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San Pablo Avenue post office closes for 3 months 

Beginning Monday, the post office at 2111 San Pablo Ave. will be closed for remodeling for about three months. 

Post office patrons will continue to get the post office box, will call and “no response” mail from a trailer in the yard at the station.  

“I am very sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you, but the end result will allow us to provide much better service,” says Postmaster George Banks in a written statement. 

Power outage affects 6,600 PG&E customers 

Some 1,600 PG&E customers lost their electricity Thursday morning, when a car hit a power pole at 2:20 a.m. at Lexington and Fairmont avenues in El Cerrito.  

As crews were repairing the outage, other circuits became affected, according to PG&E spokesperson Staci Homrig, adding another 5,000 households, from Richmond to Berkeley, to those already without power.  

Everyone’s power was back on by about 8 a.m., Homrig said. 

Mediation Awareness Week can help many 

Community Mediation Awareness Week is the week of July 16 in Berkeley. 

“Community mediation is the cornerstone of conflict resolution and violence prevention within our local communities,” Tami Graham, case manager at Berkeley Dispute Resolution Service said in a press statement.  

“Mediation is a process that brings people together to resolve their differences in a safe, neutral space.”  

Community mediation is offered free or at a minimum cost.  

All volunteer mediators in the Bay Area have been trained in accordance with the Dispute Resolution Programs Act.  

For more information contact Tami Graham at 428-1811 or e-mail tami@bdrs.org.