Good Sam trustees name new chairman
Good Samaritan Charitable Trust named a new chairman to its board of trustees, the board announced Feb. 11.
Dave Henderson, formerly vice chairman of the board, stepped up into the role of chairman. Steve Caplan , owner of KBM Office Furniture of San Jose, is the board's new vice chairman.
Meanwhile, former chairman Brad Smith will remain a trustee.
The Good Samaritan Charitable Trust was formed as a result of the Good Samaritan Health System's selling most of its assets to Columbia/HCA. The proceeds of that sale created a charitable endowment initially estimated at $56 million, which would provide charitable contributions of up to $3 million annually to nonprofit community health programs.
Police need more volunteers
The Los Gatos Police Department needs volunteers for a number of jobs in the town's volunteers-in-policing program.
Opportunities include clerical support, records automation, fingerprinting, investigations, evidence inventory, graffiti cleanup, crime prevention, special events, vacation house checks and park patrols.
Volunteers must complete a 20-hour training course.
Applications can be obtained at the Los Gatos Police Department, 110 E. Main St. Los Gatos, and at Monte Sereno City Hall,18041 Saratoga-Los Gatos Road. The deadline to apply is March 14.
Highway noise study is commissioned
Caltrans has signed a contract with Acentech of Canoga Park, a consulting firm, to do a noise-abatement study of Highway 85 by July.
If transportation-funding Measures A and B are upheld, $9 million dollars of the money raised could go toward noise-abatement tests along a six-mile corridor.
The test strip would start at the southern border of Saratoga and end at Stevens Creek Boulevard.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, February 26, 1997.
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