2012 Relay for Life
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Get ready, get set, go. The planning for the local 2012 Relay for Life is getting geared up. Since our local relay began eight years ago, Carol & I have participated in each event walking side-by-side with our children. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I walk as a survivor.
This year’s Relay will add a new focus on caregivers as well as on survivors. I believe that this is a great way to say thank you, to those treasured individuals we leaned hard on in a time of uncertainty. The 2012 event in Los Altos is scheduled for June 9-10 at Egan School.
While the event is still five months away, it takes a gathering of spirited community members to pull it all together. It’s always great to see Los Altos come together as a community of one. One Purpose. One Goal. One Weekend.
Per the American Cancer Society (ACS), “Relay For Life began in Tacoma, Washington. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a Tacoma colorectal surgeon, wanted to enhance the income of his local ACS office and to show support for all of his patients who had battled cancer. He decided to personally raise money for the fight by doing something he enjoyed – running marathons.
In May 1985, Dr. Klatt spent a grueling 24 hours circling the track at Baker Stadium at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. He ran for more than 83 miles. That first year, nearly 300 of Dr. Klatt’s friends, family, and patients watched as he ran and walked the course. Throughout the night, friends donated $25 to run or walk with Dr. Klatt for 30 minutes. His efforts raised $27,000 to fight cancer.
While circling the track those 24 hours, Dr. Klatt thought about how others could take part in his mission to fight cancer. He envisioned a 24-hour team relay event that could raise more money to fight cancer. Over the next few months, he pulled together a small committee to plan the first team relay event, Relay For Life, which began in Tacoma, Washington.
In the mid-1980s, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a Tacoma colorectal surgeon, wanted to enhance the income of his local American Cancer Society office and to show support for all of his patients who had battled cancer. He decided to personally raise money for the fight by doing something he enjoyed – running marathons.
While circling the track those 24 hours, Dr. Klatt thought about how others could take part in his mission to fight cancer. He envisioned a 24-hour team relay event that could raise more money to fight cancer. Over the next few months, he pulled together a small committee to plan the first team relay event.”
Since the first local relay in June 2004, Los Altos has raised nearly $3 million to support research, education, advocacy and patient services.
For more information, feel free to contact us and we will ensure you get to the right person.
Los Altan of the Year
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Every year our local paper, the Town Crier, selects an individual as Los Altan of the Year. This honor has been bestowed to a number of individuals that I have always held in high regard.
They are selflessly committed to our community. They create bonds that make Los Altos what it is today.
This year, Len Edwards was selected. His ethics are beyond reproach, he is an advocate for families in crisis, and has spent 26 years as a judge.
Below you will find the Crier’s announcement of Len’s selection and a dinner in his honor. Enjoy …
The Town Crier named “Len” Edwards, who as a Santa Clara County family and juvenile court judge revolutionized his profession, the 2011 Los Altan of the Year.
Modeled after Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the Town Crier bestows the annual honor on residents whose community building and good will reflect positively on the city.
Edwards, 70, a Los Altos Hills resident, spent his 26 years as a judge evolving from detached arbitrator to active participant in improving the lives of at-risk children and families in crisis.
Childhood memories of his parents’ bitter divorce inspired Edwards to craft new rules, such as permitting judges to appoint counsel to represent children and specifying the duties of an attorney for a child in custody cases. He also was instrumental in mandating a three-year minimum term for juvenile court judges to provide continuity and enhance effectiveness.
Energetic and committed, Edwards has authored numerous articles and made films based on his work.
The depth of his involvement – founding as well as participating in numerous family-advocacy organizations – has earned him dozens of awards. His work has played a vital role in the Santa Clara County court system’s standing as one of the most exemplary in the country.
He took to heart the need for juvenile judges to reach out to the community and identify services that address the needs of children.
He expanded his vision outside the court, helping domestic violence victims by founding the county’s Domestic Violence Council in 1993.
Another major achievement was his 1986 co-founding of Child Advocates of Silicon Valley with Nora Manchester (see Town Crier Holiday Fund, page 11). He also facilitated previously combative professionals – social workers and judges – in establishing dialogue that led to improved communication and performance.
Since retiring from the bench in 2006, Edwards has been as active as ever, consulting with juvenile and family courts across the state, country and world.
Edwards is scheduled to be honored in a full-length Jan. 4 Town Crier cover story and at a Jan. 20 invitation-only dinner at the Los Altos Golf & Country Club.
Co-op Preschool Thrives In New Location
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There are literally dozens of day care and preschool options available in Los Altos. From the tried and true “in home” care, to both small and large centers, there is something for everyone.
One of the oldest recently moved to a new location. Los Altos Parent Preschool was founded in 1954, just two years after the city was incorporated. It has been a successful model that has seen hundreds of children pass through its program.
Recently, Los Altos Patch contributor, Jennifer van der Kleut, wrote an article about this wonderful program. Below, is a slightly edited version. Enjoy …
For more than 50 years, Los Altos Parent Preschool (LAPP) has been a thriving and successful preschool that parents from as far away as San Jose and Milpitas are willing to make the trek to.
For a long time, LAPP had been located in a corner of the Los Altos High School campus, since the preschool is actually part of the Mountain View-Los Altos Adult Education School.
Though the reason they were losing their location was understandable, it was still devastating to the preschool, when the teachers and parents learned the news.
“Los Altos High had a tremendous growth and expansion going on at their school, and they just needed the extra space,” LAPP parent volunteer Shanon Pestrong explained.
As soon as they found out, Pestrong said a group of LAPP staff and parent volunteers set to work searching for a new location. Fortunately, one came about—a corner of the Covington Elementary School campus.
LAPP’s campus is bigger, better and newer than ever, said Pestrong. The Covington campus features a new indoor classroom customized to meet the needs of LAPP’s programs, with several activity stations.
There is now also a very large outdoor classroom, equipped with multiple areas for hands-on learning, such as sensory play, science, gardening, painting, block play and sand play.
Pestrong said, part of being a co-op school is that every family is assigned roughly three “jobs” for the year, to satisfy their portion of the co-op requirements.
The first job is to be assigned a regular day each week to work in the classroom as the teacher’s helper. The second is to be assigned a specific job or area of contribution that the parent will do for the year.
The last part of the parent commitment is to attend regular school meetings and take part in parent education. Pestrong explained, as part of the Mountain View-Los Altos Adult Education School, LAPP offers an element of education to help parents learn how to be better parents.
Pestrong said, she also loves the sense of community she found with other parents at LAPP. And, you just can’t match the camaraderie and emotional support that comes with volunteering together each week, she said.
All in all, Pestrong says, LAPP has been a wonderful experience for her family; one that she would recommend to anyone. “I’m just very grateful that our family has the flexibility to be able to use Los Altos Parent Preschool, and I really love it.”
Capturing The Essence Of Los Altos
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Every community has individuals who lead by example. Los Altos is fortunate to have so many residents who contribute to the essence of what defines our community.
As I’ve highlighted before, even the mission statement of our village references that this is a great place to live and raise a family. From time-to-time you will find a resident being highlighted in local, regional or national news.
Recently, Los Altos Patch wrote about Los Altan Sherie Sweiss Dodsworth. She represents the essence of what Los Altos is today. Below you will find an edited version of Rebecca Duran’s story. Enjoy …
You just never know, Los Altan Sherie Sweiss Dodsworth said. You just never know where life takes you.
She’s gone from uncertain college freshman at St. Mary’s College of California to a formidable woman with a string of successes in her life: chairwoman of the Board of Borel Bank and Trust, head of the St. Mary’s Alumni Association, entrepreneur.
On Saturday she added another one—commencement speaker at her alma mater, where she addressed approximately 450 students of the Class of 2011.
“I broke through glass ceilings, like being the first female president of the alumni association of a college that had been all male up until 1970,” she said. “St. Mary’s taught me to believe in myself”
Dodsworth shared those St. Mary’s experiences and success in business at the college’s 148th commencement ceremony. After the ceremony, she said it never would have crossed her mind that she’d be a speaker at her alma mater. One can never truly predict one’s success.
From her graduation to today, one thing has lead to another.
Dodsworth received the San Francisco Most Influential Women in Business Award in 2010 and was honored by St. Mary’s as one of its 40 most influential alumnae. She has served as a trustee of St. Mary’s and was the first alumna to serve as president of the College’s Board of Regents. She was also the first woman to be elected Alumna of the Year in 1999.
She became the first female president of the Alumni Association, president of the college’s Board of Regents and a trustee of the school. Her position on the Board of Regents is something she said helped her become chairwoman of the board of Borel Private Bank and Trust Company in 2004.
In Los Altos, she said, there is a sense of working together for the future.
“People try to look out for what’s best for the city, for our youth and the community for years to come.”
When she was 50, she made a goal to run a marathon, she told the graduating seniors Saturday. After crossing the finish line, she said she had her arms up in the air with a smile on her face.
She felt like she could accomplish anything, she said. She once questioned herself if she has what it takes to be successful, but her knowledge and perseverance nullifies that.
“If you sign up to do it, you’ve got to do it really well,” she said.
Community Briefs for Los Altos
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From time to time, I will highlight the events to help encourage attendance and participation. Enjoy …
ZIMBABWE RUN RETURNS TO MOUNTAIN VIEW
The 12th Annual Run for Zimbabwe Orphans and Community Fair is scheduled March 27 at St. Joseph School, 1120 Miramonte Ave., Mountain View. The annual event benefits the Makumbi Children’s Home in Zimbabwe.
For more information or to register, visit www.ZimbabweParaguay.org.
GREENTOWN OFFERS ALTERNATIVES TO DRIVING
GreenTown Los Altos has scheduled a public meeting to kick off city of Los Altos participation in a Drive Less Challenge, 7-9 p.m. March 29 at Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave. The event includes tips on bicycle/pedestrian safety and information on the latest bikes, gear and accessories for safe commuting.
A Los Altos police officer will provide safety tips for bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists who share the roads. A bicycle expert will demonstrate useful gear and accessories.
For more information, visit greentownlosaltos.org or call 383-7540.
LOS ALTOS LIVE!
The third annual Los Altos Live! talent show is scheduled 7 p.m. April 2 at Los Altos High School’s Eagle Theater, 210 Almond Ave. The event, co-sponsored by the Los Altos Cultural Association and the Los Altos Town Crier, features more than 20 acts over approximately 90 minutes.
For more information, e-mail Abby Althoff at abbyalthoff@yahoo.com or Mike Abrams at michael@abrams4.com.
FRENCH FAIR BENEFITS NON-PROFIT PARTNERS
The sixth Peninsula French Fair, “A Day in France,” is scheduled 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 2 at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Visitors will have an opportunity to browse booths featuring vendors and artists offering a wide range of services and products, including handmade jewelry, antiques and original art.
Highlights of the fair include a fashion show with the latest creations from French designers, a dance performance by Harmony Dance Center and crepes and pastries from French bakeries.
Partners for New Generations, a Los Altos non-profit organization and co-organizer of the fair, will receive a portion of the proceeds. Partners for New Generations provides mentors and tutors to aid students with challenges in school.
For more information, visit www.frenchfair.org.
ROADRUNNERS SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
The volunteer RoadRunners Transportation Service, sponsored by El Camino Hospital, seeks volunteers to provide door-to-door service for people who can’t drive and don’t have other ways to get to their medical appointments.
The volunteering schedule is flexible: drive one day a week, 1/2 day a week or remain on call. Requirements include a California driver’s license, patience and dependability. Volunteers drive hospital vehicles, and service requires no lifting or physical demands.
Orientation and training are provided, and volunteers benefit from free access to hospital resources, including classes offered through the education department. To sign up, e-mail recruit_aux@elcaminohospital.org or call 988-8213.
For more information, call Bonnie Adamson, RoadRunner coordinator, at 988-7651.
PNG SEEKS VOLUNTEERS TO MENTOR LOCAL YOUTH
Partners for New Generations, a non-profit organization, provides tutors for local elementary, middle and high schools students; mentors at Los Altos, Mountain View and Alta Vista High Schools; and child advocates for wards of the Santa Clara County Child Dependency Court.
To volunteer or for more information, contact Linda Waud at Linda.waud@mvla.net or 691-2434, or visit www.partnersfornewgenerations.org.
Los Altan of the Year
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Every year our local paper, the Town Crier, selects an individual as Los Altan of the Year. This honor has been bestowed to a number of individuals that I have always held in high regard. They are selflessly committed to our community. They create bonds that make Los Altos what it is today.
This year, Don McDonald was selected. He is widely respected, thoroughly humble, and a consummate gentleman. Below you will find an edited version of the Crier’s story. Enjoy …
Donald C. McDonald’s eyes light up as he talks enthusiastically about the characters and events that framed early Los Altos history. The names Paul Shoup and George Ramsey may not mean much to today’s Los Altos residents, but these early settlers fascinate the man whose love of history is always very much part of his present.
That love has spurred longtime, ongoing volunteer work at the Los Altos History Museum. But Don’s cultured side – he loves travel, fine art and opera – also played a role in his helping to found Los Altos Sister Cities Inc., an ambassadorial organization that has spread the good will of this community to countries around the world.
Don, 92, has sparked interest in the stories of others among countless Los Altos residents. He has played a major role in the community’s commitment to respecting its history.
Because of his 40 years of volunteer work enlightening the Los Altos community, the Town Crier has named Don its 2010 Los Altan of the Year. The paper presents its annual honor to residents whose contributions create good will and make Los Altos a desirable community in which to live.
Don, known by many as the town historian, said he was “deeply honored and humbled.”
“This is right up there with a major award stipend I got from NSA (National Security Agency),” Don winked, “but that one paid better because a lifetime stipend went along with it.”
Don began volunteering not long after he arrived in Los Altos in 1970. With the Los Altos History House Association, he worked as a docent, conducted approximately 100 interviews for the museum’s Oral History Program and wrote many historical items for the museum’s newsletter and the Town Crier.
He was guest curator for the 2000 exhibition “Los Altos as a Homefront in World War II,” and used that information as part of a new book published this year for which he wrote captions. “Images of America: Early Los Altos and Los Altos Hills” (Arcadia Publishing, 2010) is credited to Don McDonald and the Los Altos History Museum. He attended special events and book signings in support of the book, which covers the history of the region from 1850 to 1950.
In 1990-1991, Don served as Los Altos Sister Cities vice president for Bendigo, Australia. The Los Altos Historical Commission appointed him a member in 1999.
From 1980 until last year, he volunteered at the Bechtel International Center at Stanford University, both as a teacher and a conversational partner for foreign scholars and their spouses. From 1974 until 1995, he periodically taught poetry classes for the Palo Alto Adult School.
His interest in history led him to join such local organizations as the Peninsula Civil War Round Table (where he served as president in 1991), the South Bay Civil War Round Table, the Palo Alto Historical Association, the Mountain View Historical Society, the Moffett Field Historical Society and the Society for Aviation History. He has also written for the Glendale Historical Society.
For his volunteer work, Don received the Los Altos-Los Altos Hills Joint Community Volunteer Service Award in 2000. And in 2008, the Los Altos City Council honored him by proclaiming his 90th birthday, July 25, “Don McDonald Day.”
Pursuing a special interest in early music, Don founded the Washington Recorder Society in 1957. He organized and led the Silver Spring Consort, which sponsored a number of early music programs in the Silver Spring Library in Maryland. In addition to being an excellent recorder player, Don is a published poet.
He is an avid amateur photographer. Don enjoys theater and performed in a number of community theater productions, as well as at Camp Zama, Japan.
For nearly 30 years, Don and his wife, Audrey, traveled worldwide. They took many trips to Europe and Australia; polar voyages from Greenland to the Canadian Arctic, and to Antarctica; three extensive freighter trips – around South America, from and to San Francisco (1976); around the world, from Antwerp westward to Rotterdam (1991); and from New Orleans to Algeria and Egypt, returning through the St. Lawrence Seaway to Cleveland (1978). They also participated in 10 Elderhostel programs in the United States and one in France.
Their north Los Altos home is filled with items collected on their travels, such as boomerangs from Australia and woodblocks from Japan. But Don’s biggest and most important collections are friends.
With typical humility, Don downplays his achievements and attributes his life’s successes to good fortune.
“I think 10 percent is genealogy, 5 percent is not doing the wrong things and 85 percent is pure luck,” Don said in explaining his success – and longevity.
Community Volunteer Opportunities
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Every year, around this time, Carol & I are asked about available volunteer activities around town. As far back as we can remember, we’ve always been a part of one coordinated effort or another. Annually, we donate an average of 600 hours of volunteer time towards building a stronger community.
Not surprisingly, most residents in Los Altos volunteer. Whether it be in their children’s school, at their place of worship, or even with one of the local service clubs. There is something for everyone.
For those looking for a new volunteer opportunity, there are many organizations who would love to speak with you. Below, you will find a few of these organizations …
Los Altos History Museum: Learn about the history of the Los Altos area and help others enjoy the museum. Training provided. Flexible hours or a regularly scheduled shift. 948-9427, ext. 91; volunteer@losaltoshistory.org.
English-in-Action: Seeks people to converse in English one hour a week with Stanford’s international students, scholars or spouses. 327-7412; 498-5252; eia@ccisstanfordu.org.
American Cancer Society Discovery Shop: Downtown Los Altos. Proceeds go to cancer awareness, education and improving the comfort of cancer patients. 949-0505.
Assistance League Costume Bank: New volunteers sought for Los Altos shop. 941-2610.
Community Services Agency: Help a few hours a week to drive frail seniors to medical appointments or take home-bound seniors grocery shopping. 964-4630.
Deer Hollow Farm: Lead small groups of elementary school children as they visit farm animals, explore the wilderness preserve or discover local history and culture in a replica Ohlone village at Rancho San Antonio County Park. 903-6430; dhfarms@mountainview.gov.
Pathways Hospice: Seeks caring volunteers to help patients and their caregivers manage care at home. Volunteers provide companionship, practical help and emotional support at a crucial time. Training schedule: (408) 773-4219.
City of Los Altos: Needs handy people to work in the Senior In-Home Repair Program performing minor home repairs. Telephone greeters at City Hall are also needed. Flexible hours and basic training provided. 948-1491, ext. 229.
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: Outdoor educational leaders needed during the week to share nature with children at Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve. 691-1200.
Visit elderly Los Altos residents: People needed for weekly one-hour visits with local seniors. 329-0888.
Hometown Heroes
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Los Altos is made up of a wide variety of individuals who care about giving back to the community. This year, Community Services Agency (CSA) held its 10th breakfast honoring these individuals and organizations.
This year, Paul & Liz Nyberg, publishers of the Los Altos Town Crier, received the heartfelt appreciation of a sell out crowd. The post below is a slightly edited article from the Crier. Enjoy…
With Google located in Mountain View, multimillion-dollar homes spread throughout Los Altos Hills and an estimated median household income of more than $140,000 in Los Altos, it’s sometimes difficult to imagine area residents in dire straits.
But the numbers tell a different story at the Community Services Agency, a support-services non-profit organization that has seen a 300 percent increase in the number of people it serves in the past year alone.
“Poverty and need exist among us,” said CSA Associate Director Maureen Wadiak. “You help us make things happen.”
The “you” was the packed audience gathered Sept. 17 at the Crowne Plaza Cabaña in Palo Alto to honor CSA’s 2010 “Hometown Heroes” – Los Altos residents Liz and Paul Nyberg.
“This large crowd speaks volumes because of those we are honoring today,” said Tom Myers, CSA executive director.
Myers commended the Nybergs’ community involvement. He included Liz’s work tutoring and mentoring students through Partners For New Generations and her volunteer activities with the Los Altos History Museum. He noted Paul’s work with the 10-year-old Los Altos Cultural Association, which has contributed $1 million to projects benefiting Los Altos.
Myers paid tribute to the couple’s ardent support of CSA through the Town Crier’s Holiday Fund and their participation in the agency’s Chefs Who Care monthly fundraisers.
The Nybergs are perhaps best known as publishers of the Los Altos Town Crier, celebrating its 63rd year in business – 17 with the Nybergs at the helm.
“It’s lots of fun being part of the team that creates this hometown paper,” Paul said. “We appreciate our advertisers and readers who keep reading the Town Crier.”
The Nybergs are particularly proud of the newspaper’s annual Holiday Fund, which has raised more than $1.5 million during the past 10 years in support of local non-profit organizations.
Dick Henning, who established the Celebrity Forum Speakers Series, served as guest speaker at the morning-breakfast event. Henning urged the audience to be role models for today’s generation, modeling a love of learning, showing kindness and respect, and serving others. And don’t be afraid to take the lead, Henning said.
“The person who only knows ‘how’ is always a follower to those who know ‘why,’ Henning said, quoting Aristotle.
For more information, visit www.csacares.org.
Volunteers Helping Seniors
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What began as a simple desire to help fellow residents, has blossomed over the past 8 years to include almost a dozen cities and hundreds of volunteers. The focus of all this care an compassion? Our senior citizens. Through the years, Carol & I have been a part of many coordinated efforts. The RSVP program, is once such effort.
The day of volunteering was recently covered by the Town Crier. Below are highlights from a recent article which highlighted how the program has helped to improve the lives of those assisted …
More than 100 Realtor volunteers helped 46 senior households, in the Los Altos and Mountain View area, during Realtor Service Volunteer Week.
Volunteers from Intero Real Estate Services & the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors helped seniors and the homebound with household. Wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a blue-and-yellow logo that identified them as members of the Realtor Service Volunteer Program, workers descended on households to help homeowners and renters with chores they can no longer perform by themselves.
Seniors were grateful for the free service. “I really appreciate the help,” said one 84-year-old senior, who has requested help for the past two years. “I still do quite a bit of the work myself. I even used to climb the stepladder, but my son gets worried about that, so I don’t do it anymore.”
Three volunteers visited her home to wash exterior windows, move a stove and refrigerator so she could clean underneath and replace her smoke-detector batteries. When a volunteer climbed the stepladder to replace the battery, he noticed there were none. That sparked a memory for the senior homeowner.
“I remember taking it out, but I never replaced it, because I couldn’t reach to put the new one in,” she said. Local Realtors officially adopted RSVP as a community outreach project in 2002, and it has since expanded to include realtor association members from other cities and counties.
Every May, these volunteers help seniors and the homebound with household tasks, such as washing windows, installing smoke-detector batteries, flipping mattresses, vacuuming, dusting, replacing light bulbs, changing furnace filters and trimming bushes.
Outside the home of a 90-year-old Mountain View resident, the team of Carol Casas, Hilda and Nick loosened dirt in a flowerbed, swept the patio and carport, trimmed ivy in her front yard and washed windows. “My children have gone and moved away, so it’s wonderful to have help. I couldn’t do it any other way,” the homeowner said. “I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.”
Volunteering – A Los Altos Theme
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Over the past week, since I was appointed Los Altos Mayor by my fellow Council Members, I’ve been asked at least once a day about the many opportunities to volunteer in the community. For background, Carol & I have always enjoyed giving back to the Los Altos community. It has become a part our lives, just like so many others in town.
The great thing about the conversations I have had is hearing about the depth and breadth of volunteering these individuals have done themselves. As residents, they’re collectively, and individually thankful to live in such a great community and volunteering was their way of giving back. This is a common theme in town.
Los Altos represents many things: strong schools; a great place to raise a family; a close-knit community; wonderful residents. Additionally, Los Altos has many venues, organizations and activities which provide multiple opportunities to get involved. Clearly, there is something for everyone to channel their energies on giving back to the community.
Some residents jump right in when they move into town, while others may defer to a later date when they have time to volunteer. The great thing about Los Altos residents is that they have so much to offer, and the organizations they engage with are always grateful to have their help.
While there are many unsung heroes, who are a part of the tapestry we call Los Altos, there are various recognition events that highlight individuals who stepped forth to volunteer.
One such event is this coming Friday, where Los Altos and Los Altos Hills will honor a select group of residents who selflessly give of themselves to make the world a better place. I go each year to this event, and walk away with a sense of awe at the level of contribution these individuals have made.
If you are looking to volunteer in town, send us an email. We would be happy to help you find the right organizations to match your personal interests. The Holidays are a great time to volunteer. You never know where it will lead you.
Finally, if you are looking to move into Los Altos, or simply move across town, we are confident that we can help you with that too. Call us today at 650-823-1434. We would love the opportunity to earn your business.
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