Sister City exchange program seeks applicants
The Saratoga Sister City program is seeking students for an exchange program with Muko, Japan. Each year, five Saratoga students are chosen to visit Muko, while five Japanese students come here to stay in the students' Saratoga homes.
Saratoga exchange students will be selected from applicants by May 1, said Joan Gomersall, chairwoman of the Sister City Student Exchange Committee.
Saratoga students are not required to speak Japanese, but they must be able to spend July 28 to Aug. 18 with the exchange program, to pay the round trip airfare (roughly $920) and have the space to host a Muko student. A $300 scholarship will be given to each exchange student.
"Students will be selected on the basis of their compatibility, scholastic and other achievements and interests consistent with the exchange program," Gomersall said.
For more information on how to apply, contact Gomersall at 996-8050 or Yosh Okada at 867-3141.
Saratoga Rotary donates $5,000 to limb bank
The Saratoga Rotary Club donated $5,000 to the Myo-Electric Limb Bank on Feb. 28.
The limb bank stores electric prosthetic devices for children and refurbishes limbs that children have outgrown. It is located at the Lucille Salter-Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Medical Center.
The request for the funds was made by Inner Wheel, an adjunct of the Rotary Club whose charity is the limb bank. The money for the donation came from the Saratoga Rotary Club Trust Fund, which derives from the proceeds of the Rotary Art Show.
"The program is outstanding," said Dane Christiansen, chairperson of the Saratoga Rotary service fund. "It enables those less fortunate to have a limb."
Saratoga historical walks resume April 6
The Saratoga Historical Museum resumes its walks covering local historical points of interest on Sunday, April 6, starting at 2 p.m. from the museum, 10450 SaratogaLos Gatos Road. The walks, offered on the first Sunday of each month April through November, are open to the public.
The first walk of the season will be led by Ron and Linda Hagelin up Oak Street and down Big Basin Way, past such historic houses as the Missionary Settlement House on Oak Street, the E.T. King home and livery stable on Big Basin Way and the Sam Cloud Hay and Feed Barn, built in the 1890s, on Big Basin Way. The barn is being considered as a performance site.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, March 26, 1997.
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