tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53608508635947480182024-03-13T21:54:22.773-07:00Dimond's OfrendaThis site is a Dimond neighborhood-area Ofrenda<br>
in the spirit of Fruitvale's Dia De Los Muertos 2009<br>
“Celebrating the Spirit of Community”Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360850863594748018.post-38978535096354798882009-10-23T08:56:00.000-07:002009-10-23T13:00:08.125-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Sid Campbell</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" >click image for lager view</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOwudqLVRgMKLLpX1iu9u8r-5Tog71Jo2kOYoI6GZnYD-1uC4scoPxwGxGVZ9LG9YWUbD0BHVvpm07PAahyGt4E0nLj89mtw__FoOc-i9zk-Ypi0yvm2wnIVoYOEQWM6p1x7OfJ6daMoP/s1600-h/sid.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOwudqLVRgMKLLpX1iu9u8r-5Tog71Jo2kOYoI6GZnYD-1uC4scoPxwGxGVZ9LG9YWUbD0BHVvpm07PAahyGt4E0nLj89mtw__FoOc-i9zk-Ypi0yvm2wnIVoYOEQWM6p1x7OfJ6daMoP/s400/sid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395825004657080978" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" >Photo: © 2006 Timothy Chapman</span><br /><br /></div>For twenty years I knew Sid Campbell as a great neighbor, Dimond merchant, author, entrepreneur extraordinaire, and artist. I first met Sid in 1988 when I started printing CD covers for him, but in the nineties Sid became an enthusiastic desktop publisher and did his own designing and printing -- he was Dimond's Renaissance man.<br /><br>Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360850863594748018.post-68535740654962146662009-10-20T18:03:00.000-07:002009-11-03T15:07:28.301-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CbhceU4tHVXt21CMjZ7fsp22TSCe2dJ7phW6EVyv46ThKUDLK5XvOZQwRSGixhnWYyVccuuORL-3mJXAWtbRSxJhYxDxnITAhIalXIIP3Wkc8aCNmqvQ5Ky7AqJr7Jnl1XMDf-AP0R6k/s1600-h/liz_mom_anwar+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CbhceU4tHVXt21CMjZ7fsp22TSCe2dJ7phW6EVyv46ThKUDLK5XvOZQwRSGixhnWYyVccuuORL-3mJXAWtbRSxJhYxDxnITAhIalXIIP3Wkc8aCNmqvQ5Ky7AqJr7Jnl1XMDf-AP0R6k/s400/liz_mom_anwar+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400017581772712610" border="0" /></a>Lizzie Chapman, Alice Chapman, Anwar Sultan<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Anwar was a member of the Dimond community for over 10 years. I met him and his wife Svetlana when they moved to Oakland in 1985 with their sons Akbar and Omar. We lived in the same apartment building on Dimond Avenue and my daughter Lizzie and Omar became best friends for years.<br /><br />Anwar was from Afghanistan and received his Ph.D. in math and physics from Moscow University where he met Svetlana. He was a math professor at Kabul University from 1970 to 1983 and left Afghanistan during the time his country had a communist government.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYVdxIkzUjbXUHeBgpDYwRs-3Q7rCrhhlyRo4hiF-7vwOni0OgAP48eRHM6VUeGuDHdw9PYl5e3u0fyzbA44mVdoxVYU7CcEWEV_b7DMpgv1hWMLBonfr5P61m8yWaIJxuKxQN0lfFsyK/s1600-h/park.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYVdxIkzUjbXUHeBgpDYwRs-3Q7rCrhhlyRo4hiF-7vwOni0OgAP48eRHM6VUeGuDHdw9PYl5e3u0fyzbA44mVdoxVYU7CcEWEV_b7DMpgv1hWMLBonfr5P61m8yWaIJxuKxQN0lfFsyK/s400/park.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394864931901139218" border="0" /></a>Lizzie, Anwar, Omar and Anwar's brother Lal who<br />still lives in Dimond. Lal's son is behind Anwar<br />Circa 1988 in Dimond Park<br /><br /></div>During the summer, Anwar and I would walk down Dimond Avenue to the park with Omar and Lizzie who would would enjoy the play area near the Rec Center while Anwar and I talked.<br /><br />I'll always remember Anwar as an intelligent and kind man.<br /><br /><br /></div></div>Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360850863594748018.post-90189286530043957802009-10-17T23:21:00.000-07:002009-11-08T09:19:58.313-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibI7JZVuicBeQ8hasvy_8B9x104-zo_-nDeTM_vJ6sLwx6IxC1Wc95ge4PA4VsmwQiirrVdmp8AdieQmKwtk82iP-LlujXiG7DTaGoCCPgd2NagkjdEgRRSO3WvEiAx_rabALyH8bpe7VR/s1600-h/stovall_dad_5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibI7JZVuicBeQ8hasvy_8B9x104-zo_-nDeTM_vJ6sLwx6IxC1Wc95ge4PA4VsmwQiirrVdmp8AdieQmKwtk82iP-LlujXiG7DTaGoCCPgd2NagkjdEgRRSO3WvEiAx_rabALyH8bpe7VR/s400/stovall_dad_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393953305174122322" border="0" /></a>James Clay Stovall<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He was a great Black man and we all miss him</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by Rejoyce Moss</span></div><blockquote style="border-style: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My father's name was James Clay Stovall and he lived in the Dimond for years. You could always find him sitting outside of Lucky, (Now Farmers Joe's) talking to anyone that would talk to him.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We called him the Mayor of the Dimond District. He was a kind and genial man who was born somewhere in Kentucky. I say that because on most of our birth certificates he was born in different places. He was a cook on the train from Kentucky to Indiana and was a self-taught man.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He worked any job that would help him take care of his kids. We knew he took a lot of stuff off people, but he never let us know about it, so we grew up with out prejudice. My sister Frances had to make him except his SS check because he thought that was the government giving him something. I never knew him to take a day off from work. Because of my Daddy and Mama, we are survivors. They did not leave us a house or lots of money, but they gave us much more. We are still here and standing on our own two feet!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He worked at the old California Hotel here in Oakland, and he retired from there, but they could not find anyone that could do the job, so they hired him back. Daddy did not want to retire because he said that "to retire is to expire."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We called him "Cannonball" for reasons we never knew, but I think that it was because he fathered 22 kids by Della Pearl, our Mother.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He was so proud that he never had to ask our government for anything to raise his kids. He did it all by himself. He was our biggest fan and you could always find him outside our dressing room door. For years I did not know that he could not read, and I was told that his sisters taught him to write his name. If you talked to him, you would not know. His father was a cook as well as a Buffalo Soldier. My father could blow a jug and make it sound like a bass. For you who do not know what that means, it was a one gallon wine bottle put on your shoulder and blown though the side of the top of the bottle. My Mother would play the guitar and boy could she play! He was a great Black man and we all miss him.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsuCDlr1ocy0GFqTXtQrgrMDY-vb_MGImrp4m5pI592vAddIpop2XN7HYPz6FrAsTimiBBIT7EA_YSdHNcvnu3lVqYnecA6dDr0xCrtlYa7scVKLUgjd1D7ZvSqiZgOXINtYWPVCO4PVX/s1600-h/stovall_dad_car_s_p.jpg"><img style="margin: 5px auto; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsuCDlr1ocy0GFqTXtQrgrMDY-vb_MGImrp4m5pI592vAddIpop2XN7HYPz6FrAsTimiBBIT7EA_YSdHNcvnu3lVqYnecA6dDr0xCrtlYa7scVKLUgjd1D7ZvSqiZgOXINtYWPVCO4PVX/s400/stovall_dad_car_s_p.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401781448464427202" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">His name was James Clay Stovall, aka "Cannonball."</span><br /></div><br /></blockquote>Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360850863594748018.post-61788452467632381062009-10-17T13:44:00.000-07:002010-01-02T15:03:55.572-08:00<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">John Stuart Sr.</span><br />DIA President 1973 - 1979<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >click images for larger view</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYz5hl4732CQd1eZuAWoMGK07CnIibc5_7zC3y7dhA4-iu7hZd8gK_hApq88suzsyg-4tVHdSb4LZizMiJ7D9ozJ2eeAzfAhxsWmAA9WzGhyPm2lSmkZHR9bhk-AEvyJB_qlaAg4SJZnP/s1600-h/wood_open_sharp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYz5hl4732CQd1eZuAWoMGK07CnIibc5_7zC3y7dhA4-iu7hZd8gK_hApq88suzsyg-4tVHdSb4LZizMiJ7D9ozJ2eeAzfAhxsWmAA9WzGhyPm2lSmkZHR9bhk-AEvyJB_qlaAg4SJZnP/s400/wood_open_sharp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393679787719699170" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">William Wood Park Dedication 10/13/76</span><br /></div><blockquote style="border-style: none;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >st row: Oakland Parks and Recreation Commissioner Robert Apodaca, City Councilman Frank Ogawa, and Alameda County Flood Control Engineer-Manager Paul Lanferman<br />2nd row standing: Oakland Parks and Recreation Commissioner Aldo Nelson, <span style="font-weight: bold;">DIA President John Stuart</span>, Oakland Parks and Recreation Director V. Hap Smith</span></div></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Dimond Library Dedication Program</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Saturday, February 23, 1980</span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><blockquote style="border-style: none;">"The Dimond Rohan Branch Library has a library meeting room on the second floor named for John D. Stuart, a local resident and staunch supporter of the building of this branch."</blockquote></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >click images for larger view</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VGhUFVyVDrv5cBtm5P4LxzEwaU1S-TSrWA0wRjtdgsG3yHKa1s1y29p77XK02n7kIBh5xxO_7caMdh3YXSIFPCVAekebIPe2t1bH090_sBN7Q3vbBXJtNvQ7Twph_IEDiJqfcgse6Zsp/s1600-h/library_dedicate_stuart.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5VGhUFVyVDrv5cBtm5P4LxzEwaU1S-TSrWA0wRjtdgsG3yHKa1s1y29p77XK02n7kIBh5xxO_7caMdh3YXSIFPCVAekebIPe2t1bH090_sBN7Q3vbBXJtNvQ7Twph_IEDiJqfcgse6Zsp/s400/library_dedicate_stuart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393682652729893730" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Rhgn179rQ7jOnU1qCLKqTfJ8ivxFOX3RIj-NlFE1xvmwBnYwJYsLMGGn-QO27USxNf09d8Ee0V_tL7Q8YIS54sJiLYj1DpZuiakWX9m3DP-wxSl1XGZwQHm2BwOLzWRu-5EL02dEJwm8/s1600-h/IMG_0842s4.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Rhgn179rQ7jOnU1qCLKqTfJ8ivxFOX3RIj-NlFE1xvmwBnYwJYsLMGGn-QO27USxNf09d8Ee0V_tL7Q8YIS54sJiLYj1DpZuiakWX9m3DP-wxSl1XGZwQHm2BwOLzWRu-5EL02dEJwm8/s400/IMG_0842s4.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393689048727334402" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360850863594748018.post-34638224283446585292009-10-15T18:07:00.000-07:002009-10-23T13:07:10.123-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Helen Cathcart Hill<br /><br /></span></div>Helen was born with her twin sister Doris on August 1, 1933 in Victoria, British Columbia. She attended the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital, graduating as a public health nurse in 1955.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">click images for larger view</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMN_uNJcPu9pyAyJTOC4iUaOxgzZg6KmEsRuUxnkU_nZ5WYz37O7eJpugoVlTTPWXsOj7U1nZ_lAkftCQdV-mVeeDjtq1lfZA9QyVEhztYB4RJCtObRgr-8a3vLy09Mc0Ym0tgh1cnXZ0C/s1600-h/hospital_1955.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMN_uNJcPu9pyAyJTOC4iUaOxgzZg6KmEsRuUxnkU_nZ5WYz37O7eJpugoVlTTPWXsOj7U1nZ_lAkftCQdV-mVeeDjtq1lfZA9QyVEhztYB4RJCtObRgr-8a3vLy09Mc0Ym0tgh1cnXZ0C/s400/hospital_1955.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392999548662649618" border="0" /></a>Helen is "Helen Gray" top right<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuIvmTT5tJPYCy_PJw9sv_MQs6qXzmXoclCajmwJblGyDXmrhPfvqnqH-f-Xme7dejM5jirkFNxCeD6jQvWmnAI4qAzZ-SiaN27OGhIfuTNpJZe4yrMZ6eiAlGKRTkiSCPQUZkvvTkzqS7/s1600-h/helen_1952.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuIvmTT5tJPYCy_PJw9sv_MQs6qXzmXoclCajmwJblGyDXmrhPfvqnqH-f-Xme7dejM5jirkFNxCeD6jQvWmnAI4qAzZ-SiaN27OGhIfuTNpJZe4yrMZ6eiAlGKRTkiSCPQUZkvvTkzqS7/s400/helen_1952.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393020330816121442" border="0" /></a>Helen in 1952<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Helen devoted much of her life to working with people. In San Francisco, she first worked with Blue Shield/Blue Cross for ten years as a medical auditor and office nurse. She then obtained a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling at San Francisco State University and worked for 10 years with the city and county of San Francisco mental health department until proposition 13 resulted in dissolution of the department. She then worked for Nutri Systems for 10 years as a weight loss/nutrition counselor until retirement in 1990.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Helen was very active at the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, serving on its board (chairperson for 2 years) and social action committees. She was also active with the Oakland retired Senior Volunteer Program, serving as board chairperson for 2 years.<br /><br />The last ten years of her life were filled with animal rescue activities, founding <a href="http://www.hopalong.org/about/index.shtml" target="_blank">Hopalong Animal Rescue</a> in 1993 and volunteering at the Oakland Animal Shelter. She was a docent at the Oakland Zoo. Until her death in 2001, Helen also served on Oakland's Animal Shelter advisory commission, tirelessly advocating for the animals and for building a new animal shelter, which is now a reality. She personally saved hundreds of stray or abandoned cats and dogs. With typical modesty, she would attribute this to the loving support of her husband Jim and the efforts of many animal rescue volunteers.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2tFgUnH7WqbftyGUl2U5WZq5sYsGnA6_sCal6kJ8-Cx0tmsrKz46Kux0Pp-Sm4gYnWZl4Z4bRnG5n_VNi_npk65y9XwaVK6LCu5YUNjRxVedr3DzaY5ZG8OPx4yqOb8esk4J4oeRqM9g/s1600-h/jim_helen_stroll_600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 5px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2tFgUnH7WqbftyGUl2U5WZq5sYsGnA6_sCal6kJ8-Cx0tmsrKz46Kux0Pp-Sm4gYnWZl4Z4bRnG5n_VNi_npk65y9XwaVK6LCu5YUNjRxVedr3DzaY5ZG8OPx4yqOb8esk4J4oeRqM9g/s400/jim_helen_stroll_600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393010782352387698" border="0" /></a>Helen married Jim Hill<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">For over 40 years, Helen and Jim traveled the world, sharing their adventures and insights into other cultures through eagerly awaited yearly "travel letters." They sponsored a travel slide/video program weekly at the Oakland main library for 8 years until budget cutbacks caused the program to be canceled.<br /><br />Helen and Jim where members of the Dimond community for 17 years and she is remembered as a friend, a teacher, an advocate, a rescuer, an inspiration, and the love of Jim Hill's life.<br /><br />Jim still lives in Dimond and recently attended the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/timothymchapman/DimondSOaktoberfest2009#" target="_blank">Dimond Oaktoberfest</a><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /></div></div>Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360850863594748018.post-51784034723587868572009-10-15T17:57:00.000-07:002009-11-08T09:34:54.253-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"> <blockquote style="border-style: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Dimond's Dia de los Muertos 2009</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This section is for all who would like to make a simple Ofrenda by posting a comment here. To read and post comments, click on "comments" below<br /></div></blockquote><br /></div>Dimond Neighborhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10867016414102983044noreply@blogger.com1