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2008 Legislative Reception & Vision Awards

Location: The Oakland Museum of California

1000 Oak Street; Oakland, California

January 10, 2008

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Event Sponsors:

East Bay EDA Board of Directors

Honorary Co-Sponsors:

The Cities and Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa

The Alameda County Special Districts’ Association

Wente Vintners generously contributed California’s best fine wine for the event.

Note: Links to additional photographs are included at the end of this page.

ABOVE: (left to right) David Ciesco, Vice President & Controller for NUMMI and East Bay EDA 2nd Vice Chair; Reid Edwards, Head of Public Affairs for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director, Steve Chu, ; and Bruce Kern, East Bay EDA Executive Director.

ABOVE: (left to right) Beverly Lane, East Bay Regional Park District; and Carol Severin, East Bay Regional Park District; and Barb Johnson, Congressman Pete Stark's Office.

Alameda County Supervisor and East Bay EDA Chair, Keith Carson, provided the event's welcoming remarks.

The event's corporate sponsor: AT&T

ABOVE: George Granger, Vice President of External Affairs for AT&T recognized East Bay Legislators who were in attendance.

ABOVE: Jim Falaschi, CEO of Transbay Holdings and East Bay EDA Past Vice Chair, recognizes East Bay Legislators who are in attendance.

ABOVE: Assembly member Mary Hayashi and District Director Christopher Parman.

This event was video recorded by Comcast.
Please check the East Bay EDA Broadcast Schedule to find Comcast air dates for your city.


	ABOVE: Congresswoman Barbara Lee addresses the audience after receiving East Bay EDA resolution.
	ABOVE: Senator Tom Torlakson addresses the audience after receiving East Bay EDA resolution.
	ABOVE: Assembly member Loni Hancock addresses the audience after receiving East Bay EDA resolution.

View Video Message from Senate President pro Tem Don Perata (Windows media file)

Mike Brown, Morgan Miller Blair and East Bay EDA Vice Chair, presented Senator Perata's Vision Award.

District Director Rachel Weinstein accepted Senator Don Perata's East Bay Vision Award for Civic Leadership.

Dave Ciesco introduced Director Steve Chu.

Director Steve Chu accepted the East Bay Vision Award for Innovation.

At the piano was Jennifer Clevinger.

100 photos taken at the event by EDA staff person Keith Sutton may be viewed in three different formats below. If you would like a print quality image of one or more of the photographs, please email Keith at keith@eastbayeda.org and specify (or attach) the photos and size you want.

Click here to open/view a PowerPoint album of additional pictures taken at the event.

Click here to open a PDF of the above images.

Click here to open a photo album slideshow of the images with lower resolution jpg files.