Community Calendar
Local Events, Meetings and More
Regular Government Meetings
• Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) generally meets on land-use issues at 6 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month, and holds general purpose meetings at 6 p.m. on most 3rd Mondays. Meetings are currently virtual at 6 p.m. For agenda, visit: acgov.org/bc/cvmac
• Castro Valley School Board meetings are currently virtual. For agenda, visit: https://www.cv.k12.ca.us/boarddocs/
• Castro Valley Sanitary District (CVSan) meets at 6:30p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month. Meetings are currently virtual: https://www.cvsan.org/who_we_are/board_of_directors/agendas_and_minutes.php
• Alameda County Board of Supervisors meets every Tuesday at 10:45 a.m. Meetings are currently virtual: https://www.acgov.org/agenda_minutes_app/board/bos_calendar/ag_min.jsp?subType=REG
CVSan’s annual Earth Day Clean-Up
Volunteers are needed to participate in CVSan’s annual Earth Day Clean-Up on Saturday, April 26th. The Earth Day Clean-Up event has brought together between 400 to 700 community volunteers every year to help with projects all around Castro Valley. This year, eleven Castro Valley schools will join the effort in organizing cleanup projects at their campuses with staff, students, and family. There will also be six community site projects with help from event sponsors and community volunteers.
Volunteers work together to beautify school campuses and clean up and enhance Castro Valley’s beautiful parks. Volunteers will be picking up litter, planting native plants, spreading mulch, pulling weeds, and much more. This cleanup is possible with the help of event sponsors: Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program, Alameda County Industries (ACI), Alameda County Resource Conservation District, East Bay Regional Park District, ForestR.org, Friends of San Lorenzo Creek, Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, Pete’s Ace Hardware, and Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley.
Since 1999, CVSan has been coordinating April Earth Day events for Castro Valley, from the early days of the Earth Day Festival and 5K Fun Run to the more recent Earth Day Clean-Up and Recycles Day events.
For more information and to sign up to volunteer at Earth Day Clean-Up, please visit cvsan.org/ED.
CVSan Recycles Day
Participate in Castro Valley Sanitary District (CVSan)’s Recycles Day and Compost Give-Away event on Saturday, July 27th! Alameda County residents and CVSan businesses are invited to drop off textiles and Household Hazardous Waste (paint, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, e-waste). CVSan residents and businesses can also receive three 1-cubic foot bags of compost!
The event will take place between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. at Canyon Middle School. Appointments will be required to participate. Registration is open from July 1st at 3:00 p.m. until July 24th. Appointments are limited and will be given to eligible customers in the order of registration.
For more details and to register for an appointment, visit cvsan.org/RecyclesDay. For questions, call CVSan’s office at 510-537-0757. Early registrations will not be accepted.
Zero Waste Living Event
Reducing waste has many benefits for our community and the environment. Join a speaker from the Castro Valley Sanitary District to learn tips and tricks for zero waste living. You’ll learn about the four R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot) and how to put them into action. This event is part of the Castro Valley Reads Climate Change Education Series. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 1 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Register at www.aclibrary.org. Call 510-667-7900 with questions. Registrants will received at least 24 hours notice if the program has to be moved online due to virus restrictions. The Castro Valley Library, a branch of the Alameda County Library system.
CV Rotary Hosts Roland Williams
Roland Williams, CVSan General Manager, will describe two award-winning major projects by CVSan and the Oro Loma Sanitary District. The first is a cutting-edge ecotone, or horizontal levee, designed to mitigate sea level rise. The second is a nutrient optimization project, which has drastically reduced the amounts of algal-producing contaminants discharged to the San Francisco Bay. A buffet lunch and the program take place at Redwood Canyon Golf Course (17007 Redwood Road, Castro Valley) at 12-1:30 p.m. The cost of lunch is $20 and reservations must be made by 9 p.m. on Sunday, October 31, by contacting Rotary at cvrotary@iCloud.com or 510-402-5123. More information is available at: castrovalleyrotary.org.