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Daily Five: Stop Crime, Lighten Up, Cookies Galore 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!
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an earlier phrase, but also play on the double meaning. For example:
- I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
- Light travels faster than sound; this is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- The (215-4418) meets on the second Wednesday of each month in the Hillside Conference Room, City Hall, which means tonight at 7. The Committee is composed of El Cerrito residents interested in or knowledgeable about criminal justice. Agenda items include planning for National Night Out 2011, membership outreach and the Neighborhood Watch security efforts.
- Tonight, the Park and Recreation Commission will hold a special meeting at 7 in the City Council chambers. You'll have to check in with the Recreation Department or City Hall to find out what's on the agenda as it's not posted on the City calendar.
- Yes, the meeting today is early in the morning, starting at 8 and asking you to think until 9. But the (558-1534) offers great opportunities to meet other people in business, learn about the latest technologies and schmooze as best you can so early in the day. But Pasta Pomodoro restaurant offers good beverages and noshes. These meetings are well worth leaving a cozy bed.
- Enlighten yourselves! Check out the at (525-5561) from noon to 5 today. The inventory belonged to El Cerrito Lighting, which closed after many years of business in El Cerrito. Here's your chance to redecorate at great prices, as well as which we're more in the dark than ever now that daylight saving time is over. Barbara Grady makes the point well with her photos in .
- Don't forget that today canned food becomes currency for cookies. El Cerrito Patch is hosting a "" food drive from 4 to 8 p.m., at the El Cerrito Community Center to benefit the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano. Bring canned food, meet some of us who bring the El CerritoPatch to you and have fun decorating cookies, and competing in "Best Cookie Design" and "New Patch Subscriber Grand Prize Drawing." Volunteerism at its sweetest!