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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.
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.
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 | |||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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 |
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