May
It's time to pay tribute!

May is packed with holidays that honor exceptional people, such as mothers and the men and women in the Military Services. Check out the Community Calendar and be sure to write down the dates of these special holidays! Also, Summer is right around the corner, so visit the Neighborhood Website often to see what is happening in the neighborhood!


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Taylor foundation at Camp Arroyo in Livermore is in need
of gently used/new formal dresses
...
as they plead ” for our "Happily Ever After" ball during camp for our teen heart campers! We have a dry cleaner that will clean the donated dresses so please send them our way or drop them off at our office. To date we have 16 dresses and we need a total of 100 by the 31st!! We can do this!!! Please share and re-post. Ask your co-workers and put out a collection box! Let your family and friends know to check their closests!! Let's get moving ♥ Thank you, Thank you!!” size 2 to 16 would be appreciated



This could happen in our city of Pleasanton next:


Energy Retrofits in Hayward: The City of Hayward continues to study mandatory energy efficiency retrofits. The latest proposed Residential Energy Conservation Ordinance (RECO)would require a homeowner to complete all of these energy efficiency improvements:

Adding extra ceiling insulation
Sealing air leaks and duct work
Installation of new plumbing fixtures including low-flow toilets, faucets and shower heads
Insulating hot water pipes and
Installing fireplace closures.
The city also could require additional energy efficiency work including the installation of a new roof and sheathing. This work would need to be completed by a special contractor.

These retrofits would be required in the following instances:

1. When a home is sold or within two years of the sale.
2. Remodels or additions: Home improvement projects totaling more than $25,000 would trigger the energy efficiency mandates.
3. Homes built prior to 1978: All homes built before 1978 would be subject to the requirements.

The RECO will be discussed at the Feb.2 meeting of the Hayward Sustainability Committee.

Please e-mail your questions or comments about the proposed RECO to: Erik.Pearson@hayward-ca.gov and ask that they be forwarded to the Sustainability Committee.




Downtown Pleasanton Events:
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Be sure to visit the Oak Grove News Page. And feel free to Email me if there's something you'd like to see added to the page.



Suicide prevention talk line and website
1-800-273-TALK or 1-800-273-8255
www.unite4life.com


Adorable art project from my Open House 6761 Melody in Pleasanton
priced at $619,950.... The home, not the tim man price ...
He is priceless, don't you think?




Attention real estate investors!
Fannie MAE has adjusted their guidelines effective March 1.
Allowing investors up to 10 properties.
Take advantage of the short sales and REO's.
Please call for more information.
Thanks,
Dorothy Broderson



Recent Properties for SALE in Kottinger Ranch
Click here for Dorothy's latest testimonials!
Foreclosure Times Lines - NOD Notice of Default Guidelines



NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I
have ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and send it on!
FEMALE HEART ATTACKS ...
Click here for the complete article...




What is Safe Rides?
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Now is the time to take action. Studies have confirmed that global warming is already occurring and its primary cause is from human activities. You can be good to the Earth without having to give up things you love. Start incorporating some of the items below into your daily life to help make the world a cleaner, greener and healthier place to live.

Click Here for a Going Green Checklist

Home Composting
Click here for important information for getting started


Fremont Backs off on Point of Sale Retrofits:

In response to input from Bay East REALTORS® the Fremont City Council is now backing off on a plan to require home owners to complete energy efficiency upgrades before they sell their home.

Bay East President Doreen Roberts and Bay East REALTORS® Antoinette Beccera, Georgia Butterfield, Tony Doot, George Duarte, Terry Norman, Donald Rettig and Cowboy Bob Weinreich participated in the April 3 Fremont City Council meeting to educate the Council members about the problems these point-of-sale retrofit requirements will cause for home buyers and sellers. The City Council got our message and told Fremont city staff to remove the Residential Energy Conservation Ordinance (RECO) from the draft version of the Climate Action Plan.

Bay East won this battle but will continue working to keep the RECO out of the final Climate Action Plan.


The ClutterLess Self Help Group Meetings

Monday evenings at 7pm-8:30 pm in Pleasanton
Come on and see us.
Same place, same time.

ST MARY & ST JOHN COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH. (the old Presbyterian Church)
RM 7, 4300 MIRADOR DR., PLEASANTON.


Cluttering is a habit, Not Cluttering is a habit, too!
Coming regularly to the meetings is a good habit!

So please come Monday, and start thinking now about successes you can share.

(Even just getting to the meeting is a success!)


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Dorothy Broderson
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Keller Williams®
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Pleasanton, CA 94588

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