize same- sex marriages. In the 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Section 3 of DOMA unconstitution- al. Section 3 of DOMA prevented the federal government from recog- nizing any marriages between gay or lesbian couples for the purpose of federal laws or programs, even if those couples are considered legal- ly married by their home states. The Supreme Court also ruled 5-4 that the private group behind Prop. 8 had no standing to defend the measure in federal court end- ing the ban on same-sex marriages in California. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco filed an order on Friday, June 28, allowing same-sex marriages to resume in California immediately. Bounds and Dufford heard about the Court of Appeals decision while in Tucson, Ariz., where they share a second home. “We were at a bar called the Old Pueblo Grill eating stuffed pep- pers,” said Dufford. “We were so excited.” Mayor Diament Passes Anne Ruth Birtwhistle Diament, a resident of Carmichael, Calif. for the last nine years, passed away on June 20, 2013, at age 94. She was born in 1919 in Englewood, N.J. to Henry and Daisy Connor Birtwhistle. She is survived by her daughter, Dorothy Meyer, of Citrus Heights, Calif. and James Diament, of Dayton, Nev., seven grandchil- dren, and eight great-grandchil- dren. Anne had five siblings, Tom, Dorothy, Charles, Richard and Jack. She is survived by Jack, who resides in Stockton. Anne attended high school in her home town of Englewood. She was married to Richard Stanton Diament, also of Englewood, on April 5, 1941. They were sepa- rated “for the duration” of World War II. At the conclusion of the war, Anne and Richard built a home in Closter, N.J. Local Deaths Dennis Evanosky Designers, models, musicians and artists came together at at South Shore Center Saturday, June 22 for the city’s first “Ethical Fashion Show.” Miss Alameda, Jessica Jane Robinson, began planning the event with Kasia Metkowski last December. The evening featured the works of 14 teen- age designers. “They used 100 percent recycled materials in their designs,” said Metkowski, a student at Alameda Science and Technical Institute (ASTI) and an intern at the Alameda Sun. Designer and model coach Charleston Pierce joined Project Runway designer Christopher Collins and Epi Center Med Spa founder Margaret Mitchell in judging the outfits. The Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA) helped fund the event. Additional sponsors include Island Print Express, South Shore Center, which provided the venue, and the city of Alameda. SHOW: Page 9 LOCAL: Page 9 PROP: Page 9
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Vol. 12 No. 40July 4, 2013
Alameda Sun is a publication of
Stellar Media Group, Inc. 3215J Encinal Ave. Alameda, CA 94501
News: (510) 263-1470Ads: (510) 263-1471Fax: (510) 263-1473
CONTENTSCONTENTSHOMETOWN NEWS . . . . 2LOCAL HAPPENINGS . . 4NIGHTLIFE . . . . . . . . . . 4 SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5OPINION . . . . . . . . . . . . 8CLASSIFIED . . . . . . . . . 9PUZZLES . . . . . . . . . . . 10FOURTH PARADE . Inside
For breaking news and other content, visit
www. .com
HOMETOWNFire Wire page 2Police Blotter page 3
All the doings of Island safety and
law personnel
Alameda Sun Almanac
Date Rise SetToday 05:52 20:35July 5 05:53 20:34July 6 05:53 20:34July 7 05:54 20:34July 8 05:55 20:34July 9 05:55 20:33July 10 05:56 20:33
Alameda Sun
JoanAnn Radu-SinaikoJoanAnn Radu-Sinaiko
Locally Owned, Community Oriented
SPORTSKung Fu Page 5
Martial Arts Studio students win first-place honors.
HOMETOWN NEWSSummer Reads Page 10Alameda Main Library hosts Teen Book Club for summer.
HAPPY HAPPY INDEPENDENCEINDEPENDENCE DAY! DAY!
FOURTH OF JULYParade Program Inside
Find out the official Order of the March for the parade.
PUZZLESCrossword Page 10Sharpen your pencils for that famed newspaper tradition.
Sun Staff ReportsAlameda Municipal Power (AMP)
is warning customers of a telephone scam that has surfaced in Alameda.
AMP has received several complaints from customers that someone impersonating a utility representative has called their busi-nesses or homes. The caller claims the customer’s account is past due and will be disconnected shortly. He or she then requests a credit card number to avoid the disconnection.
AMP will never ask for credit card or debit card numbers and only provides courtesy calls to accounts that are already delin-quent. If you have any doubts, don’t give out any information.
If you suspect you have become a victim of this scam, immediately call your credit card company and call the Alameda Police Department
to file a report.
Other Safety Tips If the AMP employee’s ID is
not visible and you don’t see any other AMP logo, ask the individual to show you his or her badge.
If you are approached by someone claiming to be from AMP, check to see if the vehicle is clearly marked with the AMP name and logo and/or ask for ID.
If you have any doubts or concerns that a visitor or caller represents AMP, call AMP at 748-3900 to check on the individual.
Never provide unsolicited callers or visitors with credit card numbers or any other information that may compromise your finan-cial security.
Hang up and call AMP customer service at 748-3900.
Strike Complicates Alameda Commute
Michele EllsonThe Alamedan
The morning commute out of Alameda was quiet Monday — until commuters hit heavier-than-usual traffic on freeways and the Bay Bridge.
A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers’ strike left hun-dreds of thousands of Bay Area commuters to seek out other ways to get to work Monday — options that included ferries and buses, casual carpools or just working from home. U.S Census data show that about two-thirds of Alameda’s roughly 37,000 workers commute solo by car while 15 percent use public transit and 10 percent take carpools.
Some 5.5 percent work at home, the data show.
Hundreds of Alamedans took advantage of extra ferry service Monday, with cars jamming the Main Street ferry terminal’s park-ing lot and lines snaking along its edges. But an 8:15 a.m. ferry that workers said could hold 300 swal-lowed the line whole — including commuters who dashed up at the last minute — with room for more.
“Is that all you got, Bay Area?” a ferry worker shouted to a sea of parked cars.
A passer-by said the lot at the Harbor Bay ferry terminal on Bay Farm Island was similarly jammed.
Casual carpoolers waited in their usual line outside Café Jolie on Santa Clara Avenue at Webster Street. Stacey McDermott said she left for work at her usual time and that cars had already pulled up to take passengers. She was expecting heavy traffic on the Bay Bridge.
“A lot of people work from home, so we’ll see what happens,” McDermott said.
A few moments later a Transbay bus pulled up to the stop on Webster Street, with seats to spare for the would-be carpoolers who hadn’t yet snagged a ride. AC Transit drivers opted not to strike today, with the leaders of their union — who, like BART’s union leaders, are negotiating a new con-tract — saying that they’d give 24 hours notice of any strike. Buses traversing the Island had room to spare Monday morning.
The Posey Tube also appeared to be free of backups Monday morning. But once commuters got onto freeways, some said, it was a different story.
Jay Cooke tweeted that buses that breezed across Alameda were “crawling” once they hit the I-880 freeway, and others said backups doubled their commutes. After 9 a.m., the commute site 511.org showed the drive from Alameda to San Francisco taking 36 minutes when it typically takes 22 minutes; a trip to Fremont was an estimated 29 minutes, instead of the usual 25 minutes.
McDermott said later that her commute was “pretty normal,” with her carpool getting her into work 15 minutes late. Other said that surface streets were light, though
Alamedans Celebrate Court’s Prop. 8 Decision
Courtesy photo
Alameda residents Jeff Dufford and Ed Bounds were among the first to get married at San Francisco City Hall following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that reversed Prop. 8 in California, clearing the way for same-sex marriage.
AMP Warns of Phone Scam
Buses that breezed across Alameda were “crawling” once they hit I-880.
Getting There San Francisco Bay Ferry has
added extra service between Alameda and San Francisco; AC Transit buses are running on schedule.
The city has set up shuttles to run to and from its two ferry terminals and also relaxed park-ing rules around the terminals to accommodate additional commuters; they’ve also set up a valet bike parking station at the Main Street ferry terminal.
More commute informa-tion, including schedules, casual carpool locations, free-way times and conditions and strike updates, is available at 511.org.
STRIKE: Page 11
Dennis EvanoskyAlameda’s Fourth of July
parade honors Alameda’s mayors. The parade should also honor the memory of Carmelo J. Corica. If that name doesn’t ring familiar, you should know that Carmelo was known as “Chuck” to his many friends and “Honest Chuck” to his constituents. Corica was serving as mayor in the bicentennial year of 1976 when he and his associates came up with the idea of marking the occasion with a parade on the Fourth of July. Island City denizens agreed and Alameda has hosted a parade on America’s birthday ever since.
Corica was born Nov. 12, 1923, in Tripi, a hill town with a medieval castle in northeast Sicily. When he was seven years old, his mother and father — Tony and Vinny — moved to the United States. The family set-tled in Alameda, and Corica spent the rest of his life here. He gradu-ated from Haight School and was a member of Alameda High School’s class of 1942.
He briefly attended San Francisco Junior College before signing up for the U.S. Coast Guard. He served from 1942 to 1946 as a deep-sea
diver. Corica came home after the war and worked as a barber in his father’s shop, Tony’s Barber Shop on Lincoln Avenue. (The Alameda Museum has a replica of the shop among its exhibits.)
Corica, Lloyd Hurwitz and George Beckham successfully ran for City Council in March 1973. The trio attracted votes with their strong support of Measure A, which limited growth in the city. Corica co-authored the measure,
which passed the same day he was elected to his City Council seat.
Two years later Corica won the city’s mayoralty. Voters elected him to a second term in 1979. At the end of that term in 1983, Corica took a two-year break from politics. He successfully ran for City Council in 1985, and two years later he won a third term as mayor.
Corica was an avid golfer and the city’s golf complex bears his
Enjoy Fourth of July Parade TodayMayor Corica established tradition for nation’s Bicentennial
Courtesy photo
Former Alameda Mayor Chuck Corica often rode at the head of Alameda’s July Fourth Parade, an event he helped initiate. See the Sun’s event program inside.
PARADE: Page 7
Dennis Evanosky
Contestants, models, judges and others who made the event possible celebrate the successful completion of Alameda’s first “Ethical Fashion Show.”
Students Hold First-Ever Ethical Fashion Show
Ekene IkemeThe Supreme Court’s decision
to lift the ban on same-sex marriag-es in California Wednesday, June 26, was a life-altering decision for gay and lesbian couples living in California including one Alameda couple.
Ed Bounds, 63, and Jeff Dufford, 60, have been in a relationship since 1983 and have been living in Alameda for more than 20 years. After years of being denied the right to a state-recognized mar-riage, the two men were able to receive a marriage license Sunday, June 30, at San Francisco City Hall.
“We always knew once DOMA was struck down, we would get married,” said Bounds.
DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, was a federal law that allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages. In the 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Section 3 of DOMA unconstitution-
al. Section 3 of DOMA prevented the federal government from recog-nizing any marriages between gay or lesbian couples for the purpose of federal laws or programs, even if those couples are considered legal-ly married by their home states.
The Supreme Court also ruled 5-4 that the private group behind Prop. 8 had no standing to defend the measure in federal court end-ing the ban on same-sex marriages in California. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco filed an order on Friday, June 28, allowing same-sex marriages to resume in California immediately. Bounds and Dufford heard about the Court of Appeals decision while in Tucson, Ariz., where they share a second home.
“We were at a bar called the Old Pueblo Grill eating stuffed pep-pers,” said Dufford. “We were so excited.”
Mayor Diament PassesAnne Ruth Birtwhistle Diament,
a resident of Carmichael, Calif. for the last nine years, passed away on June 20, 2013, at age 94. She was born in 1919 in Englewood, N.J. to Henry and Daisy Connor Birtwhistle. She is survived by her daughter, Dorothy Meyer, of Citrus Heights, Calif. and James Diament, of Dayton, Nev., seven grandchil-dren, and eight great-grandchil-dren. Anne had five siblings, Tom, Dorothy, Charles, Richard and
Jack. She is survived by Jack, who resides in Stockton.
Anne attended high school in her home town of Englewood.
She was married to Richard Stanton Diament, also of Englewood, on April 5, 1941. They were sepa-rated “for the duration” of World War II. At the conclusion of the war, Anne and Richard built a home in Closter, N.J.
Local Deaths
Dennis EvanoskyDesigners, models, musicians
and artists came together at at South Shore Center Saturday, June 22 for the city’s first “Ethical Fashion Show.”
Miss Alameda, Jessica Jane Robinson, began planning the event with Kasia Metkowski last December. The evening featured the works of 14 teen-
age designers. “They used 100 percent recycled materials in their designs,” said Metkowski, a student at Alameda Science and Technical Institute (ASTI) and an intern at the Alameda Sun.
Designer and model coach Charleston Pierce joined Project Runway designer Christopher Collins and Epi Center Med Spa
founder Margaret Mitchell in judging the outfits.
The Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA) helped fund the event. Additional sponsors include Island Print Express, South Shore Center, which provided the venue, and the city of Alameda.
SHOW: Page 9
LOCAL: Page 9
PROP: Page 9
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