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What four things do residents enjoy doing in their spare time? • Outdoor sporting activities such as swimming and softball • Visiting the City's many parks, include at the marina shoreline • Visiting the library -the City's library system sees more than 60,000 patron visits each month, a very high number considering the city's population is roughly 80,000 • Golfing How do the seasons play a role in outdoor activities? San Leandro's moderate and pleasant climate, with year-round average daytime temperatltres ranging from 55-7~oF, is ideally suited to year-round outdoor activities. What three annual events is your community known for? • Annual Cherry Festival in June • Annual Trivia Bee in October • Sausae:e & Suds Festival -City has historically been a large food matrufacturing town, with a good number of sausage makers headquartered here, including Saags and Aidells • Miracle on E. 14`x' Street winter holiday celebration • Library Summer Reading Program -only program in CA that offers free carnival for participants that successfully complete the program • Ongoing Annual .Events that celebrate community diversity, including celebrations for Black History Month, Lunar New Year, Cisco de Mayo and the City's annual Heritage Fair Can you please take some time to describe your parks systems? San Leandro has a large and varied parks system that offers a wide variety of activities for all ages. City park facilities include swimming pools, including the recently reconstructed, state-of--the-art Family Aquatic Center, a shoreline trail system and marina, various competitive sports fields that are used for local sporting events and draw teams from. throughout the region, a skate park, and two spectacular golf courses as part of the IVlonarch Bay Golf Club --the Marina Executive 9 (the only 30-par 9-hole course in the Bay Area) and the l8-hole Tony Lema course, which is one of the few links-style courses in the Bay Area and is rated as one of the best in the region -which together host over 100 tournaments each year, including the prestigious San Leandro Open, which started several years ago. Also, most of the city's neighborhood parks have been upgraded in the past several years with modern playground equipment and improved landscaping. San Leandro sits adjacent to Lake Chabot, which is part of the East Bay Regional Parks system and offers outdoor activities as hiking, boating, camping and picnicking. San Leandro is also close to major sporting and entertainment venues, including the Oakland McAfee Coliseum and Cisco Field, which are home to the Oakland A's, Golden State Warriors and Oakland. Raiders.