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Jackrabbit promotes fundraiser to assist employee in health crisis

JackRabbit sports is sponsoring a fund-raising run for one of its employees, Greg Hamilton, who has been diagnosed with testicular cancer. While his direct medical expenses are covered by Jackrabbit’s employee coverage, There are all kinds of costs when fighting cancer, and only a few of them are covered by medical insurance.  Greg’s parents live [...]

Recent robbery attempt in parade ground

We have reliable intelligence that a neighbor was the subject of an attempted robbery in the Parade Ground on a recent evening – just outside the building which houses both the Parks and Police Departments. We’ve also been told – but not yet been able to confirm – that arrests have been made in the [...]

variations on the letter “Z” This post brought to you by “Lisa” and the letter “Z”

Which was always one of our favorite letters;  and then we met Lisa Z., about whom we expect to making announcements soon.  Even though we’re much older than her, since we’re sort of socially behind our age group, and she’s  mature without being boring (unlike some of us who can manage IMmature and boring), we [...]

An excerpt from Marcelle Manhattan’s lovely piece this week, There’s No Place Like Home: I move at least once a year. Since 2003, I’ve subjected myself to six rounds of searches on Craig’s List, six tedious packing rituals, and six tales of mishap with sundry scurrilous moving companies. You might think me a carefree, irreverent [...]

Neighbors doing cool things: Joel Johnson

Joel Johnson, the gadget czar at BoingBoing parallel Gadgets site – we’d assumed he was ine Bay area.  But he lives up the hill – (in the lowest flood-risk zone – we’ll leave it at that), where he also has his own blog. His most recent post announces that his sister Rachel has  opened Lemons [...]

Scott Whittle – watch this space for more

We’re pleased to add our neighbor Scott Whittle to our blogroll – he’s an outstanding photographer in more than one context (the link here is only to his wedding photography -watch this space for more), and a serious birder. Caton Avenue  has it on good authority that Mr. Whittle will soon make an attempt to [...]


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