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		<title>Up &amp; Down Shell Ridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiking Shell Ridge Great Hike in new area of Shell Ridge. 5.6 mile and three major ups and downs ranging from 250 ft to 720 ft elevation. Loved seeing the two coyotes and the green grass trying to peak though. The hike lasted 2 hr. 44 minutes and we averaged 2 miles per hour. Thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Visit to Lake Chabot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5-Mile Lake Chabot Hike Pat, Jeanne, Aleta and Sharon did the 5 mile hike in 2 hours ( a couple of tenths weren&#8217;t recorded.) The second half was a little wet but that just hurried us along a bit! Afterwards we had lunch at Lucca&#8217;s, a good Italian deli in Castro Valley that Jeanne recommended. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2012/01/27/another-visit-to-lake-chabot/</link>
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		<title>SRVNC January 2012 Luncheon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Great Start to the New Year What a perfect way to start off the new year by getting motivated by our speaker Gerri Levitas.  Gerri is a certified Hypnotherapist and a Transformational Weight Loss Coach. She is dedicated to helping women with their personal journey towards better health and well being. Geri has worked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2012/01/27/srvnc-january-2012-luncheon/</link>
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		<title>Sycamore Hike &amp; Fran&#8217;s Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Hike and a Cake Sure looks like I planned to have the fence post shadow aim right at the Birthday girl! Actually got the photo of Sharon blowing out the candles. I deleted the &#8220;funny&#8221; face photos of you all. Pat, thanks so much, you put on a great spread and that cake, Bobbie, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2012/01/17/sycamore-hike-frans-birthday/</link>
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		<title>February&#8217;s Book &#8211; Sarah&#8217;s Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SRVNC Book Club When: Feb. 28- Tuesday Time: 1:00- 3:00 Where: Donna C. RSVP:  donnaclarke109 {at} hotmail(.)com var mailNode = document.getElementById('emob-qbaanpynexr109@ubgznvy.pbz-14'); var linkNode = document.createElement('a'); linkNode.setAttribute('href', "mailto:%64%6F%6E%6E%61%63%6C%61%72%6B%65%31%30%39%40%68%6F%74%6D%61%69%6C%2E%63%6F%6D"); tNode = document.createTextNode("donnaclarke109 {at} hotmail(.)com"); linkNode.appendChild(tNode); linkNode.setAttribute('id', "emob-qbaanpynexr109@ubgznvy.pbz-14"); mailNode.parentNode.replaceChild(linkNode, mailNode); by Monday, Feb. 27 Our book will be Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.  This is a haunting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2012/01/13/februarys-book-sarahs-key/</link>
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		<title>Newcomer Hike Lafayette Reservoir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiking Lafayette Reservoir On December 30th Pat, Rose, Bobbi, Shirley, Muff, Jeanne and Sharon hiked two laps around the Lafayette reservoir. There were a lot of people out walking with babies and dogs. We saw white pelicans, egrets, and Jeanne and Muff spotted a river otter. We enjoyed looking at the holiday tree decorated with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2012/01/05/newcomer-hike-lafayette-reservoir/</link>
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		<title>December Cookie Exhange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SRVNC Annual Cookie Exchange Twelve SRVNC Members were able to attend the Annual Cookie Exchange graciously hosted by Marilynn Hoffman in her fully Holiday decorated home. It was nice to see Sharon M. again.  We tasted multiple chocolate chip versions, peanut butter cookie candy bars, chocolate peanut butter chip cookies, pecan cookies, oatmeal chewies, cranberry spirals, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2011/12/30/december-cookie-exhange/</link>
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		<title>Livermore Valley Wine Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tamas Estates, Wente Vineyards, Rios-Lovell Winery and McGrail Vineyards The wine appreciation group celebrated the season in the Livermore Valley Wine Country by visiting four wineries that included Tamas Estates, Wente Vineyards, Rios-Lovell Winery and McGrail Vineyards &#38; Winery.  We met at the Alcosta Park &#38; Ride and car-pooled together so we could have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.srvnc.com/2011/12/15/livermore-valley-wine-country/</link>
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		<title>Photos of Cull Canyon and Briones at Alhambra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are 2 photos of Cull Canyon, first one show&#8217;s the mostly shaded area with Shirley and Pat. The second one is the walk up the open area before we turned around with Jackie, Carol, Barbara, Jeanne, Pat and Shirley. Add this post to your favorite social networking site:]]></description>
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		<title>Baked Yams Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fresh Yams Baked in Orange Sauce (Favorite Recipes II, Sunset, page 96) 4 lbs yams 1 ¼ cups sugar 2 tlbs cornstarch 1 tsp salt 2 cups orange juice 4 tlbs butter or margarine 1 ½ tsp grated orange peel 1 orange, thinly sliced Peeled yams cut into ½ in thick slices, discarding thin ends.  [...]]]></description>
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