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from Berkeley: The Alameda County Fair, Pick-N-Pull & Chez
Panisse
13 July 2010By Jane Stillwater
If you are having trouble trying to keep from being
driven completely nutso by all the grim, horrible and
terrible national and international news headlines
that just keep pouring down on our heads, then perhaps
it's time to take a break and focus in on some of the
good things in life instead. And there actually are a
lot of good things happening here, locally, in my own
home town -- which happens to be Berkeley.
One good thing about living in Berkeley is that you
can never get bored.
For instance, a friend of mine just started working at
a new Japanese grilled-chicken restaurant called
Ippuku, and on July 15 at 7 pm, I'm going there for
dinner -- so that I can compare their grilled chicken
kebabs with all those chicken kebabs that I ate daily
while in Iran for a month back in 2008. Iran is the
Queen of too-dry chicken. Will Ippuku do better? They
have to! Here's a review of Ippuku (which is the
Japanese word for "Take a break"): http://www.umamimart.com/2010/07/sneak-peak-ippuku-berkeley/
I also have plans to spend the night at Arnieville on
Russell Street and Adeline, camping out with the
disabled people there who are protesting Governor
Schwarzenegger's rather foolish budget cuts to
salaries for their home-care workers. Will let you
know how that goes.
And here's a trilogy of articles I just wrote about
Berkeley -- or at least the East Bay area. Hopefully
these places will cheer you up too.
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The Alameda County Fair: "We had fun!"
By Jane Stillwater
"Let's go to the Alameda County Fair on Wednesday,"
said my daughter Ashley -- and I, of course, replied,
"Yawn." But I was wrong. We went and had a really good
time.
Not only was there a carnival with all the rides and
monster foot-long corn dogs and all that kind of stuff
but this really was a true county fair and there was
pie judging and flower judging and demonstrations of
gadgets that you never knew that you needed and quilt
exhibits as well.
And there were also chickens. We bought chickens. We
now have four chickens -- they were four for $20 (and
also came with food.) We named them Smokey Robinson,
Sun Rocker, Mariqa Mustache and Scary Spice.
"Did you like the fair?" I asked my two-year-old
granddaughter Mena.
"We had fun!" she replied. And we did.
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