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Published on 07/27/1998 All articles from this issue

Community Briefs

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'New and improved' at Heritage Museum

The Museum of American Heritage is sponsoring a lecture given by Diane Claerbout titled "New and Improved: Technology's Attempts to Take the Work Out of Housework." The event is set for today at 7:30 p.m.

Claerbout, a professional librarian and historian, will discuss inventions throughout the decades that attempted to alleviate or eliminate the more time-consuming and difficult aspects of household chores.

The lecture is free for museum members and costs $5 for non-members. The Museum of American Heritage is located at 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto.

For more information, call 321-1004.

Ye Olde Towne Band at Shoup Park

Ye Olde Towne Band offers free concerts in Shoup Park 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sundays, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27. The performances range from marches to popular musicals. The band, conducted by Eldon Wiegman, is sponsored by the Los Altos Sertoma, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs.

For more information, the band's online address is: www.jps.net/stehle/oldtowne/

TC to sponsor West Bay

The Town Crier will be the exclusive media sponsor for opening production of West Bay Opera's 1998-99 season, West Bay officials have announced.

The Palo Alto-based opera company's 43rd season will kick off with Gioachino Rossini's opera, "The Italian Girl in Algers," a comedy sung in English. Performances are scheduled for Oct. 16-18 and 23-25 at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the West Bay Opera Box Office at 424-9999.

The Truman Show in Los Altos

The Sunbird Gallery of Los Altos presents a show of bronze sculptures by Los Altos artist R. J. Truman. The show opened last Saturday and continues through Friday. Truman is the sculptor whose statue, "The Cradle of Liberty," was dedicated in Shoup Park on July 4.

These sculptures at Sunbird, bronze figures about 22 inches tall, "are the pieces that helped me be selected as a finalist," Truman said, for the Shoup Park Veterans Memorial.

Prices of the figures range from $950 to $3,950, Truman said. Also available at the gallery are three different sizes of "The Cradle of Liberty," at 13-, 22- and 48-inches.

Sunbird Gallery is located at 333 First St. in Los Altos. Summer hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 941-1561.

Music For Minors call for docents

Volunteers are needed to enrich music programs in local elementary schools. Visit a classroom once a week as a Music for Minors docent during the upcoming school year. Sharing songs and games, rhythm instruments, music appreciation and movement activities will all be included. Volunteers do not need to be trained musicians.

Training classes are scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning the week of Sept. 15, will be held in both Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.

For more information and an application, e-mail mfmexec@mfm.org or call 941-9130.

50th birthdays at Cubberley

All Cubberley graduates are invited to an old fashioned sock hop to help members of the Cubberley High School class of 1966 celebrate their 50th birthdays.

Come stroll, twist and swing with Gary Mora's "The New Oldies Road Show." See old friends and make new ones.

The celebration is set for Aug. 15, from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Cubberley Auditorium, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The cost is $15 per person. Send a check and self-addressed envelope to Cubberley Class of '66, 15411 Vista Serena, Los Altos Hills 94022.

For more information, call Irene McDougal Jacobi at 493-6971.

Job board for teens

Teens seeking summer employment can post their interest or look for employment offerings on the Teen Job Board posted at the Los Altos Recreation Department through the Teen Program.

The recreation department office, at 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos, is open from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 941-0950, ext. 315.

Host families for French students

Civi-Ling, a nonprofit organization that offers French youth a chance to discover English culture, is looking for Los Altos host families to house exchange students.

Over the past 12 years, families from different countries in Europe, the East Coast and, as of last year, California have provided accommodations. Students are usually between 16 and 21 years old.

The group will be receiving the students from Aug. 7-27.

For more information, call 969-6909.