Alameda

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spend a lot of time in Alameda, California, which is right off Oakland, Oakland, California, in the Bay Area.

And there's a resident Alameda turkey population that just roam these...

It's like a completely residential suburban neighborhood.

And they're just roaming around.

And luckily, Alameda is an island.

And the entire island has a speed limit of 25 miles per hour.

Partially because...

Well, I don't know.

Does it? So there was a deli that I grew up where in Alameda, where I grew up, there's a deli and we'd go and we get cold cuts.

And that was kind of it.

I don't remember it being like a Jewish feeling.

75 years ago today, the year is 1951, direct dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began.

The mayor of Inglewood, New Jersey called the mayor of Alameda, California.

And they had a nice little chat.

This is 1951.

And then being a student of martial arts, understand the difference between Japanese jiu-jitsu, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but then there is that connection because there's a lot of Japanese that went to Brazil and lived there.

And where does that mix? And then I got to watch back in the day when I was in high school, Wally J, that small circle jiu-jitsu back in the day in Alameda, and just kind of become a student of martial arts.

And martial arts has always been important to me.

Culturally, in America specifically, there's a significant black history in martial arts.

Yeah, yeah.

And on this date in 1951, a customer in Englewood, New Jersey, placed the very first direct dial transcontinental telephone call to Alameda, California.

No kidding.

Yeah, because what made that amazing is that call bypassed an operator and it required 11 digits.

If you're here in the Bay Area, we have a couple of green grass shops like over at Santa Teresa Golf Club, Southside San Jose.

We have over at Carica Park in Alameda, California.

And then up north, we have up in Hagen Oaks, which holds the largest green grass golf shop in America over in Sacramento.

And then you have a couple of indoor sim spots that you can also find through our website or through our social media.

So psychoeducational speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy, assistive technology, adaptive PE, vocational, you name it, they've assessed it, you can ask for an IEE in that area.

What came out of kind of the Alameda area, so very much kind of the area you're in, was there was some litigation over if a family asked in response to a psychoeducational evaluation that the district fund a neuropsych evaluation.

And for years, that was kind of the standard that parents would turn to a neuropsych and whether the decision is right or wrong.

The decision came out that you didn't always have to have a neuropsych as this piece.

Propositions 41, which was aimed at countering the billionaire tax, and Proposition 43, tightening limits on citizen-driven tax measures, both failed.

The city of Alameda is holding a series of community meetings to prepare for possible flooding from king tides, El Nino, and winter storms.

Residents can get advice on things to do before the weather turns nasty, like cleaning out gutters and downspouts and getting sandbags ready.

And they can hear what the city is doing to prepare.