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I I I I 00 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL SUNDAY, May 11, 2003 COMMUNITY CALENDAR CHANCES TO LEARN Today LECTURE Rabbi Arik Ascherman, ex'ecutive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, speaks on working for peace, and justice, .7:30 to 9:30 p.m., by donation, Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut Berkeley, 848-0237, Ext. 127. BIKE REPAIR Learn about bicycle break adjustments at REI's free hands on clinic, tools and guidance provided, 11 a.m. to noon, 1338 San Pablo Berkeley, 527-4140. READING Celebrate the Centennial of Koreans in America with a book launch event for "Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings," featuring a number of contributing writers, 3 p.m., Eastwind Books, 2066 University Berkeley, 548-2350.

MEDITATION Buddhist teacher Abbe Blum describes how to find inner peace through meditation practice, 6 p.m., free, Tibetan Nyingma Institute, 1815 highland Place, Berkeley, 843-6812. MEETINGS Monday PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY The East Bay PN Support Group hosts a meeting to share knowledge, suggestions, latest research and personal experience, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., free, Lutheran Church of the Cross, 1744 University Berkeley, 527-3568. KIDS PARENTS Today FILM Lawrence Hall of Science presents a 50-minute film celebrating the birthday of Richard Feynman Nobel laureate, maverick physicist, author and teacher, will play continuously, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., included with admission, Centennial Drive, above UC Berkeley campus, 642- 5132. EU ARTS ENTERTAINMENT Today CONCERT Michael Morgan, music director of the Oakland East Bay Symphony, leads members of the Oakland Youth Orchestra in a special Mother's Day concert, 1.

p.m., free, 10th and Oak streets, Oakland, 238-2200. THEATER The 1 Foot 2 Players presents "The Maids," a play by Jean Genet, 7 p.m., $10, Ann Davin Dance 2311 Stuart Berkeley, 644-1889. Monday ORGAN CONCERT First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley presents classical organ workshop for all interested in playing or hearing classical organ music, 7:30 p.m., free, Dana Street and Channing Way, Berkeley, (925) 283-8741. OPENING "bigLITTLE: Jewelers and Sculptors Making It, in Metal," opens at the Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery in the atrium of the State of California Office Building, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, runs through June 27th, free, 1515 Clay Oakland, 238-6952.

ETC. MISCELLANEOUS Today BOOK SALE Support the Kensington Library at their book sale, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a brown bag sale from 3 to 4 p.m., Kensington Community Center, 59 Arlington Kensington, 236-8886. SOUL BEAT TV wen Community service programs on Soul Beat Television (KSBT-TV, Channel 27 at 2544 73rd 530-3774, and on the World Wide Web at http://www.soulbeattv.com) include; 14 a.m. Soul Beat Gold Hits 6 a.m.

Gospel Beat with Young Turner 8 a.m. Soul Beat Special 79 a.m. and 11 p.m. Revelations Gospel Music Update with Otis and Penni Sanders 10 a.m. Ever Increasing Faith with Rev.

Fred K. Price 11 a.m. Believers Bible Christian Church with Pastor Allen McNair Noon Gospel Faith Hour with evangelist Joyce Tatum 11 p.m. Soul Showcase with Al Ballard 2 p.m. Soul Beat Special 3 p.m.

SBN Business Directory: Small business owners talk about their products or services 5 p.m. Health Beat with Dr. Geoffrey Watson and George Pearson 6 p.m. Shopper's Beat with Penni Sanders and Helen Davis 8 p.m. True Solutions with Dr.

Yusuf Bey of Your Black Muslim Bakery 19 p.m. -St. Andrews Prayer Hour 10 p.m. Pastor Dorothy McGhee KTOP TV Today's local programming on Oakland's KTOP-TV (Channel 10) includes: 8:30 a.m. Info Access 9 a.m.

Rules and Regulation Colnmittee: 11 a.m. Eco News: Whales and Dolphins 11:30 a.m. TalksBooks: Dr. M. Perry Noon Town Hall Budget Backgrounder: 2000-2005, 1 2 p.m.

Lannan Literary Series: Mei-Mei Barssenbrugger 3:30 p.m. Local Press Events or Info Access and Council Announcements 7:30 p.m. Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency, City Council, 10 p.m. Info Access Handout photo THE VIEW of Mt. Tamalpais attracted the early home builders 1 featured on today's BAHA House Tour.

Tour highlights Bohemian Berkeley of yesterday ICKETS ARE STILL available for today's Spring House Tour and Reception, sponsored by the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association. a The tour, which starts at 1:00 p.m. and continues until 5:00 p.m., features 12 houses in one of Berkeley's earliest subdivisions, created in 1905 with artistic, intellectual and conservation-minded residents in mind. The mostly eclectic arts and crafts style houses, set in mature blooming gardens, are clustered along two narrow wooded streets: Tamalpais and Shasta. "No doubt the inspiration for naming the street came from the spectacular views of the Bay and Mount Tamalpais in the distance that the home sites afforded," says Wendy Markel BAHA board member and chair of today's event.

There will be a garden reception at one of the houses and tickets for the self-guided tour are $25 for BAHA mem-. bers and guests and $30 for general admission. Tickets are available today at the check-in table, on Euclid Avenue at Bay View Place. An illustrated keepsake booklet, describing the origins of each house, along with a detailed history of the neighborhood is included in admission. Annalee ALLEN Annalee ALLEN limited, "we are suggesting people plan to car pool, and park at Hillside School." says Markel.

There is a $5 charge for parking at the school. According to Berkeley history files, Tamalpais and Shasta roads were opened in the spring of 1905 as the "Hopkins Terrace No.4" subdivision by the Berkeley Development Company and their agents, the Mason-McDuffe Co. Since parking will be The tract was billed as "Berkeley's Most Beautiful Upland Resident Park," and Duncan McDuffie, a charter member of the renowned Hillside Club, is credited with put- Aunt started group to help kin pay for burials, get job referrals VICTIMS, from Local 1 Lawrence Baldridge, 35, aka Keith Jamerson who was shot and died later on Aug. 11, 2002 was also among the attendees. Victim No.

70. "He was shot at 2:30 p.m. in front of a church near Edes and Nevada streets in East Oakland. But no one has come forward. There had to have been some witnesses," she said, wiping away tears.

"He was walking to the store when he was shot. Lawrence was turning his life around after he was released from jail. He had a job and he was going to church. I'm here today because people need to know he had a family. His dad is also here today, and I'm taking care of Lawrence's two children his son and daughter." Although the memorial program was only intended for the families of homicide victims from this year and last year, others came as well.

Christal Tarver, carried a snapshot of her late son, 24-year old Tracey Tarver. "My son was killed seven years ago. I'm here because all the violence hasn't stopped and the victims are getting younger," said Tarver. She spoke near a table where people were lining up to register in order to receive their gift baskets. Organizers said they would still like to hear from families they were unable to contact through the police department.

"My son was killed seven years ago. I'm here because all the violence hasn't stopped, and the victims are getting younger." Christal Tarver MEMORIAL ATTENDEE The event also paid tribute to community leaders who have organized nonprofits after losing children to violence. Among those who were honored were Donald Lacy, founder of the LoveLife Foundation, Marilyn Washington of the Khadafy Foundation, and Lorrain Taylor of Hayward whose two sons Albade and Obadiah were slain in Oakland in 2000. McCullough said she decided to start her organization because of the unmet needs. "People can call us if they need to talk or if they need help with their funerals or burials or if they need food, clothing or job referrals or training," said McCullough, who sat next to Tamellia's 11-year old sister, Talika, and Cobbs' mother, Vernolia Mae McCullough and Cobbs' stepfather, Carlos Moore.

The EarthAngel Foundation can be reached at 388-3538 or at P.O. Box 43652, Oakland 94624. Pastors of Oakland can be reached at Shhiloh Chirstian Fellowship, 261-2052. live traffic reports. Plan ahead check out the traffic along your commute before you leave home or the office.

Traffic reports on InsideBayArea.com are updated every five minutes LANDMARKS ting into practice the tenets espoused by club members, namely the use of simple, natural materials such as unpainted wood shingles, overhanging eaves and porches, to encourage the practice of "outdoor rooms," and perhaps most importantly, the construction of roadways that follow the natural contours of the land. Prior to 1890, Berkeley's first streets were laid out across the flat portions of land closer to the Bay, on a typical grid pattern, with intersections at 90-degree angles. The first houses built in these sections tended to be Victorianstyle cottages and villas, often painted white and framed with picket fences. Hillside Club members such as Bernard Maybeck and Charles Keeler wanted to see a different aesthetic prevail as the wooded hillsides began to be developed after the turn of the century. Other subdivisions marketed by the Mason-McDuffle firm during this era, such as the Claremont district on the south side of the university campus, tended to attract San Francisco and I Oakland businessmen and their families, say the filles.

The Hopkins Terrace No. 4 tract featured on today's tour, seemed in contrast, to "appeal more to the Bohemian Berkeleyan." Many Hillside Club members also were active in the Sierra Club. The promotion of the untamed Sierra landscape and the need for its protection and conservation were seen as high priorities for these potential residents. Longtime neighbor and home owner Mildred Barish has documented many of the families that have lived in the homes featured on today's tour. "The people who settled here and created a close-knit community seemed to capture the essence of the creative and intellectual spirit expressed in Berkeley's nickname 'Athens of the "Attracted to the site were painters, musicians, architects, city planners, poets, writers, 'independent women' and university professors, as well as businessmen and others from the 'everyday world' who, nonetheless, followed a Bohemian bent," she said.

Barish's research Shows that many who took up residence on the hill never left. It is not uncommon to find today homes still occupied by third or fourth generation descendants of the original owners. That is why the tour booklet is so valuable," says Markel, "the stories and connections of these families adds a particular dimension to this already fascinating collection: of 'only in Berkeley' homes." For more information on today's tour, go to BAHA's Web site, www.berkeleyheritage.com/2003springhouse- tour.html, or call (510) 841- 2242. Correction: Last week's column listed the next Oakland Tours Program sponsored "Preservation Park" tour, as Saturday, May 18. The cor-4 rect date is Wednesday May 14.

The tour starts at 10 a.m., meet at the park entrance, 13th St. and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. The free tour lasts approximately 90 minutes, reservations are recommended, but not required. To receive a schedule of all the tours, offered every Wednesday and Saturday, now through October, call the tours hotline, 238-3234, or go to www.Oaklandnet.com.

Police release sketch of slain teen I Mixed-race teen had a perfect smile and was wearing a red, white and blue shirt and plaid flannel pants By Ivan Delventhal STAFF WRITER CASTRO VALLEY Just over a week after the troubling discovery of a girl's body behind a Castro Valley restaurant, Alameda County sheriff's investigators Friday released a sketch of the victim, whose identity remains a mystery. Amy Nelder, a forensic artist with the San Francisco Police Department, completed a sketch of the girl's clothing Thursday. She also took measurements of the girl's facial features for a sketch released Friday. Sheriff's Lt. Greg Ahern said the creation of the sketches was a painstaking process.

"It took a great number of hours to be as exact as we possibly could," he said. "We hope that people who view this depiction will be able to immediately identify the victim and provide us with her name." Ahern said the work of a forensic anthropologist also has led to an updated description of the victim, who authorities think was slain. The girl, who had a light to medium complexion, is believed to be of mixed race possibly Latina, black and white who was about 13 to 17 years old, 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 110 pounds. She was wearing a red, white and blue Tommy Sport shirt, blue- green plaid flannel pants and light-colored socks. The girl had wavy dark brown hair that hung about 4 inches below her shoulders and was secured in a butterfly-style clip.

Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Dudek said the girl had a flawless smile. "She had perfect teeth, straight with no fillings, which is kind of unusual for a child in that age range," Dudek said. She also appeared to have a single piercing of each ear, and when she was found she was wearing distinctive gold hoop earrings, which were about the size of a quarter and were etched with a criss-cross or "roped" pattern. Sheriff's deputies found the partially de- material A AN Aja Case.

0 rows restaurant at 2723 Castro Valley Blvd. on the evening of May 1. The coroner's office estimated that she had been dead for about five days. Supervising Coroner Investigator Dan Ap person said the cause of death remains under investigation, but noted that the case has been classified as a homicide. A DNA sample taken from the girl has also been delivered to the Department of Justice DNA lab in Richmond so a genetic profile car be compiled.

Anyone with information on the case should call the Alameda County Sheriff's Of fice Eden Township Substation at 667-7721. Courtesy Amy Neider ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATORS are hoping that several sketches, including this one, could help i in identifying a dead girl found behind the Castro Valley Carrows restaurant on May 1. composed body inside a bag behind the Car- Free Weekly Lists of Property For Sale Help USell. "With Owner" descriptions, Help-U-Sell Call with (510) owners' address, numbers, East 251-6000 phone prices, Bay etc. REAL ESTATE 3527 Grand Ave.

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