Santa to come to Lakeshore Avenue

Santa and Dickensian carolers will come twice to Lakeshore Avenue: Sunday, December 17th and Saturday, the 23rd—from 1 to 3 PM.

And Pamela Drake expresses her wishes and hopes for an administration that will be more attentive to the needs of Oakland’s neighborhood shopping districts.

Excitement builds around Dellums’ Task Forces

After weeks of meetings and research, over 40 task forces are wrapping up their recommendations for incoming mayor Ron Dellums.

Anti-Kernighan “push poll” rings District 2 phones

Someone is paying for phone calls, pretending to be conducting a poll, to misleadingly spread innuendo and untruths about Pat Kernighan to tip the balance in the District 2 race.

Editor’s notes: One sentence of the original article has been corrected.

This article has been cited by the East Bay Express’s Will Harper in “Wealthy Lefties Open Wallets for Green Party candidate Aimee Allison.”

Lakeshore Avenue Halloween Parade Saturday, Oct. 28, continues long tradition

Halloweens past and present and updates from Lakeshore Avenue’s business district and beyond.

Why I have decided to support Pat Kernighan for District 2

I have thought carefully about the upcoming election in District 2, and have decided to recommend Patricia Kernighan for the job she already fills.

Lakeshore Avenue update and more

While there any many business vacancies on Lakeshore Avenue, the new businesses coming in are an exciting prospect.

Pamela Drake has lived in Oakland since 1973 and has been a community activist since the 80s starting with her involvement in OCO (Oakland Community Organizations). She has been staff to two council members, the director of the Grand Lake Neighborhood Center, presently runs the Lakeshore Business Improvement District, and teaches Adult Ed here. She raised her two children in Oakland where they attended public school.

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