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Back Issue
October 2003

Fresh, Convenient, Affordable!
Shopping at the Senior Center

Get Your Fruits and Veggies Fridays at the new
East Palo Alto Produce Market and Save!

With its lack of a large supermarket or produce store, East Palo Alto is not known for quality well-priced fruits and vegetables. This has changed now with an innovative new East Palo Alto Produce Market held every Friday from 2-3 P.M. at the East Palo Alto Senior Center, located at the corner of Bell Street and University Avenue.

For the past three months produce, as well as eggs, have been sold here at wholesale prices. Everything is purchased at the same price as a commercial market would pay and then resold to the public with no mark-up in prices. Although the market has a focus on seniors, it is open to the general public and everyone is welcome.



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Introducing Mary Flamer
 
Community Church
and its Pastor,
Rev. Desmond Henry
Mary Flamer
 
Community Church
New EPA.net Editor for
Faith Communities


The staff of EPA.net welcomes a new columnist and column to the website. Mary Flamer, who just received her B.A. in English, makes her debut here as EPA.net Editor for Faith Communities. In this capacity she will work with a team of reporters to gather news for EPA.net from the many congregations in East Palo Alto and Belle Haven (East Menlo Park) to see that EPA.net provides ways to support the communication needs of congregations.


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First in a new EPA.net series on our local Faith Communities

By Mary Flamer, EPA.net
Faith Communities
Editor and Reporter


Community Church has a long and illustrious history. When I read the history of Community Church, I learned the seed for this congregation was planted in 1919. The first site of the Church was on Weeks Street at Clarke Avenue. The current site at University and Bell was built in 1957.



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"Captain Kirk" lands
in East Palo Alto!
 
It's a Wrap!
Kaptain Kirk
 
Film Festival
An interview with chess teacher Kenneth Kirkland


Kenneth "Captain Kirk" Kirkland is East Palo Alto's resident chess guru. Captain Kirk (his preferred name) can seen around town with his roll-up chessboard spreading his love of chess at the School of Wisdom and Knowledge, Plugged In and even on local cable TV. Following is a brief interview with him. The Captain plans to start a chess club in East Palo Alto. If you want to get in touch with Captain Kirk, contact information follows the interview.





What is it about chess that you value?


Chess has given me the opportunity to exchange some of the knowledge, wisdom and creativity that I have with other people. Equally, others have been able exchange their visions, their ability to think and to calculate with me. So it's a sharing of high energy, high intellectual energy.







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Reflections on the 20th Anniversary Celebration



The Sept. 12th-14th Celebration was an enormous effort that had been in the works since January. Here are some reflections by two of the people most involved.

Meda Okelo
City of EPA Director of Community Services and Celebration Executive Producer of the Celebration

William Byron Webster
Film Festival Director, Chair of the Video Subcommittee and Executive Director of FreedomArts.

What do residents and attendees think about the Celebration? Did it do the job? Or not? Add a comment at the end of the reports to express your opinion.

If you want to see the program for the Festival in the Park, click here.

Also, in response to public interest, the Media Center will run the Festival films again during the week of Oct. 11 -16th on Channel 30. Here's the schedule. See the Film Festival online program for info on specific films.







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