Humanist Community Fun Group

What: Overfelt Gardens and Chinese Cultural Garden

When: Saturday, May 17, 10:00 a.m.

Where: 368 Educational Park Drive, San Jose

Meet: at the gate of the historic Overfelt House

Cost: Free


Come explore and experience the thirty-three acres of the Overfelt Gardens and Chinese Cultural Garden featuring: a fragrance garden, a historic home, a reflection pond, a California Native Plant & Wildlife Sanctuary, and much more! Bring food if you'd like to picnic.
For more information, call (408) 251-3323 or visit
http://www.sjparks.org/Parks/Regional Parks/OverfeltGardens0107.asp

What: Lucile and David Packard Exhibit

When: Saturday, June 7, noon

Where: Los Altos History Museum, 51 South San Antonio Road, Los Altos, behind the library

Meet: Museum entrance

Cost: Free


Stanford University and Children's Hospital. The Monterey Bay Aquarium. Elkhorn Slough. And a little company called Hewlett-Packard. There is so much in our local area that has felt the impact of these two people and their foundation. The lives of Lu and Dave Packard are featured in the current exhibit at the Los Alto History Museum. Come listen to interviews, view artifacts and photographs, and read about their public service, family endeavors, and philanthropy.
For more information, call 650-948-9427 or visit
http://www.losaltoshistory.org/museum.htm

July and August Events to be determined once the SF Mime Troupe posts their schedule.

What: San Jose/Santa Clara Water Treatment Plant Tour

When: Saturday, September 20, 1:00 p.m.

Where: 700 Los Esteros Road, San José (Alviso)

Meet: Park in the administration building lot and meet in the lobby.

Cost: Free. Children must be over age 10 and accompanied by an adult.


Come join us for a two-hour tour of one of the largest and most advanced water treatment facilities on the West Coast. Built in 1956 and soon to undergo an upgrade, the plant's been called a marvel of engineering and technology because it serves 1.4 million residents and 16,000 businesses in an eight-city area of the South Bay. You will need to make reservations with the water plant for this tour. These tours are so popular that the September 6th tours are already filled, so we're letting you know early! To make reservations, call (408) 975-2551 or visit
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/esd
Tours go on rain or shine. Please arrive 15 minutes early. Bathrooms available before and after tour.

For more information on any event, or about the Fun Group, or to get Fun Group e-mailings, or to reserve a place (only when event requires reservations which are being handled by the Fun Group), send email to hcfungroup@yahoo.com
previous Fun Group Events:
2008 Thu, Apr 17, 6 pm: GREENLIGHT Earth Day Film Festival, Palo Alto
Sun, Mar 2, 2 pm: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Santa Clara
Sat, Feb 2, noon: The Perfumer's Apprentice, Santa Cruz
Sat, Jan 5, noon: Museum of Railroad History, Santa Clara
2007 Sat, Dec 1, noon: Ainsley House Tour, Campbell
Sat, Nov 10, 11 am: San José State University Historical Campus Tour
Sat, Oct 27, noon: Shark Day at Don Edwards S. F. Bay Nat'l Wildlife Refuge
Sat, Sep 15, 10 am: Bark in the Park, San José
Sun, Aug 5, 5 pm: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Mitchell Park, Palo Alto
Sat, Jul 28, 1 pm: Cool Waters Exhibit, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond
Sat, Jun 16, noon: 29th Annual Highland Games & Celtic Gathering, Campbell
Sun, May 6, 2 pm: Rotary Art Show, Saratoga
Sat, Apr 28, 10 am: Filoli tour, Woodside
Sat, Mar 3, 10 am: Coffee tasting, Santa Clara
Sun, Feb 11, 2:30 pm: Chocolate tasting and trivia, Mountain View
Sun, Jan 21, 2 pm: Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto
2006 Sat, Dec 16, 10 am: Artopia (giftmaking), Cupertino
Sat, Nov 18, 11 am: Sunnyvale Lace Museum
Sat, Oct 14, 6 pm: bad sci-fi DVD, Mountain View
Sat, Sep 16, 11 am: 10th Anniversary ArtCar Fest, San José
Sun, Aug 19, 4:30 pm: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Mitchell Park, Palo Alto
Sun, Jul 9, 2 pm: Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival, Palo Alto
Sun, Jun 4, 3 pm: Rodin Collection, Cantor Museum, Stanford
Sat, May 20, noon: The Innocents, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
Sat, Apr 22, noon: Los Altos Hist. Museum & Smith House
Sat, Mar 25, noon: Peralta Adobe & Fallon House, San José
Sat, Feb 4, 10 am: Petroglyph ceramics, San José
Sat, Jan 7, noon: dinosaurs at Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley
2005 Sat, Dec 3, 10 am: Victorian Holiday, Ardenwood Farm, Fremont
Sun, Nov 13, 2:30 pm: Tour of the Rengstorff (Victorian) House, Mountain View
Sat, Oct 8, 10 am: Samhain Tour of the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland
Sat, Sep 17, 10 am: Annual Silicon Valley of Moon Festival, Stevens Creek
Sat, Aug 20, evening: Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland
Sun, Jul 17, 4:30 pm: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Mitchell Park, Palo Alto
Sat, Jun 25, 7:45 pm: Silent Film Festival, Fremont
Sat, May 7, 9:45 am: Elkhorn Slough Reserve, Monterey Bay
Sun, Apr 17, 1:45 pm: Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto
Sat, Mar 5, 7 pm: Games Night, Saratoga
Sat, Feb 19, 12:45 pm: Computer History Museum, Mountain View
Sat, Jan 15, 2:30 pm: Año Nuevo State Reserve
2004 Sat, Dec 11, 2 pm: Ceramics workshop, Linda's Ceramics, Fremont
Sat, Nov 13, 1:45 pm: Blackhawk Museum, Danville
Sat, Oct 23, 3:45 pm: Corn Maze, Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont
Fri, Sep 10, 8 pm: "The White House Murder Case", Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto
Sun, Aug 22, 3:15 pm: Silent film "Zorro", San José
Sun, Jul 11, 2:15 pm: The Tech Museum of Innovation, San José
Sun, Jun 6, 1:45 pm: kite flying, Shoreline Park, Mountain View
Sun, May 23, 2:15 pm: Japanese Friendship Garden, San José
Sat, Apr 17, 11:30 am: Mars exhibit, NASA Ames Visitor Center, Mountain View
Sat, Mar 20, 2 pm: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San José
Sat, Feb 21, 2:30 pm: Año Nuevo State Reserve
 
2003 Sat, Dec 6, 2 pm: Solstice Tree (Xmas in the Park), downtown San José
Sat, Nov 22, 1 pm: Intel Museum, Santa Clara
Sat, Oct 18, 10 am: Wilder Ranch, Santa Cruz