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Community Partners:

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Diablo Regional Arts Association

contra costa and solano county food bank link

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northgate community pride foundation

Ruth Bancroft Garden


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walnut creek education foundation


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youth homes

animal rescue foundation

Romance in the City

Romance in the City By Elizabeth Rusiecki

Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Tired of spending cold winter nights alone? Here are some surprising spots around Walnut Creek to catch Cupid’s arrow. Just look around, maybe you won’t have to buy yourself a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day after all. To read article, flip to page 30 in the digital edition.
 

Retreat to Napa

Retreat to Napa

By Deborah Grossman

These world-class Napa resorts will help you jumpstart the New Year with invigorating environments, healthy dining and wine tasting nearby. Take a break for a bit of serenity and inspiration. To read article, flip to page 46 in the digital edition.

Hot Trends in Beauty

What’s new in beauty? Picture perfect skin, long locks, eye-batting lashes and flash-freezing fat. Here are a few 2012 trends to keep your eye on. To read article, flip to page 37 in the digital edition.

Hot Trends in Beauty


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Website offers a stash
of simple recipes

By Jolene Thym

Amanda Haas launched her website, onefamilyonemeal.com, to help busy families put fast, healthy meals on the table. Today it gets more than 5,000 visits per week from people looking for simple recipes to get them through the week. “Among the things that families need to change,” says Haas, “is the practice of making two meals; one for the kids and one for the parents.” Give your family a healthy start on the New Year with these recipes.

Shadowbrook Winery CrushFoodie News

The rapidly rising French bakery, La Boulange, opened its 15th location in the WC, taking over half of the former Bing Crosby’s restaurant space. Speaking of bakeries, Nothing Bundt Cakes opened on Botelho next to Sunrise Bistro. Opah, a Greek restaurant with three South Bay locations, is opening on N. Main Street this month. Taqueria Mexican Grill on Locust Street underwent a makeover and is back in business. But next door, longstanding Da Lat Vietnamese restaurant shut its doors. Word is a new Chinese restaurant will be replacing it. And Walnut Creek’s Shadowbrook Winery produced a whopping 18.7 tons of grapes last fall, making a record 3,000 gallons of wine!

Giving Birth in your 40s

Oh Baby!
Giving Birth in Your 40's and Beyond By Martha Ross

A growing number of women are having babies at 40, 45 and even 50. In our brave new world of cutting-edge reproductive science, these women are challenging long-held ideas of who can become a mother and when. In fact, while overall birth rates fell in the United States between 2007 and 2009—birth rates among women 45 to 50 rose 17 percent. Science says a woman can get pregnant and give birth later in life, but should she?To read article, flip to page 40 in the digital edition.
 
 
 
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