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Published on 05/25/1998 All articles from this issue

Rancho Roundup features pancakes, and a tribute to rock greats

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Town Crier Staff Report

Enjoy free pancakes and hear top youth entertainment during the 39th annual Rancho Roundup, held from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, at the Rancho Shopping Center. The center is located at the corner of Foothill Expressway and Springer-Magdalena avenues.

Situated at the Oak Tree Stage in the north end of the shopping center, the event benefits seven local Parent-Teachers' Associations.

PTA parents will set up and serve the breakfast, and local merchants will be on hand to flip the flapjacks.

The menu also includes link sausages, orange juice and bagels, all donated by Rancho merchants.

Entertainment begins at 8:30 a.m. with the Mountain View High School Jazz Ensemble, followed by the Merit '50s Entertainment Company at 10 a.m. The company, run exclusively by seventh graders from the tiny Merit Academy in Santa Cruz, will perform imitations of Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon and others who were popular three decades before the Merit entertainers were even born.

Gulliver Spring will follow at 11 a.m. with guitar music.

A $2 donation buys you a raffle ticket, good for the opportunity to win a collective $1,000 in prizes.

Prizes include a $500 Rancho shopping spree and $500 more in assorted prizes from stores. Raffle tickets can be purchased before, during, and after the event.

Rancho promoter Joel Goldfus said the event, through raffle prize donations from Rancho merchants, results in nearly $15,000 annually for purchasing playground equipment, computers and other resources for Los Altos elementary schools.

For more information, call 941-1760.