Vanessa Hua January 7, 2021Updated: January 7, 2021, 8:51 am
Sydney Tumilty, 8, prepares to jump into the pool during swim camp at Soda Aquatic Center at Campolindo High School in Moraga on July 2, 2020. Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle 2020
“What’s that sound?” my family asked on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve as insistent beeps blared from my office.
“The swim alarm!” I said, before bolting from the dinner table and racing to my computer. In pre-pandemic times, such interruptions would have been considered rude, but my family has grown used to my desperation. If I didn’t log on and reserve a spot then, I’d miss my chance to swim in the week to come.
I don t like swimming in the cold, Miller quipped.
Then came the summer and fall, when wildfire smoke blanketed Moraga for weeks at a time. The smoke was worse than the cold, he said, not able to swim for several days.
But he pressed on, knowing that the effort he was putting into it paled in comparison to what cancer patients face.
The finish line was set for Sunday, Dec. 27, an end to a year-long journey. You can see his swimming goals and averages per month on his website.
The cause is close to his heart. He lost his father to lung cancer, and his mother and sister are both cancer survivors.
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:54 UTC
Residents of the bucolic towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda have long known to guard their pets and backyards from coyotes prowling in the shadows, behind trees and around garbage bins. They howl behind my house every night, said Melodi Dewey, a Lafayette resident. There s a pack of them on the other side of my fence. I have to keep my dogs from going outside at night.
But Dewey and others in the Contra Costa County area dubbed Lamorinda are warier than ever these days and just as surprised as wildlife officials after a string of coyote attacks this year left three people bitten and injured, the latest one Tuesday behind Diablo Foods in Lafayette.
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String of coyote attacks on humans in East Bay’s Lamorinda area rattles some nerves, surprises wildlife officials [Mercury News]
Dec. 21 Residents of the bucolic towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda have long known to guard their pets and backyards from coyotes prowling in the shadows, behind trees and around garbage bins.
“They howl behind my house every night,” said Melodi Dewey, a Lafayette resident. “There’s a pack of them on the other side of my fence. I have to keep my dogs from going outside at night.”
But Dewey and others in the Contra Costa County area dubbed Lamorinda are warier than ever these days and just as surprised as wildlife officials after a string of coyote attacks this year left three people bitten and injured, the latest one Tuesday behind Diablo Foods in Lafayette.
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