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San Francisco Examiner Wednesday, August 28, 1985 zF-3 Bay voices What do you look for in the opposite sex? Asked at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill Danny Dowell, 18, Antioch, student A nice body. She takes care of herself. A happy smile and a good personality. She likes to do things and have fun. As long as she doesn't stay home all the time.

East Bay report San Ramon New park proceeds despite objections An 18-acre park planned for the corner of Alcosta Boulevard and Bollinger Canyon Road should be ready for picnics and ball games in just over a year, despite nearby residents' complaints. The City Council has approved design plans showing a community center, tennis courts, two baseball diamonds, two soccer fields, picnic tables and a snack bar. A plaza and fountain will grace the entrance at Alcosta Boulevard. Residents have told the council they are worried about the nighttime glare of field lighting and increased traffic on adjoining streets. The council said it will address those issues as each phase of the park is built.

The picnic area and playing fields should be completed by fall 1986. Radio hams oppose tower height limit Ham radio operators say they will fight to overturn a new city ordinance limiting the height of amateur radio towers. The council adopted the law for esthetic reasons. But the Livermore Amateur Radio Club, which has about 50 members here, says the 16- foot height limit will ruin ham radio transmission and reception. The club has joined similar izations nationwide that have asked the Federal Communications Commission to intercede where local laws are too restrictive.

Ham operators say they provide vital communication links during disasters like fires and earthquakes and should not be subject to local ordinances. Pleasanton Business park plans helicopter facilities Up to 60 helicopter flights a day will buzz in and out of Hacienda Business Park, according to plans filed at City Hall. The Planning Commission has approved the flights and the City Council is expected to give the final okay. The 2.3-acre heliport will be used for air -express service for parcels and for a helicopter shuttle for business people to and from Bay Area airports. Developer files plan for motel-restaurant A motel and restaurant complex may soon occupy the mostly vacant land around Interstate 580 at Santa Rita Road.

Developer Mike Martinez of Campbell has filed plans at City Hall for a 75-room motel and two adjoining restaurants. One restaurant would occupy 3,500 square feet, and the other would be 2,700 square feet. The motel would be the fourth to be built in the city. Dublin Park developers told to try again Developers planning a five acre park within a large housing project have been told to go back to the drawing board. Raffanelli and Nahas, a local firm, plans to build several hundred homes at Dougherty Road and Amador Valley Boulevard.

The city's approval of the project is contingent on the construction of the park. Lance Miller, 19, Antioch, student I like a nice figure. Someone who's not really into drugs. I don't like cigarrettes. My whole family smokes and that's why I'm so against it.

Jaime Miller, 18, Antioch, student A beautiful upper body. When she sits down the seat actually says The old-fashioned girls are They're into staying home and cooking. They're more romantic. They're not into money. People Leamington ballroom's new life By Carolyn Penn SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER OAKLAND The city's creme de la creme competed for invitations to the Leamington Hotel's grand opening in 1928.

And the Oakland Post-Enquirer devoted pages of superlative-ridden prose to the $2 million, Spanish Renaissance-style marvel wrought by local architect W.H. Weeks at owner J.K. Leaming's behest. "A Tribute To The Development of Oakland," crowed one headline; "Lobby Breathes Grandeur," exclaimed another. The local swells sipped champagne at the house and took breathtaking rides in Leaming's "high speed" elevators.

And they danced by the light of 16 crystal chandeliers in the palatial Leamington Regency Ballroom next door on Franklin Street, in the California Building. Portfolio Property Investors bought the Leamington in 1981 to convert into office space, and refurbished the former grande dame so thoroughly one would never suspect she'd fallen on hard times. Then John Olmsted, director of the Local Volunteers of America, decided last year it was time to resurrect the Regency as well. The not-for-profit agency signed a 20-year lease with Toothman Property Development Corporation for the ballroom, and invested $200,000 for an extensive face lift. The Rotary Club threw in another $50,000, and contractor Bob Beal's crew is working feverishly to get the rechristened California Conference Center -Ballroom ready for yet another gala opening Sept.

12. The Rotarians' new office suite will occupy one corner of the ballroom. Olmsted said the rest of the extensive floor space will be rented to wedding parties, conferences and other interested groups thus generating revenue for VOA shelters, vocational training and food projects throughout the Bay Area. "We've never undertaken a venture this big," the VOA director said. "It's exciting we're restoring a bit of Oakland's history, and we'll be able to fund more The proposed location of the park straddles the Alamo Creek.

But the Park and Planning commissions are both concerned that the fast-moving creek poses an unwanted liability for the city in the event of a mishap, commissioners say. The site was also found inadequate because part of the park is cut off by the creek and inaccessible except by a circuitous route through the housing development. Recreation panel gets plans for teen-agers Bus trips, campouts and a teen nightclub were three recommendations made to the Parks Commission for improving youth recreation opportunities. Teen met with Recreation Director Diane Lowart to offer their ideas for activities. The teens' biggest complaint was that there is nothing for high school students to do during the evenings besides attending dances held after athletic games.

Lowart said students would like a non-alcoholic nightclub for 14 to 20- year olds, where they can dance or play video games. Tamara Hanscom, 17, Danville, student -He's nice. He isn't He appreciates your thoughts. I have no preference about looks; he just should be good-looking and have a nice body, I also like a guy to be funny and outgoing. He needs a sense of humor.

Christi Johnson, 15, Walnut Creek, student He should be nicelooking and have muscles. He's thoughtful, as he's thinking of you all the time. I don't really have a preference when it comes to looks, but I don't like a red afro. Theresa McCormick, 20, Martinez, student Sensitivity and understanding toward me and toward other people's feelings. He's caring.

He doesn't have to be gorgeous, but he's nicelooking. He knows what he wants out of himself and his career. 1947 photo of Oakland's Leamington Hotel ballroom, being done over partly as offices services to the less fortunate." According to long-time Oakland resident Helen Rogers, 85, the ballroom is an old haunt for local service clubs. "We all met there after the Oakland Hotel closed in 1958," the former president of the Advertising Club recalled. "You always had to get your members out of the adjoining bar to start the meetings.

I think that's where the two-martini lunch got started, for a lot of us." Olmsted promises the bar will be back along with a grand piano, a back kitchen, a dressing room behind the bandstand, and a new sound system to suit the purposes of conference and band leaders alike. World War II veterans celebrated their homecoming in 1947 here, dancing the night away to swing bands. And the ballroom will reverberate once again with the brassy big band sound; Olmsted said he's already talked to a few interested band leaders. When the construction crew started hammering last May, they shattered a melancholy silence that had reigned here since the early '70s. 1 Bob Knox said he and his cohorts at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios (then in Oakland, The 25 students attending the meeting also would like to see organized bus trips to amusement parks and Bay Area tourist attractions, a as well as camping trips, Lowart said.

Hayward African nation opens suburban consulate An office building at Second and A streets is now on the map of international diplomacy. The West African nation of Sierra Leone recently opened a consulate here after appointing Hayward businessman W. Warner Beckett as its West Coast I honorary consul. Beckett will oversee the consulate from the adjoining African importexport business he owns. He will provide information and assistance to people traveling to Sierra Leone, as well as to citizens from that country who come to the Bay Area.

The new consulate is marked by the Sierra Leone flag and a single reserved parking space. It has already had its first diplomatic visit by Dauda S. Kamara, the Sierra Leone ambassador assigned to Washington, Ed Jameson, 19, Pacheco, musician I'm a drummer so I meet women all the time. They would probably go out with me because I'm a drummer, not because of who I am. A person of the opposite sex I meet and like would be very caring and understanding.

Somebody who's there when you're bummed. more, according to Beals. The Regency was a year in the making, and Weeks lavished $10,000 worth of decorative trim on the high-ceilinged ballroom. "Nail for nail, it would cost $4 million to build this today if you could find the artisans who can do this kind of work," the contractor said. When the newly resplendent California Conference Center-Ballroom opens its doors, the mirror balls that once cast dappled light on flappers' faces will shine on a thoroughly modern group of revelers.

Couples dancing past the mirrored panels will probably sneak admiring glances at themselves, as their predecessors did. Lovers will sneak away to the balcony to exchange the same sweet nothings that couples whispered 59 years ago. This time around, those who rent all this vintage luxury for an evening will be providing financial fuel for the VOA's numerous good works. They'll be feeding the hungry, and sheltering the homeless and that, John Olmsted says, is a very good feeling. Carolyn Penn is an Examiner correspondent in the East Bay.

cil a detailed response to a consultant's criticism that he and Capt. Jack Essex failed to take a leadership role among their officers when a crowd of 10,000 youths became violent while attending the Aug. 18 cruise night last year. City officials said Nelson's rebuttal should not be made public because it would reveal police tactics to potential trouble makers. The curtain falls on Fox Theater The Fox Theater, which has been closed since 1982, has been demolished, the victim of failing attendance.

The 700-seat movie house in The Hub shopping center was built in 1967. It operated profitably until the late 1970s while it was run by the Mann Theater chain. Then the trend for minitheaters swept the industry, and Mann decided it would be too costly to remodel the Fox. From 1979 to 1982, he leased it to a company that showed movie classics. Sabrina Delph, 20, Antioch, student Sensitivity and personality.

Easy-going and nice. He has a good sense of humor. I was raised in a close and laid-back family. Those types of people appeal to me. Looks come in second as long as they keep themselves up and care how they look.

Vital statistics ALAMEDA COUNTY MARRIAGE LICENSES now in Hayward) were sorry to bid the old Regency adieu they executed many a tango here during the '60s. According to Knox, the steelsprung dance floor here was the only "proper" floor in town. "The springs help you move it makes people who dance beautifully look that much more beautiful." The ballroom itself was "gorgeous, on the verge of being dowdy," the dance master said. "It needed refreshing, but some of the old splendor still shone through the grime." Now that Beals has unearthed the old splendor, he's not sure how to classify it "I guess you could call it rococo," he said. The molding over the stage mischievous-looking mermaids in bas-relief background on shields and oak leaves is unmistakably Italianate.

"But the columns around those mirrored panels are Greek." And the raised plaster squares above the orchestra balcony, alternately depicting puckish human faces, lion's heads and apples, are pure whimsy. The construction industry can't afford this kind of art-for-art's-sake whimsy any. D.C. The country of four million people is one of the world's major diamond producers. Livermore Our vines have early grapes An unusually warm summer brought an early harvest in the vineyards.

Spokesmen for local wineries said this year's mid-August harvest is the earliest they can remember. Grapepicking usually starts in early September. Grapes must be picked when the sugar content is just right, and hot sunshine causes the percentage of sugar to rise. Cruise night response still not for public The City Council has refused to make public the police chief's response to a report criticizing the handling of the violent "cruise night" a year ago. Chief Mel Nelson wrote the coun- Douglas Sanders, 27, Oakland, and Mona Thompson, 25, Berkeley.

Christopher Garcia, 29, and Patricia Maurice, 28, both Alameda. Michael urbach, 28, and Kimberley Tyborski, 19, both San Leandro. Melvin McCullough, 20, and Mary Anderson, 19, both Oakland. Craig Livingston, 24, and Renee Weize, 25, both San Leandro. Jack Salvador, 78, San Leandro, and Ferne Loya, 68, Castro Valley, Frederick Camacho, 40, and Patricia Barron, both Fremont.

Jerry Garrity, 31, and Cynthia White, 23, both Pleasanton. Steven Woodward, 23, Pleasanton, and Marti Wolfenberger, 27, Walnut Creek. Gary Shoffner, 41, Union City, and Dolores Aguilar, 35, Middletown. Dean Urone, 25, and Catherine Green, 21, both Livermore. Sheldon Pittman, 24, and Kathryn Schreiner, 34, both Pleasanton.

William Cibulsky, 39, and Corrine Thompson, 29, both Pleasanton Bruce Karp, 34, and Susan Craig, 30, both Pleasanton. David Butterfield, 27, Gillette, and Lana Moomau, 24, Livermore. Theodore Klenk, 47, and Virginia Bartholomew, 39, both Pleasanton. Shawn Stewart, 21, and Brenda Holloway, 18, both Pleasanton. John Garcia, 41, San Leandro, and Kay Kinnear, 38, Livermore.

Fidel Garcia, 31, Fremont, and Idelisa Castillo, 3 32, Hayward. Bruce Chinn, 28, and Christine Mellon, 33, both Fremont. Lynn Brannum, 27, and Stacy Lunardi, 26, both San Mateo. Lance Evans, 32, and Dawn Lance, both San Leandro. Henry Thompson, 26, and Venet na-Simmons, 26, both Fremont.

Howard Tevis, 45, and Marsha 38, both Hayward. Richard Carlson, 23, and Christine 24, both Hayward. David Williams, 26, and Monika Ferreira, 30, both Castro Valley. Gary Hazaga, 32, and Denise Herger, 31, both San Leandro. Richard Guill, 27, and Diane Rasmussen, 23, both Fremont.

Timothy Lane, 24, Hayward, and Patricia Dionne, 20, Redwood City. Stephen Fricke, 26, and Catherine Pendrell, 29, both Fremont. Randy McMahan, 22, Oakland, and Arlene Warren, 22, San Leandro. Stuart Bair, 37, and Ellen Bishop, 31, both Emeryville. Michael Ashburne, 39, and Ariba Uhuru, 33, both Oakland.

Henk Klinkenberg, 31, and Shelley Kuks, 24, both Castro Valley, John Graves, 38, and Saba Yoldas, 25, both Laguna Beach. John Barry, 32, and Laurie Battle, 31, both Berkeley. Manolito Lopez, 33, and Balanza Clamarosa, 26, both Oakland. Stephen Jackson, 27, and Denise Miller, 33, both Alameda. Scott Adler, 30, Liane Torricer, 28, both Oakland.

Kenneth Archuleta, 38, and Kathleen Vida, 41, both San Francisco. Raymond Collins, 59, and Jacqueline Martineau, 51, both Berkeley. David Goines, 39, and Edie Ichioka, 22, both Berkeley. John Lopes, 45, and Bobbie Brooks, 54, both Oakland. Dennis Roventini, 37, Oakland, and Linda Cooper, 38, Lafayette.

James Fonseca, 25, and Lima Bergmann, 22, both Alameda. Jason Nguyen, 25, and Wendy Wong, 24, both Oakland. David Abbott, 48, and Lynda Turley, 29, both Pleasanton. Richard Graham, 37, San Leandro, and Lucy Chang, 32, San Leandro. Allen Strouphauer, 32, and Helen Ward, 30, both Pleasanton.

Gene Banbridge, 59, and Kay Morton, 40, both Fremont. James Ball, 27, and Dorothy Fontes, 34, both San Leandro. Gary Hahn, 21, Dorothy Northington, 21, both Newark. Thomas Martines, 62, and Margaret Fuller, 44, both Fremont. Dennis Creely, 38, and Rebecca Pennington, 26, both Fremont.

Atlantico Medina, 30, Fremont, and Mitos Fronda, 30, New York. Mark Block, 34, and Laura Hyde, 20, both Pleasanton. Richard Nagore, 24, Hayward, and Tamara Navas, 25, Castro Valley. David Miller, 24, and Katherine Foldessy, 21, both Fremont. Bradley Sabatoni, 29, and Valerie King, 32, both Fremont.

Peter Zink, 34, and jane Soo Hoo, 38, both Oakland. J. Birchfield, 29, Hayward, and Karen Longacre, 29, San Leandro..