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People’s Park Boardmember Sought 

UC Berkeley is looking for volunteers to serve on the People’s Park Community Advisory Board, a citizen panel that makes recommendations to the school about Berkeley’s most contested piece of real estate. 

Board members are picked by the university’s Vice Chancellor for Business and Administrative Services and can serve a maximum of three one-year terms. 

People’s Park, a half block west of Telegraph Avenue between Haste Street and Dwight Way, remains an icon of the 60s and the sight of literal and legal battles between students, street people, and UC administrators. 

The advisory board is UC’s main source of outside input on park programs and policies and is charged with guiding implementation of the school’s long-term conceptual planning for the land. 

Board members come from both campus and the surrounding community. 

Applications will be accepted through Sept. 30 for the 2003-2004 term. For more information call the People’s Park office at 642-3255 or email pplspark@uclink.berkeley.edu 

BCF to Hold Open House 

The Berkeley Community Fund, a nonprofit foundation that provides grants and scholarships to community organizations and students, will hold an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in their new offices in the Cooper Building, 800 Jones St.  

In the annual grant cycle just ended, the foundation handed out over $62,000 in grants to community organizations and provided $20,000 in scholarships to Berkeley High School and Vista Community College students.  

Dog Owners to Take a Lickin’ 

Dog owners willing to suffer a modest degree of humiliation will have a chance to show off their pets and donate a little bit of cash to a deserving cause at noon Saturday if they enter the Great Dog Lick-Off. 

Sponsored by and held at Alan’s PETzeria, 843 Gilman St., the contest pits pooch against pooch, with the winner determined by which canine is quickest at licking off peanut butter smeared on his/her/its master’s/mistress’s face. 

All of the entry fee and five percent of the store’s sales for the day will go to the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society.  

City Terrorism Plans Explained 

Berkeley’s plans for responding to a terrorist threat will be presented during a special three-hour class Saturday at the Fire Department Training Center, 997 Center St. 

Open to anyone age 18 and over who lives or works in the city, the 9 a.m. to noon session will be presented by the city’s Office of Emergency Services (OES). 

For more information or to register, call OES at 981-5605—TDD 981-5799—of the CERT program coordinator, 981-5506. Online registration is availavle at www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/fire/oes.html  

State Bar Honors Berkeley Lawyer 

A Berkeley attorney who battled without payment to win medication coverage for a Vallejo man faced with the loss of Medi-Cal benefits for his AIDS medication has been honored with the State Bar President’s Pro Bono Public Service Award. 

Thomas A. Ostly, 31, was praised by his client, who told the State Bar that “Prior to his involvement, I was fighting a losing battle that no one seemed interested in taking on.” 

Ostly volunteered his services through Berkeley’s East Bay Community Law Center. 

He received the award from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George and State Bar President James Herman during the State Bar’s annual meeting in Anaheim Friday.