Discovery Bay News

THIS HAS BEEN a rough year for most Californians. With Thanksgiving on Thursday, there are some in East County who have to look hard for things in their life to be thankful for.

Prevot's Restaurant excels among other Restaurants. An Italian, French, & Japanese Restaurant rolled into one.

The federal project would install two gates along the Delta channels between Bethel Island and Discovery Bay to see whether they prevent Delta smelt from dying in pumps near the Tracy area.

Executive Home Services is owned and operated with care by Adeline Gray and her hard working staff.

Julie Kameny and her daughter Emily, 8, enjoy some time with their horse, Shawnell - " a typical scene in bucolic Knightsen, where horses still outnumber people.

The 11th annual Exchange Club Veterans Day parade will step off at 11 a.m. Wednesday, singling out the nurses who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam as the honorary grand marshals.

CSD President Ray Teatreault listens to a comment from Director David Piepho during Wednesday's special meeting.

CLEAN SCENE: O'Hara Middle School recently gathered the troops for a big spruce-up day.

Discovery Bay leaders tonight will try for the second time to fill two vacant seats on the town's governing board amid disagreement about the appropriate process for making the appointments.

Lined on two sides by sapling fruit trees, the vegetable beds stretch out in tidy rows behind the Spanish-style parish church.

CSD directors Mark Simon, Ray Tetreault and David Piepho interviewed seven candidates for the two empty director's seats at Wednesday's CSD meeting.

With less than two weeks to go before the close of public comment on the 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project, members of a newly formed Discovery Bay coalition are working to extend that comment period on the proposed project that many feel would cause irreparable damage to the Delta and forever alter the recreational lifestyle and ...

TURNER AND BELSHAW elementary schools were part of Jumpstart's Read for the Record, an international campaign to bring children and grownups together and to read the same book on the same day in communities all over the world.

Ambrose Ball Room Dancing Classes - 7:30-9 p.m. beginning Nov. 3. Learn the fox trot, tango, waltz, swing, rumba and cha-cha. Couples recommended but not required.

At first glance, the interior of East Bay Muscle Cars is a study in time travel: 1960s- and '70s-era Novas, Mustangs and Cameros fill the showroom floor, each looking like it just rolled off the assembly line.

Residents here might see more firefighters and paramedics following the city's endorsement Tuesday of a proposed change in how the area's fire protection district is run.

Contra Costa County supervisors on Tuesday took the first step to vote themselves out as the governing board of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District in favor of a new nine-member board of East County residents.

2-3. Auditions are open to actors of all ages. No participation fee. Rehearsals begin Nov.

Quick Lane Auto Repair, Oil Change, Tune-Ups, & More! Brentwood 94513. Serving Discovery Bay, Antioch, Oakley, & East Bay.

Discovery Bay CSD meeting agenda packets will now be available to the public on the Friday before a scheduled Wednesday meeting, even after the CSD offices close.