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| JULY |
CITY COUNCIL: Study Session 7-8PM: Status Report from Composting Task Force; Approval of a Final Map to Subdivide Three Lots into Separate Parcels and Approval of Community Room Use Agreement at Alma Plaza; Approval to put a Business Licence Tax on November ballot; Recommendation Regarding a Preferred Alternative for an Initial Flood Protection Project on San Francisquito Creek; High Speed Rail Update.
The United Nations Association Film Festival film, "Belonging," is a scientific and spiritual journey into humanity's footprint on the Earth. It’s at Avenidas in La Comida at 2 PM and it’s free.
MEET THE POLICE CHIEF: Interim Police Chief, Dennis Burns, and other members of PAPD will talk about what's going on in the community, what the department has been doing and a question and answer session. Garden Court Hotel at 7PM. Refreshments will be served.
TWILIGHT CONCERT -- Luce at 6:30 PM at Mitchell Park Bowl. Original rock embellished with horns, strings & funk.
BROWN BAG CONCERTS -- 12-1 PM at Cogwell Plaza: Broceliande: Celtic & Early Music Quartet. www.broceliande.org
HEALTH CARE REFORM UPDATE: With health reform at the top of the public agenda, the Leagues of Women Voters of the Santa Clara County Council is sponsoring "Health Care Reform Update: Healing What Ails Us" on Friday, July 24, in San Jose. The free public event will be held at Cadence Design Systems, Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Avenue, San Jose, from 8:30 AM to 12:45 PM.
Pre-register at vgilfix@pacbell.net. On-site registration is available from 8 to 8:30 AM if seating permits.
Common Ground EDIBLE LANDSCAPING CLASS from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM. FEE: $29. 559 College Avenue). To register call 493-6072 or http://introgardenherbalism.eventbrite.com.
USGS Monthly meeting: Restoring California's "Inland Sea".
The Salton Sea is California's largest lake and has a surface elevation about 230 feet below sea level. The Salton Sea is a terminal lakeit has no outlets, inflows are principally from agricultural drainage, and its salinity is about 30% greater than the Pacific Ocean This "inland sea", a critical stop for migratory birds on the Pacific and Central Flyways, is used by more than 400 species of birds. Proposed water transfers will result in loss of aquatic and wetland habitat, increased salinity, and degraded regional air quality unless mitigation actions are taken.
Meeting at USGS, 345 Middlefield Road, Conference Room A, Bldg 3, Menlo Park at 7 PM.
| AUGUST |
Third annual Edible Landscaping Tour in collaboration with Common Ground Garden Supply and Education Center. The tour showcases a wide range of edible landscapes that have been created by the homeowners themselves, or created with the help of landscape professionals.
www.conexions.org/greenfork/gardentour for more information and to register.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT - Come join the Midtown Residents Association at Hoover park at 5:15PM for a casual Multi-Cultural pot luck. Grills will be fired up - bring a dish to share. We will be visited by a host of city staff and council bearing gifts. More about National Night Out at http://www.papd.org under Community Involvement. The Midtown Green Team suggests: We can minimize waste if you bring your own plates, cups and utensils. And, how about coming by bike? And maybe (re)use a bottle so you don't use "bottled water?"
San Francisco Mime Troupe free show "Too Big to Fail" in Mitchell Park. Music at 6.30 PM. Show is at 7 PM.
Avenidas Sixth annual Caregiver Conference from 8:30 AM -3:00 PM held at the Avenidas Rose Kleiner Senior Day Health Center and the Mountain View Senior Center, at 270 and 266 Escuela Avenue in Mt View. FEE: $35/Avenidas members, $40 for non-members through August 14. Registration is $45 for everyone after that date. More info at 289-5445, or visit www.avenidas.org.
Avenidas goes to see King Tut at the de Young Museum. Member price: $75.00/person. Call 289-5400 or sign up online at www.avenidas.org.
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