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Free composting classes available

Environmentally conscious citizens are invited to attend a free home-composting class on May 23 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Saratoga Community Center, located at the corner of Allendale and Fruitvale avenues. Instead of throwing away yard waste or dumping food scraps in the garbage disposal or trash, participants will learn how to recycle these items into rich "garden gold" fertilizer. There will also be information on recycling grass clippings into fertilizer.

The workshop is sponsored by the city of Saratoga and the Home Composting Education Program of Santa Clara County. To register or for more information, call 299-4147.

Art, graffiti shown at Montalvo Gallery

Now through June 28, the Gallery at Villa Montalvo holds an exhibition by Bay Area native Peter Foley titled "Graffiti: Tenor of Time." Foley shows boxed assemblages consisting of pictographs, words, fragments and notes, with many overlaid elements. Using the visual language of his pieces, Foley addresses many issues, including those related to popular culture, colonialism and global interfacing.

Central to the exhibit is Foley's on-site studio, in which visitors are invited to try their hands at "revisiting" the notion of graffiti with pencils, chalks, oil pastels and markers. The gallery, located at 15400 Montalvo Road, is open Wednesday through Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 961-5813.

New cantor comes to congregation

Saratoga's Congregation Beth David welcomes its new cantor, Hazzan Melanie Fine, at a concert and service on May 21 at 7:30 p.m. Installing Fine in her position are cantors Joseph Gole and Nathan Lam.

Fine graduated from the Cantor's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in May 1997, taught at the Solomon Schechter High School and Park Avenue Synagogue in New York and served as cantor and education director for Congregation Tifereth Israel, also in New York.

Since joining Beth David, Fine has begun a new adult choir, added family education programs and expanded Torah teaching sessions. The community is invited to attend

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