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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 18

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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xr- I- I I te ter "I THE OAKLAND TRBUNE SUNDAY. Saptembar 13. 199B Landmarks ally known landscape architect Lawrence Halprln to lay out the CP pathways and select the low maintenance foliage. Towering overhead are hun-. 4- year did idred year old Monterey Pines planted in the 1870s.

SERIES OF walking tours and a new exhibit -opening Thursday will commemorate the Berkeley Fire of 1923. The exhibit opens on the 75th Anniversary of the blaze which destroyed nearly 600 homes and left thousands homeless. An opening reception gets under way at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the main auditorium of the Berkeley Veterans Memorial. Building, 1931 Center St Rare film footage, recorded tn-') tervlews with survivors, salvaged artifacts from the ruins and a j'.

slide straw narrated by Carl Wilson, a fire expert and forester; sis well as historian, will be fea-; tuied. The event Is sponsored by the Berkeley Historical Society; Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association and the City of Wilson also leads a walking tour today starting at 10 a.mv tracing the boundaries of the fire. The tour starts at the foot of Raise Walk at Euclid Avenue Just south of Codornlces Park. walkway was designed byi Vi Bernard Maybeck and Prominent California archil ry SAf tects of the socalled Second Bay Tradition designed the 10 houses; surrounding the I II 4 v7' Walk is Berkeley landmark 165. and Greenwood Common Is 1 125' 5 Next Sunday a tour led by Ken Next a tour lea py Ken looks at the westeriic.s"y;v-7 ii, ir'r 1923 J.

-y, yj for each tour is 7 v. ,) Donation for each tom ls $5 i kay coHoi-a for Berkeley Historical Society snwoodf Common, Tha park will ba part (rf today's Berkeley firs walk. y-. i 0 Altolfe ilwwytiBii Jbouei irtrabe bwmenf share A Qyysondesied eottsges an.jenliip to the pentad open ictained' JW? ttundartoDentatflsIiree. piM'pedestitgn JAtWturtWtheratmy: a rambling aepess from streets above (U i promlnent SanFIrancisco lawyer? nfryhbmeatwhatisiraw Lana, Buena Vista and others) to; i Included ini today's tour, is and Sierra Club foimder 1459Jreenwood Terrace.

conceived of the duster of homes Thursdays opening Is V-V ig, wurster served.as demi -MsfrcMT, 1999 and Is open me at wnat is now' JJCs School of Architecture Thursdays through Saturrs( of the duster of homes1 from 1 to 4 I -iwood Euelid Avenue and the electric. glimpse erf Greenwobd Common. Gregory acquired the then unde' 3 The nisflic eiulaye survived the ') linked by a shared xinmon. yisit the society's web page stteet cm; a park parcel surrbunded property as part of a fire and some years later William V'i Wurster asked theinternatidn-. Sr.

'i rft Enroll in professional courses or earn a Certificate In ws pt www Continued from LOCAL-1 should she old w6 house burnied. be- ils i a a a a 1 Free Information sesslj 'j. a Tuesday, September 22 Gibta said, her father told her Gibbs ii she'a- rioV eoriy was even married hi 1U" run; up Jo the iatllcand EAST BAY HOSPICE Live in the Eaat Bay? Volunteers with aaf sUllsf ervicMorUnfuacesiiMded Attend itolnfornuUioa Social THURS SEPT. 24, 7-9 pjin. SMOO Paaeo Padre Pkwy.

Nile West, Boom freintont i McArihur, Oakland (V BmlMOB, enter; Foe Mors Information) Please Call a- Hayward Warren Hall, IJd 02.J rearonabletuibon BxpBriBnced i Curriculum designed for working VAflEfuru: (510) 500-7757: h'-' Call (510) 881-2321 fordetailedbmchure fWMFfffflffrff ffflf Please recycle Cafterjreading AM (mob 'ftatt Hstm-Gks Repair WUa Yos If 12 t0a.m.-7p.m.:): Alameda County Fairgrounds SATURDAY Rwy 680 at Bernal to MENTIONHEAGHERS ii fV tr. trleye the jewelry they kept Id a i straw suitcasei They opened lalier varid foundit Un)idm6whst -tivem. the; jU had been ihoved. lo a fllihg cabind never put of the yr'yl: V- r. i.

r. didh't realize what kind of danger wi; were iih; she cpiild look. and' see) burning. ion. Je) 1 1.

figured riiy father knew what was going on -v- When her own. house V) was engulfed in Glbbsr; Vi her father and the students among the furniture. In the empty lot and watched. 'y'-'H It. toofelS minutes to to yi "Was crying." Gibbs, i dust tff See it going; it wks tef- rible to see our house burning There; nothing we-.

could do; there warf a feeling of remember when Dorothy and' 1 ran up Ihe hill 'and flrst saw the house burning, it was a -shock," she said. i i TVe1 could smell the smoker butwecouldn't see. anything. At-. 17 don't Vreally expect houses to burn.

guess I) expected my father, to do some-, thing, but he couldn't; do any-; thing without L' Gibb's; SIster. TMargheritai 96 sald she. learned of her heroics when the family called to tell her: about 1 ftr j-v lire. A. She wasn't surprised) Wine evett V'r ww vX' I I I I I nmmun Sir-- fr- THed.

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forgood nutrition aiiid Consistent fj.f:':'. exerciMt and the value of a tobacco-free it SN mwq tnwr anv VltiiJiBS8ffltJ i1? '-t-t: Enroll in professional courses .1 or earn a ccrfficote in -0 1 nL. 1 I. i. dl I 1 1 mk fl for church restoration '5 St amt Bnxntn! It's never too gfc to dunk L- gretMprognm! Itb never too early to dunk stout keeping your lads' hearts FROM STAFF REPORTS please call (510X208-6741 or fex to (510) 206-6365 sy.

New program designed for those working in human resources. the legal field, -education, profit and nonprofit organizations, police and fire personnel as wefi as Intfividuals and families) Fall 1998 Courses BERKELEY SL Joseph Jhe Worker Catholic Church will hold i lts second annual wlne-tastlng" today to raise funds to restore the interior, of the church at 1640 Addison SL hiCiekft- SfiP i I- .1 i or STUDENTS Yes! Sign me up fortiK FREE iEg, ') Heakhy Heart Wbdtot proam and QAAOE .1 Survtyof Conflict Rtsolutloii ji Titfdtyi. Siptiaksr 23 Nswater 24. 6J0 flJO pi Effictlvi ConaiunlcatloiiM Tksrsdsys. Sirtsaktr 24 Oetsksr 29, 6:30 -9-JO pa Conflict la Nonprofit Organizations Satardayi.

October 3 T7. 9 4 po das sets (rf newspapers sponsored Stress by Longs Drugs. Ptognm.lxgins Oct 7 and ends Nov. 25, 1998. The event will be held In the landmark Hume Cloister, 2900 Buena Vista Way in Berkeley.

It begins at 3 p.m. Varietal wines from throughout Northern California will be available as well as cheeses and hors d'oeuvres. i SCHOOL i PHONE Call (510) 685-3605 for tnort Information snrw.txtssslfi.ciskivwsrd.sdi HOME- PHONE fU I I I I I I i i i -i TEACHBT SIQNArURE All money raised will be used to restore the church which is one the oldest churches In the East Bay, said Dick Musson. a member of the wine-tasting committee. JCcnqaDtuun fob a healthy COHMDNITY.

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