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E-commerce ruled the holidays. So why arent Bay Area recycling centers choking on cardboard? FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Reggie Cummings inspects bales of cardboard stacked at the Recology recycling facility on Pier 96 in San Francisco.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Residential cardboard collection has increased, but the rise is offset by a drop in pick-ups from businesses.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Anthony Babbs readies a bale of flattened cardboard for ...

Lenn Keller Helen Lenn Keller, an Oakland photographer and filmmaker who documented queer culture in the Bay Area and founded the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, has died of cancer. Keller was born Sept. 29, 1950, in Evanston, Ill., and passed away on Dec. 16, 2020 in Oakland, California. After spending some time in New York, Lenn moved to California in the 1970s and worked at Berkeley Recycling and volunteered at Pacific Center, the Bay Area’s oldest LGBTQ+ center. She atte...

Lenn Keller with her camera in the 1980s. Keller’s photos would create the core of what later became the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Photo: Courtesy of Bay Area Lesbian Archives Historian and archivist Lenn Keller died of cancer on Dec. 16, according to an announcement posted by the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, an organization that she founded in 2014 to preserve the region’s diverse lesbian history. In a separate post, her friend Sharon Davenport noted that Lenn “was loved and cared for whe...