Spotted at the Women’s March in downtown Walnut Creek on January 21st.
At the Women’s March in downtown Walnut Creek on January 21st.
From an email:
I was out of town and unable to participate in the march in my own neighborhood (!). Is there some way to link up with the people who marched here? Are there local efforts to keep active around all the chaos that Trump is creating? I’d so appreciate it if you could refer me to someone other than the Democratic Party.
If you have a photo from the Women’s March in Walnut Creek that you’d like featured this week please email womensmarch[at]beyondthecreek.com and I’ll try to get it up.
At the Women’s March in downtown Walnut Creek on January 21st.
If you have a photo from the Women’s March in Walnut Creek that you’d like featured this week please email womensmarch[at]beyondthecreek.com and I’ll try to get it up.
Earlier this week a gigantic tree fell in the Peacock Alley parking lot next to La Finestra Ristorante in Lafayette Circle, crushing numerous unoccupied cars. Check out the photos below and this NBC Bay Area article for more details.
This week I’ll be posting photos from the epic Women’s March in downtown Walnut Creek. The photo above shows women from CorePower Yoga cheering on protesters as they march on North Main Street.
Thanks also to a reader for submitting the photo below. If you have a photo from the Women’s March in Walnut Creek that you’d like featured this week please email womensmarch[at]beyondthecreek.com and I’ll try to get it up.
On Saturday in Washington D.C. and cities around the world, the Women’s March took place including downtown Walnut Creek. Starting in Civic Park, thousands of people marched up Locust Street and back down N. Main St. in at times pouring rain, showing their support for various issues as well as protesting against incoming President Trump. One police officer monitoring the crowd said this was the biggest crowd in downtown Walnut Creek he had ever seen. To get an idea of how large the crowd was take a look at the photo below showing people marching from Civic Park towards Lesher Center a few blocks away. There were even more people out of frame in the park as well as marching up Locust St. Check out plenty of photos after the jump and check back every day this week for more photos of the march.
More photos of the Women’s March after the jump…
Is anyone encountering more unpleasant things in Walnut Creek due to the increased growth?
A reader writes:
Has anyone complained about the significant rise in vagrancy in downtown WC – especially around the S California, Mt Diablo Blvd down to Newell block? The council seems unprepared to acknowledge or address this and it is getting out of hand, with homeless taking their dogs into restaurants and one recently filling up a huge garbage bag of ice from the dispenser in the Habit while paying customers stood waiting? It is impacting the lifestyle we residents pay top dollar for when choosing WC as the town to buy property and raise families. If I wanted to live with homeless we would have bought somewhere in downtown SF . . .
Enjoy the last weekend of free parking at the Broadway Plaza parking garage in downtown Walnut Creek. There is a silver lining however. Beginning Monday, January 9th you’ll now get the first three hours free, without validation. This is really great news. Two hours is cutting it close but I could get a bite to eat and shop a bit in three hours. Nice!
From the Broadway Plaza website:
We have made an important change: The first three hours will be free – rather than the first two hours as originally planned, with no validation required. We have decided to make this change in response to the consistent, thoughtfully-presented requests from many Walnut Creek residents to expand the window of free parking once the program
starts.
A reader writes:
“Call me a grinch, but I really don’t appreciate Anthropologie throwing away four real, gorgeous, perfectly good trees just because their holiday decorations needed to come down after Christmas. Luckily I went inside and asked if I could rescue them. The lady inside commented that she was shocked they weren’t already trashed and gone. This just seemed wrong to me…”
This small contraption at Broadway Plaza says, “dog waste has a place… please not in my yard” with a small hole above the text. Surely this is too small to hold anything, so what’s the meaning of the hole? Am I missing something obvious here?