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Calendar of Events & Activities

Staff

Wednesday September 19, 2001

Wednesday, Sept. 19

Free Prostate Cancer Screening

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Alta Bates Medical Center

Markstein Cancer Education & Prevention Center

At-risk men may obtain a free prostate cancer screening by appointment. 869-8833

Fire Hill Station Neighborhood Meeting

7 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Building

2180 Milvia St.

6th Floor Conference Room

Hill Fire Station meeting to review plans. 981-6341

Berkeley Communicator

Toastmasters Club

7:15 a.m.

Vault Cafe

3250 Adeline

Learn to speak with confidence. Ongoing first and third Wednesdays each month. 527-2337

Baby Bounce and Toddler Tales

7 p.m.

Berkeley Central Library

2090 Kittredge St.

This participatory program for families with children up to age 3 presents multicultural stories, songs and fingerplays as entertainment. 644-6095

Support Group for Family/Friends

Caring for Older Adults

4 - 5:30 p.m. - third Wednesday of each month

Alta Bates Medical Center

Herrick Campus

2001 Dwight Way

Third floor, Room 3369B (elevator B)

The group will focus on the needs of the older adult with serious medical problems, psychiatric illnesses, substance abuse, and their caregivers. Free. 802-1725

Commission on Aging

1:30 p.m.

South Berkeley Senior Center

2939 Ellis St.

Open to the public. 644-6050

Human Welfare & Community Action Commission Meeting

7 - 10 p.m.

South Berkeley Senior Center

2939 Ellis St.

Open to the public. 665-3419

Gay/Bi Men’s Book Group

7:30 p.m.

Boadecia’s Books

398 Colusa Ave.

Will discuss “Bastard Out of Carolina” by Dorothy Allison. 559-9184 www.bookpride.com

Socratic Circle Discussions

5 - 6 p.m.

1309 Solano Ave.

Cafe Eclectica

Does your brain need a workout? All ages welcome. 527-2344

What You Need to Know Before You Build or Remodel

7 - 10 p.m.

Building Education Center

812 Page St.

Preview of the Homeowner’s Essential Course – learn to solder pipe and more. By Glen Kitzenberger. Free. 525-7610

A Taste of the World: Cultural Understanding Through Food

6 - 9 p.m.

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center

1414 Walnut St.

Enhance your cooking skills and experience the cuisines of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco and Israel with chef Daniel Herskovic. All classes are “hands on.” Class includes meal and cooking lesson. $25. Every Wednesday through Nov. 1. 655-8487

Graduate Theological Union Fall Convocation

3:30 p.m.

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Chapel

2770 Marin Ave.

Annual GTU gathering which celebrates the beginning of the academic year. This year’s speaker is William M. Sullivan, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 649-2464

Natural History of East Bay Hill Paths

7 - 9 p.m.

Hillside Club

2286 Cedar St.

Panelists will be Malcom Margolin, publisher of Heyday Books; Richard Schwartz, author of Berkeley 1900, a portrait of the city drawn from Century-old newspaper stories; Steve Edwards, director of the East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden. 524-4715 www.internettime.com/bpwa

–compiled by Guy Poole

Prose Writers’ Workshop

7 - 9 p.m.

Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center Library

1414 Walnut St.

From Op-ed to fiction, memoir to the feature article - a community

writers' group to support and encourage a community of interests. Workshop format. Free. 524-3034

Remembering Church

7 p.m.

St. Mary Magdalen Rectory

2005 Berryman St.

An informal group to explore returning to the Catholic Church. 526-4811

Special events planned in response to terror attacks

Wednesday, Sept. 19

Teach-in

6:30 p.m.

2050 Valley Life Sciences

UC Berkeley

Speakers include: Norman Solomon, media activist, Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley lecturer and director of the Al-Aalam Institute

Thursday, Sept. 20

National Student Day of Action

noon

Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

343-2139 x5412

Rally to stop the war; defend civil liberties; stop racist scapegoating; defend the Arab-American, Muslim and Mid-eastern communities.

593-7489

Friday, Sept. 21

Don’t Turn Tragedy into War

7 p.m.

Fellowship of Humanity

390 27th St.

Oakland

Supporters include the Ecumenical Peace Institute, the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, Global Exchange, the Middle East Children’s Alliance

Preaching and Pastoral Care in a Time of Terror

A workshop for clergy of all faith traditions

9:30 a.m. - 12 noon

Pacific School of Religion

Chapel of the Great Commission

1798 Scenic Ave.

In a time that presents enormous challenges for those who minister to churches, congregations, synagogues, mosques, parishes and all communities of faith, the faculty of the member schools of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley invite clergy to attend a workshop focused on providing reflection and resources for the work of ministry in times of trial and terror.