By Volunteer service award nominees
The Joint Community Volunteer Service Awards Committee is seeking nominations for its 20th Annual Awards Luncheon celebration, scheduled for Dec. 6 at the Los Altos Youth Center. Distinguished volunteers who have given outstanding service and who often receive little notice for their efforts are selected and recognized.
If you know someone who has given generously of time, leadership, experience and heart to the benefit of the Los Altos/Los Altos Hills community, nomination packets are available at Los Altos City Hall, Los Altos Hills Town Hall and the Los Altos Chamber of Commerce.
Submissions, including nomination form and supporting letters, must be received by Nov. 8.
For more information, call Virginia Roberts at 941-1697.
Talk on German artist Richter
For German painter Gerhard Richter, art is an interplay between the act of painting and other visual media, such as photography, newspaper articles, postcards and magazine images. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art docent Michelle Kissack is scheduled to give a talk on Richter and his art at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 6, at the Los Altos main library. The lecture is free and is sponsored by Friends of the Los Altos Library.
Nearly 140 works by the artist, displayed at the SFMOMA through Jan. 14, 2003, showcase Richter’s unique range of styles: abstracts, landscapes, portraiture and photo-based painting. “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting” incorporates technology and mass media imagery with traditional studio methods and questions the importance of stylistic consistency and the spontaneous nature of creativity.
Kissack is a retired Belgian Congo-born neurologist whose second vocation is art and painting.
Drop off used eyeglasses at Coldwell Banker
Trick-or-treat night is “Sight Night” for volunteers across North America. During the week of Oct. 28, old eyeglasses may be dropped off at the Coldwell Banker office at 161 S. San Antonio Road in Los Altos.
The program is part of a nationwide collection of eyeglasses by LensCrafters and Lions Clubs International. Volunteers will clean, repair, classify old eyeglasses by prescription and hand-deliver them to people who need glasses but can’t afford them.
Whether the glasses are big or small, fashionably in or out, they could change how someone sees the world. Children’s glasses are especially in need as they are in high demand but short supply.
Bring your old glasses to Coldwell Banker and let someone else see. Bring them in on Halloween and get some candy in return.
Volunteers needed for Partners in Caring
The Stanford University Chaplaincy Office invites volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to community members who are homebound. Opportunities include friendly visiting, essential transportation, shopping and meal assistance. Training and ongoing education are required.
For more information, call 723-5101.
Nobel Prize-winning astronomer to give talk
The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series continues with a talk by Arno Penzias, recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. Penzias is scheduled to give a nontechnical illustrated lecture titled “A Personal View of the Big Bang” 7 p.m., Nov. 13, in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills.
Penzias will describe how he and Robert Wilson used a sensitive radio telescope at Bell Laboratories in the 1960s to detect the “radiation echo” of the Big Bang, showing that the universe did indeed begin in a hot, dense and explosive state.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 949-7888.
History museum seeks volunteers
The Los Altos History Museum is looking for museum store sales volunteers, tour docents, resource volunteers and interns. Sales volunteers and docents are needed noon to 4 p.m., Thursday through Sunday.
For more information, logon to www.losaltoshistory.org.
High school through graduate school interns can join the intern program to gain experience, earn community service hours or learn about their community.
To volunteer for the internship program, e-mail madelyn.crawford@ci.los-altos.ca.us or call 948-9427, ext. 10.
