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6 NEWS THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL fr REGION SUNDAY March 23 2008 Nominate a Preservation Partner Community Calendar Annalee ALLEN HE Oakland Heritage Alliance Is seeking nominations for this Partners in Preservation Awards OHA board president Valerie Garry says handing out these awards we hope to inspire individuals in our community to take action to preserve protect and pro mote historic This marks the 15 th year that OHA has con ducted the Part ners award search she added Nomi nation categories include Adaptive UseRehabilita tion the conver sion of a historic structure for a new use while retaining its architectural in tegrity new construction a sensitive new design project built within a historic con text and Restoration removing incompat ible alterations and reconstructing missing ii il Ml lil OAKLAND and all its historic buildings are seen from high up in this file photo Nominations for recent successful preservation projects are due April 21 element to reflect a original ap pearance There are also categories of Ad vocacy Leadership and Lifetime Achievement Individuals organizations projects and programs are all eligible for nomination Garry said as long as the projects have been completed within the last five years and are within Oakland In the individual category self nomi nations can be submitted Garry said and the alliance is also accepting nominations without the nominee's knowledge So now is your opportunity to honor that special someone who cares about Oak land and deserves to be recognized A jury of preservation experts from throughout the Bay Area will review the nominations "All entries must be postmarked by April Garry said The winners will be honored during an awards event on May 8 at Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Ave and will be featured on the OHA Web site www oak landheritage org According to the site there were 11 win ners in 2007 The restoration of Hanifin Hall in the 1900 block of San Pablo Avenue was among the nominees receiving recogni tion The Italianate style commercial struc ture was built in 1878 historical files reveal and in recent years had suffered from blight and neglect After a recent $22 million renovation by new owner Mo Mash hoon the building reopened with ground floor retail spaces and upper floor lofts Mashhoon also took advantage of a city of Oakland facade improvement grant The original builder Jeremiah Hanifin born in Ireland in 1834 was an early devel oper of property in downtown Oakland urthermore the files say in 1886 Hanifin Hall was the location of a festive wedding of local bride Mary Yore to the well known Irish separatist patriot Michael Davitt Da vitt was then traveling around the West raising funds for Irish independence stopped in Oakland and evidently lost his heart To learn more about past winners and to download an application for the OHA Partners in Preservation Awards visit the OHA Web site A longtime advocate for landmarks Oakland history and the right to vote has died Sister Ethel Mary Tinnemann 91 for 65 years a sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and a professor of history at Holy Names University died March 11 Tinnemann was a legend in League of Women Voters circles single handedly walking precincts in every Oakland neigh borhood and registering residents to vote "Sister Ethel Mary was much beloved because she dedicated her time to sign up as many people as she could" said Bonnie Hamlin former Oakland chapter league president Jean Spees wife of former City Coun cilmember Richard Spees served with Tinnemann on the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board in the late 1970s were both appointed by then mayor Lionel Wilson" Spees said "Sister was plain spoken yet well spoken She really advo cated for saving our landmarks She had such an accurate memory and over time collected many wonderful photographs of early day Oakland which she had made into slides or years she taught a popular Oakland history class at Holy Names She will be greatly missed" Contact Annalee Allen at ldmksldyaolcom SLA member rearrested after being freed Ull LIvl Lvl ILL LlldLL ollC uCqCJ VvU By Todd MHbourn SACRAMENTO BEE California corrections officials rearrested Sara Jane Olson on Saturday five days after she was released and announced they intend to keep her in prison for another year California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Oscar Hi dalgo said officials miscalculated sentence and gave her a year's more time "We're launching an investigation to pre vent this from happening again" Hidalgo said Olson the former Symbionese Liberation Army member known as Kathleen Soliah was convicted of killing Myrna Opsahl In the lobby of a Carmichael bank in 1975 and of trying to bomb police cars in Los Angeles Hildalgo said Olson was detained riday night at Los Angeles International Airport as she was preparing to fly to Minnesota where her family lives Treva Miller a spokeswoman for LAX said Olson was detained between 1 1 pm and midnight without incident She was arrested after authorities exam ined her sentence reassessed her time credits and determined she still had more time to do Olson had been released Monday from the Central California acility in Chowchilla 7 year old plays editor in chief in Davis Bl Boy writes publishes and delivers weekly neighborhood newsletter By Hudson Sangree SACRAMENTO BEE As newspapers struggle with changing times one young en trepreneur has cast his lot with the printed word rinnegan loole Boire of Davis founded his own paper in September He writes takes photos sells ads and handles printing and circulation the editor in chief" he said 'Tm also the delivery boy i do pretty much everything all by myself" inn is 7 years old His paper is called lhe Weekly Block and covers his own small part of the world in central Davis The second grader with a mop of brown hair was inspired by the hero ol his iavorite tales Geronimo Stilton a storybook mouse and editor of The Ro Gazette was bored and thinking about Geronimo Stilton and I said to myself wouldn't it be fun to have my own His parents thought their interest would wane after a single issue But his dad Davis attorney Richard Boire helped inn set up a computer template and inn went to work on his blue and white Apple laptop Now the weekly news cycle begins anew the day after the latest issue goes out the door Sitting in his sunny room dressed in jeans and a striped shirt inn said he spends tire first couple of days storming" no news at the be ginning of the week" he said start to think of stuff as the week As the pressure mounts inn starts writing He produces about four stories a week In an issue on climate change inn urged his readers to drive electric cars to do their shopping He got the scoop on a neigh borhood burglary after someonekicked in the front door of a nearby home in broad daylight It was a rare and startling event in inn's upscale neigh 7 borhood was real news" said neighbor Will Benware who said he is a regular reader inn also writes about his own experiences One headline read loses An other story was about the death of his pet rabbit: had striped ears and died because well do not inn turned photojournalist when the neighborhood's trees were covered with toilet paper He sells ads for a dollar One reader promoted his book another asked for help in the garden Each week inn heads to with one of his parents and runs off 45 double sided copies of his paper which re sembles a newsletter He de livers them in the blocks near his house On a recent afternoon inn knocked on the door of neighbor Celia Rabinowitz and handed her Issue 18 It con tained a survey of all the neigh pets including two pigs nine chickens and a fire bellied toad Rabinowitz said she looks forward to the paper just keeps churning them out week after week" she said amazing Adults start some thing and don't finish it He does it all by Kent Bradford a college pro fessor who lives down the block said he was thinking of buying an ad from inn for his son a neighborhood handyman a good Bradford said Handed a copy of The Weekly Block in her driveway Nancy Aikin asked inn if he wanted to add her pug Gabe to his pet list a recurring feature Scanning the sheet Aikin said: know we had the fire bellied inn's mother Wrye Sen tentia teaches writing at the University of California Davis She said she thinks the paper helps promote a sense of community in their neiglibor hood MICHELIN $10 TO $15 erdfl In Store Dealer Promo LOCATED NEAR LAKE MERRITT MONDAY THRU RIDAY 8:30 AM 5:00 PM 2 DOORS DOWN ROM 7 ELEVEN 2340H ARRISONOAKLAND (510) 834 9938 ROUSE TIRE SERVICE INC SPRING TIRE SALE amily Ownet Since 1946 Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 Michelin Sought after by the best Make every drop of gas count 24540ZR 17 23565R 16 22545ZR17 22560R17 More Sizes Types in Stock Done RIGHT Too 41 5) 681 0823 $50 off Veterans Transfers Medical Marijuana Physician Evaluations lift jf' Medical Clinic ee i 4 ji' 7 8885998789 East Bay S108878010 21615 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