News Digest News Digest (November 26, 2004)

New Fair board members

Fair board President Tony Macchiano recently announced that Michael Nieto and Patsy Gilbert have been named to serve on the 26-member board of the Alameda County Agricultural Fair Association.

Oakland resident Nieto has served as Deputy District Attorney for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office since 1997. A Harvard graduate with a law degree from UC's Hastings College of the Law, Nieto also has experience with nonprofit corporations and public safety issues.

Livermore resident Patsy Gilbert has more than 25 years experience working at the Alameda County Fair, most recently as livestock coordinator. She is the Environmental, Safety and Health Manager at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has received biosafety-related certifications from both Johns Hopkins University and Harvard, and a bachelor of science degree in Agriculture, Animal Science, from Cal State University Fresno. Chamber to host awards luncheon

Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce will host its 42nd annual Community Service Awards luncheon starting at 11:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 7, at the Ruby Hill Golf Club. The luncheon event is open to the public at a cost of $25, and reservations are required. For more information, contact the Chamber at 846-5858. Rauschenberg exhibit

A first-ever exhibit of Robert Rauschenberg's socio-politically inspired posters has opened at Cal State Hayward's art gallery, located at 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward.

The exhibit features a group of 17 lithographs the artist created to raise awareness for social causes that he embraced on civil rights, the environment and nuclear disarmament. The 17 posters are on loan from the artist's private collection and include several works designed for the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange when he visited China, Germany, Mexico, the former Soviet Union and other countries to encourage contemporary art and world peace.

The CSUH show, which runs through Jan. 22, also features a 1970 work Rauschenberg created for the first Earth Day celebration. The gallery is open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m. For more information, call 510-885-3299 or visit the gallery's Web site at www.csuhayward.edu/artgallery.

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