The following free events are scheduled at the Los Altos main library, 13 S. San Antonio Road. Events are held in the Orchard Room unless otherwise noted.
• 7 p.m. Monday: Photographer and musician David Couzens is set to present photographs from his book “Images of the Caucasus.”
The Los Altos History Museum exhibition “Superstitions” is scheduled to run through Nov. 4 in the J. Gilbert Smith House, 51 S. San Antonio Road.
Los Altos Community Foundation has scheduled its annual brunch 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Los Altos Golf & Country Club, 1560 Country Club Drive.
Each year the foundation’s brunch features a buffet followed by a presentation on innovative approaches to addressing local and global issues.
“One from the Heart,” breakfast fundraiser for Pathways Home Health & Hospice, 7:30 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Information: pathwayshealth.org/breakfast.
2018 Halloween Spooktacular, noon to 4 p.m. on Main and State streets in downtown Los Altos. Sponsored by the Los Altos Village Association. Information: downtownlosaltos.org.
October’s First Friday festivities – featuring an Oktoberfest theme – are scheduled 6-8 p.m. Friday in downtown Los Altos.
Top Shelf, a 17-piece swing band, will perform at Veterans Community Plaza, at the corner of Main and State streets. The band plays at First Fridays twice a year – in May, “they were superb,” according to First Friday organizers, and many local residents came out to dance.
Famed author Maxine Hong Kingston is scheduled to serve as keynote speaker at the 2018 “One from the Heart Awards” breakfast. The 28th annual event, a benefit for Pathways Home Health and Hospice, is slated 7:30-9:30 a.m. Oct. 25 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto.
Pathways will honor Los Altos residents Gunilla and Tom Follett at the event with the One From the Heart Award, which recognizes those who have made enduring contributions to the nonprofit organization’s hospice patients and families.
