Cupertino is holding its sixth annual citywide garage sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 28 and 29. More than 500 garage sales will take place over the weekend.

To register to hold a sale, call 408.777.3337 or register online at www.cupertino.org/update/garage02/ by Sept. 13. A list and map of garage sale locations will be available on Sept. 24 at www.cupertino.org. Print copies will be available at 7-Eleven stores and most coffeehouses in Cupertino.


Author speaks at Sept. 17 museum membership meeting

Clarence Robert Tower, author of Seventy Years in the Silicon Valley—An Anecdotal History, will speak at the Cupertino Historical Society and Museum membership meeting on Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m.

A historian, artist and lifelong resident of Santa Clara County, Tower has firsthand knowledge about the book's subject matter—the growth of the valley and the simultaneous changes in technology that affected its residents' professional and personal lives.

The Tuesday membership meetings begin with a potluck at 6:30 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Cupertino Room inside the Quinlan Community Center, 10185 N. Stelling Road. For more information, call the Cupertino Historical Museum at 408.973.1495.


City offers composting class

The city of Cupertino is offering a class in "backyard composting" from 10 a.m. to noon on Sept. 7, Oct. 5 and Nov. 2 at McClellan Ranch Park, 22221 McClellan Road. The class will teach students how to make compost in their own backyards.

To register, call 408.299.4147.


Society teaches how to grow, clone plants

The cloning of human beings may be frowned upon, but at the Sept. 14 meeting of the De Anza chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, participants will learn how to clone plants by using cuttings.

Chapter member Mike McCullough will teach this process of plant propagation using peat moss, Pearlite, Styrofoam drinking cups, straws and gallon-size produce bags. Participants will take home something that will bloom in about four years. Cutting material, including Maddenii series rhododendrons, will be provided.

Participants should bring a bag lunch at 11:30 a.m. The meeting will be at noon. For more information, visit www.deanza-ars.com.