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Some locations experienced their rainiest day on record on Oct. 24.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chevron\"]Chevron says it made \"robust efforts\" to prepare for the storm but the rain that fell on Oct. 24 — a refinery weather station recorded 4.2 inches of rain that day — was too much for a key part of the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roof on the building housing critical electrical components for the [cogeneration plant] was not able to handle the severe weather that occurred,\" \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-30day-followup-2022-0114.pdf\">Chevron said in its report\u003c/a> to the county's hazardous materials program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 8 a.m. that day, water from the leaking roof caused an electrical ground fault, which led to the shutdown of several parts of one of the cogeneration plants. Those plants are designed to consume gases produced during refinery operations and generate steam and electricity for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of power and steam from the cogeneration plants triggered more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University's Energy Institute, said the sudden loss of electricity and steam \"has drastic negative effects on the downstream process units.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parts of the refinery shut down. Then a backup power system for the cogeneration plants failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2021_1024_a0010_s6013_01-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=c52b590f82d84a7a9841a8676d1bd04c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refinery then routed gases to six refinery flares\u003c/a> on and off for more than 48 hours. The flames and smoke bursting from the facility could be seen for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flaring\u003c/a> is a measure refineries use to stabilize operations when they suffer malfunctions. Flaring can help prevent catastrophic failures in refinery units, but major incidents like the one in October release large volumes of toxic material into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies and refinery experts have emphasized that flaring is a necessary safety feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the ability to flare hot, high-pressure gases, the whole site would have become a smoldering ruin\" during the October incident, Tulane's Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron reported months after the incident that the Richmond refinery's flares released at least 23,800 pounds of sulfur dioxide during the three-day incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials said they were investigating to determine whether Chevron's flaring created a strong fuel-like odor that prompted the West Contra Costa Unified School District to close three schools the day after the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials have said their testing did not suggest the releases led to violations of air quality standards. County officials have said they did not detect any problems either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told county hazardous materials regulators that it repaired the roof on the cogeneration plant that leaked and over the next year it will look into potential design changes for the roof so it can withstand future storms and see whether it needs to adjust its roof inspections, among other improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Chevron representative said the refinery conducts regular building inspections and that it has safety controls in place — and emphasized the October storm was an extreme event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The October 24 event was a rare convergence of two storms and the first significant winter storm, which resulted in historic, rapid rainfall. Chevron Richmond has robust operating plans in place to safely run the facility during power disruptions,\" Linsi Crain, a refinery spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These operating plans prioritize critical equipment in an effort to minimize any potential impact, and if necessary, direct process streams to safety flares,\" Crain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining a reliable facility is a top focus item and we have dedicated teams that work to ensure the reliability of our operations under various circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Air district flaring data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's October releases renewed focus on the Chevron facility's flaring. Weeks after the storm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Richmond City Council sent Chevron a video\u003c/a> of a meeting in which residents complained that the company was not providing enough information about the plant's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently published data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District shows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/sscic_presentations_122021_op-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=3e743e562a434c52b56e4e3968b9e191\">Chevron refinery experienced 93 flaring events\u003c/a> from 2016 through late 2021, compared to 122 for the other four local refineries combined. Last year, Chevron Richmond recorded 25 flaring incidents, one every two weeks on average. The other four refineries had a combined total of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October's storm came nearly a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860389/chevron-says-flawed-electrical-diagram-triggered-major-flaring-incident\">another power problem at Chevron\u003c/a> triggered a series of flaring incidents. The refinery blamed an incorrectly labeled electrical diagram for causing an outage in November 2020 that led to the release of 100,000 pounds of toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents, environmentalists and public health advocates have expressed concern about refinery flaring and have called on Chevron, air district officials and industrial regulators to provide more timely and detailed information about refinery problems that lead to the pollution releases.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chevron says it made \"robust efforts\" to prepare for the storm but the rain that fell on Oct. 24 — a refinery weather station recorded 4.2 inches of rain that day — was too much for a key part of the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roof on the building housing critical electrical components for the [cogeneration plant] was not able to handle the severe weather that occurred,\" \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-30day-followup-2022-0114.pdf\">Chevron said in its report\u003c/a> to the county's hazardous materials program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 8 a.m. that day, water from the leaking roof caused an electrical ground fault, which led to the shutdown of several parts of one of the cogeneration plants. Those plants are designed to consume gases produced during refinery operations and generate steam and electricity for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of power and steam from the cogeneration plants triggered more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University's Energy Institute, said the sudden loss of electricity and steam \"has drastic negative effects on the downstream process units.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parts of the refinery shut down. Then a backup power system for the cogeneration plants failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2021_1024_a0010_s6013_01-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=c52b590f82d84a7a9841a8676d1bd04c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refinery then routed gases to six refinery flares\u003c/a> on and off for more than 48 hours. The flames and smoke bursting from the facility could be seen for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flaring\u003c/a> is a measure refineries use to stabilize operations when they suffer malfunctions. Flaring can help prevent catastrophic failures in refinery units, but major incidents like the one in October release large volumes of toxic material into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies and refinery experts have emphasized that flaring is a necessary safety feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the ability to flare hot, high-pressure gases, the whole site would have become a smoldering ruin\" during the October incident, Tulane's Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron reported months after the incident that the Richmond refinery's flares released at least 23,800 pounds of sulfur dioxide during the three-day incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials said they were investigating to determine whether Chevron's flaring created a strong fuel-like odor that prompted the West Contra Costa Unified School District to close three schools the day after the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials have said their testing did not suggest the releases led to violations of air quality standards. County officials have said they did not detect any problems either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told county hazardous materials regulators that it repaired the roof on the cogeneration plant that leaked and over the next year it will look into potential design changes for the roof so it can withstand future storms and see whether it needs to adjust its roof inspections, among other improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Chevron representative said the refinery conducts regular building inspections and that it has safety controls in place — and emphasized the October storm was an extreme event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The October 24 event was a rare convergence of two storms and the first significant winter storm, which resulted in historic, rapid rainfall. Chevron Richmond has robust operating plans in place to safely run the facility during power disruptions,\" Linsi Crain, a refinery spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These operating plans prioritize critical equipment in an effort to minimize any potential impact, and if necessary, direct process streams to safety flares,\" Crain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining a reliable facility is a top focus item and we have dedicated teams that work to ensure the reliability of our operations under various circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Air district flaring data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's October releases renewed focus on the Chevron facility's flaring. Weeks after the storm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Richmond City Council sent Chevron a video\u003c/a> of a meeting in which residents complained that the company was not providing enough information about the plant's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently published data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District shows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/sscic_presentations_122021_op-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=3e743e562a434c52b56e4e3968b9e191\">Chevron refinery experienced 93 flaring events\u003c/a> from 2016 through late 2021, compared to 122 for the other four local refineries combined. Last year, Chevron Richmond recorded 25 flaring incidents, one every two weeks on average. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly one-third of students in West Contra Costa Unified have not been attending school over the past three weeks, creating a crisis for the East Bay school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district — which covers the cities of Richmond, San Pablo, El Cerrito, Pinole and Hercules and enrolls some 27,000 students — reported 737 student and 70 staff COVID cases from Jan. 11-14. But even students who are not positive or quarantining are choosing to remain at home, out of fear they will be next to get the virus. On Jan. 14, for example, district attendance figures show 8,820 students were absent, while 17,440 attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire week, I feel like I am choosing between my health, the health of my family versus my education. I shouldn’t have to make this decision,” student school board delegate Justin Trujillo, a senior at Pinole Valley High School, told the board at a Jan. 13 safety meeting in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Irene Kou, student delegate to the West Contra Costa County Unified School District board\"]‘It is a joke that the district believes that in-person learning in these conditions is better for all of us.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district says few of these positive cases are linked to in-school transmission, students like Trujillo aren’t buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Trujillo and De Anza High senior Irene Kou, the other student delegate to the board, believe it is past time for the district to offer a temporary return to online learning for students who feel vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a joke that the district believes that in-person learning in these conditions is better for all of us,” said Kou. “Having our county health officials determine it is safe to go to school when they have not visited our school sites or interviewed students or staff members to understand what it is truly like on campus is just another slap in the face for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials and county education officials confirmed they had not made any visits to schools in the West Contra Costa Unified School District since the most recent omicron surge began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Contra Costa Health Services spokesperson said in an email that infections diagnosed in students and school staff are not necessarily the result of exposure at school, and COVID-19 transmission remains much more likely to occur among people living in the same household or participating in other non-school activities, which they attributed to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Richmond High, where 53 students tested positive for COVID during the week of Jan. 11-14 (a short week after students had Monday off) and where hundreds of kids have been sent home to quarantine, 32 teachers stayed home Wednesday as part of a single-day “sick-out” action by teachers and students protesting safety conditions at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lorenzo Morotti, teacher, Richmond High\"]‘Latino students and families were hit so hard last year with COVID. They’ve seen family members die because of COVID, they’ve had family members lose jobs … There’s a huge disconnect between the district and the reality that’s on the ground.’[/pullquote]Richmond High journalism teacher Lorenzo Morotti, who did show up to teach, said hundreds of students are without teachers, and are being sent to the auditorium or gym to spend their seven class periods. “There is no learning going on in these classrooms. All there is is anxiety and the spread of COVID,” said Morotti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayanara Mendoza, a 16-year-old sophomore at Richmond High, said that on a recent school day three of her five teachers were out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They either put us in the theater or they give us subs because a lot of teachers are absent and they have to put, like, other kids in the theater as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morotti supports the teacher’s sick-out, calling it absurd to think COVID isn’t being transmitted inside the school. During the Jan. 19 board meeting, the district said it has little evidence of in-school transmission. However, Morotti said after kids returned from winter break, eight of his students were sent home on a single day, all of them in class with a student who tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this majority-Latino district, Morotti said families have a right to be concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latino students and families were hit so hard last year with COVID. They’ve seen family members die because of COVID, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58972/how-teens-are-experiencing-their-version-of-the-great-resignation\">they’ve had family members lose jobs because of COVID\u003c/a>. There’s a huge disconnect between the district and the reality that’s on the ground,” Morotti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"male high school senior wearing mask and white t shirt stands with a backpack in front of high school entrance\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Revuelta, 18, a senior at Richmond High School, stands outside the school on Jan. 14, 2021. ‘With the uprising of COVID cases … you see everyone keeping their distance, being scared,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond High’s student body is 85.4% Latino with 40.7% English-language learners, and many teachers have voiced concerns to the board about the difficulty many of their non-native English-speaking parents are having navigating the school district’s online portal needed to reserve COVID testing appointments, where even the translation option is hard to see, according to those who spoke during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although senior Adrian Revuelta said the fear of catching COVID at school is real, he remains reluctant to return to distance learning. Revuelta said the hallways feel different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At lunch, you usually see people up on the lockers, people chitchatting … With the uprising of COVID cases … you see everyone keeping their distance, being scared, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Revuelta had just returned from four days in quarantine himself (he tested negative) and said he’s having a hard time catching up. The only silver lining of fewer classmates, he said, is that his class sizes are smaller and teachers who are there can give him more individualized instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many teachers out, and a shortage of substitutes to step in, sophomore Luz Ruiz said the staffing shortage is affecting learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a little difficult for me right now since there’s finals, and I really wanted my teacher’s opinions on what to do, and they’re not here, so I can’t really ask them,” she said. Ruiz thinks a temporary pause on in-person classes makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"young girl wearing mask sits with pensive look outside an entrance to her high school\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luz Ruiz, 15, a sophomore at Richmond High, sits outside the school on Jan. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Jan. 19 school board meeting, board member Leslie Reckler called the situation across the district “desperate.” But safety concerns were not even part of the board agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following public comment during which parents questioned the lack of focus on safety concerns, district Superintendent Kenneth “Chris” Hurst announced he had amended his presentation to include an update on safety, admitting this was not typically done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly listening. The message by some that’s being shared that we are not listening is simply not accurate,” said Hurst, as he began a lengthy presentation on the district’s future strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some teachers and students are calling for allowing some schools to shift over to online learning, that’s not an option being endorsed by the district. The district’s only virtual school is already at capacity with 316 students, in part because they cannot fill the 24 positions needed to staff the online school. Meanwhile, some 400 parents are on the waitlist, trying to get their kids in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Education Coverage' tag='education']It is not just a problem of hiring teachers — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11900220/state-slow-to-approve-substitute-teachers-districts-use-new-tactics-to-fill-the-gap\">like many other Bay Area districts, WCCUSD is also struggling to find substitutes\u003c/a>. District data shows it pays the lowest daily rate for substitutes in the Bay Area: $190 compared with $300 in San Francisco. Board member Demetrio Gonzales-Hoy pleaded for the district to do what it can to attract more substitute educators who could help fill in for teachers. “That is on us, that there are hundreds of students who are not learning,” Gonzalez-Hoy lamented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/12/here-come-the-parents-to-help-palo-alto-schools-stay-open-amid-covid-surge/\">followed others\u003c/a> in launching a public campaign calling on community members for help. So far, 11 have come forward; the district’s goal is to get 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked at last week’s special board meeting about learning loss for the thousands of students who are missing classes, the district’s Chief Academic Officer LaResha Martin didn’t have an answer for elementary school kids. For middle and high school kids, she said, grading deadlines would be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so that’s really to help all those students who’ve been out, to give them an extra eight to 10 days to get in any missing work, especially for our students who have been out on quarantine because of COVID, and to give our staff additional time to enter grades,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"young high school student wearing wearing mask sits beneath a tree on green grass with bright red school wall behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cincia Valiente, 17, a junior at Richmond High School, sits outside the school on Jan. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Extra time to turn assignments in should help Richmond High junior Cincia Valiente. She stayed home Wednesday in part, she said, because the school has only been distributing cloth masks, which she considers inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not giving out the disposable kind. I asked multiple times, actually,” Valiente said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it is now distributing N95s for teachers and surgical masks for students. It has requested 200,000 from the state. But at Richmond High, it feels a bit late since during the week of Jan 11, over half the student body was out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District staff said more take-home testing kits have been ordered and it is trying to get the county to help it schedule more vaccine clinics. Just 52% of West Contra Costa Unified’s students are vaccinated, fewer than in other Bay Area districts, such as Oakland Unified (62%) and Berkeley Unified (80%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the county office of education has said it will help the district speed up its contact tracing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m actually really scared that we might have to leave school again,” said Valiente. ”It’s really hard to work at home. There’s so many distractions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valiente said she doesn’t want to return to learning from home — she just wants schools to be safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Richmond High journalism teacher Lorenzo Morotti, who did show up to teach, said hundreds of students are without teachers, and are being sent to the auditorium or gym to spend their seven class periods. “There is no learning going on in these classrooms. All there is is anxiety and the spread of COVID,” said Morotti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayanara Mendoza, a 16-year-old sophomore at Richmond High, said that on a recent school day three of her five teachers were out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They either put us in the theater or they give us subs because a lot of teachers are absent and they have to put, like, other kids in the theater as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morotti supports the teacher’s sick-out, calling it absurd to think COVID isn’t being transmitted inside the school. During the Jan. 19 board meeting, the district said it has little evidence of in-school transmission. However, Morotti said after kids returned from winter break, eight of his students were sent home on a single day, all of them in class with a student who tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this majority-Latino district, Morotti said families have a right to be concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latino students and families were hit so hard last year with COVID. They’ve seen family members die because of COVID, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58972/how-teens-are-experiencing-their-version-of-the-great-resignation\">they’ve had family members lose jobs because of COVID\u003c/a>. There’s a huge disconnect between the district and the reality that’s on the ground,” Morotti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"male high school senior wearing mask and white t shirt stands with a backpack in front of high school entrance\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53039_026_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Revuelta, 18, a senior at Richmond High School, stands outside the school on Jan. 14, 2021. ‘With the uprising of COVID cases … you see everyone keeping their distance, being scared,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond High’s student body is 85.4% Latino with 40.7% English-language learners, and many teachers have voiced concerns to the board about the difficulty many of their non-native English-speaking parents are having navigating the school district’s online portal needed to reserve COVID testing appointments, where even the translation option is hard to see, according to those who spoke during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although senior Adrian Revuelta said the fear of catching COVID at school is real, he remains reluctant to return to distance learning. Revuelta said the hallways feel different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At lunch, you usually see people up on the lockers, people chitchatting … With the uprising of COVID cases … you see everyone keeping their distance, being scared, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Revuelta had just returned from four days in quarantine himself (he tested negative) and said he’s having a hard time catching up. The only silver lining of fewer classmates, he said, is that his class sizes are smaller and teachers who are there can give him more individualized instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many teachers out, and a shortage of substitutes to step in, sophomore Luz Ruiz said the staffing shortage is affecting learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a little difficult for me right now since there’s finals, and I really wanted my teacher’s opinions on what to do, and they’re not here, so I can’t really ask them,” she said. Ruiz thinks a temporary pause on in-person classes makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"young girl wearing mask sits with pensive look outside an entrance to her high school\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53026_013_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luz Ruiz, 15, a sophomore at Richmond High, sits outside the school on Jan. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the Jan. 19 school board meeting, board member Leslie Reckler called the situation across the district “desperate.” But safety concerns were not even part of the board agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following public comment during which parents questioned the lack of focus on safety concerns, district Superintendent Kenneth “Chris” Hurst announced he had amended his presentation to include an update on safety, admitting this was not typically done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly listening. The message by some that’s being shared that we are not listening is simply not accurate,” said Hurst, as he began a lengthy presentation on the district’s future strategic plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some teachers and students are calling for allowing some schools to shift over to online learning, that’s not an option being endorsed by the district. The district’s only virtual school is already at capacity with 316 students, in part because they cannot fill the 24 positions needed to staff the online school. Meanwhile, some 400 parents are on the waitlist, trying to get their kids in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It is not just a problem of hiring teachers — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11900220/state-slow-to-approve-substitute-teachers-districts-use-new-tactics-to-fill-the-gap\">like many other Bay Area districts, WCCUSD is also struggling to find substitutes\u003c/a>. District data shows it pays the lowest daily rate for substitutes in the Bay Area: $190 compared with $300 in San Francisco. Board member Demetrio Gonzales-Hoy pleaded for the district to do what it can to attract more substitute educators who could help fill in for teachers. “That is on us, that there are hundreds of students who are not learning,” Gonzalez-Hoy lamented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/12/here-come-the-parents-to-help-palo-alto-schools-stay-open-amid-covid-surge/\">followed others\u003c/a> in launching a public campaign calling on community members for help. So far, 11 have come forward; the district’s goal is to get 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked at last week’s special board meeting about learning loss for the thousands of students who are missing classes, the district’s Chief Academic Officer LaResha Martin didn’t have an answer for elementary school kids. For middle and high school kids, she said, grading deadlines would be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so that’s really to help all those students who’ve been out, to give them an extra eight to 10 days to get in any missing work, especially for our students who have been out on quarantine because of COVID, and to give our staff additional time to enter grades,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"young high school student wearing wearing mask sits beneath a tree on green grass with bright red school wall behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53017_004_Richmond_HighSchoolStudents_01132022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cincia Valiente, 17, a junior at Richmond High School, sits outside the school on Jan. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Extra time to turn assignments in should help Richmond High junior Cincia Valiente. She stayed home Wednesday in part, she said, because the school has only been distributing cloth masks, which she considers inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not giving out the disposable kind. I asked multiple times, actually,” Valiente said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it is now distributing N95s for teachers and surgical masks for students. It has requested 200,000 from the state. But at Richmond High, it feels a bit late since during the week of Jan 11, over half the student body was out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District staff said more take-home testing kits have been ordered and it is trying to get the county to help it schedule more vaccine clinics. Just 52% of West Contra Costa Unified’s students are vaccinated, fewer than in other Bay Area districts, such as Oakland Unified (62%) and Berkeley Unified (80%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the county office of education has said it will help the district speed up its contact tracing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m actually really scared that we might have to leave school again,” said Valiente. ”It’s really hard to work at home. There’s so many distractions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valiente said she doesn’t want to return to learning from home — she just wants schools to be safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alejandra Felix, a house cleaner and grandmother from Richmond, had a cough and a sore throat. So she did the responsible thing in COVID times and called in sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her symptoms were mild, but she wanted to get tested for COVID before she went back to work, so as not to spread the virus. She works for herself, and wants to keep her clients’ trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First I need to know that I’ve taken all the precautions. I need to be sure it’s only a flu,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felix had spent all morning driving around to pharmacies in Richmond and surrounding cities, looking for rapid antigen tests. There were none to be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The COVID testing site at her neighborhood clinic, LifeLong Medical Care, was fully booked. She called and called but waited so long on hold that she got discouraged and hung up. For Felix, a week with no work means losing up to $800 in income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a lot because I need it to pay the bills,” she says with a nervous laugh. “I feel desperate because I have to cancel all my work this week. If they give me an appointment it’ll be tomorrow or the next day, so I have to cancel everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Renna Khuner-Haber, program manager, LifeLong Medical Care\"]‘Demand is through the roof. We don’t have staffing … [and] it’s so hard to prioritize. Everyone is coming because they were exposed, symptomatic, or needing to return to work or school. Everybody is top priority.’[/pullquote]Across the country, the spread of omicron has people scrambling to get tested for COVID. The lines are long, appointments get scooped up fast, and rapid antigen tests are hard to find. This problem is hitting essential workers — often people of color — particularly hard. Unlike many office workers, they can’t work from home, and their companies haven’t stockpiled tests. The result is lost wages, or risking infecting co-workers or family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renna Khuner-Haber, who coordinates LifeLong Medical’s testing sites in the East Bay, including the Richmond facility, says the people who most need convenient home tests can’t get them. The disparity is glaring, especially in the Bay Area, where tech companies send boxes of rapid antigen tests to workers who have the option to work from home in a surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rapid tests — they’re not cheap. If you have a family of 10 people and everyone needs a rapid test and they’re each $10, that’s $100 right there. To test everyone twice, that adds up,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53220_037_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"masked woman facing camera gestures with hands while masked woman with pink hair facing away from camera listens\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53220_037_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53220_037_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53220_037_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53220_037_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53220_037_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program manager Renna Khuner-Haber (center) speaks with medical assistant Jenna Tran at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic outside LifeLong Medical Care’s health center in San Pablo on Jan. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Community testing sites try to fill the gaps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One solution that’s filling in the gaps is small neighborhood clinics like LifeLong Medical’s three testing sites in Richmond, San Pablo and East Oakland, which specifically serve lower-income communities, including Medi-Cal patients, Spanish-speaking immigrants, and essential workers who risk COVID exposure at their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"José Castro, LifeLong Medical patient\"]‘I need to have a negative test to be confident that I don’t transmit it to anyone at the job site. Also, my oldest son needs a test to go back to school.’[/pullquote]Since the beginning of the year, the demand for testing at the Richmond clinic has ballooned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LifeLong’s COVID hotline also is getting about 1,000 COVID calls daily, up from about 250 in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Castro was one of those callers. His whole family had the sniffles, so he brought his wife and three children, ages 3, 5, and 14, to get tested. He works as a house painter and spent the previous day driving all the way to San Francisco, trying to find a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I waited about an hour or 90 minutes on the phone [with LifeLong] and finally got through to get an appointment. I need to have a negative test to be confident that I’m not positive so I don’t transmit it to anyone at the job site,” he says in Spanish. “Also, my oldest son needs a test to go back to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another LifeLong patient, Victoria Martin, works as a dental hygienist and was worried about being exposed after someone tested positive at work. She was frustrated to have caught a cold — hopefully not COVID — even after she canceled holiday plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very scary. I came here yesterday and made an appointment for today,” she says. “You try to stay safe by staying in a close circle and not going out, and then someone in your bubble gets it and what can you do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reaching underserved communities, but struggling to scale up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>LifeLong’s Richmond site can test only 60 people daily and can’t scale up. Compare that to a county site a 15-minute drive away in Berkeley run by a private lab, which can do up to 1,000 tests per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the surge, these smaller clinics have been swamped, struggling to keep up with demand. Yet public health officials say the small scale is by design — a feature, not a flaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53202_018_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"nurse clothed in full PPE administers COVID test through a car window while just the mouth and nose of a vehicle occupant are visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53202_018_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53202_018_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53202_018_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53202_018_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53202_018_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luciana Suelzle tests a family for COVID-19 at LifeLong Medical Care’s William Jenkins Health Center in Richmond on Jan. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not always about quantity. But if we’re reaching those who have no other way to access testing resources, then we’re achieving our goal,” says Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, who leads COVID testing for Alameda County’s public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With demand up 400% at county testing locations, Freeman Garrick says these smaller sites do what larger ones can’t: serve marginalized neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found at those smaller sites, their percent positivity rate was much higher than the general population. So the number [of tests] may be small, but that’s a pivotal role,” in serving people whose jobs and living situations put them at risk, Freeman Garrick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Carina Marquez, co-founder, Unidos en Salud\"]‘These sites are for communities who don’t have health care and where people might not trust other sites.’[/pullquote]Another group in San Francisco’s Mission district, called \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud\u003c/a>, also provides COVID testing and vaccinations to undocumented people, essential workers, recent immigrants and the uninsured, through a partnership with UCSF and the Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These sites are for communities who don’t have health care and where people might not trust other sites,” says Dr. Carina Marquez, who founded the partnership. Still, she adds: “Size does matter when you’re in a surge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Unidos’s Mission testing site, the number of daily tests rose from about 200 in early December to about 980 in early January as omicron hit and people spilled over from private and county-run sites in better-resourced parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her organization has decided not to require appointments, even though it’s a challenge to manage the line that stretches around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46108_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"nurse in full PPE prepares to swab man wearing a mask facing away from camera, outside in sunlight\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46108_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46108_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46108_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46108_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46108_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care worker Olga Duran tests a patient for COVID-19 at an Unidos En Salud testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. Unidos en Salud (United in Health) is a collaboration between UCSF and the Latino Task Force to help working class, immigrant families through COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At LifeLong, after a lull in demand since late summer, it’s been hard to meet the community’s testing needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a moment in the surge where demand is through the roof. We don’t have staffing and we were never built to do that,” Khuner-Haber says. “It’s so hard to prioritize. Everyone is coming because they were exposed, symptomatic or needing to return to work or school. Everybody is top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some of her employees calling in sick, Khuner-Haber has struggled to stay fully staffed and hire culturally competent, Spanish-speaking staff, who are essential to building trust with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Strapped for resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Andie Martinez Patterson, a vice president with the California Primary Care Association, says mission-minded health clinics need more resources so they can hire more staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point for health centers is that we are open-door access for anybody and in particular for vulnerable and underserved, disenfranchised populations,” she says. “It is the moral imperative in the mission of why community health centers exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Andie Martinez Patterson, vice president, California Primary Care Association\"]‘We are not reimbursed anywhere close to what we’re reimbursed for in the typical primary care setting. So in effect … you lose money immediately to achieve the moral imperative.’[/pullquote]Martinez Patterson says neighborhood clinics have stepped into testing and vaccination as part of their role as primary care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because these clinics primarily serve recipients of Medi-Cal — California’s Medicaid program — they’re not reimbursed at the same rates as other testing centers, many of which negotiated large contracts with county health departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not reimbursed anywhere close to what we’re reimbursed for in the typical primary care setting. So you, in effect, take staff, you lose money immediately to achieve the moral imperative,” she says. If Medi-Cal reimbursed more, she says, clinics could hire more staff and serve more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state provides tests and vaccines to these sites, but she argues that the current payment structure in a fee-for-service environment means clinics lose money when providing life-saving vaccines and COVID tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID is a chance to restart the policy conversation about how health centers get paid, so they can be part of the response to public health disasters in the future, Martinez Patterson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='COVID Resources' tag='coronavirus-resources-and-explainers']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Easy testing access and follow-up care are critical\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There’s a big need for easy access to testing in the neighborhoods served by community clinics because the mostly lower-income Latino immigrant families who live there are more likely to live in multigenerational households, where one sick family member could expose more vulnerable ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was Alejandra Felix’s situation. There are seven people living in her home, including her daughter, and a grandson who’s too young to get vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a baby in my house. That’s why I’m worried. I wear gloves and a mask in my own home, because I want to protect the baby,” she says. When she got sick, she stopped cooking for her family and sent her husband to sleep on the living room couch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Marquez from Unidos en Salud, “Easy walk-up access to testing is critical. You want a situation where you can bring the whole family down and get tested. … Testing should be low-barrier, easy to access, with no online registration, where people can wait in line and get results quickly. Then they need to get linked to care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53191_004_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"masked woman stands looking down at another masked nurse seated at a portable table, under tents at an outdoor COVID vaccination clinic\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53191_004_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53191_004_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53191_004_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53191_004_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53191_004_Richmond_LifelongCOVIDClinic_01192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griselda Ramirez-Escamilla (center right), who runs LifeLong Medical’s urgent care center, speaks with medical assistant Jenna Tran in Richmond on Jan. 19, 2022. Ramirez-Escamilla says this surge is taking an emotional toll on her small staff. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unidos also provides follow-up care to people who test positive, offering financial assistance, food, cleaning supplies and more medical care when appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people need guidance on how to isolate in crowded households, when they can go back to work and what to do on Day Five. Vulnerable workers and families want to prevent transmission, but a positive test has so many implications for them,” says Marquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860883 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SanJose_COVIDTesting-1038x576.jpg']To improve testing access, Marquez sees potential in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860883/trusted-leaders-are-fighting-covid-19-vaccine-fears-in-black-and-latino-communities\">promotora model\u003c/a>, where community members are trained to conduct rapid antigen tests and counsel people, then can be called in to help deal with surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Primary care providers, schools and clinics also can be proactive in distributing at-home tests to their patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, staff at small community clinics are just trying to keep up with the surge. At LifeLong Medical, Griselda Ramirez-Escamilla, who runs the clinic’s urgent care center, says this surge is taking an emotional toll on her small staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get tired and we just got to step aside, take a breath. There are times where we cry a little,” she says, tearing up. “It’s hard! And we show up every morning. We have times where we do break down, but it’s just the nature of it. We have to lift our spirits and keep moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaby Perez, a 24-year-old Richmond resident, knows how COVID can endanger multigenerational households — she lives with her 6-year-old son and her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once somebody tests positive, it’s like there’s no way of getting away from it, unless you go to another home, but everyone you know has older relatives or little kids there, too,” she says. “You got to use the same bathroom, same bedroom, same kitchen. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is one of the most eclectic places in the world, if we do say so ourselves. It’s filled with people and places that prove time and again why so many yearn to visit us. As we’re contemplating how we want to start this new year, the Bay Curious team wanted a way to get out and explore the unique, rich history surrounding us in a safe — and relatively cost-free — way. So we dug through the archives for some fun activities you and yours can enjoy this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are seven places to visit to learn more about what makes the Bay so special. Listen to our Spotify playlist of these Bay Curious episodes on the road, while you’re there, or on your way to the next adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3wc6RFluIltLRclRN3yHsb?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11428075/whos-behind-the-colorful-lights-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11428739 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Emigh met up with her best friend Kim Ish for St. Patrick's Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Emigh (left) met up with her best friend, Kim Ish, for St. Patrick’s Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By day, San Francisco City Hall is a monument to a place many of us call home. And at night, the lights reflect the city’s unique identity. Like every great structure in every great city, San Francisco City Hall has a story to tell. Its history can be explored through the special days when its granite exterior takes on a vibrant new look: perhaps the colors of the rainbow for Pride Week, or a radiant shamrock green on St. Patty’s Day. Head on over to the historic steps and listen to Bay Curious to discover who makes the lighting decisions, and how it comes together.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655269/how-oakland-became-a-gnome-mans-land\">How Oakland Became a Gnome-Man’s Land\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11655279 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This gnome sits against its telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gnome is nailed to a telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every time Bay Curious listener Lauren Bresnahan takes her dog for a walk, she sees them: a collection of painted gnomes at the bases of utility poles all over her Lake Merritt neighborhood. Seems kind of random, right? It’s a cute oddity, so we set out to find the story behind the little gnomes painted around this cherished Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11809842 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Five new bison are joining the heard at Golden Gate Park in honor of the park's Sesquicentennial.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five members of the herd at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(James Watkins/Courtesy of San Francisco Recreation and Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might be wondering, why are there bison in San Francisco? Bay Curious listener Paul Irving had the same question. So we headed over to the lush fields of Golden Gate Park in search of the herd of American bison that call a section of the 1,000-acre urban park home. Bison aren’t native to San Francisco, after all, so what’s the story behind their presence at Golden Gate Park? The answer goes back hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831229/the-unassuming-east-bay-beach-with-hidden-ceramic-treasures\">The Unassuming East Bay Beach Strewn With Ceramic Treasures \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"TEPCO beach in Richmond\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Beach is strewn with broken pieces of TEPCO pottery, dumped there when the factory was operating in El Cerrito. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this beach off the southern side of Point Isabel in Richmond, you’ll find broken pottery, not sand. It feels like you’ve happened upon some kind of archaeological site right next to the Costco. Bay Curious listener Jo Anne Yada stumbled upon this beach, affectionately called TEPCO Beach by locals, and wondered why it has so much pottery on it. The bizarre ceramic-strewn beach’s history tells us a lot about a beloved Bay Area porcelain business, its legacy, and changing views on environmentalism.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634601/is-the-castro-getting-less-gay\">Is the Castro Getting Less Gay?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1920x1436.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1180x882.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-960x718.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-520x389.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up. \u003ccite>(oversnap/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had never seen a gayer place,” journalist Ryan Levi said when he first moved to San Francisco in 2016. He was blown away by the endless expressions of love and community in the Castro. But Bay Curious listener Bob Girard has a different perspective. As someone who has visited the Castro a lot over the years, he noticed a changing neighborhood, one that is less of a haven for LGBTQ+ people than it once was. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past,” he said. So, what has changed, and why? Bay Curious explores the changing dynamics of one of San Francisco’s most famous neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the ‘Ancient Road’\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11621286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San José in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El Camino Real runs the length of the Peninsula between San Francisco and San José. Its very name implies a regal history, translating to “The King’s Highway” in Spanish. Legend has it that El Camino Real in Silicon Valley is part of the historic Mission Trail, an ancient road that connects the Spanish missions that stretch along the California coast. But is that true? Join us as we unravel a series of falsehoods that have become “common wisdom.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834961/the-swans-at-san-franciscos-palace-of-fine-arts-have-attitude\">The Secret Lives of the Palace of Fine Arts Swans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834980 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Swan at the Palace of Fine Arts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the swans at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontho/7984114855/in/photolist-dawFbF-dQim3j-7pRZus-6RdUub-4xeUJK-TKz9yu-6R9TGV-6R9MGF-6RdSEG-ij3Vv-wDA17y-6WpZDU-b76S2g-AUFCu-6Wq3gE-eyfZv-6Wmana-9W6KEf-nNnE2i-5LD1GD-5LHjsq-6Wm2yg-eBgK6B-PZzmK-9W3W7i-9W3WMr-56PXb-9W6Lq5-2zCEqN-9W6L7G-9W3WrK-9W3WAZ-9W6KY9-9W3Wjg-9W3Xak-9W3Wbv-9W3WnD-5j8jip-9W6LjY-9W3WS6-MBFw-9W6LAh-9W6KT3-jHc8Lx-5LHh79-9W6Lby-rMwYX-9W6Ldj-9W6Lr1-9W3WKR\">Jason Thompson\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Palace of Fine Arts is an architectural gem tucked into a corner of the Marina district, offering a lovely space for a stroll, a picnic and a selfie session. But do you know the story of the swans that live here? The lagoon at the center of the ancient Roman-style rotunda is home to swans that glide the chilly waters. One Bay Curious listener wondered how the graceful birds survive here. We soon found out that, if you want to know anything about the swans, there’s only one person to ask: The Swan Lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Since publishing this episode, one of the swans featured in the story has sadly passed away.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Bay Area is one of the most eclectic places in the world, if we do say so ourselves. It’s filled with people and places that prove time and again why so many yearn to visit us. As we’re contemplating how we want to start this new year, the Bay Curious team wanted a way to get out and explore the unique, rich history surrounding us in a safe — and relatively cost-free — way. So we dug through the archives for some fun activities you and yours can enjoy this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are seven places to visit to learn more about what makes the Bay so special. Listen to our Spotify playlist of these Bay Curious episodes on the road, while you’re there, or on your way to the next adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3wc6RFluIltLRclRN3yHsb?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11428075/whos-behind-the-colorful-lights-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11428739 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Emigh met up with her best friend Kim Ish for St. Patrick's Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DSC_k4956-11-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Emigh (left) met up with her best friend, Kim Ish, for St. Patrick’s Day — but first a stop at her favorite landmark. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By day, San Francisco City Hall is a monument to a place many of us call home. And at night, the lights reflect the city’s unique identity. Like every great structure in every great city, San Francisco City Hall has a story to tell. Its history can be explored through the special days when its granite exterior takes on a vibrant new look: perhaps the colors of the rainbow for Pride Week, or a radiant shamrock green on St. Patty’s Day. Head on over to the historic steps and listen to Bay Curious to discover who makes the lighting decisions, and how it comes together.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655269/how-oakland-became-a-gnome-mans-land\">How Oakland Became a Gnome-Man’s Land\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11655279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11655279 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This gnome sits against its telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20458_160723_gnomes_bhs07-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This gnome is nailed to a telephone pole alongside a liquidambar tree in an Oakland neighborhood not far from Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every time Bay Curious listener Lauren Bresnahan takes her dog for a walk, she sees them: a collection of painted gnomes at the bases of utility poles all over her Lake Merritt neighborhood. Seems kind of random, right? It’s a cute oddity, so we set out to find the story behind the little gnomes painted around this cherished Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11809842 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Five new bison are joining the heard at Golden Gate Park in honor of the park's Sesquicentennial.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Photo-1-Bison-Arrival-Credit_-James-Watkins.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five members of the herd at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(James Watkins/Courtesy of San Francisco Recreation and Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might be wondering, why are there bison in San Francisco? Bay Curious listener Paul Irving had the same question. So we headed over to the lush fields of Golden Gate Park in search of the herd of American bison that call a section of the 1,000-acre urban park home. Bison aren’t native to San Francisco, after all, so what’s the story behind their presence at Golden Gate Park? The answer goes back hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831229/the-unassuming-east-bay-beach-with-hidden-ceramic-treasures\">The Unassuming East Bay Beach Strewn With Ceramic Treasures \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831244\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11831244\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"TEPCO beach in Richmond\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Tepco-beach.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TEPCO Beach is strewn with broken pieces of TEPCO pottery, dumped there when the factory was operating in El Cerrito. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this beach off the southern side of Point Isabel in Richmond, you’ll find broken pottery, not sand. It feels like you’ve happened upon some kind of archaeological site right next to the Costco. Bay Curious listener Jo Anne Yada stumbled upon this beach, affectionately called TEPCO Beach by locals, and wondered why it has so much pottery on it. The bizarre ceramic-strewn beach’s history tells us a lot about a beloved Bay Area porcelain business, its legacy, and changing views on environmentalism.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634601/is-the-castro-getting-less-gay\">Is the Castro Getting Less Gay?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11635012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1920x1436.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1180x882.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-960x718.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-520x389.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Castro residents say the neighborhood has evolved as house prices have gone up. \u003ccite>(oversnap/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had never seen a gayer place,” journalist Ryan Levi said when he first moved to San Francisco in 2016. He was blown away by the endless expressions of love and community in the Castro. But Bay Curious listener Bob Girard has a different perspective. As someone who has visited the Castro a lot over the years, he noticed a changing neighborhood, one that is less of a haven for LGBTQ+ people than it once was. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past,” he said. So, what has changed, and why? Bay Curious explores the changing dynamics of one of San Francisco’s most famous neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\">El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the ‘Ancient Road’\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11621286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11621286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27186_IMG_3334-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission San José in Fremont once controlled a huge expanse of what we now know as the East Bay. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El Camino Real runs the length of the Peninsula between San Francisco and San José. Its very name implies a regal history, translating to “The King’s Highway” in Spanish. Legend has it that El Camino Real in Silicon Valley is part of the historic Mission Trail, an ancient road that connects the Spanish missions that stretch along the California coast. But is that true? Join us as we unravel a series of falsehoods that have become “common wisdom.”\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834961/the-swans-at-san-franciscos-palace-of-fine-arts-have-attitude\">The Secret Lives of the Palace of Fine Arts Swans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11834980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834980 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Swan at the Palace of Fine Arts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/7984114855_23d47852e9_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the swans at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontho/7984114855/in/photolist-dawFbF-dQim3j-7pRZus-6RdUub-4xeUJK-TKz9yu-6R9TGV-6R9MGF-6RdSEG-ij3Vv-wDA17y-6WpZDU-b76S2g-AUFCu-6Wq3gE-eyfZv-6Wmana-9W6KEf-nNnE2i-5LD1GD-5LHjsq-6Wm2yg-eBgK6B-PZzmK-9W3W7i-9W3WMr-56PXb-9W6Lq5-2zCEqN-9W6L7G-9W3WrK-9W3WAZ-9W6KY9-9W3Wjg-9W3Xak-9W3Wbv-9W3WnD-5j8jip-9W6LjY-9W3WS6-MBFw-9W6LAh-9W6KT3-jHc8Lx-5LHh79-9W6Lby-rMwYX-9W6Ldj-9W6Lr1-9W3WKR\">Jason Thompson\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Palace of Fine Arts is an architectural gem tucked into a corner of the Marina district, offering a lovely space for a stroll, a picnic and a selfie session. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Marin Headlands, Sweeney Ridge, Treasure Island, Port Chicago, Moffett Field — these are just a few local spots with important World War II history. In fact, the Bay Area played a major role in the war effort in many ways, like housing and training troops in the Presidio before their deployment to the Pacific, caring for wounded soldiers at Letterman Hospital and building the ships used to transport food and war materials around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lise Ciolino discovered some local World War II history while exploring her new neighborhood in Sausalito. She visited an exhibit about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sausalito.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/9344/636326254065130000\">Marinship, a huge shipyard on Sausalito’s bayfront\u003c/a> that sprang up after the U.S. officially entered the war in 1941. Workers there built huge cargo ships, known as “liberty ships,” as well as tankers to carry fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 327px\">\u003ca href=\"http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search?/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&stype=X&SUBKEY=%22marinship%22/1%2C6%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/liberty-ship.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of huge wooden scaffolding in the foreground with a long track leading to a huge ship in the background.\" width=\"327\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/liberty-ship.jpg 327w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/liberty-ship-160x196.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SS Escambia, an oceangoing tanker, slides down the ways at Marinship’s Sausalito yard in front of a crowd of workers. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search?/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D/X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&stype=X&SUBKEY=%22marinship%22/1%2C6%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=X%22marinship%22&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C\">Courtesy of San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m new to Sausalito,” Lise said, “and I wanted to know how the liberty ships produced in Sausalito affected the outcome of World War II.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberty ships were massive cargo ships modeled after a British design commonly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssjohnwbrown.org/blog/2015/12/9/liberty-ship-history\">known as ocean ships\u003c/a>. 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The Marinovators, led by hip-hop educator \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mrjahiofficial/\">MC Jahi\u003c/a>, wrote and produced an album called “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/5eq0retGOvx5vmTf4PM9hN?autoplay=true\">A Way Out of No Way\u003c/a>,” which highlights the contributions of Black workers at Marinship and celebrates local heroes like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns/2019/2/13/joseph-james-entertainer\">Joseph James\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2018/08/14/rodessa-battle-a-marin-city-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-97/\">Rodessa Battle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A23265\">Reverend Leon Samuels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyQdXEpRQuA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Pendarvis Harshaw and Marisol Medina-Cadena from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\">KQED podcast Rightnowish\u003c/a> put it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“These unsung heroes helped the fight abroad by constructing wartime ships, and championing civil rights on the home front. 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"content": "\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zeUjeOeM24s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond city leaders sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUjeOeM24s\">recording of a recent city council meeting\u003c/a> to Chevron executives documenting the concerns local residents have about a significant malfunction the oil giant's refinery recently experienced that has led the facility to send gases to its flares on and off for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to send the video to the company, which passed unanimously last Tuesday night, came after two Chevron officials gave a presentation to the city council about the accident that took place during last month's massive storm, which triggered the facility to belch out flames and smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the city council and local residents said at the meeting they were dissatisfied by the explanation and are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Chevron presentation was a lot of talk and nothing was learned,\" said Randy Joseph, who lives in Richmond. \"There were a bunch of non-answers. We've learned nothing about what happened during the flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894150/chevron-refinery-malfunction-during-storm-shut-down-processing-units-causing-fire-and-toxic-flaring\">problems began Oct. 4\u003c/a>, when an \"atmospheric river\" brought strong rain and wind to the Bay Area. The refinery says it lost some power and steam production, leading to a small fire and several process units going offline. That triggered a safety technique, known as flaring, in which the facility sends gases to its flares to relieve pressure and stabilize operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Richmond resident Floy Andrews said she could smell what seemed like fuel from her porch. \"I was basically slammed with this petroleum odor. It was overwhelming,\" she told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11860400 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\" alt=\"View from a rocky shoreline across the bay to a refinery spewing a massive plume of smoke.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flaring at Chevron's Richmond refinery as seen from Berkeley's César Chávez Park on Nov. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Queena Kim/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several days after the refinery lost steam and power, the company sent a \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-72hr-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report\u003c/a> to Contra Costa County health officials that revealed that, in the first two days of flaring, the facility released close to 17 tons of sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report to the county, during last Tuesday's presentation and in multiple statements, Chevron has emphasized that the air quality tests it took — and ones that local agencies conducted — did not detect any violations of health standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, local air regulators are investigating whether Chevron's flaring led to a series of odors in the area, according to Ralph Borrmann, a representative of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the storm, the West Contra Costa Unified School District closed Richmond High along with Ford and Peres elementary schools because of a strong fuel-like odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, on Oct. 28, teachers and students at Richmond High smelled gas again and were briefly evacuated.[aside postID=news_11894150,news_11893678,news_11894079 label='Related Posts']It's unclear what caused the odors at the school campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday afternoon, county supervisor John Gioia, who sits on the board that oversees the air district, said he felt sick from an odor at Richmond's Martin Luther King Jr. track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a strong objectionable gasoline odor here,\" Gioia tweeted. \"I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tom Butt, mayor of Richmond\"]'I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this.'[/pullquote]Councilmember Nate Bates proposed that the city send a recording of the meeting to Chevron executives so they could see and hear the concerns from members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to understand how serious this community is about flaring,\" Bates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city then sent a link of a one-hour portion of the meeting to Chevron. A top company executive said he watched the video and would share it with others at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After decades working in refining, I understand that flaring can be a concern to some that aren't familiar with its essential function in protecting people and the environment,\" Chris Cavote, a Chevron executive, wrote to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote said a key refinery official, a facility manager, couldn't make it to the meeting because the closed session of the hearing ran longer than expected and the manager had to leave for a personal matter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It's unclear what caused the odors at the school campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday afternoon, county supervisor John Gioia, who sits on the board that oversees the air district, said he felt sick from an odor at Richmond's Martin Luther King Jr. track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a strong objectionable gasoline odor here,\" Gioia tweeted. \"I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A loss of steam production at Chevron’s Richmond refinery during a major rainstorm on Sunday morning triggered the shutdown of several processing units, leading to a fire at the facility and several days of flaring, the oil giant told regulators this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials say close to 17 tons of sulfur dioxide were released over two days as the facility sent gases to its flares, a safety technique often used by refineries to ease pressure and stabilize operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accident prompted dozens of complaints from nearby residents, and is now being investigated by the regional air district and county public health officials to determine whether the odor led to the closure of several local schools. 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The stationary and mobile air monitors used by county health officials and local air regulators did not detect problems either, according to Gioia, who also sits on the board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t address the long-term cumulative exposure that communities have with regard to these types of chemical releases,” Gioia said, adding that multiple plumes of gas and smoke erupted from the refinery on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district, which is in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887837/chevron-pbf-sue-air-district-over-new-bay-area-refinery-pollution-rule\">legal battle with Chevron over new pollution rules\u003c/a>, has issued a notice of violation against the company for public nuisance complaints it received about the flaring, said agency spokesperson Ralph Borrmann. The district received 33 air quality complaints about the incident between Sunday and Tuesday, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials are also looking into whether a gaseous odor that prompted the closure of Richmond High School, Ford Elementary and the Peres K-8 School on Monday was tied to the flaring operation. An odor drifted into Richmond High again on Thursday, prompting the school to briefly evacuate students and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chevron\"]Chevron issued an all clear about its flaring event on Wednesday morning, local officials said, but the refinery reported yet another flaring incident that night. The air district is investigating whether Wednesday night’s releases are tied to the problem that started Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery also revealed that a fire was ignited in one of its units that lost steam pressure, and that the blaze was quickly put out. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the eight months since hundreds of gallons of fuel from Chevron's Richmond oil refinery spilled into the bay, local air regulators and the state's workplace safety agency have issued a handful of violation notices against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Chevron nor the agencies investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859660/chevron-richmond-refinery-spill-as-crews-mop-up-investigators-move-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Feb. 9 incident\u003c/a> has provided details about exactly what caused a pipeline on the refinery's wharf to spill as many as 750 gallons of low-sulfur diesel fuel, creating a sheen that spread for several miles across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez\"]'It's taking so long. 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The agency issued a notice of violation to a \"responsible party,\" according to Coast Guard representative Lt. Stephanie Cardenas, who declined to provide more details on the agency's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has filed \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six follow-up reports\u003c/a> with the county's hazardous materials program and none has offered any new insight into the cause of the pipeline break. The \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-0209-30day-followup-2021-0812.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest report\u003c/a>, sent Aug. 12, says \"it remains unclear\" when the investigation will be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Contra Costa County officials said they would hire a contractor to do an independent investigation of the spill. But they changed course months later, deciding to have the contractor review Chevron's probe of the incident along with the investigations conducted by state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change did not go over well with Councilmember Jimenez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't need a peer review. We need another set of eyes to give us the conclusions,\" she said. \"It doesn't really seem independent. It doesn't build trust with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that the best time to do an investigation is immediately after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the process to hire a third-party consultant takes time, a good incident investigation is compromised,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's deputy director of health services. \"This is why it was decided to review the investigation done by Chevron [to] determine the accuracy of their investigation.\"\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11859660,news_11861741,news_11856920\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]In late August, the county signed a $95,000 contract with AcuTech Consulting Group, a company based in Virginia, which has \u003ca href=\"https://acutech-consulting.com/services/case-studies/process-safety-support-for-chevrons-capital-projects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked with Chevron on several projects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm could receive the refinery's root-cause analysis soon. Chevron representative Linsi Crain, along with Matt Kaufmann, the head of the county's hazardous materials program, both say the company is finalizing its findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crain says the company's investigation was slowed, in part, by the necessity to get permits to cut the portion of broken pipe before it could be taken out of the water and inspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that if there are any gaps or questions that come from reviewing Chevron's findings, the county can still conduct its own investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response is conducting yet another investigation into the spill. The agency is looking into whether the conditions resulting in the spill may have been in violation of state laws, and agency spokesperson Eric Laughlin said once the probe is complete, the findings will be forwarded to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leading pipeline safety expert said it's not a surprise the investigations are taking so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pipeline failure investigations routinely take many months before they are completed and released,\" said Rebecca Craven, program director of Pipeline Safety Trust, a Washington state-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's always frustrating for the public and for regulators and legislators who want to know if there needs to be changes made in the regulatory structure to prevent a similar incident in the future,\" Craven said. \"The length of time is frustrating, but not unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The spill took place along the Richmond refinery's Long Wharf, which extends 4,000 feet into the bay from the Chevron complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local air regulators have said the refinery was alerted to a sheen on the water by a member of the community. 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Vasquez says she doesn’t think customers understand what the wages and conditions are like for the people who make their meal kits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lily Vasquez, HelloFresh employee\"]‘I know people receive the kits, but they don’t have any idea of how we’ve been treated in the company. These people are at their homes, they’re waiting for their food. They’re safe. But us, we have to go to work and be at risk.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know people receive the kits, but they don’t have any idea of how we’ve been treated in the company,” Vasquez says. “These people are at their homes, they’re waiting for their food. They’re safe. But us, we have to go to work and be at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of delivery and on-demand service companies where the labor is very removed from the final customer. 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She says everyone is rushing to meet their delivery targets every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez says it’s chaotic and dangerous at the facility. “There are empty pallets with plastic on them,” she says. “There are gloves and plastic on the floor.” Several workers told KQED about accidents they recently witnessed involving loose plastic, pallets and tripping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11873927,news_11862641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A HelloFresh spokesperson responded in a statement, “Our employees are critical to everything we do, and we prioritize their health, safety and well-being above all else.” They added, “HelloFresh was among the first companies in the industry to introduce robust COVID-19 response measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, HelloFresh had a major COVID-19 outbreak in Richmond last summer. The Contra Costa County public health team intervened and worked extensively with the company to update their protocols. There were 171 confirmed cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez says she caught covid at the facility and then passed it to her son. Her mother lives with them, and because they were worried she would get sick, they had to send her to live with a relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.grocerydive.com/news/meal-kit-sales-are-cooking-amid-the-pandemic/577367/\">the pandemic has been a boon for companies that deliver groceries and food\u003c/a>. It helped turn around business for HelloFresh. The company became profitable for the first time during the pandemic, and in 2020 it brought in a net profit of around $430 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Choy, deputy director with UNITE HERE, the union leading the unionization effort at HelloFresh, says unions need to mobilize quickly to protect workers as these new delivery and on-demand services take over sectors of the economy where unions were once relatively strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Choy, UNITE HERE deputy director\"]‘This is just where the work went during the pandemic. 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