Festival


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Booths will be open from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, and will include environmental agencies, non-profit organizations, and public service groups. Our Festival will be held at

Palomares Elementary School
6395 Palo Verde Road,
Castro Valley, CA 94552
(510) 582-4207

! PLEASE NOTE: Due to the rain, parking at Palomares has been dramatically reduced. Please park at Park & Ride on Center Street, between C.V. Blvd., and Grove Way. Shuttles will take you to/from the Festival, and will run continuously from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Booth participants to include:

  • Alameda County Beekeepers Association
    Enclosed demonstration hive and handouts for public education. Local honey and honeystix.

  • Alameda County Clean Water Program
    Learn about the clean water program; games, fish, wheel of fortune.

  • Alameda County Public Health - Tobacco Control
    Tobacco awareness and education.

  • Alameda County Resource Conservation District (ACRCD)
    Pond Restoration Display (tadpoles, dragonflies, larvae).

  • Alameda County Vector Control Services District
    Information about vectors of disease, and current vectors of concern, such as local spiders, bats of public health concern, and reminders of West Nile Virus.

  • Bay Area Air Quality Management District
    Spare the Air information and prize wheel.

  • California Highway Patrol
    Fun and educational giveaways and handouts.

  • Castro Valley Chiropractic
    Spinal education and surface EMG and thermal scans.

  • Castro Valley Sanitary District
    Get to the Core of food scrap recycling, and view the new residential services brochure! Learn about how you can go "Beyond the Pail" and use other containers for capturing food scraps and food-soiled papers.

  • Chabot Swim Club
    Learn about the healthy benefits of swimming and water exercise.

  • Cooperative Community Energy
    Solar-electricity display with photos and schematics.

  • East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)
    Water conservation materials and District information.

  • Eden Medical Center
    First Aid Booth.

  • Healing Touch Therapeutics
    Free neck and shoulder massages.

  • JC Penney Optical
    Vision screening.

  • Jenny Lin Club (CVHS)
    Child safety message with an environmental twist: interactive children's games and presentation utilizing family and child-friendly cartoon characterizations.

  • Native American Ohlone Display
    A display on Native American presence in, and uses of the Palomares watershed.

  • Natural Resources Conservation Service

  • Palomares 4-H Club
    Make and take different items out of recycled materials. Small animals.

  • Palomares Elementary School
    Worm tea composting, water quality testing, water cycle bracelets, watershed project, solar cooking, and papermaking.

  • Redwood High School
    Plant give-away on behalf of partner agencies.

  • Rowell Ranch Rodeo
    Roping /saddle.

  • Sierra Club
    Conservation efforts of the Sierra Club.

  • Sulpher Creek Nature Center
    Live animals (native wildlife).

  • Supervisor Nate Miley
    Information booth on Board of Supervisor's District Four. County resource info and Farmer's Market info.

  • USDA National Resource Conservation Service
    Wetlands display, conservation programs/activities displays, interactive watershed model, conservation handouts, educational activity for students K-5.

  • VendorNation.com
     Software such as healthy eating, astronomy, and earth rendering.

  • Waste Management of Alameda County
    To educate residents of programs offered in CVSD. Vehicle display.
 
Presented by:


CVHS
Cross-Country
Runner's Club