This isn’t directed at community members. But it’s quite sad how it seems so many businesses have just stoped caring. There was a time that businesses took pride in their brand and had brand standards. I understand how giant corporations have taken us away from that norm. Just kinda sad to see Hayward become so run down.
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Curious to learn how any of you find LGBT businesses to support. My husband and I live in the east bay (east coco). Trying to find a handyman/person from the LGBT spectrum . I have no issue supporting a heterosexual businesses and I do basically every day much to my own internal chagrin… but if i can support local and LGBT it’s a win win .
Why are these creatures so perfect and magical? Also, do your Bostons ever do interpretive dances or grimace with their nubby teeth?
My 5m - non verbal son just started kindergarten (special education) a few weeks ago. Change is always difficult but over the last five to six months be has lost all interest in playing with toys. He only wants to slam and throw things. Including food and cups at restaurants or randomly at home. He constantly engages in bad behavior and it’s always attention seeking. He will slap or kick you as hard as he can then run away. He screams at the top of his lungs and will do it right up against my ears. We have him enrolled in OT, speech, and ABA . He is intensive special education kindergarten and our babysitter works one on one with him for 4 hours every day after school. (She is an RBT).
I don’t know if I’m seeking advice or just venting. I feel such a sense of hopelessness and despair and frustration. My husband and I both work full time and we work opposing schedules which helps but also hurts our situation. We have only one child . He also now kicks and hits the dogs .he can’t be left unsupervised even to run to the bathroom. It’s very challenging .
We don’t have the financial resources to have constant support in our house . We have no local support system. We are in Northern California and in the Kaiser network. If that’s any helpful context.
Also curious if anyone is struggling to manage their own mental health while caring for an ASD child and my spouse , working a full time job somehow staying afloat …. I feel such great despair on a daily basis and I have got to get my shit together .
Boston Terriers truly are magical beings . I can’t imagine my life without them in it. We are so lucky to have them!
I know this probably is silly to a majority of people but for many years, the fountains at City Hall have been turned off… empty collecting leaves and garbage. I love the Concord City Hall complex because you have the library right there in the park and the City Hall grounds are a great place for kids to run around. My son is autistic and he loves fountains. Last year I wrote my council member to ask about the fountains and they wrote back saying they would look into it. I know this was not because of me, but I’m so glad that they finally restored the fountains. I appreciate and enjoy the architecture and now am happy the fountains are back up and full of water .
I have had numerous issues with my 2021 Atlas. Most frustratingly is , after a recent software update, it stopped working. It will turn on and flicker, but it eventually turns off. The dealer charges $325 just to do a diagnostic and it is not under warranty. I am at the end of my rope with this car and am looking at getting something else. Has anyone else experienced similar issues?
For anyone who has ever been inside of the Solar garden store’s Concord store (by the Clayton border) they have a large aquarium with a red ear slider turtle in it in the indoor plant department. I noticed it was gone .. I asked the staff at they said someone stole it. .and they had the theft on camera . (It was a person, not a critter). They said it’s happened more than once .
I realize we have major problems to face in society and as a community but sometimes frying the small fish (figure of speech for those who may not be familiar with that expression) is important ..crimes like this go unnoticed . It’s really shitty someone would steal a turtle from a garden center aquarium. They are there to demonstrate their aquatic plants .
Please stop by and support Sloat if you can. They are a really wonderful business with some wonderful staff . (Very quirky , they also have a store cat and sometimes there’s a really cute little coffee cart outside )
Also totally don’t want to undermine or minimize serious crimes in concord , just as an autistic reptile lover I wanted to share this. Hope I don’t offend anyone. 🐢🥺
I saw that Huckleberry was temporarily closed due to a cockroach infestation. We really liked it when it first opened after Mel's closed. However, when you walk in there is always a horrible sewage smell like fresh laid turds. The food, coffee, and service is always hit or miss. There is a super nice waitress, Debbie, who used to work at the Cocnord Claim jumper, that I love, but we don't eat there anymore.
The Port Chicago Disaster was a explosion on July 17, 1944, at the naval ammunition loading base in (what is now )Concord . The blast killed 320 people, most of them young Black enlisted sailors who had been assigned the work of loading ammunition under segregated conditions with little to no training. The tragedy further exposed racial discrimination in the military and led to the famous Port Chicago Mutiny, a significant event in the struggle for civil rights within the U.S. Armed Forces. It remains an important part of Concord's history because it occurred in our city and helped influence the eventual de-segregation of the military. The unequal treatment continued after the disaster. I have read a lot about this disaster but this was one of the most disturbing parts (to me). When Congress considered compensation for the victims' families, an effort was made to reduce payments after it became known that most of those killed were Black, resulting in families receiving less than originally proposed. (Google John E. Rankin, he was a racist, anti-semetic POS) ... https://portchicagoalliance.org/history.html