Community Services Agency not only needs volunteers during the holiday season – the local nonprofit organization also seeks year-round help.
CSA, which serves Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View residents in need, faces a shortage of long-term volunteers.
November’s First Friday festivities are scheduled 6-9 p.m. Friday along Main and State streets in downtown Los Altos.
Monthly First Fridays feature live entertainment, extended store hours, promotions, discounts on merchandise and services, restaurant happy hours, artist receptions and children’s activities at Veterans Community Plaza at the intersection of Main and State streets.
Allyson Hobbs shed light on racial identity in her presentation “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” at the Morning Forum of Los Altos Oct. 16.
Hobbs, associate professor of history and director of African and African-American studies at Stanford University, invited the audience to participate by asking them to recall a time when their identity was mistaken, based on racial, gender, regional or religious identities, and then share their stories.
The wilderness offers “medicine” for healing spiritually and physically, but campers must be willing to find it. That was one of several inspiring points from keynote speaker Nate Mitchell at last week’s “Reaching for the Stars” fundraising breakfast supporting Sky’s The Limit Fund.
Mitchell’s Anasazi Foundation in Arizona is one of 10 wilderness camps nationwide that the Los Altos-founded Sky’s The Limit works with to help troubled youth and their families in crisis.
Self-help author and spiritual teacher Guy Finley is scheduled to appear 7:30-9 p.m. Nov. 8 at East West Bookshop, 324 Castro St., Mountain View.
Finley – author of the best-selling “The Secret of Letting Go” – will discuss his latest book, “Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together” (Llewellyn, 2018), answer questions and sign copies of his books.
Los Altos residents Gunilla and Tom Follett have served on the Pathways Foundation board for 25 years, promoting the cause of hospice care in the local community. For the longtime volunteers, giving back comes naturally.
Now Pathways is giving back to them.
