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Bay Area Recycle offers FREE pick up of electronics from your home, school or business.  They accept TVs, computers, printers, audio and telephone equipment.  All hard drives are erased per Dept. of Defense Protocol.  All electronics are disposed of in a safe manner and not dumped in the ocean, landfills, or sent overseas.

www.BayAreaRecycle.com
925.465.5576
BayAreaRecycle@gmail.com

Electronic Waste Management has a FREE E-Waste Recycling Event on the first Saturday of every month (excluding holidays) from 9am to 1pm.  This event is held at Diablo Valley College, 321 Golf Club Road in Pleasant Hill.  Electronic Items Accepted:  TVs, monitors, computers & components, office equipment (copiers, fax, printers), phone equipment, VCR & DVDs, cell phones, power cables, video game systems, stereo equipment, scrap metal & wire.  Visit their website for more accepted items.  Items NOT Accepted:  Fluorescent bulbs, household appliances, smoke detectors.

www.NoEWaste.com
866.335.3373

Happy Recycling!

TERRYLYNN FISHER, Diablo Realty, Realtor, Staging Specialist - CSP/Realtor (Certified Staging Professional), CRS (Certified Residential Specialist), SRES (Senior Real Estate Specialist). Terrylynn is in her 30th+ year in real estate, works in ALL kinds of markets and has a referral directory of Realtors who use similar marketing in your hometown too. She can be reached at 925 876-0966 for referrals or questions.

Neil Simon's autobiographical hit comedy is set in pre-World War II Brooklyn, where Eugene Jerome, an ambitious, somewhat starry-eyed teenager who wants to be a writer, lives with his extended Jewish family in a lower-middle-class home that is filled with tension, love, and plenty of laughs. Order your tickets today at WillowsTheatre.org or by calling (925) 798-1300.

This play will be at the Willows Theatre (1975 Diamond Blvd.) from 3/17 - 4/20/08.

Did you know that you can visit www.ConcordFirst.org for a complete list of Concord Events & activities?  I encourage you to check it out!

Just when I was feeling jealous reading about these events elsewhere... I realized we are having one of our own!  The website is here.   It costs $10 and is from 1pm to 5pm on Sunday, March 9 at the Crown Plaza (45 John Glenn Drive, Concord.  There will be chocolate booths and wine booths for tasting, and also cooking demonstrations.  Sounds like a good time!

Hope to see some of my neighbors there!

Some Chocolate facts:

1) The oldest known civilization of the Americas (1500 - 400 B.C.), The Olmecs, were probably the first users of cacao.

Though few records survived, recent linguistic findings suggest the word "cacao" is derived from the word Kakawa in Mixe-Zoquean, believed to have been their language.

2) In the 17th Century, the first recorded case of "Death by Chocolate" occurred.

In San Cristobal de las Casa, in Chiapas, Mexico, upper class Spaniards were so addicted to chocolate intake that they refused a church dictated ban forbidding consumption of drink or food during Mass.

In response, the townspeople refused to uphold this edict and chose to attend worship services in Convents.

The Bishop of Chiapas, who passed the edict, was found dead due to a mixture of poison that was secretly added to his daily cup of chocolate.  Rumor has it that he passed from this world with a smile on his face.

3) In 1849 during the "Gold Rush" of San Francisco, Dominbro Ghirardelli of Italy began making chocolate. His original factory still stands at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, CA.

Chocolate facts from www.candyfavorites.com

Concord is the first city in the SF Bay Area to offer free wireless Internet service at no cost to residents or to the city's General Fund.  Two-thirds of the city has now been connected through Metro-Fi.  For a network map and to sign up for updates, visit www.MetroFiBayArea.com.

What great news & a great thing for our city to offer!  Unfortunately I am not in one of the service areas yet, but I did sign up for the updates. Since we're at the very edge of Concord city limits, it seems like we're last for most things.  : (

If you have been using this free service, I'd love to hear what you think!