Calling ALL Youth 12-18yrs old!! Join US For a Night of Clean Safe FUN!! Showcase Your Talent and Compete for CASH Prizes. Can you Sing, Dance, Rap or Flow in Spoken Word? Register today and share your gifts on stage to win CASH Prizes. No profanity or violence allowed. Come out for a FREE night of Food, Fun and Music prepared with Youth in mind!

Register today and receive information on submitting a sample of your talent to be included. Share this with friends & invite them to DROP The Mic!!! See you there!

Free for the public to attend. Located at Genesis Church 1800 Woodland Drive in Antioch.

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An 18-year-old female was shot during a road rage incident in Antioch Tuesday night, March 14, 2023. ContraCosta.news video screenshot used with permission.

By Public Information Officer Ashley Crandell, Antioch Police Community Engagement Unit

Honda Accord driven by victim of road rage shooting. Photo by Mike Burkholder, ContraCosta.news used with permission.

On March 14, 2023, at approximately 7:51 pm, the Antioch Police Department’s Communications Center received a call from the Brentwood Police Department advising there was someone shot on Lone Tree Way at the intersection of Highway 4 on the border of Brentwood, near Lowe’s and Home Depot (not where Lone Tree Way turns into ‘A’ Street).

Antioch Police Officers responded and located one victim suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was transported to a local hospital and is expected to survive.

Through investigation, officers learned this was a road rage incident between two unrelated vehicles. One of the occupants of a vehicle involved in the road rage shot at the other vehicle. In doing so, they shot an unrelated occupant of a vehicle nearby.

According to Mike Burkholder of ContraCosta.news, the victim is a female. According to a video posted on Twitter by ThePress.net by reporter Jeff Weisinger she is 18 years old, was driving a Honda Accord, the three other passengers all under age 18 were “all OK” and someone in a Dodge Charger tried to shoot at an SUV. (See video by ContraCosta.news)

This is an active investigation, and anyone in the area of Lone Tree Way and Hwy 4 around the time of the incident (7:50 pm) that may have any information about the incident is asked to call our Investigations Bureau at (925) 779-6926. You may also text an anonymous tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword ANTIOCH.

Allen D. Payton contributed to this report.

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Antioch’s historic, downtown Rivertown is located between W. 10th Street and the river and from A Street to Auto Center Drive.

Celebrate Antioch Foundation Vice President Mike Gabrielson and President Joy Motts with the award plaque presented to them on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Source: Joy Motts.

Named 2022 District 3 Outstanding Non-Profit Organization Partner in Parks & Recreation

By Allen D. Payton

The Celebrate Antioch Foundation (CAF) has been named the 2022 California Parks and Recreation Society (CPRS) District 3 Outstanding Non-Profit Organization Partner in Parks & Recreation. During the CPRS District 3 Awards & Installation Luncheon on Wednesday, March 8 at the Marina Community Center in San Leandro, CAF leaders, President Joy Motts and Vice President Michael Gabrielson, were presented with the award plaque. CAF Secretary Tammy Larsen was unable to attend the event as she was traveling out of town.

The luncheon was held to honor, “Outstanding Programs, Events, Professionals, Volunteers, and Non-Profit Partners”. The plaque reads, “In Grateful Recognition and Significant Contributions Toward the Spirit of Parks Make Life Better and the Mission of Parks and Recreation.”

On one of Motts’ Facebook pages she posted Thursday, “We are so honored to have our Celebrate Antioch Foundation chosen as the 2022 California Parks and Recreation District 3 Non-Profit of the Year! Chosen for our 10+ years of bringing quality events to our community and our work and partnership with the City of Antioch Park and Rec in organizing Antioch’s 150th Sesquicentennial celebration.”

CAF was nominated for the award by the Antioch Parks and Recreation Department and Director Brad Helfenberger informed Motts last week they had been chosen for the honor.

Motts and Gabrielson with plaque and CPRS District 3 President Nicole Espinoza Roa (left) and the organization’s District 3 incoming president, Jennifer Gault (right). Source: Joy Motts

According to their website, the “Society’s mission is to advance the park and recreation profession through education, networking, resources and advocacy. CPRS members are united in their commitment to improving people’s lives. This networking happens across disciplines and agency boundaries to achieve together what we cannot do alone. CPRS strives to educate policy makers so that they vote with the premise that parks and recreation is an essential community service.

Founded in 1946, CPRS is a nonprofit, professional and public interest organization with over 4,000 members who are central to why Parks Make Life Better!

CPRS membership is well-distributed, with 86 percent of park and recreation agencies in California boasting at least one CPRS individual member. CPRS also has local, national and international company members that provide solutions to help our members work smarter and faster.”

By Antioch Police Department

Join us for the 117th installment of the Neighborhood Cleanup Program on March 11, 2023, from 9:00 am – 11:00 am. Volunteers should meet at the parking lot of Chichibu Park which is on the corner of Acorn Road and G Street.

Investing time into cleaning up our neighborhoods instills a sense of community pride. Partner with us and help make a difference in Antioch.  Signup, via Facebook or just show up.

By Chantel Tieman

Hold Your Horses  Livestock Emergency Evacuation Response Team & Rescue is a local non-profit evacuation team and rescue based out of East Contra Costa County.

We are deployed by operations of emergency services, Calfire and local fire agencies and Animal Services. We not only rescue during disasters but whenever there are calls for neglect and abuse etc. For more information visit www.holdyourhorsesevac.com orour Facebook page.