If you have any questions or concerns text Tim Jeremy at (925) 759-6537 or email: timjeremy78@gmail.com.

The City’s sandbag distribution site is up and running. Located at the City’s corporation yard at 1201 W 4th Street (Please enter from N Street). The station is located just before the chain link gate on the right-hand side and is stocked with bags, shovels, and a sand funnel.

The Sandbag Station is a 24-hour self-serve station and is free to residents while supplies last.

To report flooding:

▪️ Monday – Friday, 7 AM – 4 PM, call (925)779-6950

▪️ After Hours, please call Non-Emergency Police Services at (925)778-2441

Due Feb. 10

At 6 pm on Friday March 24, 2023, the Antioch Chamber of Commerce will host our annual awards Gala and be Antioch’s 2022 Citizens of the Year, Businesses of the Year, Non-Profit of the Year and Youth of the Year. The Chamber is pleased to open nominations for 2022 in the following categories:

– Citizen of the Year – Most Impact

– Citizen of the Year – Lifetime Achievement

– Small Business of the Year

– Large Business of the Year

– Non-profit of the Year

– Youth of the Year

Nomination forms must be completed and received by the Antioch Chamber of Commerce no later than 5 pm on Friday, February 10, 2023.

Please return forms to the Antioch Chamber of Commerce office at 101 H St. #4 or by email to frondeskadmin@antiochchamber.com.

For additional information please call 925.757.1800

Click Here to Download the forms

Or DOWNLOAD THE NOMINATION FORMS BELOW:

 Download Large Business of the Year Nomination Form

 Download Small Business of the Year Nomination Form

 Download Citizen of the Year Nomination Form – Most Impact

 Download Citizen of the Year Nomination Form – Lifetime

 Download Non-Profit of the Year Nomination Form

 Download Youth of the Year Nomination Form

Duoro River cruise

Please join the Antioch Chamber of Commerce in experiencing Portugal and the Duoro River on the MS Emerald Radiance, October 4-14, 2023. Portugal Trip brochure

FREE AIRFARE when booked and deposited by January 31, 20223

What a great Valentine’s Day gift this would be. A small $400.00pp deposit holds your accommodations and FREE Airfare. The FREE Airfare has been extended to 1/31/23 for The Antioch Chamber Trip.

Contact: Tammy Larsen at Almost There Travel   506 W 2nd Street, Antioch  925-238-0001  paradice95@comcast.net

Photo: The Drama Factory

THE DEATH OF TRIBOULET (a COMEDY)

By The Drama Factory

THE DEATH OF TRIBOULET (a COMEDY) written and Directed by Max Ballesteros

Come audition for the new Drama Factory play Shakespeare wishes he’d written!

Join Triboulet, the court jester to France, in his own Comedy of Errors as he tries to save the king from certain death, all the while hoping to save his own life in the process!

Free event

January 17 6:00pm – 8:00pm

January 18 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Nick Rodriguez Theatre

213 F Street, Antioch

Open to all, Adult / Teen

No fee production

Cast and Crew, no-pre-casting

Auditions are held in a “cattle call” style. You just show up on either date listed, fill out a form for us, we take your picture and in you go! The Director will have you do a cold read from a sheet of provided material and maybe do a little improv. It is all pretty quick and easy.

Currently we are requiring all participants to be vaccinated against covid and we do wear masks through our rehearsal run.

Rehearsals are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

Please see the website for more information – or just return e-mail us here and we’ll try to answer any of your questions.

We hope to see YOU and YOUR FRIENDS and FAMILY there!!

The Drama Factory is an inclusive non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing quality arts programming to the community. We are not affiliated with any other theatre group.

Please Come Join Us!!!!!

The Drama Factory is a 501(c)3 non-profit company and all contributions are tax deductible. www.facebook.com/thedramafactory/

The Gye Nyame Kwanzaa set includes a candleholder, candles, unity cup, corn and mat. Source: officialkwanzaawebsite.org

7-day celebration began Monday

By Allen D. Payton

Kwanzaa, the annual, seven-day African American and pan-African celebration of family, community, history, heritage and culture, was created in the 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of the department of Africana Studies at Cal State University, Long Beach. Each year it begins the day after Christmas on December 26th and continues through January 1st.

According to edarabia.com, “The term ‘Kwanzaa’ originates from the Swahili expression ‘matunda ya kwanza’, which means ‘first fruits of the harvest’.

During the holiday, families and communities gather to honor and remember The Seven Principles of  Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity and Faith. Participants celebrate with the lighting of seven candles, feasts, music, dance, poetry and narratives. It ends with a day of reflection and recommitment to The Seven Principles.

According to hearinnh.org, “Kwanzaa is celebrated by people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, but it is particularly popular among African-Americans. The holiday is observed in all 50 states, as well as in Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. It’s difficult to say precisely how many people celebrate Kwanzaa, as there is no official census data on the subject. However, estimates suggest that around 1.5 to 2 million Americans observe Kwanzaa each year.”

This year’s theme is “Kwanzaa, Culture and the Practice of Freedom: A Message and Model for Our Times”.

According to the Official Kwanzaa Website, “The Holiday Kwanzaa is a product of creative cultural synthesis. That is to say, it is the product of critical selection and judicious mixture on several levels. First, Kwanzaa is a synthesis of both Continental African and Diasporan African cultural elements. This means that it is rooted in both the cultural values and practice of Africans on the Continent and in the U.S. with strict attention to cultural authenticity and values for a meaningful, principled and productive life.

Secondly, the Continental African components of Kwanzaa are a synthesis of various cultural values and practices from different Continental African peoples. In a word, the values and practices of Kwanzaa are selected from peoples from all parts of Africa, south and north, west and east, in a true spirit of Pan-Africanism.

And finally, Kwanzaa is a synthesis in the sense that it is based, in both conception and self-conscious commitment, on tradition and reason. Kawaida, the philosophy out of which Kwanzaa is created, teaches that all we think and do should be based on tradition and reason which are in turn rooted in practice. Tradition is our grounding, our cultural anchor and therefore, our starting point. It is also cultural authority for any claims to cultural authenticity for anything we do and think as an African people. And reason is necessary critical thought about our tradition which enables us to select, preserve and build on the best of what we have achieved and produced, in the light of our knowledge and our needs born of experience. Through reason rooted in experience or practice, then, we keep our tradition as an African people from becoming stagnant, sterile convention or empty historical reference. Instead, our tradition becomes and remains a lived, living and constantly expanded and enriched experience.” From: “Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture – by Maulana Karenga / pp 15-16 / Los Angeles: University of Sankore Press (2008)

Source: YouTube video screenshot.

Nuhad Levasseur from her LinkedIn profile.

By Justin Llamas

Our amazing voice teacher, Nuhad Levasseur, is fighting cancer. And we believe she’ll win. This video is dedicated to Nuhad, a woman who has changed us all for the better. Merry Christmas!

In the Light Voice Studio students, in singing order:

Christina Jardine

Lauren Mariscal

David Morgan

Stevie Rae Stephens

Mikayla Thompson

Christian Abrojena

Jessica Montez

Hailey Schneider

Stephen Morgan

Justin Llamas (me)

Marcus Delgado

Ashley Morgan

Ali Travis

Brian Joksch (no solo, seen in second chorus)

Levasseur has owned In The Light Voice Studio since 1992, first in Antioch and now, in Marietta, Georgia where her family moved last year. She previously sang in the choir and performed solos at Golden Hills Community Church in Brentwood.

Antioch residents pick up fruits and vegetables from the Fresh Approach food truck on Tuesdays. Photos: Kaiser Permanente

Food truck in Rivertown and at Sutter Delta Medical Center on Tuesdays

By Antonia Ehlers, PR and Media Relations, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Antioch resident Justine Bobo looks forward to buying colorful, fresh produce on Tuesday mornings.  She credits the Fresh Approach food truck for giving her a new appreciation for healthy foods.

“It makes me feel good to know that someone cares for us older senior citizens,” she said. “We just flourish from getting these fresh vegetables every week. I think of the time that’s put into packing it up and bringing it to us – thank you!”

Fresh Approach is a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to connecting residents to healthy food from California farmers and to expanding knowledge in the community about food and nutrition. Its mobile farmers’ market truck, stocked with fresh fruits and vegetables, serves six cities in three Bay Area counties.

“The COVID-19 pandemic and recent inflation concerns have increased the number of Bay Area residents who face food insecurity,” said Fresh Approach Food Access Program Manager Ellen Olack. “We’ve seen lots of changes pre- and post- pandemic. More folks are coming out each week.”

The Fresh Approach truck stops at two Antioch locations on Tuesdays – the Antioch Senior Center and the Sutter Delta Medical Center. The Antioch route and a similar route in Richmond are funded in part by Kaiser Permanente.

Yvette Radford, Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California vice president of External and Community Affairs, noted that having access to affordable, nutritious food is critical for good health.

“That’s why we have partnered with Fresh Approach to provide fresh produce every week to East and West County residents who are struggling to make ends meet during these challenging economic times,” she said. “This partnership reflects our deep commitment to improve health in the communities we serve and help people live longer, healthier lives.”

Fresh Approach offers a 50 percent discount to customers who participate in income-based benefit programs, including CalFresh (SNAP), WIC, SSI/SSDI, Medi-Cal and unemployment.

“I’m a farmers’ market freak,” said Antioch resident Lucy Meinhardt. “This one keeps me going. It’s got some of the freshest, best produce you’re going to find. A lot of it is organic and I don’t have to go far.”

Fresh Approach Community Ambassador Towanna Turner said her primary goal is to help Richmond residents prevent various diseases by providing easy access to nutrient-rich food.

“I’ve seen people with tears in their eyes because they’re so grateful for healthy food,” she added. “I love being an ambassador because I’m able to help people live better lives.”

Every Tuesday, the Fresh Approach Mobile Farmers’ Market truck stops at the Antioch Senior Center, 415 W 2nd Street, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It moves to the Sutter Delta Medical Center, 3901 Lone Tree Way, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.