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Happy Saturday!

BAY AREA NEWS GROUP, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, HAS ADVISED IT’S ENDORSEMENTS TO JUST ABOUT EVERY ELECTED POSITION IN THE EAST BAY AREA. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS MORNING’S EDITION, ANG HAS NOT DISCUSSED THE BURNING ISSUE IN HAYWARD.

WE SEEM MORE INTERESTED IN ‘DAZE’ OF THE DEAD THAN WE ARE IN THE ELECTION DAY NEED TO ENABLE LONGER, NORE VIABLE INSTITUTIONAL LIFE IN HUSD

MANY OF THE FOLKS IN HAYWARD LIMIT THEIR READ OF THE REVIEW TO THE ‘OBITUARY’ PAGES.

PERSONNALLY, I FEEL ALIVE WHEN VOTING WHICH IS WHY TWO ABSENTEE BALLOTS FROM MY HOME, ARE PRESENTLY STACKED IN THE OFFICES AT THE COUNTY BUILDINGS NEAR LAKE MERRITT.

INTERESTING THAT MONDAY THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER IS COMMEMORATED AS ‘ALL SAINTS DAY‘ WHILE NOVEMBER 2nd IS SET ASIDE FOR COMMEMORATION OF THE DEPARTED.. ‘ALL SOULS DAY’

OCTOBER 31, ‘ HALLOWED EVENING ‘, IS SET ASIDE AS THE DAY FOR PREPARATION OF PRAYER FOR THE DEPARTED…..

PERHAPS THIS YEAR IT WOULD NOT DO ANY HARM TO PRAY FOR A SELECTION OF HUSD TRUSTEES WHO BRING BENEFIT TO THOSE WHO FACE CHALLENGE, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, OF THEIR CHALLENGING, YOUTHFULL LIVES.

As a 19 year old he is now beginning to trace some of the other cultures that are part of what makes him so unique. Again thank you for the opportunity to tickle my memory to a time where I experienced the “wonderment” and discovery of this very special child.

After a long brake from posting and reading what is being discussed in the hayword, I see that it was a wise decision to do so.

Mr Kyle: I suspect the reason for the lack of interest in the idea of the town hall meeting might have more to do with your delivery of the message and your attitude towards other posters than to the validity of the concept. Your last note is typed 99% in capital letters, usually indicating somebody is yelling at you, which is not exactly conducive to dialogue (or reading).

Maybe the fact that only one of the churches has picked up on the town hall idea, and practically no other folks on the blog have rallied behind it ought to be taken as an indicator of the low level of interest on the concept, and maybe should make you reconsider whether you want to keep on taking so much blog space (and our time) by bringing the idea up time and again. I have no training in latin, but in spanish we have a saying : Al buen entendedor, pocas palabras. I’m sure there is a more elegant way of translating this (Zeremeño, are you there?) but it roughly means: Few words are enough for those who are listening.

Everyone’s insistence on commenting on miss-spellings and the intentional miss-spelling of names by folks in this blog is childish, and all those “yawns”?

If my 7 year old did that to me, she would be on a time out, facing a corner of the room and thinking about whether or not that is the correct way to treat people.

I’m signing out, and will come back in a couple of months to see if folks are being a tad more constructive and civil to one another. The last time I signed off like such, Mr Kyle commented in his ever so congenial manner “where have you been” or some such remark. I will tell you what I have been doing:

All are invited to a Days of the Dead exhibit at Meek mansion that I have organized in collaboration with the Hayward Area Historical Society. Included in this exhibit you will see the art works made by many students from Hayward, Castro Valley, San Leandro and Oakland. For further info. you can go to the Hayward Area Historical Society’s web site.

Associated with this exhibit (which runs through mid- Nov.) there is a big Community Celebration happening this Saturday (Oct.16) from 11-6 pm. (For those on a budget, entry to the exhibit is free this sat. only)

I still remember when in 2008, when my wife’s class from South Hayward was touring the exhibit I curated at the Oakland Museum, a little kid yelling ” we are famous,we are famous” when he saw his artwork on display. I can’t begin to tell you what that kind of affirmation does to a kid’s soul.

May you all find some kind of harmony,

Fernando

TOWN HALL MEETING IDEA IS ADMITTEDLY DRAGGING…… PART OF THAT PREOBLEM IS DUE TO MY ATTEMPTS TO DEFEND MR. ARMAS FROM THE SLANDEROUS REMARKS TOSSED BY ‘OBAMA NEW AGE’ THAT BLOG CONTRIBUTOR USED OUTRIGHT SLANDER IN ATTEMPTS TO DEFEAT mR. aRMAS CANDIDACY… SHE WAS AIDED BY mS. bOOTH WHO REFUSED RECOGNITION OF THE DIFFERENCE BEWTEEN FREEDOM OF SPEACH AND ‘LICENSE’.

IT DID NOT HELP TO HAVE MRS BOOTH DO A
‘PUT DOWN’ ON THAT IDEA BECAUSE OF MY DESCRIPTION OF THE NEED FOR VOLUNTEER HELP THOUGHT AVAILABLE FROM
‘EMPTY NEST FOLKS’ ‘RETIRED BUSINESS MEN ETC.’

BOOTH WAS THE FIRST TO ATTEMPT A SQUELCH OF THE IDEA BASED OM HER EXPERIENCE WITH ‘AD HOC’ GROUPS IN WHICH SHE IS REPUTED TO HAVE PARTICIPATED.

ONE lOCAL CHURCH WITH A LARGE ‘MULTI-ETHNIC’ ATTENDENCE IS EXAMINING THE ISSUES I HAVE RAISED. IT MAY FOLLOW IT’S OWN COURSE… WHICH WOULD BE WELCOME IF IT IS FOUND TO HAVE ENCOURAGED ENLISTMENT OF ‘OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE’( VOLUNTEERS NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH HUSD.) IT SEEMS DESIREOUS TO AVOID APPEARING TO BE IN VIOLATION OF ‘CHURCH AND STATE’ CONCEPTS… WHICH MIGHT EASILY BECOME VOLATILE GIVEN THE NATURE OF SOME WHO PROFESS THEIR OWN INVOLVMENT TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE ADVERSE TO PARTICIPATION BY ‘OTHERS’ OUTSIDE THE HUSD CIRCLE OF ‘DIRECT INFLUENCE’.

I HAVE WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ON THE SUBJECT IN THIS BLOG BUT AM AMAZED AT THE HOSTILITY TOWARDS THE IDEA DISPLAYED BY JUST ONE OR TWO INDIVIDUALS.

yOU MIGHT WISH TO SCROLL THROUGH SOME OF THE TOPICS POSTED BY MR KURHI SINCE THE MARCH APPOINTMENT OF MR. ARMAS BY THE bOARD. SINCE MARCH I HAVE POSTED 2 OR 3 ARTICLES ON THE TOWN HALL CONCEPT. NONE OF THE BLOG REGULARS HAVE DRAWN CLOSE TO THE IDEA….. PROBABLY IN FEAR OF SCORN BY YOU KNOW WHO…

IT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO YOU IF YOU SCROLL THROUGH ‘ARCHIVES’ AT RIGHT COLUMN AND PICK UP ON kURHI’S POST “2 (3 ?) FOR 1 AND 4 FOR 2… JULY / EARLY AUGUST.

BE AWARE THAT i WROTE A LETTER TO 16 CHURCHES SITUATED IN HAYWARD, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASKING THEM TO POLL THEIR MEMBERSHIP AND COMMENT ON AN ENCLOSED COPY OF THE “MY WORD” PIECE PUBLISHED BY THE REVIEW IN APRIL OF THEIS YEAR. IT SPOKE OF THE TOWN HALL CONCEPT IN ABOUT 500 WORDS AND WAS AUTHORED BY ME.

SADLY ONLY ONE OF THOSE CHURCHES MADE A RESPONSE!

I AM NOT DISCOURAGED AND WILL CONTINUE EFFORT TO SEE THE PROJECT TO FRUITION.

PERHAPS MAKE ENQUIRY OF YOUR OWN CHURCH LEADERSHIP IF INVOLVED WITH ONE? mY SECOND LETTER TO THOSE CHURCHES WILL BE DELIVERED NO LATER THAN nOV. 1, 2010 SO SEE IF YOURS HAS AN ITEREST. iN THE NEW TESTAMNET 3 OF THE FOUR GOPSPELS WRITERES RELATED THE BIT BY cHRIST IN WHICH HE ASKED THAT THE CHILDREN BE BROUGFHT INTO HIS PRESENCE ON ONE OF HIS ‘WALKABOUTS’!( MATT,: 19-13-15 mark 10-13-16 and luke 9- 47 ” Let the Children come to me, do not stop them..”

Which I interpret as our civic ‘teaching’ mandate (responsibility) to learn how to teach, ‘to read and write as well as listen intelligently’!

I just haoppen to think that volunteers are available in the churches… we just need to draw them out…!
It is all about the children!