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Next Pacifica Beach Coalition Activity, February 11

If you could use some fresh air and a feeling of accomplishment, Pacifica's beaches need your help. If you can't make it to a beach cleanup, help us anyway by picking up litter on your street and wherever you go. If your group would like an outing at a beach cleanup or restoration day, please let me know. Your group can have a bonding experience outdoors, where you never know what you will find: mammoth bones or a $100 bill. One thing I know for sure: You won't find these things on the TV or computer!
 
Future beach dates:
February 11 - Sharp Park
February 18 - Linda Mar
February 26 - Linda Mar Habitat Restoration
March 3 - Rockaway
March 10 - Sharp Park
March 17 - Linda Mar
March 25 - Linda Mar Habitat Restoration
 
L Y N N . A D A M S
President, Pacifica Beach Coalition
650.355.1668 Office
415.309.5856 Cell
Earth Day is coming. Please mark your calendar for April 21, 2012.

Los Boleros @ Owen Hall, February 11

Pacifica Performances presents Los Boleros, Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m., Mildred Owen Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural. Imagine having a romantic evening at Ricky Ricardo’s Tropicana Havana then dancing the night away at the Buena Vista Social Club. Los Boleros is back with its full band for an evening of traditional Latin and Cuban melodies and dance beats. Tickets are on sale at the door starting 30 minutes before the show. Admission: $20 Adult; $17 Seniors 62+ and Students under 25 with current ID; $15 Members; $12 Senior and Students Members; Youths under 18 are free. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. For more information or a schedule, call 650.355.1882 or email info@pacificaperformances.org. Mildred Owen Hall is wheelchair accessible.

Traditional Jazz: Nick's Bay Area All-Stars @ Rockaway, February 13

Monday, February 13 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Come support traditional jazz and hear Nick's Bay Area All-Stars with Pat Yankee at Nick's of Rockaway Beach, Pacifica. Great food (editor's note: yummy crab sandwiches and eggplant fries!), full bar, dance floor, lots of free parking, no cover, no minimum charge! Featuring:
 
Bob Schulz - cornet
Jim Maihack - trombone
Bob Ringwald - piano
Scott Anthony - banjo and guitar
Marty Eggers - bass
Pat Yankee - vocals

Jim Grantham: Jazzmaster Workout Workshops

Newsletter and website have more details and a funny riff on jazz by Charles Mingus (click link below). Here is a quick overview of what's on tap:
 
• Jazzmaster Workout Workshop I (Modality and Tonality), Beginning-Intermediate class begins Monday, February 13 from 7:30 to 10 p.m.  (10 weeks)
 
• Jazzmaster Workout Workshop II (Mainstream Harmony), Intermediate class begins Wednesday, February 15 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. (10 weeks)
 
• Jazzmaster Workout Workshop III (Advanced Harmony I), Intermediate-Advanced class begins Thursday, February 16 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. (10 weeks)
 
• Jazzmaster Workout improv method, Great Gig book, and Bay Area Jamlist. For detailed info, see nightbirdmusic.com/newsletter.pdf, call 510-271-7904, or just click the link below.

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Wavelength: Ian Butler Interviews Local Movers and Shakers

Genial host Ian Butler interviews a wide range of community thinkers and doers on PCT 26's award-winning TV show Wavelength. Watch anytime online at WAVELENGTH and Mondays live at 6:30 p.m. on cable channel 26 in Pacifica and cable channel 27 in Half Moon Bay.

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Pacifica City Council Meeting Agenda for February 14

The agenda has been amended to remove item #9 (Economic Development Committee Recommendation of Adoption of City Logo for Promotional Purposes).

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Single-Payer Health Care Activist Events, February 14 & 15

Tuesday, February 14 at 7 p.m. Organizing for Single-Payer Health Care. Margaret Flowers, M.D., is the Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and a leader of Occupy Washington, D.C. Kevin Zeese, J.D., is a national leader of the Occupy Movement and a steering committee member of the Bradley Manning Support Network. We will have updates on California's recent defeat of SB 810 and on national campaign efforts for social change. Snacks are always welcome. 626 Pacheco, San Francisco, at the home of Dr.. Krista Farey and Dr. Vishu Lingappa, corner of 10th Avenue, plentiful parking, #6 bus.

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Wednesday, February 15 at 7 p.m. Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin Street @ Geary, San Francisco. Forum: Which Way Forward for Progressive Change: Direct Action, Elections, Others? Participants: ROCKY ANDERSON, Justice Party candidate for US President; MARGARET FLOWERS, Physicians for a National Health Program, Occupy-Washington D.C.; DAVE WELSH, SF Labor Council, ILWU Longview port support; TOM GALLAGHER, former Mass. State Assembly member, Progressive Democrats of America-SF. Moderated by ROSE AGUILAR, KALW’s "Your Call." $10 admission – no one turned away for lack of funds. Sponsored by SF 99 Percent Coalition.

Single Payer Now survives on the generosity of its supporters. Please consider making a donation: www.SinglePayerNow.net, 415-695-7891, Don Bechler, dbechler@value.net

Hazardous Waste @ Cafe Scientifique, February 14

Come to SRI as we welcome Café Scientifique speakers:
Alana Lee: Project Manager EPA Superfund Division
Katherine Baylor: EPA Hydrogeologist
Topic – “Hazardous Waste: Exposure Pathways and Corrective Actions in the Silicon Valley"
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: SRI Menlo Park (Middlefield Road at Ringwood Ave.)
Please note:
> Doors will open at 5:15 – don’t be late!
> Do not park at SRI’s main entrance (333 Ravenswood)
> Directions at http://www.cafescisv.org/sridirections.html
For directions, video links and more, visit us on the web
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Superfund is EPA's program to identify, investigate and clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the United States. In the Silicon Valley alone there are 25 Superfund sites (www.epa.gov/region9/superfund), each with a long history of soil and groundwater contamination and ongoing remedial activity.

At our February café, Alana Lee and Katherine Baylor will provide an overview of the Superfund and other hazardous waste programs at EPA Region 9. From there, they will review the challenges faced with cleaning up the legacy groundwater contamination sites in Silicon Valley that resulted from the release of chlorinated solvents into the subsurface during the early days of the high-tech industry. They will also discuss an emerging exposure pathway of concern: the migration of volatile chemicals from contaminated groundwater and soil into the indoor air environment. Alana and Kathy will cover some of their experiences and research efforts on vapor intrusion assessment at sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alana Lee is a Project Manager for EPA Region 9’s Superfund Division for over 13 years. For the past 11 years, she has been managing several Superfund sites in Mountain View and Moffett Field, California, where regional groundwater contamination is being actively cleaned up and indoor air investigations are being conducted to evaluate the subsurface vapor intrusion pathway. Alana leads and actively participates in EPA regional and national vapor intrusion workgroups, and serves as an EPA resource to others with sites with potential vapor intrusion issues.

Katherine Baylor is a hydrogeologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pacific Southwest Region in San Francisco. She provides technical support to EPA colleagues evaluating and cleaning up hazardous waste sites throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawai'i, and the Pacific Islands. In addition, she has over 20 years of experience sampling water, soil, air, and biota for environmental contaminants.

Café Scientifique events are open to all free of charge.  No reservations are necessary.  For more information please visit our web site: www.cafescisv.org. Check the web for information about future and past events, including photos.  Feel free to forward this announcement to interested friends and colleagues. Sign up here to receive announcements.

Graciously hosted by SRI, Café Scientifique is a place where anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology and debate science issues outside a traditional academic context.  We meet monthly to discuss a variety of science topics.  Feel free to forward this message to anyone you think could be interested. Coffee, tea and biscotti will be complimentary, provided by SRI - Bring your own mug if you wish to avoid using disposable cups.

Courtesy of Kepler's there will be a drawing for a $30 gift card for books or merchandise at Kepler's on El Camino Real in Menlo Park. Those who choose to enter the drawing will have their names added to the Kepler's mailing list. Special thanks to Kepler's for supporting Cafe Sci.

John McIntosh
john.mcintosh@cafescisv.org

Paul Donahue: A Tale of Two Shorebirds (Slide Show) @ Sharp Park Library, February 15

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Join biologist and artist Paul Donahue for a very special photographic exploration of the natural history of two of Pacifica's smallest shorebirds: Wednesday, February 15 at 7 p.m. at Sharp Park Library community room, 140 Hilton Way at Palmetto, Pacifica. The library is open on Wednesday nights and requests that you park on the street rather than in its parking lot off Hilton, which is reserved for library patrons. Pacifica Shorebird Alliance sponsors this free public event, and donations are appreciated.

Bird bio: Observers often confuse snowy plovers with sanderlings. The two species live along Pacifica 's ocean shore and look very similar. Paul Donahue examines the life histories and conservation challenges for these two shorebirds. Through fall, winter, and spring, the two species appear side by side along our sandy beaches. Sanderlings are the little whitish sandpipers that chase waves up and down the beach. Much less conspicuous, snowy plovers are generally up on the higher and drier sections of the beach. While snowy plovers remain in the south to nest on sandy beaches along the California coast, in late April the sanderlings begin migrating to their nesting grounds in the high Arctic tundra, thousands of miles to the north. 

Sadly, as with so many species these days, these two shorebirds are both in decline. Snowy plover numbers have fallen far enough for the species to be federally listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. As is often the case,  threats to the continued survival of these two species come from multiple sources. Despite great differences in their life histories, these two shorebirds share a common threat: human disturbance on sandy beaches they prefer. 

Speaker bio: Paul Donahue is a respected ornithologist, bird artist, and photographer who has studied shorebirds extensively for more than 40 years. His work includes shorebird conservation and research projects with the Manomet Center for Conservation Science and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Recently, members of several Bay Area Audubon groups enjoyed Paul's presentation on his dramatic experiences with birds and jaguars in the Brazilian Pantanal. Now a Pacifica resident, Paul spends considerable time observing wintering shorebirds on Pacifica State Beach at Linda Mar. 

If you want a close-up view of sanderlings and snowy plovers through Pacifica Shorebird Alliance scopes, a weekend field trip with Donahue can be arranged. The alliance is a local environmental organization whose mission is to engage and educate the public about protecting local coastal birds and their ecosystems.

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Pacifica Libraries Event Calendar, February 2012

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