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April 3, 7:30 am - 10:00 am
April 21 - 27
April 30, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
For a calendar of children's health events sponsored by nonprofit organizations in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, visit www.kidscal.org. Email shulman@plsinfo.org anytime to submit your upcoming event for the CIP Community Calendar. Click here for the complete CIP Community Calendar.
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Welcome to our e-newsletter! Best-Selling Authors Tour Bay Area Libraries 2008 Community Assessment: Health and Quality of Life in San Mateo County Released To download a copy of policy level treatment recommendations,
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Community Calendar Highlights
Twelfth Annual Literacy Network Breakfast: Literacy and the Different Learner
April 3, 7:30 am - 10:00 am. Is there someone with whom you work who seems to have difficulty organizing assignments or a student in your classroom stuggling to read? Do you have a client with a poor memory or a child good at math but poor at communicating? All appear to have average or above-average intelligence, yet struggle in one area while excelling in others.
At this event, co-sponsored by the Peninsula Library System and the San Mateo County Library, attention will focus on the common problems some children and adults have speaking, reading, writing or listening. Speakers include those who have diagnosed learning disabilities and those who have studied the factors that lead to long-term success despite having learning difficulties. Learn about available resources, strategies and technologies for dealing with this complex challenge.
Location: Dominic's at Poplar Creek Golf Course, 1700 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo. $30 includes continental breakfast. To register, mail a check, payable to Peninsula Library System, to Peninsula Library System, Literacy Breakfast 2008, 2471 Flores Street, San Mateo, CA 94403. To use a credit card, or for more information, call 650-356-2128 or email nagler@plsinfo.org.
2008 Women's Health Conference
April 5, 8:00 am - 3:30 pm. Be energized, educated and entertained listening to speakers reveal the latest about women's health. Session topics include Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World; How to Eat Well and Not Wear It; The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? and Diversity in Health Care. There will also be interactive breakout sessions.
Location: South San Francisco Convention Center, 255 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco. Registration fee of $25 includes breakfast and lunch. For more information call 650-573-3957 or visit www.feelinggreatin08.com.
Communication and General Caregiving for Family Caregivers
April 5, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Catholic Charities CYO San Carlos Adult Day Services is presenting this free seminar for family caregivers.
Location:
Youth-led Town Hall on Underage Drinking in Daly City
April 9, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. This is an opportunity for young people, community members, parents, organizations and elected officials from Daly City and Pacifica to come together and address the serious issue of underage and binge drinking in the community. Join this meeting to share your ideas, discuss recommendations with others and work towards creating solutions on this important yet challenging
issue. The event will be hosted by youth and adults from Youth Leadership Institute, Asian American Recovery Services, Partnership for a Safe and Healthy Pacifica, the Jefferson Union High School District and San Mateo County Friday Night Live. The Town Hall meeting will also be held in Pacifica on April 29.
Locaiton: Jefferson Union High School District, 699 Serremonte Del Rey, “The Galleria,” Daly City. Food, childcare and translation services will be available. For more information contact Maureen De Nieva at mdenieva@yli.org or 650-347-4963.
Law for Landlords Lecture
April 10, noon. Landlords and tenants both share in rights and responsibilities when it comes to rental property. For landlords, these rights and responsibilities minimize loss of income and avoid mistakes that can lead to court-imposed fines. For tenants, rights include fair housing, matters of habitability, protection from discrimination and harassment and the responsibilities of paying rent on time and abiding by rental policies. Knowing and understanding your obligation within the rental agreement makes for easier living for both landlord and tenant. Learn more about landlord law at this free lecture presented by Richard F. Kelly, Esq., former Court Commissioner, Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo. A lecture for tenants will be held on May 8.
Location: San Mateo County Law Library, 710 Hamilton Street, Redwood City. For more information contact Karen Lutke at 650-363-4913 or visit the Law Library online at www.smcll.org.
Quiet Hero Event
April 11, 6:30 pm. Every year, the International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA) selects a "Quiet Hero" who dedicates his/her time, experience and wisdom to make dreams into reality for immigrant families. In 2008, IIBA has selected Catalino Tapia for the Quiet Hero Award. He founded the Bay Area Gardeners' Foundation in order to provide scholarships to low-income immigrant youth.
Location: Cañada College Cafeteria, 4200 Farm Hill Boulevard, Redwood City. Tickets to the event are $100. Students, those with limited incomes and nonprofit staff may purchase discounted tickets. Funds raised will be used to enable IIBA to provide services to low-income immigrant families. To purchase tickets or for more information, call Shani Nelson at 415-538-8100 ext. 210.
Spring Cleaning Yoga Class
April 13, noon - 3:00 pm. Join Giselle Mari for a spring cleaning of mind, body and soul in an effort to create space for new opportunities and inspiration. The workshop will explore detoxification techniques through the practice of Vinyasa Yoga (yang), Yin Yoga and pranayama to assist the unlocking and releasing of stagnant energy that has accumulated in the body. Each participant will receive an organic cotton The Art of Yoga Project book bag. The mission of the Art of Yoga Project is to lead teen girls in the California Juvenile Justice System toward accountability to self, others and community by providing practical tools to affect behavioral change.
Location: Yoga Source, 158 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. All sizes of donations are welcome; 100% of the proceeds benefit The Art of Yoga Project expansion into Santa Clara's Juvenile Hall. To reserve a spot or for more information, visit www.yogasource.com or contact Courtney at ccwoodrow@comcast.net.
April 19, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Catholic Charities CYO San Carlos Adult Day Services is presenting this free seminar for family caregivers.
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TV Turn Off Week
April 21 - 27. The Pacifica Collaborative, in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, is sponsoring "Prime Time Pacifica," a week-long celebration of National Turn Off the TV Week. Together they have coordinated a variety of TV-free community activities for the week. For more information contact the Pacifica Collaborative at 650-738-6693 or paccollab@pacificasd.org. A detailed list of activities will be available at www.pacificasd.org the week of April 7.
April 23, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. The main presentation this month will be Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY). FLY works to prevent juvenile crime and incarceration to at-risk and disadvantaged youth through three main programs: legal education, mentoring, and leadership training. There will be time for agency information and resource sharing.
Location: Fair Oaks Community Center, 2600 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. RSVP by contacting Norma Lomeli at 650-780-7509 or nlomeli@redwoodcity.org.
Sixth Annual 4Cs Leadership Awards Dinner
April 24, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. The Child Care Coordinating Council (4Cs) will celebrate people making a difference for kids in San Mateo County. Awards given out at this event include The Mary Petche Visionary Leader Award in honor of the late Congressman Tom Lantos and The Community Partner Award given to Borel Bank. Janice Morimoto will be given the Mary Elizabeth Griffin Children's Award. There will be a silent and live auction hosted by Supervisors Jerry Hill and Mike Nevin. There will also be a raffle and entertainment.
Location: The Westin Hotel Millbrae, 1 Old Bayshore Highway, Millbrae. Ticket price is $150. For more information, visit www.sanmateo4cs.org.
April 29, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. This is an opportunity for young people, community members, parents, organizations and elected officials from Daly City and Pacifica to come together and address the serious issue of underage and binge drinking in the community. Join this meeting to share your ideas, discuss recommendations with others and work towards creating solutions on this important yet challenging
issue. The event will be hosted by youth and adults from Youth Leadership Institute, Asian American Recovery Services, Partnership for a Safe and Healthy Pacifica, the Jefferson Union High School District and San Mateo County Friday Night Live. The Town Hall meeting also will be held in Daly City on April 9.
Location: Vallemar Elementary School, 377 Reina Del Mar, Multi-Purpose Room, Pacifica. Food, childcare and translation services will be available. For more information contact Maureen De Nieva at mdenieva@yli.org or 650-347-4963.
April 30, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. This event will honor Daly City Youth Health Center current and former youth and adult volunteers, taking place during National Volunteer Week. Over 200 community members including elected officials, community leaders, founding members, staff, collaborative agencies, donors, youth and parents will attend. David Mineta, Trustee of the Jefferson Union High School District, will be the Master of Ceremonies. The Adult Award will be presented to Robine Runneals, a Pacifica resident and longtime volunteer at the Health Center. The youth awardee is Rhea-Anne Celedio, a Daly City resident. Rhea-Anne is a senior at Terra Nova High School in Pacifica and is a Peer Health Educator.
Location: Dominic's, 360 Oyster Point Blvd., Daly City. Ticket cost is $50. For more information including tickets, sponsorships, program advertising sales or silent auction donations, call Tracey Heather at 650-985-7014 or visit www.dalycityyouth.org.
May 1 and May 3, 7:00 pm.
The show is primarily based upon the work of the students enrolled in English 104: Applied English Skills in Cultural Production. The students are responsible for the writing, directing producing, advertising, acting, singing, dancing, stage/technical crew, and prop/set design and construction of the show.
At the college, the students of the Kababayan Program and Filipino Student Union, with advisors Liza Erpelo and Nate Nevado, have been hosting events and fundraisers to help pay for the costs and expenses of the production. Proceeds from this year’s PCN will benefit future productions and go toward scholarships for the students in the Kababayan Program and Filipino Student Union.
Complete Articles
Best-Selling Authors Tour Bay Area Libraries
Several critically-acclaimed and best-selling authors will be visiting Bay Area libraries between now and June, as part of Big Box Programming. Ellen Sussman, Kelly Corrigan, Lisa Lutz, Ron Hansen, M. Allen Cunningham and Catherine Ryan Hyde are making over twenty multi-library appearances throughout the Bay Area. All events are free to the public. For schedules, maps and author descriptions, visit plsinfo.org/recommend/bigbox/.
Big Box Programming is grant supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered in California by the State Library. The grant was intended to develop best-practices for cooperative program development between libraries. Utilizing centralized communication between the libraries and authors, speakers and presentation groups, as well as developing an online database, Big Box Programming is aimed at facilitating the process that brings effective, top-quality library programming to the communities.
The City of Pacifica Childcare Services Division is now enrolling preschool children, age 3-5, for a new free or reduced cost preschool program in Fairmont Park, 649 Parkview Circle, Pacifica, near the Daly City border.
The part-time preschool program will have 24 to 30 slots available for childcare five days a week, operating Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to noon. The program opened on March 17 and will follow the school year calendar.
The facilities were renovated through a San Mateo SmartKids grant which supports new child care centers and existing centers that are seeking to expand in San Mateo County. The program awards grants to help child care centers cover start-up and expansion costs directly related to facilities for new child care capacity.
The preschool curriculum will be planned around the central theme of developmentally-appropriate activities. Children participate in a wide variety of activities in the areas of art, music, story-telling, dramatic play, language arts, fine and gross motor skills, multicultural activities, cooking and science. The intent of the preschool curriculum is to ready children for their future education and to develop their socialization skills.
The income ceilings for all of the City subsidized programs are $3,894 per month for families of two or less, $4,172 for families of three, $4,636 for families of four, and $5,377 for families of five. All income levels are gross income, before taxes and deductions are taken out. Space is limited and slots will be filled on a first-come basis. For more information call Peggy at 650-738-7388.
NIKE is offering the opportunity for five elementary and middle schools from across the
Each grant will provide SPARK PE, a $10,000 program, which includes:
- Curriculum for teachers, including 20 manuals
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- A set
To apply for a SPARK PE Grant, click here to download an application and return to SPARK by April 21 at 6:00 pm.
Aviation Day Camps are designed for campers entering grades 1-6 in the fall. Three different camp topics are available, each with hands-on aviation experiments, flight simulation activities and encounters with real aviators and their aircraft. The camps offered are Air and Space, Flying Wright and Physics Flyers.
In the Air and Space Camp, journey to the cutting edge of aviation and explore the final frontier. Highlights of the camp include rocket science and model rocket construction, a field trip to Launch Day event, Mars aircraft design and construction and Space Shuttle gliders and landing simulations.
Follow in the footsteps of aviation pioneers and discover the world of aircraft at the Flying Wright Camp. Learn about airplane, helicopter and glider modes, have an up-close airplane encounter and visit the San Carlos Tower.
At Physics Flyers, discover the forces of physics, from the power of the electron and mysteries of magnetism to the forces of flight. Participants will harness them all to build and fly an electric-powered free flight airplane.
To find out more about the camps and to register, visit www.hiller.org/daycamp.shtml.
On April 8, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will proclaim this month as "Climate Change Awareness Month." Staff from the Health Department, RecycleWorks, the Department of Parks and the County Manager's Office have been working with community groups to inform residents about how climate change impacts the lives of people living in San Mateo County and around the world.
"As one of the largest employers on the Peninsula, San Mateo County government has a direct influence on lifestyle choices and the impact of those choices on personal health and the health of the planet," said Supervisor Adrienne Tissier, who sponsored the proclamation by the Board of Supervisors. "We have a responsibility to ourselves, our neighbors, our children and to the overall community to do everything possible to reduce, re-use and to recycle."
"There is a direct connection between climate change and our health," said Dr. Scott Morrow, San Mateo County Health Officer. "We each need to commit to make changes in our lives that will lead to a healthier climate. We need to travel, eat, live and work differently. The changes that will create a healthier climate have the added benefit of making us healthier, too."
Numerous events are planned for Climate Change Awareness Month, including:
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Topic |
Location / For More Information |
April 2 |
7:00 pm |
Professor Robert Cormia from Foothill College will speak about the steps people can take to be part of the climate solution. | Coyote Point Museum, 1651 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo For more information or to reserve a seat, visit RecycleWorks.org or call 888-442-2666. |
April 9 |
noon |
Dr. Louise Bedsworth, Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, will speak about the structural changes needed in order to prepare for the health impacts of climate change. | Health Department Building, 225 - 37th Avenue, Room 100, San Mateo For more information, contact Edith Cabuslay at 650-573-2227. |
April 10 |
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
The Green Building Exchange will host the "Green Your Home Fair," which will feature ideas and inspiration for low cost energy and water conservation. | The Green Building Exchange, 305 Main Street, Redwood City For more information visit RecycleWorks.org or call 888-442-2666. |
April 12 |
Varies |
Earth Day Celebrations | Serramonte Mall, 3 Serramonte Center, Daly City The Shops at Tanforan, 1150 El Camino Real, San Bruno Contact mall management for more information. Serramonte Mall can be reached at 650-301-3360. The phone number for The Shops at Tanforan is 650-873-2000. |
April 19 |
Varies |
A host of environmental clean-up activities throughout San Mateo County. | To learn about activities in your city, visit www.flowstobay.org. |
April 28 |
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Dr. Andrew Gunther, Executive Director of the Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration, will present Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, Solutions. | The South San Francisco Municipal Services Building, 30 Arroyo Drive. South San Francisco For more information contact Gary Batis, Superintendent of Public Works, at 650-829-3895. |
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