Monthly Archives: October 2009

Annual Homefront Festival was a weekend of fall fun

October 26, 2009
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Oilers win first homecoming game in nine years

October 24, 2009

With 5.2 seconds left in a home game against De Anza High School Friday, the Richmond Oilers scored a winning touchdown, but the team achieved much more.

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Troubled tracks?

October 23, 2009

Max Rivera can’t shake the memory. As he lay in bed during the wee hours of Aug. 15, Rivera heard a commotion. The sounds of rustling and some voices – maybe distressed voices – drifted into his small bedroom from out near the railroad tracks a few paces behind his home. Rivera thought about going…

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Church thrives in unlikely place

October 23, 2009

Why is the name John Wesley welded to a gate on Espee Avenue?

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Red Oak victory ship photo tour

October 23, 2009

See Richmond’s last victory ship through our photo tour.

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Richmond Samoans aid tsunami survivors

October 23, 2009

Following the Sept. 29 tsunami, members of Richmond’s Methodist Church of Samoa united with other Samoans in the Bay Area to collect material aid and send it to their homeland. The youth of the church spent two weeks packing clothes, food and toiletries into boxes. The congregation sent two shipments totaling 160 boxes to Apia, the capitol of Samoa.

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SS Red Oak is Richmond’s floating museum

October 23, 2009

Every Tuesday, Lou Berg comes to the SS Red Oak Victory Ship and helps out with restoring the historic vessel. He took a little time to take Richmond Confidential on a tour of the floating museum, docked at Terminal 2. With very few funds, the volunteers’ ultimate goal is to be able get the ship…

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Toxic legacy persists in Richmond Inner Harbor

October 22, 2009

Banned pesticides, primarily DDT and dieldrin, continue to poison the Richmond Inner Harbor, despite cleanup efforts more than a decade ago.

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Kennedy High cancels remainder of football season

October 22, 2009

Co-athletic director Harry Campbell said Kennedy would forfeit the remainder of its schedule because of a lack of players.

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National gospel competition graces the Bay Area

October 22, 2009

Award-winning Richmond church choir director Tina Bradford-Landry gives her take on the “How Sweet the Sound” tour stop in Oakland.

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Reducing violence from one ‘hood to the next

October 22, 2009

“I am not a high school dropout. I am not a drug dealer or a gang banger. I am not the negative of Richmond, California,” said Chanthanasak at the Sixth Annual Youth Stopping Violence Summit on Saturday.

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