Tuesday Morning at Arsola’s Food Pantry in Oakland During COVID-19
Long before hundreds of vehicles roll up on Tuesday morning, a half dozen volunteers are on the job. Along a makeshift assembly line, extended to[More]
Bill Joyce
Bill Joyce is a retired Berkeley teacher and 2016 alumnus of Oakland Voices.
Stories by Bill
Sheltering-in-Place in the Laurel District
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Mine is the only car as I pull up to 35th and MacArthur early Tuesday morning. Usually swarming with students on their way to Skyline[More]
Dishing Up a Kinfolks Thanksgiving
By Bill Joyce Posted
The Kinfolks Motorcycle Club’s annual Thanksgiving dinner at Palo Vista Gardens is still an hour away but the dinner guests are already gathering. Joanne Berstine,[More]
Nearly a Century of Magic in the Dimond
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Magic in all its mystery hung, literally, in the air at a recent meeting of the Oakland Magic Circle (OMC). Twelve- year- old Azlan Dubin[More]
Sometimes it takes a tragedy
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[slideshow_deploy id=’11545′] As the unsettling sifting of the ashes of the Ghost Ship fire drew to a close Wednesday, three blocks away at St. Elizabeth[More]
What Would You Do?
By Bill Joyce Posted
(On the 2nd weekend in October, labor activists, military veterans, musicians, artists, and people of faith from across the US converged on both sides of[More]
Grand Opening of The Shed: The Original Scraper Bike Team on the Move
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The Original Scraper Bike Team mustered at noon on Saturday, June 11 at the 81st Ave Library. Scrapers torqued chains and pumped air in their[More]
Change for the better promised by new West Oakland Health Council CEO Benjamin Pettus
By Bill Joyce Posted
Smooth jazz played softly in the background while some 100 supporters gathered June 30 under a bright white tent beside the West Oakland Health Council[More]
Sights and Sounds: An Artist Paints in Athol Park – A Radio Story
By Bill Joyce Posted
http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kalw/audio/2016/04/WEB.AtholPark.mp3 Two tennis courts, enclosed by a chain link fence, sit adjacent to Athol Plaza Park in Oakland, near Lake Merritt. Laila Espinoza is[More]
Friday Mornings at Arsola’s
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In the lot tucked between Castlemont High and Center of Hope Church along MacArthur Blvd., three women are pulling down the flap of a pop-up[More]
