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Ship cleaning rocks water boat Suspect arrested in police killing shelt er now HARPER 5 SEAN COMNELLEY Staff photos THE SEASON SEAN CORHELLEY Staff our World War II Victory ships have been cleaned this year in Richmond and Ala meda prior to towing them to Texas scrap KADUA BATEMAN 1 7 (above) sister of slain Richmond Police Officer Kaliah Harper receives huqs from Richmond police officers Saturday following a press conference at the Richmond Police Department Richmond Police Deputy Chief Lori Ritter (left) and Lt Enos Johnson address the media detailing the shooting death of Richmond Police Officer Kaliah Harper and the search for her suspected killer Quartas Hinton 8 pm Sat urday after of ficers surrounded him at a public rest room near Harbor and Mare Island ways said airfield Police Lt Tony Shipp Hinton's fa ther called Richmond po lice to try to negotiate his sur render Shipp said Informa tion from the father helped Vallejo police Annalee ALLEN KARL MORDOR MediaNewA THE HANNIBAL VICTORY a World War II era cargo ship is towed to Richmond where its hull will be cleaned before its final tow to a scrapyard in Texas The ship was launched in the Kaiser ship yards in Richmond in 1945 JAN BLUM of San rancisco (left) and artisan Susan Brooks share a laugh Saturday at store in the Sawtooth Building 8th Street at Dwight Way in Berkeley Studios and craft stores are featuring the work of many local artists and craftspeople all over Berkeley during the Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios every weekend until Christmas Information on a free i self guided tour of the many open I studios and stores can be found at: wwwberkeleyartisanscorn Managing editor: Martin Reynolds (510) 208 6433' ax! (510) 208 6477 open despite loose ends SUNPAY November 26 2006 Oakland he has written exten sively for architectural mag azines academic Journals and edited books on architecture and the built environment latest book is of the San ran cisco Bay Area: A History William Stout Pub lishers The author will be ap pearing this Thursday at Builders Booksource in Berkeley at 7:30 pm Architecture history lovers on your gift list will want to re ceive this compact well illus trated guide that is easy to carry on self guided walks around San rancisco and the East Bay The author notes that our area was one of the last places of the New World to be covered conquered and set tled by Although the Bay is the finest natural harbor along 1264 mlle coast line Schwarzer states early explorers charting the western edge of the continent appar ently overlooked it for centu ries likely due perhaps to region's famous which prevented navigators from sighting the Inland es tuary The first record of the Bay was made in 1769 by mem bers of an expedition led by Gaspar de Portola who hiked from the San Mateo County coast near present day Paci fica to the top of Sweeny Ridge a promontory now known as the Discovery writes Schwarzer saw to their astonishment a great expanse of wafer en closed by Over the subsequent 240 years the lands surrounding Please see ALLEN Metro 8 The key element of the program the environmentally friendly reg ulations Under the proposal projects would be evaluated on a checklist of preconstruction construction arid materials requirements Proj ects would earn points for green building features such as in stalling Energy Star appliances and a solar water heating system Please see GREEN Metro 8 HINTON locate Hinton Police believe Hinton shot and killed Officer Kaliah Harper 28 in the parking lot of the airfield Community Center according to Richmond police Lt Enos Johnson Harper and Hinton had been dating for six months a rela Please see COP Metro 2 government documents show appears that such work requires ap propriate permitting from the water Keith Lfchten a senior engineer with the San rantisfco Bay Regional Water Quality Con trol Board wrote in an October mail to fed eral officials "We believe such permitting Is consistent with theUS Coast Guard's requirement Oakland facility which has lounge and dining area can serve 1 00 people By Cecily Burt STA WRITER OAKLAND The new winter homeless shelter at the Oakland Army Base has finally opened be hind schedule and with workers still scrambling to Install wiring water lines lighting and parti tions to separate the men's and women's sleeping areas The shelter has 20 beds for women and 80 for men from Oakland and Berkeley On Monday night 58 people took advantage of the quartets volunteers said and about the same number have been coming each night since Inside the shelter is a communal lounge area with comfortable sofas and chairs and a separate dining area with rows of tables where residents eat breakfast and dinner They must leave every morning and cannot return until late in the after noon A shuttle bus provides transportation to and from the West Oakland BARTstation for cli ents who need it The shelter had to relocate from the bowling alley on the former Army Base because the land has been sold to the Port of Oakland and the building is slated for demolition The homeless program got another building but someone real ized at the last minute that it was too close to land where toxic soil is being removed That gave coordinators less than a month to find another building which they did a ware house at 'the corner of Maritime Street and West Grand Avenue and then to transform the empty shell into something habitable been working night and day week ends and Sundays and it still needs some work Please see HOME Metro 8 the water line to lessen the chance oi spreading non riative species to other waters Complicating matters the ships are old and many have been mothballed in Suisun Bay for decades allowing their hulls to be overwhelmed with barnacles seaweed and decaying metdl Active ships undergo cleaning usually in dry dock during routine repairs roughly every five years The large amount of growth and the Suisun ship's aging hulls combine to make them difficult to clean without discharging metals into the Bay Please see HULL Metro 8 RAY CHAVEZ Start ROSES ARE SET near some beds in the room of the Oakland winter homeless shelter The shelter hosts up to 100 homeless people including 20 beds for women Book explores architectural roots Bay Area agency considers regulating flushing of old vessels over Bay contamination fears By Thomas Peele MEDIANEWS STA California water quality regulators are close to ordering the US Maritime Adminis tration to obtain state permits arid monitor for pollution when it cleans the hulls of obso that the (ship cleaning) comply with local re and the federal anti pollution laws that the hoard enforces Lichten wrote State regulators became involved after ping yards The work was done under a reading Contra Costa reports in Au Coast Guard order issued in June that ma gust that hull cleaning was occurring in Rich: rine growth be removed from the hulls below Recent break up drove man to kill Richmond department says Meera PM and Nellie Applen MEDIANEWS STA Police arrested a 28 year old Vallejo resident Saturday night whom they believe fatally shot an off duty Richmond police of ficer riday in airfield police said Quartus Lee Hinton surren dered to Vallejo police around mond without notice to state and local authorities and a later report that govern ment documents show the work left metals and lead paint in the Bay Now new documents show that Maritime lete ships from the Suisun Bay Reserve leet Administration officials Ignored state re quests io uoscrvv me victuiuig iiiuiiuiui another ship in Alameda No final regional water board decision has been made on whether to regulate the hull cleanings ormal action would require a 30 day comment period preceding a public hearing and board vote The board is one of eight such bodies that regu late water quality and usage in California JUomdtaiTinicsStor Metro Albany poised to enact green construction plan By Justin Hill MEDIANEWS STA The Albany City Council gave preliminary approval last weeK to three ordinances that comprise its proposed green building program The ordinances are scheduled to go before the City Council for final approval Dec 4 Congratulations" Mayor Allan Maris said after Mon unanimous vote Homeless I I fl I 1 1 lOffi 4 fl II.