Posts Tagged ‘Bishop O’Dowd’
Small batch composters are digging deep to find big waste solutions
At Bishop O’Dowd High School in the Oakland hills, gardener Ned Lange is making small-batch vermicompost from the school’s food scraps. He takes scraps like leafy greens, peels, and stems that won’t make it into the cooked lunch, and blends them into a smoothie that he feeds into an 8-by-4-foot corrugated steel bin that is…
Read MoreInfluential Oakland coach lands job at University of Oregon
For 18 years, Curtis Taylor has coached the EOYDC track team and in the process launched the careers of many state and national champion students.
Read MoreBishop O’Dowd defends home turf in Oakland high school football clash against McClymonds
Under the Friday night lights in East Oakland, The McClymonds Warriors’ football team fell to the Bishop O’Dowd Dragons, with a final score of 33-26.
Read MoreWith gloved hands and trash bags, Oaklanders hit city’s creeks
The 15th annual Creek to Bay cleanup day drew hundreds of Oakland volunteers Saturday to more than two dozen watery sites, where they yanked weeds, bagged up Styrofoam cups, and pulled golf balls and plastic bags from the water.
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