Alameda briefs: Group hosting 51st annual legacy home tour Sept. 15

ALAMEDA

Join the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society (AAPS) for their 51st annual legacy home tour. This year’s theme is “West End Stories.” Visit historic homes, discover important landmarks and learn how the city’s West End put Alameda “on the map.”

The tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 15 will start at Longfellow Park, where attendees will pick up their guidebooks, meet with local vendors, sit at a pop-up cafe and browse a store.

Alameda is blessed with over 4000 buildings on the Historic Study list, including many architectural styles. Our organization helps homeowners and business people appreciate the historic nature of their properties and learn restoration techniques that will bring buildings back to their original splendor.

The nonprofit AAPS has hosted legacy home tours since 1973. The annual tour of historic homes is the main fundraising effort supporting the group’s programs. Alameda, with its beautiful architecture and tree-lined streets is truly one of the best places to live in the Bay Area. Visit, take the tour and find out for yourself.

To buy tickets online or view more details, visit alameda-legacy-home-tour.org.

— AAPS

Sept. 12 golf tourney to benefit Marines group, USS Hornet

Let’s tee up for a cause! Presented by Nsight and Rosendin Electric, the fourth annual Hornet Museum & Marines Memorial Charity Golf Tournament will be a four-player scramble golf challenge from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 12.

Enjoy a game, networking opportunities and the chance to support two great non-profit organizations, the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum and the Marines Memorial Association & Foundation. The tournament will take place at San Jose’s Silver Creek Valley Country Club at 5460 Country Club Parkway.

For online tickets and more information, visit bit.ly/3X2Cl4G.

— USS Hornet

Education foundation’s Back 2 School BBQ set for Sept. 19

The Alameda Education Foundation (AEF) is looking forward to seeing you Sept. 19 at their second annual Back 2 School BBQ! This fun community event kicks off the school year and raises critically needed funds for AEF teacher mini-grants, mental health care support, visual arts programs and so much more!

Come and enjoy a barbecue dinner (with vegan options) plus a beer, wine or nonalcoholic drink at The Rake at Admiral Maltings and support Alameda public school students and teachers. The AEF have a silent auction with incredible items, plus popular Bay Area ukulele musician Ukulenny will be back!

For tickets and information online, visit bit.ly/46TASSw.

— AEF

Blues, Brews & BBQ festival Sept. 22 in Washington Park

Alameda’s seventh annual Blues, Brews & BBQ music festival will bring together world-class blues musicians, a myriad of local craft breweries and smoking barbecue vendors from 12 to 6 p.m. Sept. 22 in Washington Park at 740 Central Ave. in Alameda.

Live music at this free event for all ages will feature Grammy-award nominee Mark Hummel, The Dynamic Faye Carol, The Mighty Mules and The Bonafides. The BBQ grills will be smoking up delicious plates, including San Francisco-made Evergood beef hot links, smoked ribs, chicken and bratwurst.

Tracy-based Speer Family BBQ is bringing their famous flavor-packed experience to the festival. The festival’s many food options will pair perfectly with seasonal craft brews from Alameda Brewing, Berryessa Brewing and other area vendors. Artisanal wines, cocktails and nonalcoholic beverages will be available too.

Attendees will have the opportunity to peruse locally-crafted wares from Bay Area vendors. Also, kids can get crafty with Ozzy’s Music Academy and stay engaged at the Family Zone. For more information online and a free RSVP with raffle prizes, visit westendartsdistrict.org.

— West End Arts District

Olympic champ Joyner-Kersee to address boys, girls club

The Alameda Boys & Girls Club (ABGC) invites the public Sept. 25 to its “Building Great Futures Luncheon” featuring guest speaker Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a six-time Olympic track and field medalist, three of which were gold.

Throughout Joyner-Kersee’s career and over four Olympic Games, she dominated the Olympic heptathlon and long jump events. Her World Heptathlon Record set at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, still stands today.

Join the ABGC from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1900 Third St. in Alameda to celeberate our youth and teens. The luncheon’s proceeds will help the club keep providing its high-impact youth development programs and services, skilled and caring adult mentorship and a positive, safe environment for more than 1,200 youth and teens in Alameda.

General admission is $75. For tickets and more information online, visit alamedabgc.harnessgiving.org/events/1989.

— ABGC

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