Officer Andrew Barbara, who works as a school resource officer, starts and ends the dance, while patrol Sgt. Eddie Russell joins him for a portion of the dance, said a proud Richmond police Cmdr. Mark Gagan. “I was really happy to see our officers body language and how they were acting, and just how approachable they are,” Gagan said. “That really helps with the community in the city of Richmond.”. Gagan said the rank and file really get a chance to let their hair down with the community on the first Tuesday in August on National Night Out when they have barbecues, music and parties with community members.

Her senior year has been so dramatic, She was chosen homecoming queen, went to her first-ever dance (Winter Formal) with a boy, sang in the school play and had surgery to remove a lump on her breast (it turned out to be benign), Last month, she went to the senior prom with her longtime friend Jimmy Quick, who was the same former student (he’s now 2 pink ballerina princess ballet tutu dress resin cabochon flatbacks flat back scrapbooking hair bow center crafts embellishment at Belmont University in Nashville) who put the homecoming queen’s tiara on her head, One final question remains: What will happen as she graduates with her friends, those who have organized midnight pool parties and night-time Disneyland trips so she could participate?..

Close to 40 children from all over the Bay Area will join Oakland Ballet’s professional dancers on stage while the Mount Eden High School Women’s Ensemble and the Oakland Youth Chorus join the Oakland East Bay Symphony, conducted by Michael Morgan, to vocalize Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score. “It’s an essential part of our ‘Nutcracker’ to include members of the community — to share such a magical story with them this special time of the year,” said Oakland Ballet artistic director Graham Lustig.

Sunnyvale Art Club: Artist Jan Prisco will give a demonstration on using oils and pastels, The members’ monthly art competition subject is Holiday Spirit and Abstracts, Guests 2 pink ballerina princess ballet tutu dress resin cabochon flatbacks flat back scrapbooking hair bow center crafts embellishment are welcome at the club meetings, Nov, 15, 7 p.m, Creative Art Building, Sunnyvale Community Center, 550 E, Remington, Sunnyvale, Cupertino Morningmasters: Improve your speaking and networking skills at this Toastmasters club, Thursdays, 7:30 a.m, Bethel Lutheran Church, 10181 Finch Ave., Cupertino, Sunnyvale Rotary: Meetings are Tuesdays at noon, Elks Club, 375 N, Pastoria Ave, Sunnyvalerotary.org..

Nevertheless, we should question whether the benefits of National Coming Out Day still outweigh its harms. Continuing to use the rhetoric of “coming out” reinforces a view that heterosexuality is the norm. “Coming out” implicitly announces — to LGBTQ individuals, allies and enemies — that gay people are aberrant. Our homosexuality is so different that we must proclaim it; heterosexuality, however, is normal and expected. Imagine we proclaim a National Coming Out Day for everyone. Whether straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, questioning or curious, Oct. 11 could be a chance to broadcast our sexuality. You can imagine the pubescent middle-schooler anxiously awaiting Oct. 11 to declare whether Jack and/or Jill should ask her to the dance.