Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
Albany High School student Nirvaan Jaswal, left, and recent graduate Alex Li have been organizing to lower their city’s voting age from 18 to 16 in its City Council and school board elections. The city will vote on a measure to do that Nov. 5.Another win for the students at Albany High! They’ve been campaigning for months to lower the voting age for school board and City Council elections from 18 to 16, and they passed the first hurdle on March 25, when the Albany school board approved the idea.
Recent graduate Alex Li, who has been spearheading the campaign along with Albany High student Nirvaan Jaswal, agrees. Now the battle moves to its peak: Nov. 5, when the voters will have the final say, and the students are already enlisting their schoolmates for the big push. Some will remember her as the city’s mayor or as president of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II National Historical Park in nearby Richmond or for her membership in the National Women’s Political Caucus, Soroptimist International of El Cerrito, the Contra Costa Chapter of the National Women’s Political Caucus and many other local organizations. However, I will always remember her as the woman who saved the Shadi sculptures.
Finally, he had a total reproduction of the city of Bethlehem, and people drove from miles away every Christmas, year after year, to see it. Shadi was not a Christian himself; he was a Sikh.
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