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i I JbujbaAlarJto She (Paklanb Oxibime wwwjiewscholce.com SUNDAY January 11, 1988 Storytelling restores womans hope SPGCMLTDDCnHIC Every night before tucking her- three children to sleep at Alameda's Midway wants one thing more than anything else in this world to visit Oakland's Fairyland. Everyday he daydreams about joining the crowd ci children who follow Fairyland's yellow brick road to magic places like Pln-occhio's Castle, The Seven Dwarfs' Cabin and Alice in Wonderland's tea party. The little boy knows that his mother doesn't have enough money to bring him to Fairyland. But she promises him that one day she will save enough to bring him down that yellow brick road and make his dream come true. Storytelling has become a way of Ufa for Ray.

A recovering crack addict and alcoholic, she haa used storytelling to overcome despair and addiction and to instill In herself and her children hope and confidence about the future. She first started storytelling in the cramped, stuffy rooms of Highland Hospi-tal's Substance Abuse Treatment Center in Oakland, which she entered as a patient in July 1996. "Every day, I was telling the story of my Ufe or listening to other addicts tdl theirs," she says of those first few meeting. At first tt drove me crazy. But the more I told Shelter for the Homeless, 34-year-okl Klnf berly Ray thinks up a bedtime story to tdL And every nlgit, Willie, Ray's feisty three-year-okl, asks to hear Us favorite: A Trip to Fairyland.

Ray hoists Willie to the top of the bunk-bed he shares with his five-year-old sister Jasmine (Jan), checks to see if Tequilla, her 18-numth-okl, is snug in her crib, and There's a Me hoy named Willie who "It's a silly story," Ray says, after Willie, fallen asleep. "But it and Jequllla have some- Jazz keeps their spirits up and gives them thing to look forward to." PteaseseeRaooMry.C-2 Khnborty Ray says sho has tumod bar Ifo around. MAKINGS OF A LEGEND News You Use'- Four seats open on air quality panel The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's Board of Directors is looking for i interested residents Interested in serving on the districts advisory council, which advises and consults with ttw board on matters related to air pollution. The 20-member panel consists of Individuals representing special Interest groups and occupations. The current four vacancies on the Or' 1 panel are for people Involved and recreation with park) Slight gain in white, gradute students smfvwih commissions, conservation organizations, Industry and the regional park district -Applicants should be experienced in the field of air pollution control For more information and an application, contact Carol Bradley, Clerk of the Boards, BAAQMD, 939 Ellis St.

San Francisco, CA. 94109, (415) 749-4961 or at the Web page at www.baaqmd.gov; Application deadline Is Feb. 9. Draw Baxter tends tha bar rt HotookT First and Last Chanre Saloon. Thn IlSyaar-old bar wfil ba OAKLAND The first year of the post-affirmative action era has produred a slight jln in the number of white students in University of CaU-fonila g-aduate schooL But there was a steep decline in the number of African Americans and declines among other ethnic groups as well, final enrollment figures show.

However, there were none of the dismaying plunges in minority enrollment systemwide like the widely publicized drop to zero African Americans last year in UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school entertngdass. EBUUD additive unsafe forjtetflsh The East Bay Municipal Utility District will add a new disinfectant to the water supply Feb. 1 that makes water safer to Literati cite Heinhold saloon drink but kills aquarium fish. Chloramine which replaces the mere common' chlorine is being used in an effort to reduce concentrations of that form in water treated with chlorine. Mnsiva drop in Latino numbM While there were a few bright spots In the African-American numbers, Latino enrollments dropped virtually everywhere.

A Latino task force of UC faculty and staff haa been working on the problem far several years. The goup has made several recommendations, including abandoning the SAT tests as a requirement for entrance. The final UC graduate school statistics, released Friday by UC Assistant Wee President Ellen Swltkes, show the entering dasa at all the universitys academic and professional graduate schools remains predominantly white. Systemwide, the university enrolled 4,752 white graduate students In fall. 1997, a 1.9 per cent Increase.

BylasbNftKfaUi STAffVHna However, tt also disrupts the oxygen from the water to the fishes' bloodstream, and fish owners need to remove it before filling their fish tanks. Chloramine removers can be purchased at stores that sell -aquarium supplies. Ji pyZfr. OAKLAND Historians, literary bulls and anyone with an interest in California folklore are Invited to witness author Jack London's favorite bar Join an elite list of the nation's literary landmarks. -Monday, "Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon" in Jack London Square built from the wood of a old whaling ship will Join San Francisco's beat generation City Lights Bookstore, Edgar Allen Poe's Philadelphia home, and John's Grill of "Maltese Falcon" fame on the hst Friends of the Library USA started dedicating literary afire in 1987.

HdnokTa la the 29th on die list, and one of three in California. The purpose of the recogiltion la to make the lifestyle of renowned authors as recognizable as their works, said Sandy Dolnick, exec- MnhokTs FM and List Chanca Saloon stands at ttw foot of Webstar Strait In Jack London Square. It la butt from tha wood of an oM 'whiling ship. Soul Beat TV program guide Today's community service programs on Soul Bret Television (KSBT-TV, Channel 37, Oakland cable) Include: Hooked On Fishing, 6 a.m. Believers Bible Christian Church, 6:30 aan.

and 9 p.m. Young Turner, 7 a.m. Turning Point, 8 a.m. Revelations Gospel Music, 9 a.m. and 1 1 p.m.

Ever No anrofimang prahrancas It was the first year that graduate schools could no longer rive enrollment preferences baaed on race, ethnicity or gender, and the number of African-American graduate students dropped 10 percent to 281, while' Latino enrollment fell nearly 8 percent to 587. AsfanAmerican enrollment declined neaity 8 percent to 1,420. Numbers of American Indians also declined steepty while the number of forelgi students Increased to 15 percent or 1362. "The data from the professional schools like Boalt Is depressing, there's no doubt about tt, Swltkes said. On five other hand, in the gaduate academic programs, English, history, engineering, physics, there are some differences, she said.

In among the more than 600 academic, graduate schools in the UC system, the number of African-American students enrolled in the entering daaa climbed 2 percent to 215 from 218. But the number of Asfan-American students dropped 9 percent to 950 and Latino enrollment Ml 9 percent to 464. history, young -leather-jacketed London was befcjpnded by saloon owner Johnny Heinhold. After building a friendship, Heinold lent London the money to attend UC Berkeley. London later dropped out.

generations of Americans, and not Just boys but girls, too, Dolnick said. "He fa one of those literary figures that people don't realty think of as a reality; rather, people think he la bigger than fife. People Just don't think about a writer's life being aa mundane as tt really Is." His day-to-day muaings at the watering hole la the spirit behind the dedication, on what would be London's 122nd birthday. London was 40 when he died of kidney failure. According to the bar's published Increasing Faith, 10 a.m.

and 10 p.m. OURS Hour, 11 a. m. Instead, London got his education at the bar's chafes, listening to the tales of wayward sailors, stevedores and ship hands. Ambrose Bierce and Joaquin Miller are other utive director of the organization.

Jack London la a major literary figure across the United States because of his thirst for adventure and his meticulous chronicles of the California's expansion. "He inspired the hnngtnaHnn of Soul Showcase, 12 p.m. Political Beat 2 p.m. News Beat 4 p.m. Health Beat, 5 pjn.

Sabrina Samuels, 6 p.m. Dr. Yusef Bey, 8 p.m. Please see LondoaC4 Blink house turned saloon celebrates jts feme boys hi their teens, the nighttime raiders of commercial shell fish dnotds Saloon and Jack London i -1 1 qiqqi Bnn At the live UC business schoolawhlte enrollment increased 5 percent to 390; Asfan-American enrollment was up 9 percent to 153. But African-American enrollment plummeted 26 percent to 20 from 27 and Latino enrollment dropped 54 percent to 54 from 25.

At the three UC laws schools, Boalt. UCLA and UC Davis, white enrollment boomed up 27 percent to 589; Asfan-Americans Increased 32 to 153. The number of entering Afilcan-students dropped a sharp 53 percent 59 from beds). Oyster harvesting was a million dollar Industry before the tun turn of the Ever since the influx of 49ers, the salty delicacy had been In high demand. Under the cover of Premenopausal subjects needed Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, are looking for women with benlgi tutors of the uterus andor excessive menstrual bleeding for two clinical research projects part ofthe "MS (medicine or surgery) Study Premenopausal women over 30 years of age who experience symptomatic uterine fibroids and are scheduled to undergo a hysterectomy are needed for a hysterectomy techniques trial.

Women between SO and 50 years okl who experience heavy or prolonged menstrual poachers absconded with whatever they could. to 16 from 43; Latinos fell 34 percent to noa fell 34 percent to Oaklands own Heindds First and Last Chance Saloon (a city designated landmark since 1975) receives national literary landmark status Monday, the anniversary of the birth of Jack London who was one of the watering hole's most famous patrons. Built from remnants of a whaling ship the ramshackle structure first served as bunk house far water bed workers. The briny waters of San An-tonio Skxigh lapped around Its pil-tnga In the early days and It stood cheek by Jowl to the old Webster Street Bridge. 'V Landmarks At UCa five medical schools, the number of white students increased 4 percent to 272; Asfan-American numbers were up 6 percent to 201.

The number of African Americana Increased 4 percent, but the net gain was Just one student, from 26 In 1996 to 27 this past faH Latino enrollment 1 41 fro dropped 5 percent to 41 from 39. Jack a regular If caught the penalties were severe. A 15-year-old already ou his own and answerable to no one, Jack London waa a regular at Hdnoids and as wdl as the nearby oyster beds. The saloon's Interior has changed Me since those rough early days. Its anrroundtngi are a different story.

Gone are the coal sheds, warehouses, stables and cheap lodging roams si the foot bleeding with our without uterine fibroids i i are needed According to long standing legend, on the Alameda side of the bridge, no alcohol was allowed, so Hetnokfi became fee lint or fast stop far travelers In need of a "nickel beer or dime whiskey." It was a hard mixed crowd (recalled Heinold In an interview shortly before his death in 1933) of "whaling and sealing ship crews that docked fit the Estuary and drivers of the horse tracks crossing the bridge." for a study examining commonly used medical treatments vs. Despite the declines, Swltkes noted that In moat disciplines the UC graduate schools still make almost every Nat of schools with a substantial number of African-American students, Swttkessald. The brightest part of the situation to what Is happening across the UC campuses for ment next year, she said. Haas School of Immadtatn popularity I hi 1883 Johuty Heinold (a deck hand whp ha4 covne round the Horn on a windjammer) bougjit the old bimk house for $100 and converted ft Into a saloon. Us popularity was immediate.

Webster Street Bridge. The bridge tt-demofished In the 1920s. who experience heavy uterine bleeding No experimental medications will be tested. For more Information, call (415)2063634. Ptesss see lawkiwriL C-4 Also regularly seen oyster I t.

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