Buddy, can you spare a dime to help out a cool cat who’s down on his luck?
The Pavilion at Holbrook-Palmer Park in Atherton is the setting for a Friday, June 9, benefit for the Nine Lives Foundation, a nonprofit veterinary hospital and no-kill shelter for cats in Redwood City.
“A Hot Summer Night for Cool Cats” features a silent auction and raffle, wine and hors d’oeuvres, and live entertainment from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $45, or $20 for young adults. For information, call 368-1365 or go to ninelivesfoundation.org.
Woodside Day at ballpark
Sunday, June 25 is the next Woodside Day at AT&T Park.Woodsiders are urged to turn out in force to watch the 1:05 p.m. game, when Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants take on Barry Zito and the Oakland A’s.
The seats are in section 327 and cost $24 each. Contact Chuck Martin, 851-1482, to arrange tickets.
Back to the ’50s
Members of Woodside’s History Committee are looking for items from the 1950s, especially Woodside in the ’50s, to use in a July exhibit about the town’s 1956 incorporation.What’s wanted? Anything that indicates what life was like in the town 50 years ago — clothing, records, household items, newspapers and photographs. Items will be returned after the exhibit closes, committee members promise.
The exhibit will be in the town’s museum, the century-old Mathisen farmhouse at Town Center. For information on how to contribute to the exhibit, call the museum at 851-1294 or Town Hall at 851-6790.
Bus passes for
youth on sale
For kids who want summer freedom without busting a budget, the SamTrans summer youth pass may do the trick.For $35 dollars, kids under 18 can ride SamTrans buses all summer long. The deeply discounted “S’UP” entitles its holders to unlimited rides from June 1 to August 31. That’s 60 percent cheaper than three monthly youth passes at $29 each.
And it includes a free ring to attach the pass to a purse, belt or backpack.
Passes will be on sale until July 15 at all Safeway stores in the county, nearly 100 SamTrans pass sales offices, and at SamTrans headquarters, 1250 San Carlos Ave. in San Carlos.
For an order form, or to find the location of a pass sales outlet, call SamTrans at 1-800-660-4287; or go to samtrans.com.
Stanford center offers
free diabetes workshops
People 18 years and older with Type 2 diabetes can sign up for a six-week diabetes workshop offered as part of a Stanford University study.Two diabetes self-management workshops are set to begin on June 9, from 9:30 to noon, in Redwood City; and June 17, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Palo Alto.
Offered by the Stanford Patient Education Research Center, the workshops will focus on managing symptoms of diabetes, avoiding or delaying complications, exercise and healthful eating.
For more information or to register, call the Stanford center at 1-800-366-2624.
Happy trails
Partygoers at the Mounted Patrol’s family-oriented 2005 New Year’s Eve party helped raise $891 in donations, which was recently presented to the Woodside Trails Committee. The party, which drew 100 local equestrians, neighbors and their children, provided a learning opportunity about the Trails Committee’s work to improve the town’s system of equestrian and pedestrian trails.The Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County Foundation engages in charitable works that benefit horsemanship, youth, the disabled and emergency services. It was formed in 2002 by a unanimous vote of the members of the Mounted Patrol.
