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Bay Area Gold’s Gyms Drop Affiliation After Anti-Gay Flap
Four former Bay Area Gold’s Gym franchises are officially cutting ties with the body-building chain following a 2010 donation by Gold’s Texas-based parent company’s CEO to a conservative outfit unfriendly to gay rights.
Mystery Donor Gives Record $4 Million For New SJ Soccer Fields
An anonymous donor gave $4 million to city of San Jose to build soccer fields in Almaden Valley at the Allen at Steinbeck School.
George Lucas Donates Land To Create Downtown San Anselmo Park
The Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator, who lives a short distance from downtown San Anselmo, has agreed to donate a vacant building he owns in order to create a new park space. The lot sits directly north of the town’s main offices.
Jefferson Award Winner Helps Provide Life Line To Transplant Patients
Minority patients awaiting bone marrow transplants stand a better chance for survival, because of this week’s Jefferson Award winner. She spearheads a campaign to increase the availability of lifesaving umbilical cord blood.
Woman Offers Free BART Tickets To Needy Teen After Station Agent Firing
Days after a Bay Area Rapid Transit worker was fired for giving a teenager free BART tickets to get to school, a second good Samaritan has stepped in to help the boy.
Avril Lavigne Helps Bag Groceries At Pleasanton Safeway For Fundraiser
Singer Avril Lavigne helped bag groceries in Pleasanton Tuesday afternoon to help kick off a fundraising drive by Safeway to raise money for people with disabilities.
Pelosi Welcomes Komen Reversal On Planned Parenthood Funding
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity has reversed it decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood after three days of controversy.
‘Lonely Island’ Comics Donate $250K To Berkeley Schools
The guys from Lonely Island will be donating $250,000 to the district, all part of a Super Bowl Doritos ad contest.
Bone Marrow Donors Sought To Save San Mateo Boy
A four-year old San Mateo boy with a rare disease may need a bone marrow transplant to live. However, it has been difficult to find a donor because of the boy’s ethnicity.
Strip Clubs Donation To Toy Drive Moved After SFFD Chief Objects
A group of dancers from a number of San Francisco strip clubs presented a check for $20,000 to a local firefighters’ union Wednesday evening for its annual toy drive.


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