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Around Town: Bellarmine fashion show Nov. 10

Committee members are putting finishing touches on "Silhouettes of Style," the annual Bellarmine fashion show slated for Friday, Nov. 10, at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel. The fundraiser will include a noon luncheon and a black tie dinner dance.

Although Bellarmine College Preparatory is located in San Jose, it has traditionally drawn many of its students from the Menlo Park and Atherton area.

This is the 52nd year for the Mothers' Guild Fashion Show for Financial Aid, with all proceeds used to provide financial aid to qualified Bellarmine College Preparatory students. Nearly 20 percent of the student body will receive financial aid to Bellarmine this year, according to fashion show spokeswoman Jill Montanari.

In the last two years, the traditionally sold-out fashion show has contributed more than $500,000 toward the school's financial aid program.

"Silhouettes of Style" will have fashions from Talbots, Club Monaco, Eli Thomas, Macy's and Jessica McClintock, modeled by Bellarmine seniors and their mothers, faculty, and senior girls from Bay Area high schools.

Allen Denton and Lisa Kim, evening anchors for NBC Channel 11, will be masters of ceremony for the donation drawing during the black tie dinner.

For information on purchasing luncheon or dinner tickets, call 408-294-9224, ext. 209.

Holiday boutiques in Menlo Park

Boutiques at Allied Arts Guild and Little House open the holiday season this weekend.

Artists in Action will display their work at various locations at Allied Arts Guild from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3 and 4, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. The local artists will show jewelry, sculpture, baby and children's apparel, and silk and fiber specialty items. Proceeds will be used to support the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Lunch will be available at Allied Arts Restaurant on Friday and a holiday tea will be served at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. For reservations, call 324-2588.

Little House will hold its annual holiday boutique from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 4 and 5. Twenty-six vendors will fill the space at Little House's Roslyn G. Morris Activity Center, offering Christmas decorations, quilts, stationery, children's clothing, jewelry, dolls and enamelware. Proceeds will benefit Peninsula Volunteers Inc.

Lunch and refreshments will be available both days.

A free shuttle will transport visitors between Little House and Allied Arts on Saturday and Sunday. Little House is located at 800 Middle Ave.; Allied Arts Guild is located at 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park.

MP library celebrates Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey

The Menlo Park Library will present "A Celebration to Share Memories of Jerry Garcia and Ken Kesey" on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

A documentary of local memories of the late Mr. Garcia and Mr. Kesey will be shown. Finally, an open mike event will allow people to share more memories and be captured on film by Paul Raim.

There will be two speakers:

• Terry Adams is the current owner of the La Honda home where Mr. Kesey lived for a time in the 1960s after his successful novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," was published. Before moving to La Honda, Mr. Kesey lived in Menlo Park and attended Stanford University.

• Paul DeCarli of Menlo Park has anecdotes to share about Mr. Kesey.

Mr. Garcia of Grateful Dead fame was raised by his grandmother in Menlo Park.

Two art pieces by Leah Lubin, a portrait of Mr. Garcia and a photo collage entitled "Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters Come to La Honda," can be viewed at the San Mateo County Historical Museum.