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March 05, 2004

Reversing History: The Dumbarton Dialogue Project
University Ave. Traffic

EPA Residents Needed to Participate in University / 101 Traffic Academy

Project to ensure East Palo Alto has a "seat at the table" in
regional traffic planning

By Surlene Grant

For East Palo Alto, geography has been destiny. Set midway between San Jose and San Francisco at the narrowest part of the Bay, East Palo Alto is bisected both north-south by the 101 Freeway and east-west by the University Avenue corridor linking to the Dumbarton Bridge.

Since the earlier Bayshore Highway split East Palo Alto in the 1920s, the community has had little say about how its 2.5 square mile territory has been utilized to meet regional traffic needs.

But now all this is about to change.

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Introducing
Poetic Voices
 
Mama Celeste
Kalamu Chache
 
Mama Celeste
There's a poem in you.
It's in the things you say and do.
All you ever need to do
Is observe the life you're
living through.


By Poetess Kalamu Chaché,
EPA.net Poetry Editor





Welcome to EPA.net's first poetry column!

Poetic Voices is designed to allow you the space to express yourself through poetry. Your voice is very important to us. You now have a place for those original poems that you've written and have ready to share with the world.




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Cooking for those in need

By Mikaya Strickling









A few weeks ago I was at work and a co-worker was explaining to me that when we give, we automatically receive the joy of giving, so in giving you also receive . Took me a minute...but I got it. It could have been a coincidence or my destiny, but I saw that conversation come to life when I had a chance to interview Ca rol Baumgartner, known to all as "Mama Celeste."

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TAP into
Neighborhood Networks
 
First Annual Continental Breakfast Assembly
Light Tree TAP
 
Senior Center
Technology Access Point at
Light Tree Apts. becomes HUD housing-based learning center

Nation-wide network,
new local possibilities




Marietta De Chavez, from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), walked around the Technology Access Point (TAP)computer lab talking with the users - primarily children - and looking at the work on their screens and on the wall.





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Ministers Action Outreach alliance convenes community discussion to improve
public safety

"Habitat of Good Neighborhoods" Day in East Palo Alto

By Rev. Robert Hartley

Saturday Jan 31, 2004 was a signature day marking the beginning of an end. This was the last day of the first month of a brand new year. A new annual event, he ld at the East Palo Alto Senior Center, was intiated by Ministers Action Outreach, an alliance of local ministers of all faiths.



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