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2012 Memorial Day events across Bay Area

PALO ALTO

Stanford hospital and clinics will launch an ongoing "honoring united states military veterans program" Monday in which all Patients and employees who identify themselves as military veterans will be offered a red, white and blue wristband in recognition of their service.

SAN FRANCISCO

Start of the Sea to Shining Sea Bicycle ride Across America to honor service men and women and the american spirit. Many of the riders are wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Starts at Sports Basement, 610 old Mason St.,

San Francisco. Start time uncertain, call Mike Claver (309) 532-0664 to confirm.

Memorial Day 1.5-mile Alcatraz challenge swim. 8 a.m. Starts from a Hornblower yacht just off Alcatraz Island and ends At the east beach of Crissy Field, San Francisco.

Parade to start the annual Memorial Day ceremony in San Francisco's presidio, which officially begins at 11 a.m. Parade starts at the parade ground, Presidio and continues to the Presidio National Cemetery, San Francisco.

MARE ISLAND  

Memorial Day service at the Mare Island Preserve Cemetery. 9 a.m. Blake Avenue at the southeast end of Mare Island, Vallejo.

WALNUT CREEK

Walnut Creek's annual Memorial Day service. 10 a.m. Gazebo, Civic Park, North Broadway and Civic Drive, Walnut Creek.

OAKLAND 

The 91st annual Memorial Day commemoration ceremony. 10 a.m. Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Ave., Oakland.

BENICIA

Memorial Day program at the Benicia Arsenal Post Cemetery. 10 a.m. End of hospital road, historic Benicia Arsenal, Benicia

SAN BRUNO

"Price of Freedom" annual Memorial Day observance at Golden Gate National Cemetery.   10:30 a.m.  1300 Sneath Lane, San Bruno.

DANVILLE

Memorial Day remembrance program. 10:30 a.m. All Wars Memorial, Oak Hill Park, 3005 Stone Valley Road, Danville.

HILLSBOROUGH

Hillsborough Memorial Day parade and festival. 10:30 a.m. Starts at Hillsborough Town Hall, 1600 Floribunda Ave. And ends at North school, 545 Eucalyptus Ave., Hillsborough.

SAN JOSE

The 91st annual Memorial Day observance hosted by the United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County. 11 a.m. Oak Hill Memorial Park, 3000 Curtner Ave., San Jose.

LIVERMORE

Wings of Freedom display of Vintage Military Aircraft. Noon. Through Tuesday. Livermore Municipal Airport, 636 Terminal Circle, Livermore.

ALAMEDA

Memorial Day service aboard the uss hornet. 1 p.m. Includes a Memorial wreath ceremony and a parade. Includes a keynote speech by Cmdr. James Ridgway, commanding officer of the Naval Operational Support Center in Alameda. Pier 3, 707 W. Hornet Ave., Alameda.

POINT REYES

National Moment of Remembrance Ceremony for Memorial Day. 2 p.m. Historic Graveyard, G Ranch, just off Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Point Reyes National Seashore.

LAFAYETTE

Memorial Day vigil at the crosses of Lafayette. 7 p.m. Deer Hill Road and Oak Hill Road, Lafayette

 

 

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 21:06:20 -0700}

9-year-old boy, father serious injured in motorcylce crash

A 9-year-old boy and his 52-year-old father were seriously injured Sunday morning when the motorcycle they were riding crashed with a car in Antioch this morning, according to Antioch police.

The crash was reported at 10:56 a.m. at the intersection of Deer Valley Road and Balfour Road, police said.

A 40-year-old Brentwood woman was turning south onto Deer Valley Road from Balfour Road when she collided with the father and son, both from Clayton, who were riding north on Deer Valley Road on a motorcycle, according to police.

The woman driver was not injured in the crash, but the boy and his father were airlifted to hospitals with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries, police said.

Neither drugs nor alcohol appear to be a factor in the crash, police said.

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 19:01:53 -0700}

Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday.

The daylong party attracted pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels to the water as people on shore enjoyed a number of events stretching from Fort Point south of the bridge to Pier 39 along The Embarcadero. Many walked and biked across the bridge before capping the day by watching a fireworks display over the city's most famous symbol.

"It's such an iconic structure, depending on the day or the hour, it just looks like it changes continuously," San Francisco resident Daniel Sutphin said as he walked through the Fort Point area with his wife and their three young children.

Since it opened in 1937, more than two-billion vehicles have crossed the 1.7-mile-long bridge named after the Golden Gate Strait, the entrance of water to San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean, and championed by engineer Joseph Strauss in the 1920s.

In a stark contrast to the thousands of celebrants, members of the group the Bridge Rail Foundation, an organization dedicated to stopping suicide jumps from the bridge, erected a display of 1,558 pairs of shoes, representing the number of people who died in leaps form the bridge since it opened in 1937.

"It's a symbol of how deep and serious this problem has been," said Paul Muller, a spokesman for the group. "We're still losing 30 to 35 a people a year off the bridge," he said.

Meanwhile on the water, Golden Gate ferries were running again after a one-day strike disrupted service across San Francisco Bay on Saturday.

Workers represented by the Inlandboatmen's Union walked off the job on a day strike, forcing the cancellation of ferries operated by Golden Gate between Larkspur, Sausalito and San Francisco.

The strike was called after nearly a year of negotiations over workloads and other matters, said Marina Secchitano, the union's regional director.

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a statement Saturday evening, saying that he was appointing a board to investigate the strike, which, he claimed, created a disruption to public service.

Secchitano disputed the governor's claim, questioning the motivation to call for an investigation after a one-day strike. "(This is) an action to try to silence us," she said.

"They're counting on this process to back our membership off the issue," she said.

Service resumed Sunday when workers returned to work.

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 17:42:18 -0700}

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