Community Corner
Dec. 2: Five Things You Need to Know This Thursday in Alameda
A speaker whose life story reminds us how good we have it, and a new business networking group meets.
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- Alameda's Social Service Human Relations Commission will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. (ignore the online agenda that says it's Sunday), at City Hall conference room 360. The agenda includes block grants and discussion of a possible anti-bullying workshop in 2011.
- The , which works with the Navy on Alameda Point issues, meets tonight at 6:30 p.m., then has a potluck dinner. The agenda includes a year-end Environmental Protection Agency report.
- The (the charter school that replaced Chipman Middle School this year) will host a tonight at 6:30 p.m. Mawi Asgedom fled civil war in Ethiopia and spent time in a Sudanese refugee camp, but eventually made it to Harvard University. He tells his story in a book for teens that Academy students are reading. The public is welcome to Asgedom's talk, which is in the school gymnasium.
- Rain is in the forecast, but that's OK because all you'll be doing is shopping all the great local shops and home-made gift events in town. Check out our article from several days ago, and this weekend's events in the Patch listings.
- The growing Alameda Business Network is hosting a tonight at . Catered food buffet, no-host bar, raffle and Taiko Drum demonstration. Fundraising supports Operation MOM, which sends packages to service members overseas. Plus the mixer gives local business folks a chance to network. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., tickets are $10.
Plan ahead: If your gift shopping takes you to at Alameda Towne Centre, they've got a special deal this weekend, reports Janet Levaux in the Alameda Journal blog: Make a purchase and receive a $15 gift card to donate to a local school through the group Donors Choose.
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