“This is going to disproportionately impact the people who don’t have that option — security guards, nurses, restaurant workers — they can’t do their jobs from home.”. A West Oakland resident and daily BART commuter, Frog Hollow Farms manager Chanda Briggs, worked even on her regular days off at the coffee bar and farm stand inside San Francisco’s Ferry Building, closing early on the days she couldn’t fill the gaps. She empathized with her employees unable to get to work from the East Bay, and lauded those who made the commitment to stay with friends in San Francisco.

Charlesworth, a native of Walnut Creek, began at Montera in 1992 as a math and science teacher, She first became interested in teaching after a stint with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, She earned a master’s degree in education from Columbia University in New York City, After teaching for two years in New York, Charlesworth returned to California, “It was a very different school back then,” Charlesworth recalled, For starters, it was a junior high, with seventh, eighth and ninth grades, and a host of electives, including music, art, cooking, ballet slippers polish wood and metal shops, as well as a choice of three languages — French, Spanish and German..

Wavy Gravy is more than just an ice cream. From his adventures in the Himalayas and at Woodstock to his charitable foundation and, yes, a Ben & Jerry’s flavor, the Bay Area’s “Clown Prince” of the 1960s is more than the mere tie-dyed entertainer that meets the eye. Discover Wavy the activist, optimist and healer at a world premiere DVD release event for “Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie,” 8 p.m. Friday at Town Hall Theatre, 3535 School St., Lafayette. Event includes a Q&A with Wavy Gravy himself and a silent auction of rare music memorabilia to benefit the Seva Foundation. Tickets are $35; contact 925-283-1557 or www.townhalltheatre.com.

Murthy was honored with a Shining Star award along with Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager and Mary Crocker Cook, an expert on drug and alcohol dependency issues and licensed addiction counselor, In recognition of the nonprofit’s 20th anniversary, Mineta opened the program by honoring his predecessors in the agency’s leadership: Mary Hiland, Vonza Thompson and Paul Taylor, ART AND ABOUT: Silicon Valley art collectors walked home with some real treasures at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art‘s live auction ballet slippers polish Saturday night, but the item that had people talking was “Amante Bronze Maquette II,” a 1983 sculpture by Manuel Neri, who is known for his work during the Bay Area Figurative Movement in the 1960s, After a riveting bidding battle for the piece — which had a retail value of $42,000 — photographer and artist David Pace won with a $35,000 bid, He called it a “once in a lifetime” opportunity..

* Aragon High School/San Jose State University, Sid Williams, basketball player. John Horgan, Mercury News columnist and former San Mateo Times news and sports writer, will be the guest speaker at the event, which will include a raffle and will end no later than 9 p.m. Business attire is suggested as Green Hills Country Club does not allow jeans, t-shirts, swimsuits, jogging attire, short shorts, tank tops, cargo pants or shorts, or cutoffs. Tickets cost is $95 per adult; $20 per child (12 years and younger); or $950 for a table of eight with prime seating and signage. All paid reservations will receive two complimentary tickets to Stanford University’s Opening Home Football Game, courtesy of the Stanford Athletic Department.