By Garden Club's 'WOW!' speaker
Charlotte Mayfield of Charlotte’s Blossoms in San Francisco will create “Spring Arrangements with WOW!” at the March 27 meeting of the Garden Club of Los Altos, Creekside Room, Los Altos United Methodist Church.
Mayfield is seldom at a loss for words and her arrangements give “pizzazz” a whole new meaning, club members said. A member of the prestigious American Institute of Floral Designers, she has studied floral design in London and Lyon, France. The program starts at approximately 1:30 p.m. and visitors may attend for a $10 fee.
MV parade set for April 28
Mountain View’s 23rd annual spring parade, with the theme “Put On A Happy Face,” will be held April 28.
Festivities will begin at noon with the parade route down Castro Street , starting at Evelyn Avenue and ending at City Hall. After the parade, there will be entertainment, children’s carnival games, music and food.
Applications to participate in the parade are available at the Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Application deadline is April 6.
Community prayer breakfast
Former San Francisco 49ers star Brent Jones highlights an annual Peninsula Community Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for 7 a.m., April 6, at Rickey’s Hyatt Hotel, 4219 El Camino Real.
The breakfast, sponsored by Straight Talk and the Los Altos Prayer Breakfast, features Jones, now a CBS broadcaster, as the keynote speaker. Marshall Heller, a local entrepreneur and businesswoman, will also speak.
Tickets are $20. Reservations are required.
For more information, call 323-8616.
Youngest speechwriter graces PYD meeting
The Peninsula Young Democrats will host Andrei Cherny, deemed the youngest White House speechwriter in American history, at their next meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., March 22, at the Mountain View City Hall council chambers, 500 Castro St.
Cherny, a senior speechwriter to Al Gore at age 21, also has written speeches for President Bill Clinton and Richard Gephardt. He is presently a senior policy advisor to the speaker of the California Assembly.
He authored “The New Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age,” a book that focuses on what government needs to do to adapt to the New Economy and the new expectations of today’s young people.
Admission is free. For more information, call 949-1009 or visit: www.peninsulayd.org.
Charter schools presented at AAUW
The Los Altos-Mountain View Branch of the American Association of University Women holds its next luncheon meeting 11:30 a.m., March 24, at Ristorante Don Giovanni, 235 Castro St., Mountain View. The program will feature the charter school movement. Lunch is $20. Reservations are required by March 14. For more information, call 941-8353.
Art exhibit at town hall
Photography by William Carter and three-dimensional forms by Sharon Chinen will be displayed in the latest exhibition at the Los Altos Hills Town Hall Chambers, running through March 23.
The chambers’ regular hours are 1-5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Carter is a 1957 graduate of Stanford’s Humanities Honors program.
He currently exhibits his work and conducts master classes in photography. Chinen enjoys exploring the three-dimensional forms, striving for those that evoke deeper, undefined emotion and that also contain the simplicity inherent in nature.
For more information, call 941-7222.
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 to the homeless. Volunteer work would includes the pickup 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.
