R.E. Faro

Minding My Peas

The world of greenery keeps turning in Faro’s garden where pruning and cutting back the pittosporum, cotoneaster, jasmine, acacia, and ivy are on his mind. Still missing Rita, he strikes up a friendship with his new neighbors and introduces his pruner to them as they contemplate the fate of their redwood.

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Faces of the East Bay

In the Philanthropic Swim

In the Philanthropic Swim

Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.