Of ATMs and the RRRP

Your Boulevardier notes the article in the Castro Valley Forum this week, explaining and clarifying the ATM crimes that left several Castro Valley residents with their bank accounts drained. The ATM-card crimes, it seems, were perpetrated at the Rite-Aid store on The Boulevard, and not at Safeway as Your Boulevardier had earlier suspected. Apologies all around. One can certainly see how the machines at Rite-Aid could be compromised, as the store seems eternally understaffed at the cash registers.

Entirely unrelated to ATM crimes, the annual Rowell Ranch Rodeo Parade (the RRRP of today's title) takes place tomorrow. The event has gotten much good press -- the chili cook-off the night before, the firefighters' pancake breakfast that morning, the parade itself, and the after-parade open house at Supervisor Nate Miley's office on Redwood Road. But, as always, one important part of the event has not been reported in the media: the annual pre-parade performance by the Castro Valley Community Band. The group will play a lively selection of marches and concert pieces en plein air from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the Castro Village parking lot between Starbucks and Rigatoni's. Your Boulevardier hopes to see you there.