In the pink
Michele Mandell, group exercise and Pilates manager at the Peninsula JCC in Foster City, and more than 30 of her JCC colleagues wore pink on Oct. 23 in honor of breast cancer awareness month and to promote PJCC Pink Ribbon Day on Oct. 27. The event raised funds for the center’s Pink Ribbon Program, an exercise course designed specifically for breast cancer survivors to address areas of concern, including physical challenges such as frozen shoulder (swelling and stiffening in the shoulder joint) and range of motion, as well as body image, depression and anxiety. The more than $8,600 raised will fund scholarships for those who couldn’t otherwise participate and training for additional instructors-specialists for the program, said Eileen Mitchell, PJCC publicist. More than 250 people participated in Zumba classes, spinning, walking groups and more at the event. “The participation was stronger than we even dreamed of. We’re over the top,” Mitchell said. The Pink Ribbon Program was started by a breast cancer survivor and is practiced around the country. The PJCC is the only facility on the Peninsula to offer it.
From dreaming to streaming
Tamalpais High School’s basketball games will be streamed live on the Tam Broadcasting Network (and stored in the school’s archives) thanks to Randy Shapiro, 17 and a senior at the Mill Valley school, and the campaign he spearheaded to create TBN. The Mill Valley resident and friends raised most of the $28,000 needed through grants and donations to pay for equipment and set up the network. While TBN is not quite ready to stream yet (they’re finalizing a streaming host and still fundraising), they did their first taping, with two cameras and Shapiro doing play-by-play, on Oct. 26 when Tam High’s football team beat rival San Rafael High. “It was a little rough and choppy, but a lot of fun,” Shapiro said. Besides recording the game, he added, they obtained a “green screen” and interviewed players in front of it. On the Jewish front, among other things, Shapiro and his friend Rachel Fern of Mill Valley head up the Tikkun Olam Club at the high school to raise student awareness of Jewish events in the community. He spent a month in Israel in 2012, in an “awesome” program run by Friends of Israeli Scouts that enabled him to travel around the country with Israeli teens. Visit www.thetamnews.org/category/video for more information or to contribute to TBN.
On the radio waves
Meteorologist Mike Pechner, radio and TV reporter Mike Sugerman and the late Henry Leff were among 10 new inductees to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. Leff, who died in 2007 at 88, was honored for his role in education. He developed the broadcasting department at City College of San Francisco in 1948 and headed it for 35 years. Pechner, honored in a specialty category, was a weather reporter for several local radio stations. Sugerman, who can be heard on KCBS and seen on KPIX-TV, was inducted in the news category.
Short shorts
Reb Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks is the interim spiritual director at Berkeley’s Chochmat HaLev as Rabbi SaraLeya Schley, who is a physician, steps back due to professional responsibilities … Schoenberg Family Law Group in San Francisco has been named one of the top three family law firms in the Recorder newspaper’s 2013 Best Survey, and one of the top 100 women-owned businesses in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. Also, Debra Schoenberg, principal of the firm, has published “Divorce in California: The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect.”
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