April 7, 2006

NEWS BRIEFS

Great American Litter Pickup slated for April 8 at LeyVa Middle School

The office of District 8 Council member Dave Cortese invites all Evergreen residents to help pitch in and keep
Evergreen clean. The Great American Litter Pickup is slated for Saturday, April 8 at LeyVa Middle School, located on 1865 Monrovia Dr., from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided to volunteers.

For more information, please call The-Vu Nguyen at the District 8 office at 535-4908

Evergreen Valley Recreational Club opening soon

The Evergreen Valley Recreational Club will be re-opening on May 15 for another fun summer of swimming and basking in the sun.

This is a pool association with memberships limited to approximately 120 families in the Evergreen community. The pool is located at 3380 Woodside Lane in San Jose.

The club has one large heated swimming pool, a wading pool, new public showers and restrooms. A picnic area and BBQ’s are available or you can reserve the area and host a swim party. A volleyball/large play area is also available for your enjoyment. Membership dues for the new season are $400 per family. An application along with dues must be turned in prior to May 15, 2006 to reserve a slot.

Applications are located under the mailbox at the address mentioned above. You can drop off completed applications in the mailbox at the pool. To get more information, please contact Mary Kauzlarich at 270-1024 or email maryw_k@yahoo.com

Tutors needed for Partners in Reading

Do you enjoy reading and helping others? Consider a richly rewarding volunteer opportunity as a tutor in the adult literacy program-Partners in Reading. Work one-to-one or lead a small group with English-speaking adults, who read or write below a ninth grade level, to achieve their learning goals. Fourteen hours of training, instructional materials, and on-going support are all provided free. No experience necessary. Required commitment of two hours per week for six months. Call the San Jose Public Library at 808-2361 more information and upcoming training dates.

37th Annual Evergreen Invitational Golf Tournament
at the Villages Golf and Country Club set for July 21 and 22

The 37th Annual Evergreen Invitational Golf Tournament will be held at the Villages Golf and Country Club on July 21 and 22, 2006. This major annual event offers a unique opportunity to present your business to the entire Villages Community and to many other communities in the Bay Area through exposure to many invited guests.

The Villages is a Bay Area award-winning, active adult community, with over 4,200 residents and professional adults. Each year at this time, The Villages invites members of the local business community to assist in the sponsorship of this Villages event.

All sponsors will be prominently posted at the clubhouse and in our printed brochure. Individual sponsors are also displayed at various tee areas throughout the golf course. The Villages would like to invite you to become a sponsor of this event. The sponsor participation categories are:

Platinum Sponsor ($2500) – display located at practice and all 18 holes as well as a large listing in the sponsor’s brochure

Gold Sponsor ($1000) – display located at practice Putting Green /Driving Range/Clubhouse area and a medium listing in the sponsor’s brochure

Silver Sponsor ($500) – display located at practice Putting Green /Driving Range/Clubhouse area and a small listing in the sponsor’s brochure

Bronze Sponsor ($200) – display located at a dedicated hole and a business card size listing in the sponsor’s brochure

San Jose Libraries and Woman’s Day magazine
want to know how a library has changed your life

Libraries can change lives. They are places of lifelong learning and opportunity that can help people discover the world.

San Jose libraries, including the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (co-managed by San Jose Public Library and San Jose State University Library), cumulatively receive more than 6 million visits and check out nearly 14.5 million items each year, making the system one of the busiest for its size nationwide. To put this perspective, combined visits to San Jose libraries in fiscal year 2004/2005 exceeded the combined attendance at San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s games in 2005.

This spring, San Jose libraries, the American Library Association and Woman’s Day magazine invite residents to share how the library has changed the lives of the people in our community.

From now until May 10, library users over the age of 18 who have a story to tell about how the library has changed his or her life can send it to womansday@ala.org. Four of the stories will be featured in an upcoming issue of Woman’s Day. The story must be 700 words or less.

The initiative is part of a program sponsored by the American Library Association and Woman’s Day magazine called “Put it in Writing @ your library,” a part of The Campaign for America’s Libraries.

The Campaign is a multi-year public awareness and advocacy campaign designed to promote the value of public, school, academic and special libraries and librarians in the 21st century.