City helps recycle old phone books
City Hall is going green. Recycling, that is. Until March 18, the city is accepting old phone books for recycling at the City Corporation Yard, 19700 Allendale Ave. The directories will be processed for recycling and made into new phone books. Information about the phone book recycling program, including the names and locations of other drop-off areas, is available by calling Pacific Bell's Recycling Information line at 1-800-953-4400.
Historical group looks at Steinbeck
"Steinbeck Revisited: The Author's Relevance to the '90s" will be the topic at the March 17 meeting of the Saratoga Historical Foundation at 7:30 p.m. in the Saratoga Community Library. The speaker, Dr. Susan Shillinglaw, is director of the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University.
Steinbeck lived on Greenwood Ln. in Monte Sereno from 1936 to 1941 where he wrote Of Mice and Men, and researched The Grapes of Wrath.
Shillinglaw will present a slide-lecture on Steinbeck's life and works.
Saratoga restaurants aid designated drivers
Three Saratoga restaurants have agreed to be part of a Designated Drivers Project: La Mere Michelle, The Plumed Horse and Manhattans. The participating restaurants, aiming to protect their customers and the community from drunk drivers, will offer free nonalcoholic beverages to the designated drivers when others in their party order drinks from the bar.
The Designated Drivers Project is sponsored by MADD and Kaiser Hospital in San Jose. For more information, call MADD at 453-0900.
Leafblower issue goes grassroots
The Saratoga City Council has decided that the issue of leafblowers should go grassroots. Referring the matter to Councilman Jim Shaw, councilmembers encouraged local homeowners' associations to hold neighborhood workshops and discuss the issue, instead of conducting a citywide survey.
Mayor Gillian Moran said she thought residents should get involved if they feel leafblowers are really a problem. "Although this may be a very vital issue to some people in Saratoga, I think there are much more pressing issues," she said.
Citing budget problems and staff issues, Moran said she wasn't necessarily dismissing the matter, but was hesitant to spend any more council time on leafblowers.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, March 12, 1997.
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