The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 115

Wednesday, April 24, 1985 xF3 Will you buy a ticket in the first lottery this September? near the post office in Orinda. 1 1 i '-1s. San Francisco Examiner 2 t. Charlie Sumner, about 39, Orinda, Oakland Invaders head coach No. I will not buy a lottery ticket.

If I bet on something, the odds have to be a lot better than that. I just paid my taxes and I don't have any money left to buy a ticket. Amy Simpson, 18, Orinda, student Yes, because I want to win the money. Nowl Mine) I'll buy my sister a car; I'll buy Tom a car. It gives people a chance to win big bucks.

Instead of buying a hamburger, buy a ticket. You could win millions. Tom Wolfman, Orinda, president of Harold Ellis, Inc. Sure. Anything with a risk.

I'm risk-oriented. I'd buy a ticket to win money and to help the 6tae. I have three school-age children. If some money is going to education, I'd help them by buying a ticket. Tom Hughes, 23, Orinda, law student I'll buy about 10.

Then I'll have more chances to win. It's something a lot of people are doing and a lot of people are against. It's fun to know that somebody's going to win for doing nothing. I'm certainly not going to turn down $6 million to $7 Roger McMillan, 56, Orinda, teacher No. The odds are just not there.

The politicians will find some way to subvert the money. It won't all goto education. It's needed mostly in general education funding, not in special education programs. Also, the school boards should have the discre-. tion of how to spend the money.

Christine Oaks, 20, Oakland, studentoffice worker I don't know where the money is going. I haven't heard enough about it. If I know it's going to public education I'll definitely buy a ticket. My mother works for Oakland public schools. I can remember when her job was on the.

line because of the next year's budget. Richard LaMothe, 45, Orinda, dentist No. I'm not a gambler. Smart people live in Orinda. And fewer people here will buy tickets then anywhere else.

I don't gamble because you don't win. Someone has to win, and that's the guy who runs the show. In the lottery, the taxpayers should win because hopefully taxes will be Jackie Duffel, over 40, Orinda, homemakor I wouldn't buy one because I don't bet on the lottery. I don't even bet on my husband's horses that he races at Golden Gate Fields. I'll quote my husband and say gambling is a tax on the poor because they don't know any better.

They spend their money on bets when they should spend it another way. Two cooks, four ingredients, thousands of books sold tit I 1 ,7 -i I ft 1 COOKBOOK AUTHORS SHIRLEY ATWATER AND MARILYN MIECH Hundreds of quick recipes using four Ingredients, more or less Room 101, Alameda 94505. For more information contact Gadsby at 522-4071. I Union City Night of honor for the helpers More than 200 volunteers will be honored at Volunteer Recognition Night at the Hilton Hotel on Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m. 'The volunteers work in 21 city agencies, including central services, which helps low-income people deal with legal and welfare questions; tutorial; Meals on Wheels; and the library," noted Luz Silos, community representative coordinator.

The volunteers will receive plaques I from the mayor and the City Council. The dinner has been donated by Pacif-icBcll. Concord Tax protester gets 18-month term A judge here has sentenced a tax protester to 18 months in jail for failure to file tax returns, and the sentence was pronounced on April 15 tax returns deadline day. Larry Penner, who hasnt filed a state income tax return since 1979, wasn't present in the Mount Diablo Judicial District courtroom to hear Judge Douglas Cunningham's decision. Cunningham issued a bench warrant for his arrest, and Penner will be expected to pay approximately $5,000 for back taxes, penalties and interest The state Franchise Tax Board pressed for convictions against 113 tax evaders last year on charges ranging from failure-to-file misdemeanors to willful-tax-evasion felonies.

Antioch City officially objects to garbage proposal City of ficials let the county Board of Supervisors know that they would object to "all the garbage of Contra Costa being dumped a half-mile from our city." The Acme landfill site in Martinez, serving central and east county cities, is scheduled for closure in 1988. Sil Garaventa, owner of the Concord Disposal wants to turn a land parcel between Black Diamond Mine and Contra Loma Regional parks, which he has purchased, into a landfill site to replace the Martinez site, city manager Lee Walton said. The city is also concerned about the fact that traffic to the dump would be driving through the business district and that property values would depreciate if Garaventa's site is approved. Vital statistics ALAMEDA COUNTY MARRIAGE LICENSES Ken Weldon Alexander, 25, and Clairice Lizabeth PiHs, 22, both ol Oakland Fernando Advincula Oonos, 24, of Alameda, and Diana Marie March), 22, of Fremont David Sarlin, 43, and Laura Lee Skelton, 39, both of Berkeley Thanh Chi Ha, 26, of Hayward, and Trinh Tu Tran, 37. of Oakland Brian Gregory Wood, Oakland, 27, and Valerie Lynn Patten, 35, of Oakland Steven Marlon Bowe.

30, of Berkeley, and Shanelle Marie Lynch, 26, of Oakland Faouzi Mohamed Aloulou, 22, and Lon-nee Eileen Hamilton, 22, both of Berkeley Joseph David Dacus, 33, and Rachel Etta Abramson, 35, both of Walnut Creek Ernest Louis Montgomery, 42, and Tina Renee Abbott, 24, both of Oakland Thomas Choy 29. and Vanessa Gaye Abercrombie-Engethardt, 21, both of Hayward Jose Manuel Castillo, 25, and Maria del Refugio Gonzalez, 19, both of Oakland Frederick Hauntsman 24, and Debra Maria Porter, 23, both of Oakland Peter Swiss Kampt, 52. and Mary Webster Crowley, 50. both of Piedmont Woodrow Ensign Nelson, 66, and Mada-lena Paez Acree, 48, both of Alameda East Bay report Li verm ore City is preparing no-smoking ordinance The City Council has officially endorsed the idea of barring smoking in many public and work areas, The council voted unanimously to follow the recommendation of its Social Concerns Committee and have the city attorney draft an ordinance requiring employers to provide smoke-free areas. The ordinance would also bar smokers from lighting up in pub-1 jc lobbies and meeting halls.

If the new law is enacted, Liver-more would join 28 others in California that regulate smoking in the workplace. 1 The draft ordinance is expected to be ready for a public hearing by early May, City won't join valley wide bus plan On a 3-2 vote, the City Council has refused to join Pleasanton and Dublin in forming an agency to operate valley wide bus service. Councilman John Stein, considered the swing vote, said he will re-weigh the proposal and may change his vote. Council members Cathie Brown and Marshall Kamcna said they disapprove of the plan because Livermore would not have veto power over the ojher two cities. The issue is a crucial one because Dublin and Pleasanton want to grow faster than Livermore does, and providing mass transit is seen as a way of speeding up growth.

Pleasanton and Dublin plan to begin running their own bus system this year, and propose to merge it with Liv-ermore's Rideo system. I Pleasanton City to bill and coo at new businesses On May 16 the Chamber of Commerce will once again try to lure new businesses to the city by holding a guided tour for hundreds of Bay Area executives. Called Pleasanton 2000, the program is intended to give prospective corporate residents a picture of what the city will look like at the turn of the century when a dozen business parks are expected to be well on their way to completion. More than 700 real estate, financial and business executives are expected to attend Pleasanton 2000, an annual event first held in 1982. Two scholars honored at Foothill, Amador Foothill and Amador Valley high schools have each produced a Merit Scholarship winner.

Melissa Marshall, an editor on the Foothill High School newspaper, won a Merit Scholarship sponsored by the McKesson Corp. She has also been involved in the drama club and the school's exchange student program. Amy Colburn, a senior at Amador Valley High School, was chosen for the Clorox Co. Employee Merit Scholarship. She has won honors for her activities in the school band.

The corporate-sponsored Merit awards are given for high-achieving scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test I Danville Danville pipeline still on the way A coalition of environmental groups says a planned water pipeline through the heart of Danville could waste millions of dollars and cause wa Roberta D. Dodson Examiner correspondent WALNUT CREEK When 10,000 copies of their "Four-Ingredient Cookbook" caused the floor of her house to settle, Marilyn Miech and co author Shirley Atwater de-'. cided it was time to rent office space. They started their Walnut Creek business in 1980. Sales of their first book are at 40,000, they've published a second and B.

Dalton's has just agreed to carry both in its 720 book stores across the nation. Miech tells how the success story began. The idea for a cookbook with quick, simple recipes came when her children were small and she did a lot of entertaining. She began collecting recipes, but did nothing much with them until 15 years later, when she met Atwater. "When she told me about it, even though we knew nothing about book publishing, I thought it was cookbook many people would want, so I said, 'Let's do Needing more recipes, the two began standing in the longest lines at supermarket checkout counters and Savings and Loans offices, talking to everyone, asking for favorite, four-ingredient recipes.

With 400 gathered and tested, Atwater spent a summer typing the copy. Then they looked for a printer, although they had no capital, and then: "A true miracle occurred when my husband came home with the news he'd found one who would print our book and not bill us for a year." But their "miracle printer" was slow. It was Dec. 8, the night before ter shortages in the East Bay. The 66-inch pipeline is part of the East Bay Municipal Utility District's $67-million plan to bring more water to the San Ramon Valley.

The West Contra Costa Conservation League, the Sierra Club, the East Bay MUD Ratepayers Association, and the cities of Albany and Berkeley banded together this month and took their case to court They obtained a court order delaying the start of construction for two weeks. The coalition says the project is too massive and that it could result in wa-' ter being siphoned from other East Bay communities to service growth in the San Ramon Valley. Unless a second court order is issued, work is supposed to begin this week to install the 15-mile pipeline on the Southern Pacific right-of-way. 1 I Hayward City property on the auction block Wooden desks, drafting tables, typewriters, bicycles, ovens, and tires are part of the fare to be auctioned by the cit starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 27.

The more than 400 items to be auctioned will be previewed April 26 rom 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 8:30 a.m. to 9:55 p.m. on April 27.

Bidders should be prepared to pay by cash or certified check and to remove items from the premises. The auction will be held at the city's warehouse, 16 Barnes Court For further information contact Delorcs Meermans, purchasing manager, at 581-2345. Classes scheduled for new backpackers Classes for beginning backpackers will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.nt April 23 and 25 sponsored by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District Three two-day backpacking trips for beginning and intermediate backpackers to camping sites in Sunol Regional Wilderness are scheduled for a a two-day show they had planned to participate in, when their first shipment arrived. To their surprise, the pages weren't collated. They put together one book, its 208 separate pages joined by binder rings.

At the show they sold more than 100 They promised to mail finished copies in time for Christmas. Then they set up piles of pages around Atwater's dining room table, with a five-pound box of See's candy at one end. "Instant gratification. We got a piece after completing each book," Miech says, laughing. i.

"That's just one of many problems, learning experiences," says Atwater, "but they made us come up with creative solutions." Then came the American Booksellers Association's national convention in Dallas. "All the big publishers came with elaborate booths. Dinah Shore, Erma Bombeck and Art Buchwald were there with new books. We showed up with 12 books and a card table," Miech recalls. "We didn't even know we were sup- posed to have fliers to hand out "To remedy this, we took our books apart, giving potential buyers one page of recipes with our mailing address stamped on it It worked, and we made sales." Soon the two began another venture, giving motivational talks on "How to Make an Idea a Success." 1 Last year they spoke to nearly 200 groups.

Just as they set their goal to publish a book, they tell audiences to write down a goal. "Reach out, but don't be unrealistic," Miech tells the weekends of May 4 and 5, May 11 and 12, and May 18 and 19. For information call 881-6747. Running clinic slated for women A women's running clinic, sponsored by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays from April 30 through May 21 at the Castro Valley Community Center, 18988 Lake Cha-bot Road, Castro Valley.

Resident fee is $12 and registration may be by mail using the registration form in the Spring brochure or by ap-plving in person at the district office, 1099 St For information call 881-6700. Doctor to discuss seniors' foot care Dr. Clifford Wong will discuss foot care and podiatry with local seniors at health seminar on April 30 at the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District's Senior Center, 22325 N. Third St beginning at 12:30 p.m. The guest speaker will address the specific concerns faced by older adults in regards to foot care For information on this free seminar call 881-6766.

Band-battle winner joins triple bill Hanzof the winner of the 1985 Battle of the Bands competition, will appear on a triple bill with Sinderella and Assualt at a concert April 27 at Weekes Park Community Center, 27182 Patrick Ave. Admission to the concert, which is being sponsored by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, is $4. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Emeryville Redevelopment panel encourages developer More than 100 people were on hand this month for a special meeting a friend's and she served me an excellent meal. I was quite surprised because she's rather lazy and clumsy in the kitchen.

I asked her for the recipes, figuring if she could make them I most certainly could. She told me about your cookbook and I'd like to order one." Atwater says she has come home at 5 and had dinner for 12 ready at 6:30. Besides writing and marketing books, she's in her 24th year as a kindergarten teacher. As for Miech, she has stopped substitute-teaching and marriage and family counsel-, ing to devote full time to the business. The partners have five chil-; dren between them.

"Every day is exciting," Miech says. "I can hardly wait to see what new thing will happen." cians from all over the country attend-ed the contest I San Ramon Youth hostel proposed for Bollinger Canyon Bollinger Canyon could become the site of the first youth hostel in the East Bay. The East Bay Regional Park District has proposed to locate an overnight hostel in a complex of state-owned buildings near Las Trampas Regional Wilderness Park on Bollinger Canyon Road. Park district officials say the lodge would be the first of a chain of hostels planned for East Bay public parks. The fee charged would probably be under $10 a night, officials said.

The hostel is expected to be used mainly by local hikers and bicyclists, rather than by travelers from outside the East I Alameda Council OKs route for July 4th parade The City Council has approved the route for a Fourth of July parade, a tradition that began in 1976, the Bicentennial year. Plaques, a wards and cash prizes will be offered in 32 categories, including floats, walking units, clowns and equestrians, according to George Gadsby, chairman of the Mayor's Fourth of July Parade Committee. The parade, which will be half a mile shorter this year, will begin at Park Street then move to Otis Drive, turn right on Wcstline and proceed to Washington Park. The reviewing stand will be either at lower Washington Park or the Portola Triangle. All funding for the parade, whose volunteers began work in January, is from private sources; contributions are welcomed.

All donations should be made to the Mayor's Fourth of July Parade Committee and sent to the Chamber of Commerce, City hall, people. "After the goal is set, chart how you'll reach it, with concrete ideas. Then keep your eye on the goal Commitment is essential. "Also, expect problems. But dont let them get you down because persistance in solving them pays off." It took hundreds of personal visits to get stores to carry their books.

Often they'd be rejected three or four times before the manager agreed. "Once in a store, the book sells because so many find it helpful," Miech says. "It appeals to working women, singles, children anyone who can read can easily use these recipes." One letter they got verifies their recently had dinner at of the city's Redevelopment Agency to hear a presentation from Sedway Cooke on how to use 200 acres of city-owned property. "We were unanimous in instructing Sedway Cooke to proceed with their plan and an environmental impact report," said John Anderson, executive director of the Redevelop-. ment Agency.

The land will be used primarily for hotel, office and retail buildings Only two dissents were heard from the public and those charged the plan with "being wo dense, putting too many buildings into the area." Sedway Cooke will return with their final plan in 60 days If approved, construction should begin within sue months to one year, Anderson said. Albany High school seniors join waterfront panel Albany High School seniors Ariel Blason and Guy Glover have been appointed non-voting members of the city's Waterfront Commission. The students will become voting members this summer as part of the city's efforts to bring other voices to local commissions. The plan was initiated by council member Ruth Ganong, who recently met with the school principal and got support for bringing more students to serve on city committees. Dublin Musicians, marchers pick up band prizes The Dublin High School band won three first-place awards at an invitational band competition in Hawaii The band and color guard each took top honors in the parade category.

The flag team won first place in a separate competition. In addition, the concert band won a third-place award, and the jazz band placed fifth. About 1,300 young musi-.