Saratoga News News Briefs Discussion focuses on senior transition The Saratoga Good Government Group is sponsoring an informational meeting on "senior lifestyle transitions--coping and options for change." The guest speaker for the event will be the executive director of the Saratoga Senior Center, Mary Alden Richards. The public is invited to attend on Tuesday evening, Jan. 26, at 7:15 p.m. in the St. Raymond's Room of Our Lady of Fatima Villa, 20400 Saratoga-Los Gatos Road. For more information, call Al Roten at 252-0131 or email him at al-roten@juno.com. Sixth-grade options to highlight meeting Saratoga Union School District Superintendent, Mary Gardner, will hold a fifth-grade parent meeting on Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Redwood Middle School Library. Gardner will discuss alternatives for the 1999-00 school year's sixth-grade program. Alternatives include moving the sixth grade to Strawberry Park School for a year while construction takes place at Redwood. Gardner will discuss how the sixth-grade program will operate if it stays at Redwood during construction and how it will run at Strawberry Park School. The Saratoga Union School District board of trustees has already approved moving Saratoga School students to Strawberry Park while construction is under way. The board is scheduled to discuss and possibly vote on a move to Strawberry Park School at its meeting on Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m., in the Redwood Middle School Library, 13925 Fruitvale Ave. Smith shares her vision Thursday Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith will speak at a luncheon sponsored by the West Valley Republican Women on Thu., Jan. 21 at 11:30 a.m. Smith will give a presentation titled "Victory and Vision--What Comes Next!" She also will answer questions from the audience. Smith, elected in November, is the first female sheriff in Santa Clara County history and one of two females ever elected sheriff in the state. The cost of the luncheon is $12.50, and it will be held at the Saratoga Country Club, located at 21990 Prospect Road. For more information, call Kay Eshleman at 354-3373. [ Back to Contents Page | Saratoga News Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Saratoga News, January 20, 1999. ©1999 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.