CIVIC MENTOR Bulletin Board -- Experimental: April 2014

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Contra Costa / COUNTY FAIR / 29 MAY ~ 1 JUN / eNewsletter

Posted: 30 Apr 14

You may subscribe to the Fair's newsletter at their main website.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Contra Costa County Fair <info@ccfair.org> wrote:

Contra Costa County Fair eNewsletter Heritage Foundation Membership 2014
Quick Links
Exhibit Forms
Still Exhibit Entry Form
Plein Air Painting Entry Form
Community Stage Application

Still Exhibits
Education Division
Education Labels
Youth Divisions 2014
Adult Divisions 2014
Coloring Page

Livestock
2014 Livestock Show Schedule
Livestock Agreement
Livestock Medical Agreement
Project Leader Check Off List
Livestock Transportation Permit
Livestock RV Campsite Reservation Form
Junior Barn Crew

Junior Livestock Auction Buyer Brochure

2014 Vendor App Download

Fair Scholarship Program
Information
Application

Volunteer Form

Contact Us

Socialize

What's Happening at the Fairgrounds?

To learn more about what is happening all year long, visit us on our website at www.contracostafair.com and be sure to follow us on Facebook
Contra Costa County Fairgrounds Upcoming Events
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ANNUAL COUNTY FAIR MAY 29^TH - JUNE 1^ST
2^nd ANNUAL
BOUNTY OF THE COUNTY
SEPTEMBER 28^TH
FALL FAIRE~
November 15TH & 16TH

May29th - June 1st, 2014
I AM CHAMPION, HERE ME ROAR
at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch.
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The Contra Costa County Fair Heritage Corporation is organized to preserve and enrich the heritage of 23rd District Agricultural Association (23rd DDA) and showcase agricultural industries to the community. It will offer support for ongoing projects sponsored by the 23rd DAA in maintaining and improving the current facility to further service the needs of the community, support for the programs of the 23rd DAA, create agricultural education and scholarship opportunities, promote public awareness, seeks to make the fair more of a community cultural asset and a catalyst for improvements in Contra Costa County. The 23rd DAA also seeks to make the fair more entrepreneurial in nature by increasing revenues from non-traditional sources, since state subsidies to the fair are decreasing.

The mission of the corporation is to maintain standard of excellence in the facilities and grounds of the Contra Costa County Fair by providing funds for capital improvement opportunities, educational opportunities and scholarships

The vision of the corporation is to preserve and enrich the heritage of Contra Costa County Fair by continuing to develop it into a premier destination.

Foundation Membership Benefits
A Nonprofit501 c3 year round organization. Your donation is tax deductible.

Blue Ribbon Membership ($350) - $656 Value
4 Tickets to Welcome Dinner (Friday, May 30th)
4 Season Passes to Fair
1 Season On Ground Parking Pass (Livestock Area)
4 Hospitality Grove Passes (Tuesday-Saturday)
4 2014 Fair T-Shirts
4 Speedway Event Passes (good each night)
2 Carnival Wristbands (good any one day)
2 Tickets to Membership Dinner (TBA)
Single Membership ($75)
1 Ticket to Welcome Dinner (Friday, May 30th)
1 Season Passes to Fair
1 Season On Ground Parking Pass (Any paid lot)
1 Hospitality Grove Passes (Tuesday-Saturday)
1 2014 Fair T-Shirt
Discount Tickets for Membership Dinner
Couple Membership ($150)
2 Ticket to Welcome Dinner (Friday, May 30th)
2 Season Passes to Fair
1 Season On Ground Parking Pass (Any paid lot)
2 Hospitality Grove Passes (Tuesday-Saturday)
2 2014 Fair T-Shirts
Discount Tickets for Membership Dinner
Kids Membership (Up to 18 yrs) (Add on $50)
1 Ticket to Welcome Dinner (Friday, May 30th)
1 Season Passes to Fair
1 Carnival Wristband
Hospitality Grove Passes (Tuesday-Saturday)
2014 Fair T-Shirt
Kids must be accompanied by adult
Click here to for Membership form

Contra Costa County Fair | 1201 W. 10th St. | Antioch | CA | 94509

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5K FUN RUN/WALK ALL AGES Pittsburg ~~ 6/7/14/SAT/8:00am

Posted: 30 Apr 14

Here is the organizer's website

Here is their "About" page which explains what it's all, well, about

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

CIVIC MENTOR / Calendars / General Events

Posted: 29 Apr 14

This link-accumulator will expand over time.

GENERAL EVENT CALENDARS

1. CITY: Pittsburg, CA

ALL: Google search for ALL Pittsburg Events
GOVT: Pittsburg City Events Calendar
ARTS: Pittsburg Arts & Community Foundation Website
ARTS: Pittsburg Creative Arts Building (and Hall of Fame and Calendar, etc)
SCHOOL: Pittsburg Unified School District Calendars
MUSEUM: Pittsburg Historical Society - Museum
COLLEGE: Los Medanos Community College Academic Calendar
TRAINING: Pittsburg Adult Education Center

2. COUNTY: Contra Costa

3. AREA: San Francisco Bay Area

4. STATE-Region: Northern California

5. STATE: California

6. NATIONAL-Region: Western U.S. Regional Calendars

Google search for ALL West US Coast Regional Calendars

7. NATIONAL: U.S. National Events Calendars

8. GLOBAL: World-wide Event Calendars

Google search for ALL World-wide Global Events Calendars
World Event Calendar - Council on Foreign Relations (Significant events and anniversaries taking place around the world)

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Please report all broken or misdirected links

CIVIC MENTOR / National / WhiteHouse.Gov

Posted: 29 Apr

Purpose

To permanently accumulate useful, interesting web-links delivered daily by email subscription, from Whitehouse.gov's Daily Snapshot. Links listed in reverse date-order.

White House Facebook Link
White House on Twitter Link
White House Wikipedia Link

D. Nelson

4/29/14 -- SEXUAL ASSAULT

"You Are Not Alone. We Have Your Back."

One in five women is sexually assaulted while in college, most often, in her freshman or sophomore year. Most times, it’s by someone she knows -- and also most often, she does not report what happened. And though fewer, men, too, are victimized.

We're committed to putting an end to this violence. That’s why today, we're launchingNotAlone.gov, a website that makes resources on sexual assault prevention accessible to students and schools.

Learn more about how to prevent and respond to sexual assault on our college campuses and in our schools.

Helping Ready-to-Work Americans Get Back in the Game
Yesterday, the Department of Labor announced that it's providing up to $150 million for states, through a new Job Driven National Emergency Grants program, to invest in programs that help dislocated workers, who’ve lost a job through no fault of their own, get back in the game.
READ MORE
Heartbleed: Understanding When We Disclose Cyber Vulnerabilities
This administration takes seriously its commitment to an open and interoperable, secure and reliable Internet, and in the majority of cases, responsibly disclosing a newly discovered vulnerability is clearly in the national interest.
READ MORE
Creating Workplaces that Work for Families
It's time for America's workplaces to adapt to our changing workforce -- which is why the White House Council on Women and Girls, the Department of Labor, and the Center for American Progress are hosting the White House Summit on Working Families this June.
READ MORE

City of Pittsburg: PACF presents a Scholastic Book Fair

PACF presents a Scholastic Book Fair

Date: 5/8/2014 10:00 AM - 5/10/2014 5:00 PM

Cost: Open to the Public

Location: Impulse Gallery
329 Railroad Avenue
Pittsburg, California

PACF
BIG EVENT - SCHOLASTIC WAREHOUSE BOOK SALE

Hundreds of items $2 or less

Children's books, best sellers and hit series, adult fiction, new releases, cookbooks, reference books, school supplies and much more!

Stock up for summer reading!

Schedule:
Thursday, May 8    10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, May 9        10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 10    10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED.

For more information or if you would like to volunteer, call (925) 252-6981.

Visit www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/warehouse to register to receive your FAST PASS and discount coupon for $10 off your $50 purchase or $25 off your $100 purchase.

Preferred methods of payment: credit cards, checks, puchase orders and Scholastic Deollars. Title I and grants are welcome! Sales tax charged if applicable. If your school is tax exempt, please bring your valid tax-exempt certificate.

To change your eSubscriptions preferences, click the following link:
http://www.ci.pittsburg.ca.us/index.aspx?page=16&subscriberguid=1c6754fb-fdf1-4dc6-974f-3c1e43fbed5f

To unsubscribe from all City of Pittsburg eSubscriptions, please click the following link:
http://www.ci.pittsburg.ca.us/index.aspx?page=16&subscriberguid=1c6754fb-fdf1-4dc6-974f-3c1e43fbed5f&unsubscribe=1

City of Pittsburg: East Contra Costa Career Fair

East Contra Costa Career Fair

Date: 5/22/2014 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: Pittsburg Elks Lodge
200 Marina Blvd
Pittsburg, California

Elks Lodge

Bus Routes to the Event
#387 Pittsburg BART-Tri Delta Transit Antioch
#394 Pittsburg BART-Antioch Hillcrest Park&Ride

For More Information:
Contact us at 925-602-3996

Priority entrance will be given to job seekers who register in advance and arrive by 9:45 a.m. on the day of the event with their pre-printed EventBrite ticket. Preregistration will end on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 3:00 p.m., but job seekers who have not registered can still attend.

(Be sure to bring copies of your resume and check for resume writing and review workshops at the Antioch, Brentwood, and Concord One-Stops prior to the Career Fair)

Thursday, April 24, 2014

DON'T FORGET THIS GREAT SOURCE OF EAST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY INFO (NEW each THURS)

Posted: 18 Apr 14

Had a great phone call, this morning, with my buddy, Frank MacCallister. He's the one who produces "The Spotlight" at his "EastCountyLive.Com" site. He publishes it every Thursday.

When we can, we collaborate in trying to add to your view of goings on in our local, common territory. And, our friendship continues to develop, nicely.

I wanted to be sure to keep his link within our view. Here it is. You'll see that he offers timely information that you can use, in a pleasing package. Enjoy.

You can also subscribe to his automatic Thursday distribution.

http://www.eastcountylive.com/enewsletter/newsletter_04102014.html

David Nelson

STRATEGIC CHANGE: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES (4/25/14) -- KILLED THE OLD PCJ BULLETIN BOARD!

24 Apr 14 / THU / 01:20 am

The Problem Solved:
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On 22 Apr, this Blog's Old "BULLETIN BOARD" style mysteriously began only showing 25 "FLIP-CARD" BULLETINS

THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS SHOWING

COULDN'T FIND AN ECONOMICAL FIX

LIKELY CAUSE: Mischief -- I'm now even better prepared, as a result.

The Solution: A STRATEGIC DECISION

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4/25/14/Fri/2000 hrs

This unexpected problem forced my hand. Fate's agenda, as usual, overrides my own -- and is often wiser than anything I can cook up. I'm beginning to see the recent fatal problems with the "old bulletin board" approach of the Pittsburg City-Journal -- as blessings, in disguise.

After days of effort, I decided that it was costing too much time and excessive dollars trying to fix something I had planned to supersede soon, anyway. So, the "new look" for this blog is emerging a bit early.

And, even this new look is just temporary. To restore enough usefulness for you, so I can continue with other aspects of this master project. However, I will keep returning to this vital piece of the plan -- the "change-delivery" system -- so, you can expect to see it continuing to evolve, until it is just right.

Pittsburg, CA will be offered its own uniquely-tailored, special-purpose "Civic Mentor," as will other cities, counties, economic areas, states, nations and the world -- when waiting is filled -- if fate continues to be kind.

"Silk purses from sows' ears?" -- No Sweat!

David Nelson

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

CIVIC MENTOR / Planetary Element / E-WASTE DISPOSAL

Posted: 23 Apr 14

1. Purpose

This bulletin is meant to slip a reminder into your very busy lives -- that we can quite easily do ourselves and our world a huge favor -- by making a very small, negligible-cost decision when we need to get rid of technologies we no longer value.

The bulletin offers a few basic reasons to explain and justify things, it links you to recycling centers for your areas, and it seizes another opportunity to further explain what the "Civic Mentor" concept is about.

I would like to thank Pittsburg, CA City Council member, Nancy Parent, for starting yet another splendid chain-reaction for me and us. Yesterday, she invited me to join a Facebook initiative having to do with taking a "daily challenge" to further my drive to learn everything I possibly can.
When I joined, I discovered as least four things: (1) that I get to look into things I always meant to examine more closely -- or never even thought of; (2) that I can get more practical material to share with you; (3) that the website she gave me is an ENTIRE SYSTEM of wonderful life-ideas; and (4) that my very first challenge had to do with this very bulletin!
If you'd like to see for yourself, please click here. I've linked you to their home page, rather than to the "Daily Challenge," which you can find at the bottom of the page
Thank you again, so much, Nancy!!!!!

2. Rationale -- Why Reasoned E-Waste Disposal Matters, Big-Time!

Old cell phones, printers, and computers that end up in landfills can pollute our communities with toxic materials, making oceans and streams less safe for drinking, swimming, and supporting wildlife.

To keep electronics out of the trash, many cities and towns have recycling centers for e-waste. Others schedule drop-off days throughout the year.

Bonus: Recycling e-waste can help you clear clutter from your life, responsibly. Even tiny decisions matter in the big game of life.

3. Recycling Centers -- A Start

4. I'd Like You To Understand (CivicMentor-wise)

More and more, I am conscious that, thanks to The Internet and the great human chain-reaction, these bulletins might reach anywhere at all -- even far beyond my home-base. And, I think that's a blessing -- as well as my ultimate aim, anyway.
The whole world is our home. And, we humans are all neighbors, in a very real sense.
What matters "over there," often matters "over here."
So, while you might just open the local link, please realize that if you open each of the successively larger ones which also contain us, you will get a richer and wider picture of the whole thing -- something extra to be gained at each level opened.
You'll see more and more useful things to add to your understanding -- and that's almost always a very good thing. For bits of knowledge gained in one area, often transfer to enhance knowledge elsewhere, in often unexpected, but advantageous ways.

In future bulletins, I will try to stick to this philosophy -- always for the common good.

David Nelson

All Original Content © 2014 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby waive those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.

ANIMALS: LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM -- Walnut Creek, CA -- April Newsletter

Posted: 22 Apr 14

1931 First Ave, Walnut Creek, CA 94597
925-935-1978

Click to view this if you have viewing problems here

Monday, April 21, 2014

EARTH DAY 2014 -- 22 Apr/Tueday -- CALIF. Senator Boxer and more

Posted: 21 Apr 14

WHAT IS EARTH DAY ABOUT?

1. Scope: This bulletin includes:

events for Pittsburg, Contra Costa County, The San Francisco Bay Area, California, and the United States
"Green Cities" online access information
a message from California's U.S. Senator Boxer

2. Definition: As Wikipedia says: "Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection." More ...

HERE IS A LIST OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY EARTH DAY EVENTS (Google Search)
HERE IS A LIST OF SF BAY AREA EARTH DAY EVENTS (Bay Area Parent)
HERE IS A LIST OF EARTH DAY EVENTS IN CALIFORNIA (Google Search)
HERE IS A LIST OF EARTH DAY EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES (Google Search)
Here is the Green Cities website with concisely written explanatory info plus a nice 1-minute video
Here is Green Cities' blog with more on Earth Day and beyond. This also includes their e-newsletter sign-up (which I just did -- I expect to help keep you posted on this, too).
Here is Green Cities' action page -- with specific suggestions for to-do's
Here is a typically thorough Wikipedia List of Environmental Dates
The following is a relevant message from Senator Boxer

David Nelson
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:40 PM, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer <senator@boxer.senate.gov> wrote:

April 21, 2014
Dear Friend:
The first Earth Day in 1970 was created by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin after he witnessed a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, the previous year. His efforts were instrumental in putting environmental protection on the national agenda, and led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. It also spurred landmark legislation that protects the air we breathe and the water we drink.
Four decades later, we are now faced with the challenge of addressing dangerous climate change. We are seeing the impacts of climate change all around us, and the world's leading scientists continue to warn us of the urgent need to cut carbon pollution now to avoid lasting changes to our planet. Rest assured that on this Earth Day and every day, I will keep fighting to take action on climate change and to protect the health of our children and families.
Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

To respond to this message, please click here. This link will take you to a webpage where you can reply to messages that you receive from Senator Boxer’s office.

SAFELY DUMP PRESCRIPTION DRUGS -- 4/26/SAT/ (10am - 2pm )

Posted: 21 Apr 14

U.S. GOVERNMENT NOTICE

From: USA.GOV team
To: Anyone Living in the United States

What: Saturday, April 26 is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.

When: Between 10AM and 2PM on April 26,

What to do: Bring your unwanted prescription drugs

Where: To a collection site near you. (click here to find local sites or see below)

Self-Disposal Alert:

Properly disposing of medicines is important to human health and the environment.

How: If you dispose of drugs on your own, check out these tips from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (PDF).

Signed: USA.gov

Editorial Enhancement

Contra Costa County: 50 sites, all Cities (more or less can be selected)
Everywhere: A specific and general search box, courtesy of the DEA, Office of Diversion Control

David Nelson

All Original Content © 2014 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby waive those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.