1.1.2005 Saturday: It was a cold, windy, raining New Year's Eve - but warm and laden with good food at the La Scala Resturant - where iBTV/iBurlingame.com staff ushered in 2005. Most of the large commercial businesses were closed, but the police and hospital staffs held down the domestic forts as usual. Thanks to all those in Charity and Public Service that kept the Burlingame lights on! 1.2.2005: The rain and windy weather continued - as did the Sunday worship services at Burlingame Houses of Worship. The Burlingame students readied themselves for the return to class and Burlingame retailers started a whole new annual race to grow revenues. 1.3.2005: The Bay Area Combined police forces reported today that over the Christmas Season holidays there was serious Alcohol abuse By The Bay - 11 deaths, 76 car crashes and over 2400 Driving Under the Influence arrests! Burlingame resident, Cliff Creten has begun his work as a San Mateo County Superior Court Judge. Judge Creten graduated the bar in 1972 and has served as a county prosecutor for seven years pior to going into private practice (1981). Judge Creten is also the assistant coach of the Burlingame High School Varsity basketball team. 1.4.2005 Quiet Tuesday in Burlingame, most people seemed to be tidying themselves up after ushering in the New Year's. It was announced today that the Burlingame Historical Society has the opportunity to occupy the Burlingame Depot - but will need to raise funds for the operation and maintenance of the facility - managers of BHS are hopeful that the group will be able to open to the public mid year. You can visit the BHS by clicking on the text in the left hand column of iBurlingame.com to learn more. 1-5-2005 Today at 10AM-Noon and then at 6PM to 8PM Carol Tyler, of the Burlingame Park's and Recreation department will deliver a free lecture regarding "Senior Resources - Better Your Life in 2005. 1.7.2005 STAR 101.3 FM Don Bleu's Morning show produced a 5AM-5PM Tsunami Relief Broadcast Marathon from STACK'S Burlingame. The live broadcast raised thousands of dollars from donations, raffles, auctions and contributions - all going to UNICEF. The Red Cross, at 1710 Trusdale Drive Burlingame will offer a free FIRST AID CLASS today at 9AM -1 PM - call 1-800-520-5433 or visit www.bayarea-redcross.org for more information. The Red Cross, at 1710 Trusdale Drive Burlingame will offer a California CHILD CARE Class from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.call 1-800-520-5433 or visit www.bayarea-redcross.org for more information. Sunday 1.9.2005 The Red Cross, at 1710 Trusdale Drive Burlingame will offer a California CHILD CARE Class from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.call 1-800-520-5433 or visit www.bayarea-redcross.org for more information. Tuesday1.11.2005 The Red Cross, at 1710 Trusdale Drive Burlingame will offer a Adult CPR/AED Class from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.call 1-800-520-5433 or visit www.bayarea-redcross.org for more information. Thursday 1.13.2005 Burlingame High School students complete final exams for te semester and have a short break over Martin Luther King's Holiday. Congradulations to all for working so hard! Friday 1.14.2005 The Red Cross, at 1710 Trusdale Drive Burlingame will offer a Adult CPR/AED PROFESSIONAL RESCURER Class from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.call 1-800-520-5433 or visit www.bayarea-redcross.org for more information. Sunday 1.16.2005 Lights, Camera and Burlingame Action! The Burlingame Historical Society hosts a free presentation highlighting the films produced locally and the film palaces of yesteryear that showed them. The event opens at 2PM at the Lion's Clubhouse next to Washington Park. Wednesday 1.19.2005 Alzheimer's LifePlan Alzheimer's Can Be Prevented! It's over for Alzheimer's disease - as the Alzheimer's LifePlan Workshop concludes a one year focus group program - elevating the world's first Personal Alzheimer's Prevention program to the city service level. A focus group of 25 people has been meeting on the third Wednesday of each month - for the last year and a half. The purpose of the meetings was to develop effective ways for individuals to access an online community specifically set-up to educate, test memory fitness, record vital signs, and produce individual health and memory fitness information for the individual's doctor at time of examination. Today, the group announced it would open up to five affiliated clinic Alzheimer's LifePlan centers, and five senior community workshop stations in Burlingame. With the hub of the program operating out of the Burlingame Recreaton Center - the group hopes that 500 residents of Burlingame will go online, join the program and develop personal Alzheimer's Prevention programs for themselves and their families. 1-20-2005 Peninsula Hospital must be rebuilt and meet State Seismic requirements by 2013 - and the project is getting a slow start - developers reported today that five public hearings scheduled for this month have been postoned - while land/lease/business issues are worked out - the negotiations for these parts of the project have been going on for four years. Community advocates are gald there will be more time to announce public meetings - but developers fear the $420 Million estimate for the project will go up if construction is accelerated and/or has to be done when with inflated dollars. Sunday 1.31.2005 The world watched as IRAQ conducted its first free election in 50 years. There were several incidents of violence, but over 70% of the population turned out to vote - a clear statement of political interest from the population. Democratic political leaders stated that it was now time to start pulling American troops out of IRAQ - but, the Bush administration was quick to point out that the freedom and liberty of the Iraqian people was still at grewat risk - and a pull out of American troops before the Iraqians domestic peace keeping police were really able to stablize unrest - would lead the countless deaths and the potential of civil war. Tuesday 2.1.2005 Burlingame greeted February with a bueatiful day, cool and clear. This month the Food and Food service groups of Burlingame will be featured in the Internet Broadcasting Network's By The Bay program - highlighting all this vibrant industry does for the community. 2.8.2005 7PM Citizens For A Better Burlingame 300 citizens jammed into the Lyon's Clubhouse to hear CSS Architects present an innovative plan for the Safeway redevelopment project. 2.14.2005 Monday VALENTINE'S DAY Love is in the air! Don't ya FEEL it! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY from iBurlingame.com 2.26.2005 CLYDE'S Barber Shop closes after 107 years of giving Burlingame haircuts. Clyde's was as much a landmark in the city as City Hall - but unlike City Hall, Clyde's had no way of controling rent increases - and that forced the institution to close.
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