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Daily Five: Cans for Cookies, Calling All Dads, Green Tees and More
Getting around and about? Take advantage of this selection of El Cerrito's changing buffet of activities and other opportunities that may tickle your fancy!
El Cerrito is a small, but cosmopolitan, city. According to the 2000 U.S. Census (this may change somewhat with the new census results), El Cerritans as a group speak 15 languages: English 70.47 percent, Spanish 6.26 percent, Chinese 5.96 percent, Japanese 2.70 percent, Mandarin 1.8 percent, Cantonese 1.57 percent, Persian 1.43 percent, Tagalog 1.3 percent, Korean 1.08 percent, French 0.90 percent, German 0.83 percent, Formosan 0.73 percent, Italian 0.66 percent, Vietnamese 0.57 percent and Urdu 0.50 percent. A total of 3.23 percent speak a language that represents less than 0.50 percent of the city's 23,000 residents. What we have here is a polygot population!
- Want to help the less fortunate while helping yourself to cookies and conversation? El Cerrito Patch is hosting a special "Cans for Cookies" food drive Wednesday, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the to benefit the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano. Bring cans of food, meet some of us responsible for El Cerrito Patch and enjoy free cookies. Kids are invited to decorate their own cookies at our cookie-decorating table. If they want, they can enter a "Best Cookie Design" contest while adults enter the "New Patch Subscriber Grand Prize Drawing." Please feel welcome to join us. We hope to see you there.
- Today the City of El Cerrito and the schools dominate in events around and about. First, the Financial Advisory Board (phone 215-4312) will meet at 7 tonight at City Hall. This committee will undertake its annual review of the City's investment and finance policies.
- Also meeting tonight at 7 at City Hall will be the Environmental Quality Committee (phone 215-1354), which has a full agenda. Some of the items to be considered will be whether to spend money for new tee shirts for the Green Team and an update of the new recycling center.
- The Special Education Community Advisory Committee will meet tonight at Cameron School at 7. This committee oversees the local special education plan. Babysitting will be provided. www.wccusd.net
- Calling all Dads of children who attend Harding Elementary School (phone 231-1413). The Dad's Club will meet tonight at 7 in the Harding Library. This group takes on various school projects and supports fundraising activities. A great way to volunteer!