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Delgado (Delta Junior College), came in throwing heat in the ninth inning to get the save. Delgado struck out Auburn’s last hitter with the tying run on second base to seal the deal and give the Merchants the 7-5 victory and their first GSCBL Championship.
The Alameda Merchants are one of seven teams in the GSCBL, along with Atwater Aviators, Auburn Wildcats, Nevada Bighorns, San Francisco Seagulls, South Bay Storm and the Tri-Valley Bercovich. The summer league began June 1 and ended Sunday, Aug. 4. The Merchant team consists of college baseball players from around the Bay Area including several from Alameda. The Merchants finished with a 31-13-1 overall record.
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Title: Goes to Alameda Merchants
Fire responses: 10:01 a.m. 1300 block of Third, Street, residential fire alarm; 6:31 p.m. 2300 block of Central Avenue, smoke inves-tigation inside a business; source identified as a malfunctioning air conditioning system. Firefighters disconnected the system, venti-lated residual smoke and notified property owner; 11:59 p.m. 500 block of Buena Vista Avenue, apart-ment fire alarm.
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Fire: Crew activities this week
city’s police haven’t had an issue with In-N-Out.
San Leandro Police Lt. Randy Brandt said that city’s In-N-Out, which sits on what he called “prob-ably one of the main arteries of the East Bay,” hasn’t generated a lot of police calls. He said the department does get a lot of shoplifting calls from the city’s nearby Target.
(The San Leandro In-N-Out sits in the same shopping center as a Walmart, and a strip mall is across the street; Target is about a mile up the road.)
Brandt was loath to draw a con-nection — or to say there isn’t one — between In-N-Out and crime.
“The correlation between In-N-Out and crime would be really hard for us to figure out,” he said. “I haven’t heard any negative stuff at all.”
Crime is a sore subject for Alamedans who are wary of the Island’s big-city neighbor and its troubles. It is particularly trouble-some for residents of the Bayport development, who reported a rash of break-ins and armed robberies earlier this summer. Burglaries and thefts rose over the first six months of 2013, data provided by the Alameda police show. At the same time, reports of a host of other crimes — including robbery and auto thefts — have declined.
Rolleri said he’s sensitive to the concerns of Bayport residents; while the neighborhood is statis-tically not a high-crime area, he said, there has been an uptick in burglaries there. But he said the department practices proactive
policing to keep crime in Alameda low. Rolleri said the department uses traffic enforcement as a tool for catching would-be criminals, and he said residents’ high level of engagement with police also makes Alameda safer.
He said that any business can generate some crime.
“Any time that you have com-mercial development, whether it’s a department store, a boutique, or in this case, a fast food restaurant, you run a risk of theft. There will be people inclined to steal and com-mit some form of larceny. They’re going to be attracted to a place where there are cars and people,” Rolleri said.
Still, there are a number of fast food restaurants near the Posey and Webster tubes that are open late at night, and Rolleri said Alameda “(does) not have elevated crime rates associated with any of them.”
Rolleri said there’s no evidence that fast food restaurants bring crime into surrounding neighbor-hoods.
“In terms of (In-N-Out) being a magnet for crime? I’m reserving judgment on that. I don’t see it based on what I know today,” he said.
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Crime: And fast food are not necessarily related
Local Deaths
Alice Marie Pearse, a 65-year resident of Alameda passed away peacefully on Aug. 12, 2013, at the age of 98.
She was born on Sept. 14, 1914, in Sheridan, Wyo., the second of four children born to the late Lulu and Asher Taylor.
She came to California in a horse-drawn wagon when she was 10 years old. The family settled in the Central Valley where Alice graduated from Dixon High School. There she met her husband, Elmore Pearse, a resident of Winters, Calif. They moved to Alameda in 1948 and enjoyed a lov-ing marriage of 51 years.
She worked for the Girl Scouts Council, had an abiding love of baseball and treasured her family and friends.
She is survived by her two daughters, Mary Dierking (David Dierking), Linda Morrison (Jim Morrison) and her four grand-children, Jeff Dierking (Sari Dierking), Jenna Dierking, Janet Morrison, Stephen Morrison and
many nephews and nieces.
G r a v e s i d e services will be held at 11 a.m. at the Silveyville Cemetery in Dixon, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 16. Donations in Alice’s memory may be made to the Alameda Museum or Alameda Little League.
For further information, call: Harry W. Greer, Funeral Director (FDR-745).
Alameda Funeral and Cremation Services
1415 Oak St., Alameda FD-2139(510) 522-6020
Alice Marie Taylor PearseSept 4, 1914 – Aug. 12, 2013
Resident of Alameda
owner. If an owner is unwilling to fix a property (or if a landlord does not fol-low through on a promised solution), the neighbors can take the property owner to small-claims court.
Oakland attorney Leila Mon-charsh says that there are three types of landlords with problem properties. The first says, “I didn’t know, let’s fix it.” The second says, “I know. I don’t care.” The third sim-ply says, “Screw you.”
Once the second type of land-lord realizes he or she could be fac-ing a court case, that landlord typi-cally begins to care and negotiates a settlement.
I was personally involved in a case in Oakland’s Laurel District that involved homeless people sleeping in an abandoned house. When the landlord received our letter, he laughed and said that there was nothing he could do. He made it plain that he didn’t care. He showed up for court and real-ized that 15 people had sued him for $5,000 each (that’s $75,000). He suddenly changed his mind and offered to fix things. The next day the police were there to ask the
squatters to leave; two weeks later the house was sold. Today a family lives there; a nice rose garden grac-es the front yard.
Not only will the Type 3 landlord not work with the neighbors, he or she will also ignore the judgment from the court. In a second case in Oakland, neighbors took such a land-lord to court and obtained a $60,000 judgment. Just as he had ignored the blight, he ignored the judgment.
However, when the neighbors applied the judgment to the prop-erty in the form of a lien, the land-lord suddenly paid attention and cleaned up his property. The neigh-bors ended up collecting on the judgment when the landlord sold the property.
Neighbors do have a way to force miscreant landlords to fix their properties. It takes patience and a united front. Neighbors in Oakland’s Laurel District (and others across the country) can say firsthand that using Wetzel’s methods works.
Readers with questions about my experience with Safe Streets Now! or with other questions about the pro-gram can call 772-5209 or email [email protected].
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Fight: Negligent landlords
