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TOMORROW! Join us on Wed June 23 from 5-7 pm to learn about new homes for Seniors at 3135 San Pablo Ave. We’ll meet outdoors at St. Mary’s Center, 925 Brockhurst St, Oakland. Wear your mask & enter our raffle. Visit 3135sanpablo.org for a preview & to get updates.
This Father's Day the barbecue's on us! This month, St. Mary’s Center Family Bags sent a little extra love to our Fathers, Grandfathers, and those that stand in as fathers. Support our food program by donating at www.stmaryscenter.org
Today on Juneteenth, we celebrate the richness of African American history, music, dance, art & food. St. Mary’s Center asks that we reflect on the reason why we observe Juneteenth.
More than the end of slavery in America, let us be think of how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go. Let us act on eradicating today’s systems of subjugation through a collaborative effort.
Consider that was is needed is what john a. powell’s, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute calls Bridging which “means acknowledging our shared humanity, rejecting that there is a “them,” and moving towards a future where there is instead a new “us.” For when we bridge, we not only open up to others, we also open up to change within ourselves – where we can participate in creating a society built on belonging.”
In lieu of the regular West Oakland Juneteenth Celebration B. H. Brilliant Minds created a video vault of stories from African Americans from all walks of life, watch and share: www.bhbrilliantminds.org/juneteenth-196.html
If you live in the 18th Assembly District, you can drop your ballot off at St. Mary's Center, with the secure County Registrar Dropbox, 10am-4pm, on June 16, 17, 23 or 24. More info at acvote.org. Thank you for being a voter!
Robert massa 39@gmail.com
Hi my name is Robert Massa and I was trying to get on some Saint Mary's donate a meal charity thing and I ended up on this website and did but if you know how to get to where you can donate money or food to St Mary's I'm going to do so in Stockton California that's where I'm from I probably really can't help you guys in Oakland but I really wish I could have this time but we're going to have a hell of a time it's Saint Mary's homeless shelter in the women's shelter on Father's Day I'm going to be giving away a bunch of stuff food lots of food I've got like paintball guns and I got like a really nice tool air power tool set I want to get away and I don't know I can't think of what else right now but if you want to reply back to me yeah I am at Robert 39 at gmail.com not that at at like litter at you do a little circle thing with a hat in the middle of it that at I don't know how to do it but I'm going to post this now and someone get back to me at Robert Massa symbol at 39. Gmail dot-com maybe not somebody. I don't know I'll try to get back to you when I figure out how to work this damn thing
Dr. Kim Rhoads is in a front page story in the SF Chronicle this morning. She and her team offered vaccination at the Brockhurst Street Block Party with the Hoover Foster RAC and BOSS in May and June. Roots Community Health Center will be onsite July 1 to continue offering vaccination to St. Mary's Center Seniors and Preschool Families. Thank you, Dr. Rhoads for saying the pandemic is not over yet. www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Is-it-over-How-California-will-know-when-the-16247554.php
Is it over? How California will know when the pandemic ends
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- ‘Food is love’: After closing its winter homeless shelter, Oakland’s St. Mary’s Center tried something new, The Oaklandside, March 12, 2021
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COVID-19 leaves unhoused Oaklanders with few options for winter shelter, The Oaklandside, December 10, 2020
- Inside the Bay Area’s Geriatric Homeless Shelter, New York Times, April 23, 2020
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Bay Area’s New Homeless Epicenter? San Francisco Chronicle, August 1, 2019
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Homelessness Is a Tragedy When Solutions Are at Hand, East Bay Express, November 19, 2019
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Thousands of California Seniors Are ‘One Disaster Away’ from Homelessness. What Can the State Do? USA Today, October 3, 2019
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St. Mary’s Center: Investing in Our Elders, Community Vision, October 2, 2020