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Local entrepreneur Rocco Biale, owner of the eponymous Rocco’s Ristorante Pizzeria in Walnut Creek, CA, is featured in the May issue of 86 Degrees magazine.

Taylor Alyssa Lai, a seventh grader at The Seven Hills School in Walnut Creek, CA, has been selected for the prestigious 2015 Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall, and will play a special concert on June 27, 2015.

Students of E. M. Downer Elementary School (San Pablo, CA) and their families are invited to "shop" the Free General Store hosted by the nonprofit White Pony Express on Sunday, March 29, 11am-4pm, at a mobile boutique set up on the school campus.

The Walnut Creek Library Foundation's premier fundraiser on Saturday, March 14, features reception, auction and gourmet dinner in the stacks with 16 San Francisco Bay Area authors. Come for cocktails, Stay for dinner!

White Pony Express Free General Store is hosting a mobile "boutique" at the United Methodist Church, 153 W. Leland Rd, Pittsburg (CA), Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 1-4pm, offering gently used clothing, toys, and books to those in need in Contra Costa County.

White Pony Express (WPE), the only food rescue and relay program solely dedicated to serving Contra Costa County (CA), celebrated its first year anniversary in Fall 2014 with impressive achievements.

Mary Brooks, CFP®, SF Bay Area wealth management specialist & founder of Integrē Wealth Management, a financial services group of Raymond James & Associates, has received the Raymond James Network for Women Advisors 2014 Woman of Distinction Award.

The 3rd annual Family Paths Women's Leadership Luncheon on September 25 at The City Club, San Francisco, features keynote speaker Janet Van Huysse, Head of Leadership Development and Inclusion at Twitter.

Save the date and enjoy the party of the century! Celebrate Walnut Creek's 100th birthday at the Centennial Birthday Festival, Sat., Oct. 18, Shadelands Ranch Museum, 11-4.

"Piseco," recently nominated for Best World Song by the Hollywood Music in Media Association, features young Walnut Creek flutist on the Native American flute.