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Chabot College celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year with its Oct. 22 Homecoming Festival ~ a full day of activities for students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends, families and the community. The festival culminates at 6 p.m. with the Homecoming football game, the Chabot College Gladiators vs. the Merced College Blue Devils. All festival events will be held in the Physical Education and Athletics Complex on the north end of campus. Admission is $5, covering all events; parking is $2.
Chabot College Athletic Director Jeff Drouin and planners have put together a fun-filled day to include the following events:
♦ 9 a.m. Fun Run on Chabot College campus; Alliance Youth Soccer Game
♦ 10 a.m. Chabot College Softball Alumni Game; Chabot College Baseball vs. Diablo Valley College
♦ 11 a.m. Alliance Youth Soccer Game
♦ 12 p.m. Strength and Fitness Center Open House; Club and Organization Booths Open; Student Veterans of Chabot College BBQ Fundraiser; Alliance Youth Soccer Game
♦ 2 p.m. Chabot College Line Dancers; Chabot College Baseball vs. Sierra College
♦ 4 p.m. Chabot College Line Dancers
♦ 6 p.m. Homecoming Football Game
The festival also will feature the Chabot State Championship Golf Team Recognition and the Ernie Reyes` West Coast Martial Arts Association.
Following is a brief history in numbers:
♦ 6 Olympians
♦ 15 State Team Championships
♦ 20 Bowl Games
♦ 55 Northern California Championships
♦ 146 Conference Championships
For more information about Chabot College, the Athletics Program and the Homecoming Festival, please visit the website.
Upcoming Chabot Events.
University Transfer Day – October 18
Each fall semester, the Career & Transfer center hosts University Transfer Day in the Student Center, Building 2300. The event is held from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and over 35 university representatives attend Chabot College to answer Chabot students’ questions about transfer requirements, majors, housing and financial assistance. For more information go to http://www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling/TECS/TransferDay.asp.
Keep Hayward Clean & Green Task Force Clean Up Event – October 22
Join Hayward in cleaning up the town. Next clean-up event is at Foothill to Meekland, D St. to Maple. Volunteers should meet at Mission Blvd. and A Street. For more information contact Lloyd Clifton (510) 384-7327 or TFGpers2@aol.com; Kathy Super KathySuper@gmail.com or (510)537-6498.
Local News
- An East Bay college district may soon ask taxpayers to foot the bill for axed classes that were once funded by the state, a rare move that may become more commonplace as campuses try to make up for lost revenue. The Peralta Community College District is considering sending a parcel tax to voters in Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville and Piedmont. The measure, which Peralta trustees likely will discuss in January, would cost each property owner about $50 per year for five years and would help the four-college district restore hundreds of courses cut in the past year. College leaders said they know of only one California district that has successfully sought a local tax to pay for education. Voters in the San Mateo Community College District approved a $34-per-year parcel tax in June 2010, the first recent attempt of its kind. Santa Clara County’s Foothill-De Anza district was less fortunate last year. A proposed $69 tax failed to reach the required two-thirds threshold in November. The flurry of tax measures reflects a shift for community colleges, which had previously stayed away from seeking local funding for basic services such as class offerings. Parcel taxes are frequently sought by K-12 school districts to pay for teacher salaries and other basic needs. The quest for local funding may become a trend among community colleges that once relied on the state to pay for classes. State budget cuts have reduced that funding dramatically.
- The Occupy Oakland tent city on the lawn outside City Hall is attracting rats, alcohol and illegal drug use and public fistfights, making it difficult for the city’s accommodation of the protest to continue much longer, officials said Tuesday morning.
- The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will increase postage rates on Jan. 22, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail, to 45 cents.
- A Hayward woman won big this weekend after buying what turned out to be a $2 million California Lottery Scratchers ticket during a routine trip to the grocery store. Shirley Mills picked up a pair of “Set for Life” Scratchers — including the winning ticket — on Saturday afternoon at Lucky Supermarket on Hesperian Boulevard in San Lorenzo. Now that she’s won, Mills is set to receive $100,000 annually for the next 20 years, according to a statement from the California Lottery. The Lucky Supermarket where she bought the winning ticket will also receive a $10,000 bonus check for selling it.
Sports
- The Oakland Raiders have bought quarterback Carson Palmer from Cincinnati in a bold move to replace injured starter Jason Campbell. The teams made the deal Tuesday, one day after Campbell had surgery on his broken collarbone that will sideline him at least six weeks. The Bengals had been adamant that they wouldn’t trade Palmer, who hasn’t played since the end of last season. The franchise quarterback decided he wouldn’t play another season with Cincinnati, even though his contract runs through the 2014 season. But owner Mike Brown reversed course when the Raiders were willing to send a 2012 first-round pick and a conditional pick in the 2013 draft to the Bengals.
- Sunday, October 23 – Kansas City vs Oakland 1:05PM
World News
-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Tripoli on Tuesday. Her visit makes her the first Cabinet-level American official to go to Libya since the ouster of longtime dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. She landed under tight security in a country where forces loyal to the transitional government are still battling Gadhafi loyalists. She met with officials of the National Transitional Council (NTC) and visited those hurt in the fighting. NTC fighters toppled Gadhafi’s nearly 42-year-old government in August after six months of battles. Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi and his brother-in-law and intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Sanussi, are wanted on war crimes charges and remain fugitives. Regarding Moammar Gadhafi, Clinton told reporters: “We hope he will be captured or killed soon.”
- President Barack Obama continued hammering Republicans over their opposition to his $447 billion jobs plan Tuesday, casting the GOP as handmaids of the rich unwilling to support fair sacrifices in order to help a struggling middle class. Visiting a school and community center in Jamestown, North Carolina, Obama said “folks in Washington don’t seem to be listening” to calls for help. “I want to work with Republicans,” the president insisted. But political leaders need to “focus less on trying to satisfy one wing of one party,” he said — an apparent reference to populist tea party conservatives. America needs “an economy that works for everybody, not just for folks at the top,” Obama insisted. “Now is the time to act. Now is the time to say ‘yes we can.’”
Entertainment
- Nearly six months after their birth, Moroccan and Monroe, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s twin son and daughter, are ready for their primetime debut. Carey and hubby Cannon introduced their bundles of joy to Barbara Walters during an intimate visit to their lavish NYC apartment for a 20/20 interview airing this Friday. The special airs on ABC this Friday at 10 p.m.
Box OfficeHITS!
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET
Occupy Wall Street is a people powered movement (thank you social networking) for democracy that started September 17, 2011 with camps being set up in the Financial District of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, “we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy.” Join the movement NOW! #OccupyWallStreet
