\u2014 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Oakland<\/p>\n
Security officer returns to Montclair Village for holidays<\/p>\n
As part of the 2025-26 Montclair Shop Safe Initiative, the Montclair Village Association (MVA) is pleased to welcome returning security officer Nicholas \u201cNick\u201d Jenkins. As of Nov. 28, Jenkins is patrolling the Montclair Village Commercial District throughout this year\u2019s holiday season.<\/p>\n
Jenkins was Montclair Village\u2019s primary daytime walking guard for last year\u2019s holiday season, and MVA officials are happy to have him join their community once more! Jenkings has more than 10 years of security guard experience, specializing in commercial district security, de-escalation and merchant and community engagement.<\/p>\n
When you see Jenkins patrolling the Village, please take a moment to say hello and ask any security-related questions you may have. Also, the annual Montclair Village Holiday Stroll was set to take place from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday this week. For information online about that event, visit montclairvillage.com\/holiday-stroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 Montclair Village Association<\/p>\n PIEDMONT As the season of giving approaches, help create a brighter holiday for local families in need by donating to the Piedmont Fire Department\u2019s annual holiday toy drive. Donation bins are now available at City Hall and the Piedmont Recreation Department.<\/p>\n By joining hundreds of other Piedmonters in contributing one or more new, unwrapped toys to this longstanding tradition, you can help ensure every child in our area has a gift to open this holiday season.<\/p>\n All toys collected will be distributed to families in Oakland and Alameda County. Toys that were dropped off before Wednesday this week will be distributed through the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.<\/p>\n Toys that were donated on or after Thursday this week will be distributed at the annual Three Wise Men toy giveaway in Oakland\u2019s Fruitvale neighborhood. Bins will remain out for donations through Dec. 23. For details online, visit bit.ly\/4iQ8HKb<\/a>.<\/p>\n Help the city of Piedmont better understand how community members use local parks and what they value most by completing a brief online survey or talking to staff at a park pop-up event this week.<\/p>\n Responses will inform the city\u2019s Sustainable Park Management Plan, an initiative focused on long-term stewardship and preservation of Piedmont\u2019s existing parks and open spaces. Ultimately, this initiative will create a roadmap for how Piedmont can best sustainably manage its parks so they remain vibrant, well-cared-for community assets for years to come.<\/p>\n The survey, available online at piedmont.ca.gov\/parksurvey<\/a>, asks community members to share how they use Piedmont\u2019s parks; what they value most about these spaces; and what aspects they want to ensure are preserved for the future.<\/p>\n Community members can also speak directly with the project team at a series of pop-up engagement events in parks this week, including one at Crocker Park from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the bottle filling station, another at\u00a0Piedmont Park from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday behind the Exedra foundation and another at Dracena Park from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday at the tables in the upper and lower park.<\/p>\n Visit piedmont.ca.gov\/sustainableparks<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n \u2014 city of Piedmont<\/p>\n To submit an item for the Montclarion and Piedmonter\u2019s \u201cIn brief\u201d section, which is now usually published in print on each month\u2019s second Friday, please email it, at least three days before print publication, to njackson@bayareanewsgroup.com<\/a>. Each item should be 90 to 180 words and include a short headline along with the name of the group or individual to credit for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND Everyone is invited to attend the annual free Christmas concert presented by the First Church of Christ,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3764,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-89434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-community-briefs","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFire Department\u2019s annual holiday toy drive runs until Dec. 23<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MOP-L-BRIEFS-1212-1.jpg\")
The Piedmont Fire Department’s annual holiday toy drive is happening through Dec. 23. Toys donated on or after Thursday this week will be distributed at the annual Three Wise Men toy giveaway in Oakland\u2019s Fruitvale district. (photo courtesy of the city of Piedmont)\u00a0
\nFeedback sought on city\u2019s parks for long-term planning<\/p>\n