ly holds on the city council as vice-mayor. This opens his seat on the council to Stewart Chen, who garnered the third-highest vote count in the Nov. 6 election. Chen will hold Bonta’s seat until it expires in 2014. He will join Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft and Tony Dasog as one of three newly elected members of the city council.

The outcome also means that Chen will vacate his seat on the hos-pital board.

This will prompt a round of in-terviews involving candidates who want to fill Chen’s seat, which ex-pires in 2016.

Unlike the city council, the third-highest vote-getter in the hospital board race does not step in to fill a vacated seat. Instead the board will schedule interviews to select Chen’s replacement.

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Holiday SeasonA record number of clients for

the Alameda Food Bank’s services have resulted in an increased need for food donations this holiday sea-son. Several youth organizations will come together this Saturday, Nov. 17, for the annual Scouting for Food drive. Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and others such as Girl Scouts, Girl’s Inc., Red Cross, Rota-ry Club, Elks Lodge, and the Coast Guard have distributed door-hang-ers and bags for your information and use. They will pick up non-per-ishable food items left outside by 9 a.m., Saturday.

The 25th annual Scouting for Food canned food drive goes on throughout the greater Bay Area.

In Alameda last November, Scouts collected more than 17,000 pounds of food, which in turn was sorted and boxed by community volunteers, and then distributed by the Alameda Food Bank to more than 2,200 local families over the following weeks. The Alameda Council hopes to match or exceed that collection goal again this year.

For more information about Scouting for Food, contact the Al-ameda Food Bank at 523-5850 or the Alameda Council, Boy Scouts of America at 522-2772.

Food Bank NeedsThe Alameda Food Bank is rely-

ing on local residents to donate and make the holiday season and festive and filling one for everyone. To help acheive this aim, the food bank requests 1,000 hams and tur-keys plus the fixings: boxed stuffing mix, canned black olives, canned gravy, cake mix, corn bread muffin mix, instant potatoes, canned yams and condensed milk. Drop off dona-tions at 1900 Thau Way. Groups or businesses can call 523-5850 to arrange to have large donations picked up.

Monetary contributions can go a lot further than a food donation. Send contributions made out to the Alameda Food Bank to P.O. Box 2167, Alameda, CA 94501. Online donations can be made at www.alamedafoodbank.org.

Nearly one in 13 households in Alameda receive assistance from the food bank annually.

Sun Staff ReportsThe United States Coast Guard

invited some 650 students, teach-ers and volunteers from Otis, Bay Farm and Amelia Earhart elemen-tary schools to something very special on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Cheers echoed along the Bay Farm Island shore of San Leandro Bay as Petty Officer 2nd Class Ian Jobs descended from a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter. Jobs was part of a team from Air Station San Francisco that treated the gathering to a simulation of the recovery of a person in the water needing assistance.

“This was a great opportu-nity to highlight two of our 11 missions: search and rescue and working with other government agencies,” said Lt. Cmdr. Kris-tine Neeley, from Coast Guard Pacific Area. “The children re-ally seemed to enjoy watching the mock rescue put on by the helicopter aircrew and personnel from the Alameda Fire Depart-ment marine unit.”

In other Coast Guard news, the Cutter Bertholf returned home to Coast Guard Island on Veteran’s Day after a 144-day deployment. The Bertholf left Al-ameda on June 20 for Hawaii to participate with 21 other coun-tries in the world’s largest naval exercise Rim of the Pacific 2012. As the primary cutter in support

Coast Guard, AFD Treat Kids to Mock Rescue

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Bonta Victory Leads to Musical ChairsAshcraft, Chen to vacate board seats

Bonta

Dennis EvanoskyAlameda Vice Mayor Rob Bonta

and Peralta Community College Dis-trict trustee Abel Guillen sent their supporters emails Monday evening; each with a completely different message.

Bonta declared victory and Guil-len conceded defeat in the race for the seat in the California State Assembly that represents the 18th district.

Bonta’s statement was gracious, complimenting Guillen for his force-ful campaign. “The results indicate voters had two very good choices,” Bonta stated.

In conceding, Guillen pointed to his “people-powered campaign.”

The result reflected just how the candidates divided the voters. With some 150,000 absentee ballots counted since the polls closed Nov. 6 and more provisional ballots tal-lied Monday, Bonta’s lead stood at just 2.18 percent or 3,029 votes out of 138,362 votes cast.

Bonta will be traveling to Sacra-mento, vacating the seat he current-

Dennis EvanoskySpokespersons for Raley’s

Stores, which includes Nob Hill Foods at the Bridgeside Shopping Center, and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) an-nounced on Tuesday that their negotiators had reached a tenta-tive agreement. Some 7,000 UFCW members struck on Sunday, Nov. 4, after talks between the parties broke down.

The accord, which UFCW rank and file still must ratify, brought the nine-day-long strike to an end and capped 15 months of negotiations between the parties. When they announced the agreement, union presidents Jacques Loveall and Ron Lind ordered pickets to imme-diately withdraw from Raley’s and Nob Hill stores.

Talks centered on UFCW’s disagreement with Raley’s over wages and benefits, which included Raley’s bid to eliminate health care benefits for retirees who are eligible for Medicare.

The strike heated up to the point of boiling over into the aisles at Nob Hills Foods on Blanding Av-enue. UFCW representative Mike Henneberry entered the store to collect a disability check for a worker who did not want to cross the picket line.

A fight ensued and Henneberry found himself in the back of an Al-ameda Police Department (APD) cruiser on his way to the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.

According to the police report dated Wednesday, Nov. 7, Henne-berry punched store manager John Morin in the face and threw Morin’s

cell phone across the store. Rather than attacking, Henne-

berry remembers being attacked by security guards inside the store. Ac-cording to Henneberry, Morin stood behind the attack by instructing the guards to assault him.

“Morin then placed me under citizen’s arrest and called APD,” Henneberry said.

Just after 10 a.m., APD Officer Alan Kuboyama arrived on the scene and arrested Henneberry. Henneberry was charged with bat-tery. It was unclear at press time whether Raley’s intended to pur-sue the case. Henneberry spent 13 hours at Santa Rita before being released. Morin was not available for comment.

In a press release Raley’s stated that the union will recommend rati-fication to its members with a vote to occur at a date to be decided in the near future.

Mike Teel, Raley’s president, stated in the same press release that he was pleased with the agree-ment because it “provides (Raley’s) with the cost savings (needed) to fund (its) vision and the initiatives to make (Raley’s) more competitive in the 21st century.”

The agreement will not be made public until union members vote on it.

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Hannah Appel (left) and Michael Thompson of the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group are keeping tabs on Jodie Randolph’s house on Foley Street.

Michele EllsonThe Alamedan

Managers of the East Bay Re-gional Park District announced they’re suing the city over its deci-sion to zone a piece of federal prop-erty adjacent to Crab Cove and Robert W. Crown State Beach to allow housing. City leaders fear the move could nullify new zoning rules approved by the state. District of-ficials had wanted the property to expand Crab Cove’s facilities.

“The park district’s long history in Alameda, providing local jobs, plus millions and millions of dollars over decades invested into Alam-eda to operate and maintain Crown Beach makes this especially trou-bling. I am very disappointed with all of this,” Doug Siden, Alameda’s representative on the park district’s board, was quoted as saying in a press release on the lawsuit.

The park district had hoped to purchase the 3.899-acre property from the federal General Services

Administration but another bidder, developer Tim Lewis Communities, offered a higher bid. A representa-tive for the developer said in a letter that they hoped to build 48 homes on the property, though a proposal has not yet been submitted.

City leaders zoned the site for housing as part of their effort to gain state certification of the hous-ing element for Alameda’s general plan, which must show that the city has enough properly zoned land to build the amount of housing it is ex-pected to need. The site is zoned for 95 homes, including apartments.

The park district, which has pressed its case with leaders at every level of government and with Tim Lewis Communities, claims the city failed to obtain its input before making the zoning change. The dis-trict is saying the zoning change was made without proper notice and without fully analyzing its po-tential environmental impacts.

In a statement released Tues-

day, city leaders denounced the suit as an irresponsible waste of taxpayer money filed in an attempt to nullify the federal government’s sale of the land. They said the park district could use the land for park purposes if it is able to acquire it from the federal government.

“This is a complete misuse of the legal system,” City Attorney Janet Kern was quoted as saying in the statement. “The city will vigor-ously defend this lawsuit. We will not be bullied into setting aside the Housing Element after the full and fair public process that led to its certification by the state.”

The city council won state ap-proval for its housing element, which demonstrates that the city has zoned enough land to accom-modate new housing the state thinks Alameda needs, earlier this year, after being out of compliance for two decades.

City leaders have denied the

Ekene IkemeAlameda resident Jodie Ran-

dolph has gained support from community activist organizations and dozens of volunteers as she struggles to defeat two daunt-ing battles. Randolph, commu-nity activist organization Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group (OOFDG) and volunteers from all over have been guard-ing her residence since mid-October from her loan lienholder, FV-1, a corporate trust company, to prevent it from evicting her from her home.

Randolph purchased her home in 1999.

She was unable to keep up with her mortgage payments due to per-sonal financial troubles and her in-terest rates skyrocketing.

Randolph has been trying to modify her loan since 2004. Af-ter years of runaround from her different lenders over the years, Randolph’s loan was purchased by FV-1, which operates under the Morgan Stanley umbrella, in 2010.

In March, Randolph was given a notice that she was no longer the owner of the residence.

“When I got it I was shocked,” said Randolph.

While Randolph has been in a battle to keep her home, she is also battling for her life as she in under-going chemotherapy for colon can-cer, her second bout with cancer — Randolph was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008.

The accord, which UFCW rank and file still must ratify, brought the nine-day-long strike to an end.

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OCCUPY: Page 12

ELECTION: Page 2