Since the idea of a Castro Valley town square was born I have been talking town squares, researching town squares, and generally extolling the benefits that a town square could add to our community. However, in that time I have been so busy reading and talking that I haven’t paused …

On Saturday, March 1 the CVEF Scholarship Committee asked me to speak for a few minutes about the new CVLegends scholarship. Below I have attempted to organize my notes into a coherent transcript of that speech: Thank you for being here, my name is David Ashton, I run a small …