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Having always felt that Redwood Shores was haven of safety in the Bay Area, a fellow jogger’s experience in the past week gives me pause to consider.  While on her usual morning jog, she noted a older car coming toward her and slowing down.  The driver was obviously scoping out this lone woman on an asphalt path around Shearwater.  Immediately concerned, she increased her pace and the driver drove away.  In less than 3 minutes he came back again and did the same thing.  Still running she pulled out her cell phone and made it clear that a call was being made – and increased her pace.  He sped away.  911 was called, a local policeman came and the incident was reported.

Submitted by A Concerned Resident

Jail Site Update

The County Motorpool in Redwood City is not the likely choice for the new jail.  The motor pool is now a bad choice because it is immediatly adjacent to two high density housing site, and is a valuable piece of property that could bettr generate revenue for the county, blocks a planned new street connection and doesn’t help the city’s image. 

A new site hasn’t been selected yet and hopefully it won’t be 345 Shoreway in San Carlos.

Submitted by A Concerned Resident

Levee Cleanup Day: A Huge Success

The  fall Levee Clean up Day of 2009 was a huge success  thanks to all the Shores Residents (and even a few from mainland Redwood City  and San Carlos) who braved a very hot day and cleaned up our beloved Shores  neighborhood.  Ninety people showed up to work including a troop of boy scouts, a  troop of girl scouts and a troop of cub scouts. NorCal Waste Co. who  picked up the trash estimated sixteen cubic yards of waste had been  collected.The waste included several tires, two grocery carts , hundreds of  tennis ball near the dog park (the balls the dogs couldn’t catch??) and a couple  pairs of swimming glasses. The committee wishes to particularly acknowledge the  San Mateo Credit union for a great continental breakfast  served at Mariner  park forall the workers and an equally fabulous lunch of hot dogs and  hamburgers. And hats off to the City of Redwood City for providing a truck  and pick up tools to our workers. It was a fine time for our neighborhood of  RedwoodCity named Redwood Shores. The event was sponsored by the Redwood Shores  Community Association.

Submitted by Pete Hughes

First Marine Science Institute At The RWS Library Has Higher Enrollment Than Expected

 The enrollment at the first class led by Marine Science Institute for 5th and 6th graders were so many that there was a waiting list to attend the class and some kids had to be turned away (my 6th grade son didn’t get in!) I don’t think it was an issue of facility space — there were still plenty of seats — I think they probably just had limits based on teacher-student ratios. I think the fact that the Ralston science teachers were offering “extra credit” for attending the classes added extra motivation for the 6th graders to show up. Maybe next time they can do a class for 5th graders and another class for 6th graders!

Submitted by Bonnie Wolf