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In her bid to be California’s lieutenant governor in 2006, state Sen. Jackie Speier (D-8th Senate District) will speak at a breakfast at Fremont Hills Country Club in Los Altos Hills 9 a.m. Friday. The event, sponsored by local supporters, is by invitation only.
During her service in the California Legislature, Speier has set a record by sponsoring 300 pieces of legislation signed into law by both Democratic and Republican governors. She authored bills on privacy and consumer protection, child safety, child support enforcement and health care, many of which have been used as templates for national legislation.
The Los Altos Kiwanis Club named Rich Fischer grand marshal of the 59th annual Kiwanis Pet Parade scheduled 10 a.m. May 20 in downtown Los Altos. Fischer will retire as superintendent of the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District at the end of the school year in June.
People of Note, a fund-raising organization for Music For Minors, has scheduled children’s entertainer Tom Chapin to perform family concerts 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. April 2 at Smithwick Theatre on the Foothill College campus in Los Altos Hills. The Los Altos-based non-profit group is celebrating 30 years of recruiting and training docents to teach music education in local schools. Tickets are $17 for adults, $13 for children 12 and under. For more information, call (408) 255-8322.
The Lively Foundation has presented the Fulbright Scholar Award, a Senior Lectureship grant, to Leslie Friedman of Mountain View, artistic director of The Lively Foundation. Friedman will work with artists and students of the National Academy of Theater and Film in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the spring academic term. The Lively Foundation, founded in 1983, sponsors several concert series in the Bay Area. The Lively School offers classes in Mountain View for children and adults.
The Los Altos-based Peninsula Symphony has scheduled the first competition in honor of Marilyn Mindell, a major force in the Bay Area music community, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University.
Pianists Kenric Tam of Los Altos Hills and Jason Zhang, both from Gunn High School, Danielle Kim from Palo Alto High School and Kyung Sun Min of the School of Choice in Sunnyvale have qualified as finalists. They will each perform a challenging program of solo and concerto music in front of a jury of piano pedagogues and performers. The winner will receive a $1000 check and an opportunity to perform with the symphony on April 1.
The Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition is open to the public. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students.
For more information or to purchase tickets, call 941-5291 or visit www.peninsulasymphony.org.
