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By Ayako Mie/BERKELEY

Growing up, Virada Chatikul was a shy girl. She was too embarrassed to speak in front of her classmates in school.  But that all changed one day when she was 15 and was attending the traditional dance performance at the Berkeley Thai Temple Sunday Food Offering.

“I really wanted to be part of a group that I could really identify with myself as a Thai American growing up in San Francisco,” said Chatikul, a second-generation Thai American. “I really cannot imagine what trajectory my life would have taken if I had not been part of this program.”

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by Elise Craig

As lawmakers wrestle with the latest iteration of the bailout plan, local residents are struggling to put food on the table, and area aid organizations are scrambling to keep up with increased need and slimmer budgets.
With Thanksgiving approaching, the Alameda County Food Bank, the Berkeley Food and Housing Project and Berkeley’s 24th annual Thanksgiving Turkey Distribution are all finding significant increases in requests for help.
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by Nick Burns/BERKELEY

Inside the Bancroft Hotel’s craftsman-style ballroom, a rare meeting of Berkeley’s green minds occurred on Thursday for the 2008 Sustainability Summit and Green Gathering. Over locally grown and produced wine, beer, an assortment of tapas—and, of course, a small carbon footprint—a who’s who of environmental leaders mixed, mingled, promoted environmentally conscious projects and recognized local organizations for achievements.

Hosted by the Ecology Center and the City of Berkeley’s Office of Economic Development, the 2008 Sustainability Summit and Green Gathering sought to provide an open forum to exchange ideas and name four of the year’s most Earth-friendly projects “Champions of Sustainability.”

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After more than a year of controversy surrounding placement of cell phone antennas, the Berkeley Planning Commission recommended Wednesday to the city council that only one firm be allowed to install antennas at any one location, and that those antenna frequencies be monitored annually. Read the full story

By Ayako Mie/BERKELEY

Berkeley residents passed Measure JJ with a 62.3 percent vote on Tuesday, eliminating certain zoning restrictions on pot clubs and lifting the current 2.5-pound limit on the amount of medical marijuana patients can possess.

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by Nick Burns, Dara Kerr & Shilanda Woolridge/BERKELEY & OAKLAND

Berkeley and Oakland know how to party! When the media named Barack Obama the winner of the Presidential election on Tuesday night, the streets in both cities erupted in spontaneous celebration. East Bay West Online caught the festivities on film. Watch our interactive presentation after the jump!

For more celebration coverage, click here.
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by Elise Craig/BERKELEY

The Berkeley mayoral race was such a blowout that Tom Bates gave his acceptance speech with less than 45 percent of precincts reporting his victory over Shirley Dean.
“It’s still early, but you know what, I think the tide is turning in our favor,” he said.
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District Two

West Berkeley voted overwhelmingly to re-elect City Council Member Darryl Moore in last night’s election. Moore took 81 percent of the vote to his opponent, Jon Crowder’s 17 percent.

District Three

Council member Max Anderson, who ran unopposed, took 96 percent of the vote.

District Four

Jesse Arreguin won a four-way race for the late Donna Spring’s seat with 49 percent of the vote. Council members must garner at least 40 percent of the vote to win, and some had thought that the four-way might go to a run-off. Terry Doran came in second with 36 percent of the vote, while Asa Dodsworth took 6 percent, L. A. Wood took 5 percent, and N’Dji ”Jay” Jockin took 1 percent.

District Five

Incumbent Council Member Laurie Capitelli took 52 percent of the vote to Sophie Hahn’s 46 percent.

District 6

Susan Wengraf, council member to current District Six Council Member Betty Olds, had a decisive victory, with 76 percent of the vote to Phoebe Anne Sorgen’s 22.

By Clayton Trosclair/BERKELEY

California voters got the word mere seconds after the polls closed: Barack Obama was elected by sweeping margins as the nation’s 44th president, and the first African American chosen for the office.

The victory was joyous on two fronts for many West Berkeley and West Oakland voters. It marked the end of the George W. Bush presidency, an unpopular Republican administration marked by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the realization of a civil rights dream: that Americans would one day look beyond race in electing the nation’s chief executive.

Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, claimed a wide victory over John McCain, a former prisoner of war and long-time Republican senator from Arizona. In the final days of the race, Obama campaigned hard in traditional GOP territory such as Nevada and Virginia, and the handful of tossup states that had remained too competitive for pollsters to predict: Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Indiana and North Carolina. His efforts paid off, with wins in each state.

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