Spring 2016 Shore Lines newsletter
From Robert Cheasty, CESP Executive Director
Dear Parks Supporter:
Welcome to the spring edition of the Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP) Shore Lines newsletter. Thank you for celebrating 30 years of advocacy with us last year! Much has happened since our last correspondence at the end of 2015. CESP moved its office to Solano Avenue in Berkeley (on the Albany border). In addition to the move we had internal staff changes. Former Executive Director Patricia Jones retired in January 2016, Robert Cheasty switched from Board President to Executive Director and ...
Citizens for East Shore Parks Honors the Life of Sylvia McLaughlin, Grand Dame of Environmentalism, who Advocated for Parks, Open Space and the SF Bay
Citizens for East Shore Parks Honors the Life of
Sylvia McLaughlin, Grand Dame of Environmentalism,
who Advocated for Parks, Open Space and the SF Bay
McLaughlin Died on Tuesday, Jan. 19 in Berkeley
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Albany, California - January 20, 2016 –Sylvia McLaughlin died at her Berkeley home on Tuesday, Jan. 19. She was the co-founder of Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP) and served on its board of directors since 1985.
“We are deeply saddened by Sylvia’s passing and send our well ...
Citizens for East Shore Parks Celebrates 30 Years of Advocacy for East Bay Shoreline Make it a day at McLaughlin Eastshore State Park on Saturday, November 7
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CESP celebrates 30 years of advocacy for McLaughlin Eastshore State Park on November 7.
Albany, California - October 19, 2015 –Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP) will commemorate 30 years of advocacy with a celebratory brunch on Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm, at the Berkeley Yacht Club followed by a day of activities in the Park. At the event, CESP and Sylvia McLaughlin (Emeritus Co-Chair CESP and Co-Founder Save the Bay) will honor:
Tom Bates, Mayor of Berkeley, for his leadership in forging visions
Pat O’Br...
THANKS TO YOU WE DID IT!! McLAUGHLIN EASTSHORE STATE PARK is established
Santa Monica, CA -- On Friday, September 28 the California State Park and Recreation Commission unanimously voted to rename Eastshore State Park as McLaughlin Eastshore State Park in honor of San Francisco Bay champion Sylvia McLaughlin.
Citizens for East Shore Parks, the nonprofit organization instrumental in establishing the Eastshore State Park, spearheaded the campaign to rename the park after Sylvia McLaughlin.
McLaughlin, the Sierra Club, and CESP led the charge to create Eastshore State Park, which runs 8.5 miles along the East Bay shorel...
East Bay park and conservation groups in recession land rush
By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times
Wednesday December 15, 2010
Longtime conservationists Ron Brown and Seth Adams anxiously hovered over an office computer and prepared to type in bids quickly when the online auction began for a 5-acre slice of Brentwood grasslands they hoped to get for a bargain.
The Save Mount Diablo leaders usually had months or years to make land deals. This time, though, they figured to have 60 to 90 seconds to buy or lose the foreclosed property on this Internet auction of distressed properties.
Adams tapped in a $5,000 raise. Someone in ...
Climate change: Sea rise could kill vital marshes
By Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, November 17, 2011
The critical tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay - habitat for tens of thousands of birds and other animals - will virtually disappear within a century if the sea rises as high as some scientists predict it will as a result of global warming.
The sea would inundate the coastline and eliminate 93 percent of the bay's tidal wetlands if carbon emissions continue unchecked and the ocean rises 5.4 feet, as predicted by scientists under a worst-case scenario, according to a new study by PRBO ...
Soccer complex developer heading elsewhere as fight over vacant land continues
By Hannah Dreier, Contra Costa Times
July 10, 2011
RICHMOND -- A plan to build a soccer complex on the city's north shoreline appears to be dead, but the fight over this mostly vacant land is far from over.
A developer who had proposed to build a soccer complex featuring 19 fields, a hotel and an outdoor mall on Richmond's northwestern edge is taking his proposal to Suisun City, he said last week.
But the furor still rages over a draft of the city's revised general plan, which proposes to preserve the north shoreline as the city's by designating it open ...
Land Battle Stirs Richmond
By David Ferry, The Wall Street Journal
June 16, 2011
Dan Murray, above, stands in a 55-acre property near Richmond's northern shoreline that he hopes to sell to a developer.
RICHMOND - A proposal to preserve a small stretch of shoreline in this East Bay city has divided the community, pitting developers and Richmond's growing Hispanic population against conservationists and the city council.
The conflict involves a privately owned parcel of largely vacant marshland on the edge of the working-class city. Earlier this year, a new draft of Richmond's ...