By History House needs more docents
Additional docents are needed to give tours of the History House and promote the enjoyable programs scheduled for the new Los Altos History Museum. Numerous training dates are scheduled throughout the summer.
Docents work one afternoon a month, between noon and 4 p.m., Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday.
Beginning in fall 2000, docents will be needed to work on Thursday and Friday as well. Training sessions are short.
For more information, contact pnewman@stanford.edu or call 948-9427.
Host families needed for exchange students
Two non-profit exchange programs are looking for Los Altos families to house students this summer.
Academic Year in America, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by the American Institute for Foreign Study Foundation needs host families to house German students ages 15-18 for five to 10 months, beginning in August. Students will arrive with full medical insurance, their own spending money and English skills.
For more information, call Danielle Carpino at (800) 322-4678, ext. 5164, or go to www.academicyear.org.
LEC (Loisirs Etranger Culturels) needs 10 families or more to house French teens for three to four weeks this summer. For more information, call Marie-Leonore Faiez at (408) 748-1611.
Hidden Villa closed during summer camp
Hidden Villa wilderness preserve in Los Altos Hills will be closed to the general public through Aug. 28 while its summer camp program is in session, except for the following dates: July 22 and 23, 29 and 30 and Aug. 12 and 13.
Service agency needs volunteers
The Community Services Agency needs volunteers to work one to two hours a week to help provide food to local low-income families and the homeless. Volunteer work includes the pick-up and delivery of donated food from local markets to the agency’s Food and Nutrition Center. Weekday morning positions are available.
For more information, call 964-4630.
Ralph Vetterlein mediation fund
Friends of Ralph Vetterlein, who passed away June 1, have found a way to continue his legacy. The Los Altos Mediation Program (LAMP) has established a fund to be administrated by the Los Altos Community Foundation. The fund will be used to further the mission of the program and help empower residents to resolve their disputes.
Besides serving as the director and a mediator of the Los Altos Mediation Program, Vetterlein also promoted 1998 as “The Year of the Good Neighbor” by suggesting various activities to encourage neighbors to get better acquainted.
Contributions, which are tax deductible, may be made to the “Ralph Vetterlein Mediation Fund” and mailed to Los Altos Community Foundation, 183 Hillview Ave., Los Altos 94022. For information, call 949-5267.
Boys Scouts look to camp
Boy Scout Troop 33, sponsored by the Los Altos Methodist Church, is seeking contributions to send Bay Area Boy Scouts to Camp Oljato, a Boy Scout camp in the high Sierras, this summer. Scoutmasters of more than a dozen troops in the Pacific Skyline District were asked to recommend a scout, who, but for lack of funds, would be an excellent candidate to benefit from Camp Oljato. Tax-deductible contributions should be made out to “BSA Troop 33 Damien Siler Memorial Fund,” and sent to Phillip C. Lyman, Trustee- Coordinator, 1305 Ranchita Drive, Los Altos 94024.
Deer Hollow Farm tours
The Friends of Deer Hollow Farm will hold tours of the farm 10 a.m. to noon, July 15. The tours will be free, but donations will be appreciated. To make reservations or to learn more about the tours, call 965-FARM.
Los Altos History House
Travel in time with the History House Museum to the days of the 1930s. Enjoy docent-led tours through a fully-furnished home, beautiful gardens, and part of an original apricot orchard that is still being cultivated.
The museum is open noon to 4 p.m., Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tour groups may be scheduled by calling at least one month in advance.
For more information, call 964-4467 to reserve a tour.
Be a part of time capsule
The Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Time Capsule will be buried on the grounds of the Los Altos History House this fall for opening in the year 2100.
A resident committee is requesting items from every resident, family, adult or child, service club, organization, church, business and school classroom within the communities of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.
Your input can be an essay on your “Life & Times in Los Altos,” a poem, a short family history with pictures, or your predictions for the year 2100. Use our form or create your own format. Limit your input to two 8 1/2-by-11-inch pages. The committee is handling the preservation details.
Drop off or mail submissions to: Millennium Time Capsule, c/o Coldwell Banker Residential Office, The Gateway Building, 496 First St., Los Altos 94022.
CSA encourages volunteers
The Community Services Agency, serving Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, needs volunteers to help frail, homebound seniors maintain their independence. Volunteers can help with such tasks as grocery shopping or escorting seniors to medical appointments.
Volunteers are also needed to pick up donated food from local markets or to assist in CSA’s Food and Nutrition Center. For more information on these and other positions, call Penny Morehead at 964-4630 or 968-0836.
Daughters workshops
Daughters of the American Revolution hold workshops the first Wednesday of every month. For more information, including the time and place of workshops, call 494-1866.
