Events
Former President Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker at a highly anticipated public health summit to be held in Richmond in October.
Oakland A’s all-star starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez and reliever Fautino De Los Santos wowed the kids and parents at “Backpacks 4 Their Future,” an event that helped hand out 500 backpacks filled with binders, pencils, rulers, scissors and other school supplies to Richmond schoolkids.
A big picnic and barbecue to be held near the bay shore at Miller Knox Regional Park on Saturday will raise money for the city’s homeless.
Contra Costa College’s San Pablo campus was turned into a relief shelter for families displaced by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit the Bay Area at 1:30 Tuesday morning. Didn’t feel the shock? That’s because the earthquake was made up as an exercise that gave volunteers a chance to practice giving aid to displaced families. And the pace? Perhaps a tad more casual than if it were a real disaster response—but only by a little.
The Pacific Cannabis Expo drew pot enthusiasts to Richmond for a gathering that lasted all weekend. Medical marijuana collectives, pot-paraphernalia sellers, and a variety of pot eaters, smokers and otherwise inhalers—all medical marijuana patients—were in attendance.
The event, replete with showy performances, marked the 96th anniversary of “Richmond Day,” which was held Aug. 7, 1915 at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
The First Annual North Richmond Community Block Party drew more than 200 residents to Mitchell’s North Richmond Missionary Baptist Church Saturday.
North Richmond Missionary Baptist and other local churches hope to build on a festive summer with the First Annual North Richmond Community Block Party August 6.
Nearly two dozen parties sprung up in Richmond Tuesday afternoon, and all of them entertained local police as guests.