Monica’s Riverview is located at 1 “I” (eye) Street, on the pier, in Antioch’s historic, downtown Rivertown. For more information see www.visitmonicas.com.

By Antioch Recreation Department & Celebrate Antioch Foundation

Locations: Antioch Water Park & Waldie Plaza

Time: 9:00am-1:00pm

From Earth Day to Arbor Day, let’s work together to build a stronger, cleaner, more beautiful Antioch! Join us for our kick-off event happening Saturday, April 20th to begin our service to the community. Choose to serve downtown near Waldie Plaza or at the Antioch Water Park before heading to the Antioch Community Center for a volunteer lunch. End the week with us on Arbor Day helping to reach our goal of planting over 100 trees throughout the city!

Volunteers helping to clean up our downtown area will check-in at 9am at the Nick Rodriquez Community Center at 213 F Street in historic, downtown Rivertown Others who want to plant flowers will meet check-in at 9:00am at the Antioch Water Park in Prewett Family Park at 4701 Lone Tree Way.

An Appreciation Lunch will be held for volunteers from 12pm-1pm at the water park.

Please bring work gloves. Bags and grabbers will be provided.

What is Earth Day?

First held globally on April 22, 1970, Earth Day promotes worldwide demonstrations of support for environmental protection. Attention is drawn to the achievements made by the environmental protection movement and awareness is brought to methods of protecting the Earth’s natural resources.  Celebrated by billions around the world, Keep Antioch Beautiful is just one of the ways our community celebrates Earth Day.

What is Arbor Day?

First celebrated in the U.S. in 1872, Arbor Day encourages public attention to the importance of trees in our ecosystem. Planting, relocating, and even climbing trees are encouraged along with learning more about the myriad of ways trees function in our environment and help us all to exist.

This year’s community services:

Planting Flowers | Antioch Water Park | #10874

• 9:00am Check in
• 9:30-11:30 Planting Projects
• 12:00pm Volunteer Lunch

Trash Cleanup | Waldie Plaza | #10875

• 9:00am Check in
• 9:30-11:30 Trash Clean Up
• 12:00pm Volunteer Lunch

Planting over 60 trees | Hansen Park | #10876

• Arbor Day – April 26, 2024

Ways to Get Involved:

1. Register for planting at the Antioch Water Park
2. Register for trash pickup in and around Waldie Plaza
3. Register to plant trees throughout the city on Arbor Day
4. Join in on our #KeepAntiochBeautiful campaign:

From Earth Day to Arbor Day (April 22nd – April 26th) show us how YOU and your family #KeepAntiochBeautiful. Post a picture of you, your family, friends, or coworkers performing an act of beautification for the city with the hashtag #KeepAntiochBeautiful AND tag the Antioch Recreation Department (@antiochrec_ca) to be entered into our raffle. On Arbor Day, three lucky entries will be chosen to each win a prize dedicated to them and their efforts toward the beautification of our lovely city!

For more information visit Keep Antioch Beautiful – City of Antioch, CA.

For more information about the Antioch Rotary Club visit www.facebook.com/antiochrotaryclub.

For more information visit www.gbofantioch.org.

In honor of our Past Distinguished Member, Romano Marchetti, the Kiwanis Club of the Delta-Antioch is proud to host our Annual Tri-Tip / Chicken Dinner on March 30th, 2024. This event will take place at the Veterans of Foreign Wars located at 815 Fulton Shipyard Road in Antioch.

Come on down for 5PM Social with dinner starting promptly at 6PM. Enjoy Tri-Tip, Chicken, Beans, Cole Slaw, and more as our meal! Tickets are $25 an adult and only $15 for children. All profits of this dinner, Opportunity Drawing, and Auction contribute to the support of the local Kiwanis Community, Youth Charities, and Music Scholarships.

For tickets to the event click, here or call one of the numbers in the flier above. For more information about Kiwanis Club of the Delta-Antioch visit Kiwanis Club of The Delta-Antioch.

Hosted by Contra Costa Commission for Women and Girls

(Martinez, CA) – The Contra Costa Commission for Women and Girls is partnering with hosting Making Herstory 2024: Inspiring Women in Nontraditional Jobs and Professions on March 23.

The panel will feature women who have navigated careers seen as ‘nontraditional’, trailblazing in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), public safety, skilled trades, and beyond. The Commission encourages participation of women, supporters, and especially young women and girls.

Keynote Speaker: California State Treasurer Fiona Ma

Youth Speaker: Krisha Singhani, Entrepreneur and creator of FEmale, menstruation-induced anemia detection non-invasive device

Panelists:

Sabina Zafar, Founder and CEO of AI Cloud Consulting and former Fortune 100 Executive

Swati Mohan, Aerospace Engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Shawnay Tarquinio, Firefighter, San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District

Eva Allen, Founder-CEO and Executive Chef of Full Belly Bakery

Faye Maloney, Police Sergeant and Chair, Contra Costa Commission on the Status of Women and Girls

Rachel Shoemake, Electrician, IBEW Local Union 302

Date and Location:

Saturday, March 23 – 11 am to 12:30 pm

Virtual event via Zoom

Register here: bit.ly/Herstory2024

For further information about the Making Herstory 2024 panel and the Contra Costa Commission for Women and Girls, please email cccwomenscommission@gmail.com.