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Three firsts are coming to the 2013 Earth Day festivities and activities for Portola Valley and Woodside. The events will be held at the same location and at the same time for both towns — at the Runnymede Sculpture Farm along Runnymede Road in Woodside. You’ll have to buy tickets ahead of time to get in, and the sculpture farm has an attendance limit.
The one-day fair opens at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at 980 Runnymede Road, and closes at 3 p.m. Along with live music by Woodside’s Grateful Dads and Friends, there will be performing parrots, a couple of food trucks, 23 exhibitors, and a self-guided tour of world-class outdoor sculptures,
Tickets are $10 until Friday, April 19, and $12 thereafter and will be available at town halls in Woodside and Portola Valley. The tickets will be redeemable at the two food trucks scheduled to be there: Rolling in Dough, known for wood-fired pizza made from organic ingredients, and Mexican food from Oaxacan Kitchen Mobile.
Exhibitions in the interest of sustainable living will include beekeeping, eating healthily and well, landscaping and mulching and recycling, according to the town of Portola Valley. There will be enthusiasm about electricity — producing it from sunshine and using it in vehicles, including bikes. Minor bike tuneups will be available.
Students from Woodside Elementary School will have on display sculptures crafted from recycled materials, including “one week of accumulated plastic waste,” the town said.
Girl Scouts from Woodside will be there, as will representatives from Riley’s Place, a nonprofit that offers rehabilitation through contact with animals.
The fair’s organizers were the Portola Valley Sustainability Committee and the Woodside Sustainability and Conservation Committee. Other town volunteer committees participating include the Woodside History Committee, which has an interest in preservation and adaptive re-use as examples of sustainable living, and the Woodside Landscape Committee, which looks after the land on town-owned properties.
Official presences will include the San Mateo Countywide Water Pollution Prevention Program and the area’s supplier of fresh water, the California Water Service Company (CalWater). Also to be there: Green Waste, the weekly picker-upper of trash, recyclable materials, construction and waste, and food leftovers for both towns.
By Dave Boyce
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