Siitonen's Sports Report - October 2011

FALL OCTOBER SPORTS

The Finnish women’s orienteering relay team came up with the gold for the second year in a row at the World Championships held this year at Feclaz, France in late August. The Finnish team covered the distance in 1 hour 42 minutes and 42 seconds and consisted of Anna-Maija Fincke, Merja Rantanen and anchor Minna Kauppi (at right). Sweden was second and Czech republic third.

Leena Puotiniemi, 35, became the first Finnish woman in five years to win the Helsinki City Marathon on Aug. 20 in a fine time of 2:38:06 which also made her the Finnish national marathon champion for this year and qualified her for the 2012 London Olympics where the A standard is 2:43. Usually won by Russian women, this time second place went to an Ethiopian and 3rd to a Kenyan. An amazing note is that Puotiniemi only started running for the first time three years ago at age 32. Jaakko Kero was the first Finnish male in the marathon in 5th place in 2:34:22.

Sari Essayah of Finland was re-elected to the Racewalking Committee of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) at its convention at Daegu, South Korea, for another four-year term on Aug. 24. She was the women’s world racewalking 10K champion in 1993 and the European 10K champion in 1994. She is a former member of the Finnish Parliament and is now serving as a member of the European Parliament representing Finland.

Finland’s outstanding heavyweight boxer Robert Helenius scored his 16th professional win with no losses when he knocked out former WBO World Heavyweight Champion Sjarei Lahovitz of Belarus on a 9th round TKO at Erfurt, Germany on Aug. 29. Helenius said it was the toughest bout of his career.. He had earlier knocked his opponent to the canvas in the 7th round. Helenius has now defeated three ex-world heavyweight champions. He holds the WBA and WBO International Heavyweight titles at this moment Finnish athletes made their worst showing in the 26-year history of the World Track & Field Championships held in late August and early September in Daegu, South Korea. The 12-member Finnish squad earned no medals nor did they gain any consolation points in the case of a country’s athletes scoring at least an 8th place in finals competition. A bad early omen was cast when Finnish women’s pole vault champion Minna Nikkanen tore her thumb while training in Daegu on the eve of the meet, eliminating her from competition. Only two Finnish men qualified for the finals in their events, Olli-Pekka Karjalainen in the hammer and Antti Ruuskanen in the javelin. Both finished in 9th place in their finals.

Jonathan Åstrand made it to the semis of the men’s 200-meter sprint and that was it for him. In the men’s 50K racewalk Jarkko Kinnunen in pre-race interviews said he was in the finest shape of his career and hoped to medal but finished a disappointing 15th in 3:52:32, which time was plenty good enough to earn him a berth in the 2012 London Olympics. Fellow Finn 50K walker Antti Kempas was disqualified on a technicality after 38 kilometers. So it’s back to the drawing board for Finnish athletics if they expect to do better in the London Olympics or the European Championships in Helsinki next year.

On the plus side. Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne was awarded the prestigious Vezina Trophy for being the best goalie of 1910-11 season in the National Hockey League, determined by a poll of its general managers. With his 33 wins last season, he was key to leading the Preds into the NHL playoffs for the first time in their history. Rinne, 28, was signed by Nashville in 2005. A native of Kempele, he is 6’5” and weighs 205 pounds. He has also played for the Finnish national team.

Finland's Minea Blomqvist shot her best golf this year on the US Circuit on Sept. 11 when she shot a two under par 211 (72-70-69) and finished in a 4-way tie for 31st place. Her paycheck for the day was $13,062. Winner in this LPGA tourney at Rogers, Arkansas was the world's top women's golfer Yani Tseng of Taiwan who took home $300,000, posting a playoff score of 201.

Additionally, Finnish men edged out their Swedish counterparts in the 71st Annual Finland-Sweden Dual Athetics Meet, 206 to 194 points, at the Olympic Stadium In Helsinki Sept. 9-10. But Finnish women lost to the Swedes for the 11th year in a row by a lopsided score of 182-225. Among outstanding results were Jonathan Åstrand's dual victories in the 100m (10.40 secs) and 200m (20.01) sprints. In the 200 he defeated an outsanding Swedish runner John Wissman who had won in the dual meet 6 times at this distance. Eemeli Salomäki, Mikael Westö and Jere Bergius won a triple win in the pole vault. Olli-Pekka Karjalainen won the hammer for his 12th year in a row. Although they didn't do that well at the Worlds in Daegu a week before, Antti Ruuskanen (82.02) and Ari Mannio (81.64) had a double win in the javelin. 2006 European Steeplechase champ Jukka Keskisalo won his 3000m event in 8:48.09 and 2005 World bronze medallist Tommi Evilä prevailed in the long jump with 7.88. Jarkko Kinnunen, Heikki Kukkonen, and Aku Partanen sped to a triple win in the men's 10,000m racewalk. The outsanding Finnish woman was Karin Storbacka who took both the 800M ((65.54) and 1500m ((4:46.28) runs. Finnish women also took a double in the discus, with Tanja Komulainen (56.55) and Sanna Kämäräinen (54.34). European junior champ Nooralotta Neziri was outstanding in taking the women's 100m huredles in 13.13.5. Powerhouse Merja Korpela was the hammer winner with 66.49, and Anniina Laitinen prevailed in the 400m hurdles in 59.73.

-- Harry Siitonen

Suomalaisia Amerikan Jalkapalloa Pelaamassa - Small College Notebook: Finns are a fine fit with Chabot College football team

Small college notebook: Finns are a fine fit with Chabot College football team

By Matt Schwab
Contra Costa Times

Posted: 09/13/2011 06:34:41 PM PDT

Updated: 09/13/2011 10:38:10 PM PDT

The Finns are in at Chabot College.

The Gladiators football team has four starters who hail from Finland, a country more known for its passion for hockey and ski jumping.

Chabot's Finlanders are offensive linemen Carl-Johan Backlund and Simo Kulmavita, quarterback Janne "J" Lehtinen and linebacker/safety Max Ehlert.

Lehtinen, a sophomore, tossed a 3-yard touchdown pass in Chabot's season-opening 49-6 win over West Valley of Saratoga last week. Ehlert, a freshman, forced a safety in a game dominated by Chabot's strong, but thin, defense.

"Great young men," Chabot coach Danny Calcagno said of his Finnish imports. "Hardworking, good academically."

Ehlert said the whole Finland-to-Chabot football migration started from a glowing endorsement. Former Reedley College and Texas Tech quarterback Robert Johnson said positive things about junior college life to the locals while he was playing for Finland's Catania Elephants.

Lehtinen came to Chabot first. He enjoyed spring ball in 2010 and the lifestyle, and then shared the good news back home.

"He told me I should just pack my stuff and come over, and so I did," Ehlert said.

Now Ehlert raves of the "welcoming" nature of his new friends and the surprising ease of the transition. Predictably, Chabot's Finns are all good on skates, although at 6-foot-5 and 312 pounds Kulmavita may need some pretty thick ice.

"It's funny. All of us, when we grew up, played hockey," Ehlert said. "Most of us played it for about 10 years, so hockey is definitely a big sport over there. Football is more of a growing sport. They haven't played for that long yet. They have an amateur league and there's not too many people watching or playing. It's more a hobby kind of league."

The Gladiators, it turns out, are well-traveled overall and culturally diverse. They have seven players from Louisiana, six of Samoan descent, five from Hawaii, four from Florida, three from Hope, Ill., three from Texas, two from Nevada, one from Anchorage, Alaska, and another from Washington.

Defensive lineman Felix Ntwa is originally from Austria.

Closer to home, five Gladiators cut their football teeth at Dublin High.

Calcagno would prefer to lean more heavily on local talent, but after losing some key recruits to other Bay Area schools, he made a tactical move to widen his reach.

Calcagno said Lehtinen knows California well and his father even works in Walnut Creek.

Moreover, Calcagno has been impressed by all the Finlanders' maturity.

"They don't miss weightlifting, they watch film and work their butts off," he said.

Berkeley! Kuvia ennakkoäänestyksestä Finnish Brotherhood Hallilta 9.4.2011

10.4.2011 08:02 Jukka Turunen

Äänestysmatka Berkeleyn Finnish Brotherhood Hallille jää mieleen varmastikin ikuisiksi ajoiksi. Jo kauan on tuntunut, että me suomalaiset olemme nyt tekemässä itsenäisen Suomen kannalta välttämätöntä parlamentaarista kansannousua. Tuo tunne sai tänään kohdallani vahvistuksen arvoisissaan puitteissa vanhalla suomalaisella kerhotalolla pohjoisessa Kaliforniassa.

Äänestyspaikkana toiminut Finnish Brotherhood Hall on näkemisen ja kokemisen arvoinen talo. Se on myös konkreettinen muistutus siitä, että suomalaisten kannattaa kovinakin aikoina pitää yhtä. Äänestystilanne oli leppoisa. Taustalla soi suomalainen iskelmä ja pitkään Yhdysvalloissa asunut talkooväki tarjoili kauempaakin saapuneille äänestäjille kahvia ja itseleivottua rusinapitkoa. Tunnelma oli lämmin ja vapautunut. Paikalla olleita yhdisti suomalaisuus ja suomen kieli. Oltiin kuin sukujuhlissa, siellä jossain, impivaarassa.

Ei siis ollut vaikeaa pyöräyttää äänestyslippuun perussuomalaisen ehdokkaan äänestysnumeroa. Suomi on nyt jälleenrakennettava vihervasemmiston aiheuttamien tuhojen jäljiltä. Suomen itsenäisyys on pelastettava EU:lta. Suomi on säilytettävä suomalaisena - ja vastavuoroisesti Eurooppa on pidettävä eurooppalaisena.

Nyt on tekojen aika.

Kukaan muu ei voi Suomea pelastaa - ellemme me suomalaiset itse.

Äänestä viisaasti!

PS. Kiitokset Kirstille, Kallelle, Irmalle ja muille!

Why We Should Steal Finland's Education System

Why We Should Steal Finland's Education System

The transformation of the Finns' education system began some 40 years ago as the key propellent of the country's economic recovery plan. Educators had little idea it was so successful until 2000, when the first results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15-year-olds in more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world. Three years later, they led in math. By 2006, Finland was first out of 57 countries (and a few cities) in science. In the 2009 PISA scores released last year, the nation came in second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide. "I'm still surprised," said Arjariita Heikkinen, principal of a Helsinki comprehensive school. "I didn't realize we were that good."

In the United States, which has muddled along in the middle for the past decade, government officials have attempted to introduce marketplace competition into public schools. In recent years, a group of Wall Street financiers and philanthropists such as Bill Gates have put money behind private-sector ideas, such as vouchers, data-driven curriculum and charter schools, which have doubled in number in the past decade. President Obama, too, has apparently bet on compe­tition. His Race to the Top initiative invites states to compete for federal dollars using tests and other methods to measure teachers, a philosophy that would not fly in Finland. "I think, in fact, teachers would tear off their shirts," said Timo Heikkinen, a Helsinki principal with 24 years of teaching experience. "If you only measure the statistics, you miss the human aspect."

There's a brief summary of how they did it. I think the first and most important step was making a decision that education was important.

In 1963, the Finnish Parlia-ment made the bold decision to choose public education as its best shot at economic recovery. "I call this the Big Dream of Finnish education," said Sahlberg, whose upcoming book, Finnish Lessons, is scheduled for release in October. "It was simply the idea that every child would have a very good public school. If we want to be competitive, we need to educate everybody. It all came out of a need to survive."

Practically speaking--and Finns are nothing if not practical--the decision meant that goal would not be allowed to dissipate into rhetoric. Lawmakers landed on a deceptively simple plan that formed the foundation for everything to come. Public schools would be organized into one system of comprehensive schools, or peruskoulu, for ages 7 through 16. Teachers from all over the nation contributed to a national curriculum that provided guidelines, not prescriptions. Besides Finnish and Swedish (the country's second official language), children would learn a third language (English is a favorite) usually beginning at age 9. Resources were distributed equally. As the comprehensive schools improved, so did the upper secondary schools (grades 10 through 12). The second critical decision came in 1979, when reformers required that every teacher earn a fifth-year master's degree in theory and practice at one of eight state universities--at state expense. From then on, teachers were effectively granted equal status with doctors and lawyers. Applicants began flooding teaching programs, not because the salaries were so high but because autonomy and respect made the job attractive. In 2010, some 6,600 applicants vied for 660 primary school training slots, according to Sahlberg. By the mid-1980s, a final set of initiatives shook the classrooms free from the last vestiges of top-down regulation. Control over policies shifted to town councils. The national curriculum was distilled into broad guidelines. National math goals for grades one through nine, for example, were reduced to a neat ten pages. Sifting and sorting children into so-called ability groupings was eliminated. All children--clever or less so--were to be taught in the same classrooms, with lots of special teacher help available to make sure no child really would be left behind. The inspectorate closed its doors in the early '90s, turning accountability and inspection over to teachers and principals. "We have our own motivation to succeed because we love the work," said Louhivuori. "Our incentives come from inside."


Reprinted From : http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/660964/why_we_should_steal_finland%27s_education_system/#paragraph3

Berkeley! Kuvia ennakkoäänestyksestä Finnish Brotherhood Hallilta 9.4.2011

10.4.2011 08:02 Jukka Turunen

Berkeleyn Finnish Brotherhood Hall.

Positiivista syrjintää.

Juhlava sali.

Wanhaa suomalaista designia.

Äänestysmatka Berkeleyn Finnish Brotherhood Hallille jää mieleen varmastikin ikuisiksi ajoiksi. Jo kauan on tuntunut, että me suomalaiset olemme nyt tekemässä itsenäisen Suomen kannalta välttämätöntä parlamentaarista kansannousua. Tuo tunne sai tänään kohdallani vahvistuksen arvoisissaan puitteissa vanhalla suomalaisella kerhotalolla pohjoisessa Kaliforniassa.

Äänestyspaikkana toiminut Finnish Brotherhood Hall on näkemisen ja kokemisen arvoinen talo. Se on myös konkreettinen muistutus siitä, että suomalaisten kannattaa kovinakin aikoina pitää yhtä. Äänestystilanne oli leppoisa. Taustalla soi suomalainen iskelmä ja pitkään Yhdysvalloissa asunut talkooväki tarjoili kauempaakin saapuneille äänestäjille kahvia ja itseleivottua rusinapitkoa. Tunnelma oli lämmin ja vapautunut. Paikalla olleita yhdisti suomalaisuus ja suomen kieli. Oltiin kuin sukujuhlissa, siellä jossain, impivaarassa.

Ei siis ollut vaikeaa pyöräyttää äänestyslippuun perussuomalaisen ehdokkaan äänestysnumeroa. Suomi on nyt jälleenrakennettava vihervasemmiston aiheuttamien tuhojen jäljiltä. Suomen itsenäisyys on pelastettava EU:lta. Suomi on säilytettävä suomalaisena - ja vastavuoroisesti Eurooppa on pidettävä eurooppalaisena.

Nyt on tekojen aika.

Kukaan muu ei voi Suomea pelastaa - ellemme me suomalaiset itse.

Äänestä viisaasti!

PS. Kiitokset Kirstille, Kallelle, Irmalle ja muille!

Share Your Home, Change the World! Host a YFU Exchange Student!

Dear Members of the UKFB&S,

I am a former Finnish high school exchange student to the U.S.– and currently working here in Finland for international exchange organization called Youth For Understanding (YFU). I am personally forever grateful to the Muto family in Michigan, who took me to their home and hearts as their second daughter back in 1995. We are still in touch, after all these years.

The reason why I am writing you is that in 2011 the U.S. State Department has made some severe restrictions when it comes to organizations such as ours recruiting American families to host our wonderfully international exchange students this year. These protocol changes have led to an incredibly challenging situation in the U.S.: there are still hundreds of wonderful, smart, funny and smiling teenagers -- just like I was only 16 years ago -- waiting for information about their future American families.

Today, as YFU USA celebrates 60 years of international student exchange, us former exchange students are filled with gratitude and admiration for the literally hundreds of thousands of volunteer host families in the United States who have enriched the lives of international students for generations. The value of this unbroken process of interaction and bonding across the borders of our planet cannot be measured, but it certainly weighs heavily on the scales of the best qualities that humankind has to offer.

As in the past six decades, this year once again one hundred Finnish teenagers are anxiously looking forward to spending an entire school year with an American family somewhere in the United States. Some of them are still waiting for the information of their own American family… Knowing that your organization is well connected and there is definitely a circle of friends of Finland around you, we are now asking for help from your organization. Could you please forward a short message to your members or post it in your newsletter or website as soon as possible -- maybe they would like to broaden their family's view of the world, for even a short few weeks this August, by hosting one of our exchange students from one of the over 50 different nations? Perhaps you could even get to know my fellow Finn in your home?

Below you can find two short messages which some of my international colleagues have shared thru emails and Facebook - maybe this is something you could post on your wall, or mention to some of your contacts?

I hope I am not asking for too much -- as said, all help would be so much appreciated by my colleagues in YFU-USA. Your local YFU representatives can be reached at www.yfu-usa.org or by calling 1-800-872-0200.

Thank you so much for all your help, and warmest greetings from Helsinki

Kirsi Keskitalo
YFU Finland

P.S. I am happy to answer any possible questions!
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Reading about the horrible events in Norway, now more than ever is the time to stand up for multiculturalism and show international solidarity. One way to do this is by inviting a young (15-18 year-old) exchange student from another country into your home for a few weeks, a semester or a school year.

Call 1-800-872-0200 and key in your zip code for details. Or register on the website www.yfu-usa.org. Share Your Home, Change the World! Host a YFU Exchange Student.

-- AND --

Message to my American friends - and their friends: maybe you’re expecting in August and don’t even know it yet!! Consider hosting a YFU teen exchange student arriving in August, whether as a short-term arrival family or for the school year. Call 1-800-872-0200 and key in your zip code for details. Or register on the Youth For Understanding Website. Share Your Home, Change the World! Host a YFU Exchange Student - just the kind I once was!

Sunday, August 7, 4 p.m. in Palo Alto - Walentina Choir from Helsinki, Finland

Sunday, August 7, 4 p.m.

Walentina Choir from Helsinki, Finland
40th Anniversary Tour


First Presbyterian Church
1140 Cowper St.; Palo Alto, CA
(between Kingsley & Lincoln)

The Finlandia Foundation South Bay Chapter doesn't usually have a summer event, as so many of our planners are vacationing in Finland, but this year we can offer you one that we are sure you will enjoy. Members Birgitta and Ulf Strom, music lovers and performers, have been kind enough to arrange the appearance of this distinguished choir, and Don Fidler secured the venue at the church. We owe thanks to them all. By now you should have received an email with the flyer.

What is "Walentina kören," which is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a US tour? Well, it is a mixed Finnish-Swedish choir currently counting 35 members, based in Helsinki. A large part of its repertoire is sung in Swedish, but they also perform in Finnish, English and other languages, and have been featured internationally.

Refreshments will be served after the concert. A $10 donation is suggested.

FREE LECTURE : "BRAVE QUESTIONS" – FREE Education Seminar - Tues, Aug. 9, 2011 - Coinciding With FinnFest San Diego

"BRAVE QUESTIONS"

Free Education Seminar

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 in San Diego

Education Seminar is the first ever Finnish-American public education event organized in conjunction with the FinnFest2011. The event brings together teachers, administrators, parents, and others who are interested in and affected by public education. Perspectives from the US and Finland will be shared. Themes focus on “Brave Questions” including successful practices, teacher education, early childhood education, bullying, school violence, special education, and foreign language instruction.

The keynote speaker is a world renowned school reform scholar, Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, who was previously at the World Bank. An expert panel follows his keynote. Break-out sessions in the afternoon allow participants to choose topics in their field of interest. This first-ever Education Seminar aims to allow people to network and build cross-cultural connections.

THE EVENT IS FREE (INCLUDING LUNCH). PLEASE REGISTER ON THE LINK BELOW TO SAVE YOURSELF A SPACE.

http://www.finnfest2011.com/education-seminar/registration

For additional information please see the attachment and visit the website

https://www.finnfest2011.com/education-seminar/speakers

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Tiina Itkonen, PhD

Associate Professor of Education

California State University Channel Islands

One University Drive

Camarillo, CA 93012

(805)437-3294

Mirja Covarrubias

tel: +1-310-452-1161

e-mail: mecovarrubias@verizon.net

Harry Siitonen's "Sports So Far" [Track & Field and Hockey]

GOOD SPORTS for FAR for Aug. 2011

Ari Mannio was the only Finnish event winner in the European Premier League Championships June 18-19 at Ismir, Turkey, when he threw his javelin for 81.24 meters. Jonathan Åstrand ran the 2nd fastest Finnish 200 meters ever in 20.50 to meet the A Standard for the Daegu World Championships. Jaysoma Ndere of Norway was the winner in 20.32. Turkey won the team championships, while Finnish athletes were 8th.

Merja Korpela (below) came close to the women’s Finnish record in the hammer when she flung the orb for 69.30 meters at the Kuortane Elite Games on June 25.. It plopped on the ground only 0.33 short of Mia Strömmer’s old national record.

Antti Kempas, 30, won a 50K racewalk at Dublin, Ireland on June 26 in a time of 4:02:36 to qualify for the B Standard for the Daegu World Championships. Jarkko Kinnunen has already achieved the A standard for the 50K walk at Daegu. Speaking of Kinnunen, he walked a personal best of 2:12.06 in the 30K Finnish National Championships at Kauhava on June 12. It was the 3rd fastest 30K ever walked by a Finn, superceded only by past European 50K Champ Reima Salonen and past 50K World Champ Valentin Kononen. Anne Halkivaha won the women’s 20K walk at Kauhava in 1:42:46, to successfully defend her 2010 title.

Finnish National Hockey League millionaires are reaping even more bucks in contract signings for the forthcoming 2011-12 season. Forward Jussi Jokinen, 28, was content to re-sign for a three-year contract with the Caroline Hurricanes to total $9 million. He was just about to become a free agent and obviously the ‘Canes didn’t want to lose him. Then, Ville Leino signed a 6-year pact with the Buffalo Sabres for $17 million. He played for Philadelphia last season who had decided to let him go. A lucky firing for Ville! Veteran Sami Salo, 36, of the Stanley Cup runner-up Vancouver Canucks got a year’s extension on his contract for 2 million. And a lucky break for Sean Bergenheim, 27, who played last year for the Tampa Bay Lightning, who signed on with the Florida Panthers for $11 million, with a 2.75 million annual guarantee.

Finland’s Minea Blomqvist has had some so-so seasons in recent years on the US LPGA golf tour. But at LPGA’s Wegman Championships at Pittsford, NY, she started like a house of fire, with a pair of 69s in the opening two rounds, to put her in 3rd place from the lead. But as so frequently happens to her, Blomqvist fell apart on the final two circuits with scores of 77 and 78. So she ended up in a tie for 69th place to earn a measly $6,145 while the world’s top women’s golfer Yani Tseng of Taiwan, 22, won the tournament going away by 10 strokes and took home $375,000.

Sami Itani of Finland scored a personal best of 7710 points to finish fifth in the European Cup Super League Decathlon Team Championships at Torun, Poland July 2-3. Winner was Andres Roja of Estonia with 8114. Russia won the team championship with Finland eighth. The same weekend Finland’s hardy perennial Niina Kelo, 31, was 7th in the European Cup Women’s Premier League Heptahlon Championships at Bressanone, Italy. Kelo was the top Finn with 5718 points and won the shotput and javelin throws outright. Heptathlon winner was Karolina Tyrminska of Poland with 6297. Poland became the team champion while Finnish women were 5th.

Last, and least, your scribe is tooting his own horn. Since I can’t straighten my knees out enough
anymore to compete in my beloved racewalking without getting disqualified, I thought I’d try a hand in track and field for the first time in about 35 years, this time in the masters men’s age 85-89 division. I entered the Pacific Association Masters Championships at Folsom, CA on June 11 and took part in the shotput, and 100 and 200-meter track runs. The results weren’t much but with the paucity of men in my age division, I came home with two first place medals and one third. The following weekend, I entered a masters invitational meet at the University of California track at Davis. I was the oldest athlete on the track and the only one in the 85-59 year bracket. I came home with a haul of four chunks of the gold— in the shot, the 50, 100, and 200-m runs. My secret weapon wasn’t athletic prowess, but old age. Hey, when you live in a senior housing complex where half the residents are on walkers or wheelchairs, I just want to celebrate the fact that I can still hold my own on the track without falling on my face. Older is bolder!

Contribution by Harry Siitonen


CONGRATULATIONS, HARRY!!!

Upcoming Events : Berkeley Historical Society - FREE Admission, donations gladly accepted

Berkeley Historical Society Announcement

Programs in conjunction with the current BHS exhibit,
"Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley – A Noble Venture," closing Sept. 10

Friday, August 12, 4 pm
"Looking Back at the Co-op in the 1970s and 1980s"
Speakers: Mike Fullerton, former Co-op News editor (1976-1988) and Alice Gates, former Co-op board member in the later years. Bring your questions. Berkeley History Center, 1931 Center Street. Admission free. Donations accepted.

Sunday, September 4, 3 pm
"Effect of Co-op on Berkeley's Culture and Politics"
Speakers: Bob Schildgen, former Co-op News editor, Chuck Wollenberg, author and history professor, and Linda Rosen, co-curator of the exhibit and BHS past president. Question and answer period to follow. Berkeley History Center, 1931 Center Street. Admission free. Donations accepted.

Berkeley Historical Society
Veterans Memorial Building
1931 Center Street, Berkeley
Telephone (510) 848-0181
Wheelchair Accessible
http://www.berkeleyhistoricalsociety.org/