Pleasanton city officials urge residents to wear face masks in public after a week of halted reopenings and an increase of COVID-19 cases locally and countywide. A Bay Area attorney representing several sexual abuse victims demands the removal of a youth swim coach from USA Swimming, Steve Morsilli, longtime coach for the Pleasanton Seahawks, for allegedly failing to report claims of abuse by other coaches. Morsilli denies the accusations. Daniel Moirao is appointed interim superintendent of Dublin Unified School District in the wake of Dave Marken s abrupt resignation. Community Association for Preschool Education (CAPE) joins forces with preschool provider Kidango to expand child care services for low-income families in Pleasanton, Dublin and Livermore, with a grant from Child, Family, and Community Services.
Inaugural State of the School District luncheon, hosted by PPIE, celebrates local businesses that support the schools. U.S. magistrate dismisses the claim by James Steinle and Elizabeth Sullivan that the government should be held responsible for the negligence of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger whose loaded gun, which was stolen from his parked SUV, later fired the bullet that killed their daughter Kate Steinle, 32, in San Francisco on July 1, 2015. Hundreds of women s rights advocates march through downtown Pleasanton in the 2020 Tri-Valley Women s March, a celebration of the centennial of women s suffrage in the United States and all that women have achieved over the past 100 years as well as a recognition of issues still to be resolved.
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Volunteers loading food at Fairgrounds
Gift Bags for Seniors
Missionaries helping at Packout
Saint Raymond Catholic Church in Dublin operates a food bank where those in need can receive food monthly. In normal times they help about 55 families but during COVID-19 this has skyrocketed to 120 families, equating to approximately 500 people. In addition to the increased need, many of their volunteers were seniors not able to help due to the shelter-in-place order.
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints normally spend their time teaching those interested about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but during the pandemic they were not able to knock on doors or visit people in their homes. They were sheltered-in-place in their apartments, but were allowed to leave to provide community service. It was a perfect match, so each week as many as eight missionaries from the Pleasanton zone of the church would go to Saint Raymo