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Related Sites
Useful Links for our Area
The Bay Area
- Oakland weather. You can get up to the moment weather in the North Hills from the National Weather Service or California Department of Water Resources. To get a local weather summary on a different day, type this for the weather on a particular date.
- A guide to the Bay Area. Created by the SF Chronicle.
- An electronic newspaper covering news of our area, Rockridge, and Montclair.
- Oakland Heritage Alliance is a non-profit membership organization which advocates for the protection, preservation, and revitalization of Oakland.
Youth Activities
- Cub Scout Pack 202 meets the third Thursday of each month at St. Theresa Church, 40 Mandalay, Oakland.
- Montclair Boy Scout Troop 202.
- Rockridge Soccer Club – for youths from 6 to 18.
- Montclair Soccer Club – for youths from 6 to 18.
- Oakland and Berkeley Boy Scout Troop 203. This troop meets every Monday at the Montera Junior High School.
- North and South Oakland Little League
Other Neighborhood Associations
- An excellent and comprehensive guide to the neighborhood associations of Oakland.
- Dimond Neighborhood. Information about Oakland's Dimond district.
- Redwood Heights Improvement Association
- Rockridge Neighborhood Notes for Ocean View, Margarido, Manchester and Alpine Terrace neighborhoods.
- Jack London Neighborhood Association. This association is located just blocks from Oakland's estuary waterfront.
- Adams Point Preservation Society – a neighborhood north of Lake Merritt.
- The Sequoyah Hills Homeowners Association, representing nearly 270 homes in the Oakland hills, has just launched its own community web site, This homeowners association represents the area in the Hills south of Merritt College.
- The Hills Emergency Forum coordinates the collection, assessment and sharing of information on the East Bay Hills fire hazards. The site contains useful safety information and community links.
- The Neighborhood Newsletter. This group is a task force of local newspaper editors. It also has links to other neighborhood associations.
- Rockridge Community Planning Council.
- The Friends of Temescal Creek (FoTC) is a community organization of Temescal Creek Watershed citizens, businesses and supporting organizations. Their vision is to see Temescal Creek restored as a natural watercourse through the urban landscape, providing a recreational and wildlife corridor from the hills to the bay.
- BONC is a community organization monitoring the planned expansion of the Claremont Hotel.
- The Claremont Canyon Conservancy is dedicated to reducing wildfire hazards in the Claremont Canyon, improving public access, and understanding the ecosystem health of the entire watershed - then preserving or restoring it consistent with public safety.
- Montclair Safety & Improvement Council (MSIC) is a volunteer community advisory group to the City of Oakland, whose purpose is to improve the quality of life in the greater Montclair area by promoting a variety of safety and lifestyle enhancements to the area.
Oakland NCPCs
- North Hills NCPC TheNCPC group that covers the North Hills. It's offical coverage is Beat 13Y.
- Temescal Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council NCPC
- Dimond Public Safety Council This group serves as the Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council for Oakland Police Beat 22x.
Entertainment
The Outdoors
- Kay Loughman has produced an illustrated guide entitled Wildlife of the North Hills: Flora and Fauna of Claremont Canyon, Oakland, California. These pictures represent the volunteer efforts of many photographers.
- East Bay Regional Parks - their website.
- East Bay Bicycle Coalition. This group promotes and aids bicycle use in our area. There are maps for both road and off-road use.
- Berkeley Path Wanderers Association. This group provides wonderful maps that show paths and steps in Berkeley, including most in our North Hills area.
- Bay Nature Magazine – A magazine which features exploring, understanding, and celebrating the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Other
- United Policy Holders is a major supplier of insurance consumer information. They provided much needed support during the 1991 Oakland fire.
- Real-time weather from the Lawrence Hall of Science.
- Maps of the North Hills area.
- For one of the better chronologies on the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire, view this web page from the Museum of San Francisco.
- The Wikipedia entry about the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has a web site that shows you how to save on your electric bill and a web page which displays California's current electricity status.
- Information on prevention of forest fires and vegetative management can be found on the Hills Emergency Forum web site and on the California Department of Forestry site.
- The Oakland Museum of California presents over 7000 Oakland objects from its California collections.
- WeLoveOakland is a site that has numerous links including Arts and Entertainment, Community and Health and Safety. This web site includes ads.
- The California Native Plant Society - East Bay Chapter – works to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve this rich resource for future generations.
- Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime.