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El Cerrito Tackles Single-Bag Issues; Owner Hopes to Keep Angel Island-Tiburuon Ferry Afloat
And CalTrans throws a birthday party.

I started with Patch as the copy editor for 11 Patch sites: Alameda, Albany, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Hercules, Newark, Piedmont, Pinole, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City. Currently I am the local editor at Piedmont Patch and Alameda Patch. Questions? dixie.jordan@patch.com.
Before coming to Patch, I was the editor and publisher of Parents Press, a magazine for Bay Area parents, for more years than I like to remember. Before that, I was news editor at the Contra Costa Times and a reporter at various Northern California newspapers.
I am a fifth generation Californian who has lived in the East Bay most of my life and a graduate of UC Berkeley. For fun, I volunteer on archaeology digs, mostly in Ireland and the Southwest.
My brilliant and beautiful daughter, Jenny, a school psychologist, just married the charming Chris Davidson and they are living in Austin, Texas — too far way!
And CalTrans throws a birthday party.

Plus el Cerrito rules on single-use bags and CalTrans throws a birthday party
The public is invited to learn about updates to the bikeway plan at the Jan. 22 meeting of Alameda's Transportation Commission.
One accident occurred on Shoreline Drive, the other at the South Shore Center Safeway.
Reese was reported missing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, after she left her Piedmont home about 10 a.m. but failed to keep an appointment in Orinda.
Here’s what’s playing in theaters around town this weekend.
What’s playing in theaters in Alameda and nearby this weekend, plus showtimes.
Plus a beer dinner that pairs Homestead's food with Trappist brews.
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled its 2014 Lunar New Year stamp Wednesday in San Francisco at a ceremony with Mayor Ed Lee.
Concerned about privacy issues when it comes to Automated License Plate Reader technology? You can comment at the Alameda Police Department's forum on Feb. 3.
Jill Reese, 72, disappeared after driving away fro her Piedmont home about 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014.
The black cat with the big amber eyes — starving and infested by fleas when he was abandoned last month— was treated by the staff at Park Centre Animal Hospital. The hospital wants to find him a "forever home."
Jill Reese, 72, disappeared after driving away fro her Piedmont home about 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014.