Archive for January, 2011
by John M. Zukoski on January 31, 2011 | 
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California’s budget deficit has a direct impact on the operation of Dublin and other cities throughout the state. The state budget deficit is currently projected to be $28B through mid-2012. The general fund budget is down 15% over the past three years to roughly $86B due to reduced income tax receipts related to high unemployment and reduced property values. While California’s economy is bigger than Russia’s, it also has the largest deficit and lowest credit rating of all states in the Union. In response to these danger signs, newly-elected California Governor Jerry Brown has proposed a three-step approach to solving California’s fiscal crisis. The governor is expected to be making a hard sell in his State of the State address before the State Legislature this afternoon.
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by Around Dublin Team on January 30, 2011 | No Comments | Topics: Announcements
In his fourth season competing on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, Ryan Ciminelli of Cheektowaga, NY, broke through to win his first title Sunday in the PBA One A Day Earl Anthony Memorial at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl in Dublin, CA. In a battle of lefthanders in the championship match, the 24-year-old Ciminelli defeated Tour veteran and 13-time Tour titlist Patrick Allen of Wesley Chapel, FL, 237-215, to win the $20,000 first prize.
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by Around Dublin Team on January 30, 2011 | No Comments | Topics: Announcements
As the Number 2 seed for Sunday’s stepladder finals in the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) One A Day Earl Anthony Memorial at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl in Dublin, CA, Hall of Famer Pete Weber of St. Ann, MO, likes his chances of winning his 36th career PBA Tour title. With 35 titles, the 48-year-old Weber currently ranks third on the all-time win list behind fellow Hall of Famer Walter Ray Williams Jr., with 47 titles and the late bowling legend Earl Anthony with 41. Weber’s last win came in the Lumber Liquidators Marathon Open last April, but he has gotten off to a slow start this season with a best finish of 17th in both the Brunswick Pro Bowling Cheetah Championship and GEICO Shark Championship.
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by John M. Zukoski on January 29, 2011 | No Comments | Topics: Announcements
After nearly 12 months of study and soliciting customer input, Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) recently sold $35,620,000 of bonds to the investment community. The bonds, in aggregate, sold at 5.69% for 30-years. “I’m very pleased,” says General Manager Bert Michalczyk. “This fixed rate series of bonds has eliminated the risks we faced with our existing debt structure and will stabilize future water rates for all our customers. The Board of Directors was very wise when they decided to refinance the way we did.”
According to Michalczyk, this favorable sale of bonds could not have happened without the decisions the Board made over the last 12 to 18 months to strengthen the District’s balance sheet and stabilize its income. These measures included a significant reduction in spending across the board in every aspect of District operations, the preservation of existing reserve levels and the diversification of revenues used for debt service payments to include rates as well as connection fees, the latter of which are unreliable sources of income.
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by Around Dublin Team on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment | Topics: Announcements
Looking for his first Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour title, Ryan Ciminelli of Cheektowaga, NY earned the top seed for Sunday’s stepladder finals of the PBA One A Day Earl Anthony Memorial at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl in Dublin, CA. The 24-year-old Ciminelli earned the top seed with an 11-6-1 overall match play record and 32-game 7,688 overall pinfall total Friday, topping PBA Hall of Famer Pete Weber of St. Ann, MO, who had an 11-7 match play record and 7,572 overall pinfall to earn the Number 2 seed.
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by John M. Zukoski on January 28, 2011 | No Comments | Topics: Opinions · Restaurants
Established in 1991, Moonstar Buffet Restaurant offered an upscale and relaxing dining experience in its original San Francisco location. Now in Daly City, Moonstar Buffet Restaurant features seating for over 500 guests and an exhibition style open kitchen easily viewed from the dining room. Using only the freshest and highest quality ingredients, Moonstar serves up seafood like no other buffet restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area. For those who are already planning to spend the day in the City, Moonstar is worth the drive.
As with most buffets, Moonstar places the cheap fillers right by the entrance. To get to the good stuff, diners are advised to avoid the fillers and head toward the end of the buffet. Right before the cotton candy maker is where customers will find two mounds of freshly cut sashimi and a rotating cast of specialty rolls. Moonstar’s sushi roll roster includes everything from the basic California rolls made just right with light mayonnaise to fancy dragon rolls dressed in colorful tobiko and sauces.
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by Around Dublin Team on January 27, 2011 | No Comments | Topics: Announcements
Tommy Jones of Greenville, SC averaged 235 to take the lead after two rounds in the Professional Bowlers Association One A Day Earl Anthony Memorial Thursday at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl in Dublin, CA. Mika Koivuniemi, who won the Tournament of Champions and a record $250,000 first prize last week for his ninth PBA Tour title and third major, finished the day in 31st just making the cut with a 2,994 pinfall. Defending champion Anthony LaCaze failed to advance to match play after finishing 45th.
Jones, a 13-time Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour titlist, had a 3,290 14-game pinfall to hold a 49-pin lead over PBA Hall of Famer Pete Weber in second with 3,241. Jones had a 1,645 seven-game pinfall in Thursday’s early round and followed that up with an identical pinfall in the second round on games of 198, 269, 235, 221, 299, 234 and 189. “It’s quite a difference from bowling the Tournament of Champions last week which was about the worst I’ve bowled in a tournament,” said Jones, who finished 91st in the Tournament of Champions. “But that tournament is over and it’s time to move on and that’s the mindset you have to have.”
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by John M. Zukoski on January 27, 2011 | 10 Comments | Topics: Development
Sports Authority recently unveiled the eagerly anticipated design plans for its new location in Dublin, CA. Sports Authority will be opening in late 2011 and taking over 45,500 square feet, or roughly half, of the old Mervyn’s building in Downtown Dublin. The other half of the building is being reserved for a yet-to-be-named tenant.
Sports Authority’s new Dublin location will have a main entrance facing Dublin Boulevard with a beautifully landscaped, 12-foot walkway to shepherd customers from a newly redrawn parking lot into a newly renovated building. Although Sports Authority will not be replacing the dated pebbled stone facade that ruled the commercial building look in the 1970s, it will be creating a shopping environment that has a softer, more pedestrian friendly, and ultimately more inviting look-and-feel than the visual that Dublin has been stuck with for the past four decades.
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by Around Dublin Team on January 26, 2011 | No Comments | Topics: Announcements
Dave Wodka of Chatsworth, CA has emerged as top qualifier in the Tour Qualifying Round (TQR) of the One A Day PBA Earl Anthony Memorial Wednesday at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl in Dublin, CA for the second consecutive year. Wodka averaged 225.14 for seven games to pace the 13 players who will advance to the tournament’s Round of 64 on Thursday.
Wodka, a former Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour exempt player who won his only PBA Tour title in the 1999 Greater Detroit Open, finished the seven-game TQR with a 1,576 total, 41 pins ahead of Jon Brandon of Santa Clarita, CA. The 13 players who advanced out of the TQR will join 50 members of the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour and Wayne Garber of Modesto, CA, who was granted a PBA Commissioner’s Exemption for the event, for 14 qualifying games Thursday.
After leading the TQR last year, Wodka finished in 56th place. He hopes to improve his standing this year. “I’m hoping to have a little better showing this year,” he said. “I’d like to make the match play cut (top 32 after Thursday’s qualifying round) and go from there.
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