Community Corner

Dissecting Demise of Jewish Community Center

Jweekly.com takes a look at the Dec. 16 closing of the Tice Valley institution; Chanukah lunch Wednesday was shifted to Danville.

Dan J. Pine takes a look at the demise of the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center Dec. 16 from many, many angles in jweekly.com.

He dissects the loss of a Tice Valley Boulevard institution, founded in 1976, that means some 80 preschoolers and more than two dozen staffers moving on. Gone is the Millman Center, which offered adult day care to many Alzheimer's patients. Unclear is what will happen to the pool.

Pine examines the financial record. In 2010, the Contra Costa JCC separated from the Jewish Federation of the East Bay, and secured two lines of credit for $1.2 million from Scott Valley Bank.

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A Chanukah lunch originally scheduled for Wednesday at the Walnut Creek JCC was shifted to the Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living in Danville.

which Jweekly says has shocked the Bay Area Jewish community, is marked by a Facebook page, where JCC members discuss the closure and recount happy memories at the Tice Valley center over the decades.

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