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Saratoga Sampler
Festival produced many winners-especially EMQ
By Mary Ann Cook
STRAWBERRY WRAP-UP: The Strawberry Festival was a winner for Eastfield Ming Quong, the agency that lends counseling and other support to troubled teens. Estimated net proceeds were $75,000. Besides EMQ, there were other winners from the weekend fundraiser.
In the Babies and Berries competition, all the contestants are age 5 or under. First prize went to Cheyenne Genberg, 2, of Campbell; second to Keirstin Bloom, 3, of Los Gatos; and third, a tie, to Keenan Cobbs, 7 months, of San Jose and Shazia Gupta, 8 months, of Saratoga.
The voters doing the electing this year were all kids and the agency called Kid Vote helped out. Children entered the Kid Vote tent and voted for their favorites. The cuteness quotient went off the scale on this one, we hear.
Meanwhile, at another venue, the strawberry recipe contest winners were Isaac Buchanan, who won first prize for Isaac's Berry Bliss. He's the chef of a Saratoga restaurant called The Basin, located on that similarly named main drag.
Second place went to Sharon Campbell, chef at Monterey Plaza Hotel, for lemon poppy-seed strawberry shortcake, and third place was taken by Kerry Alan, a student at the California Culinary Academy, for marinated flank steak kebobs with strawberry coulis.
AAUW HONOREES: Three members of the Los Gatos/Saratoga branch of the AAUW were recently honored for their work with the Committee on Homeless Women and Children. The three were Georgia Travis, JoAn Lambert and Mary Jeanne Fenn.
Travis, who helped found the center that bears her name, was a runner-up in the Los Gatos Senior of the Year awards for her longtime commitment to the homeless. Lambert was recognized by InnVision for her service on the InnVision board and her founding of Friends of InnVision.
Fenn was named 1998 Saratoga Citizen of the Year for her community activities, which include AAUW projects such as the homeless committee and being a mainstay of the Book-Go-Round, the used book store that benefits the library.
The AAUW local chapter received the Human Relations Award of Special Merit from the Human Relations Commission of Santa Clara County earlier this year. In June the committee on homeless donated $4,000 to the Georgia Travis Day Center in San Jose.
More than $10,000 was raised at the annual AAUW English tea and silent auction fundraiser this spring. Co-chairs of the Committee on Homeless Women and Children are Penny Sink and Melva Vallersen.
BUTTER PADDLE NEWS: New merchandise at the Butter Paddle includes Vespucci china, designed in South Carolina and made in Italy, Waterford crystal accessories, La Paris Studios pewter frames and summer picnic items. All this in addition to gourmet kitchen supplies and linens.
Head buyer for the BP, which benefits Eastfield Ming Quong, is Donna Butcher, with assistants Beth Berger and Susan Haller. Carol Fara is in charge of book buying and Terry LeFaivre and Geri Forsyth are the food procurers.
MORE ON PORTOS: Last week we mentioned Portos Publishing, a new publishing house in Saratoga, and here's more on that family-owned business. Principles are Robert and Evelyn Johnson and their children Anne and Jebb. Their first title is When I'm By Myself, written by Catherine Johnson Kay, a third sibling now deceased.
The book, targeted for the pre-school set, is available at Ave Maria Book Store on De Anza Boulevard between Highway 85 and Bollinger. The name Portos was taken from the street the senior Johnsons live on and where their offspring grew up. The Portos Publishing number is 867-7946.
ON THE ICE: Saratogan Lisa Zampella, 15, will be taking ice-skating lessons from her idol, Tara Lipinski, 1998 Olympic Gold medalist, soon. Lipinski will be teaching at the San Jose Ice Center this summer, and the Saratoga youngster made sure she was signed up for a July 21 lesson. Lisa is a student at St. Francis High School.
SNACK SHACK RECEIPTS: The Saratoga Key Club, the high school adjunct of the Los Gatos Kiwanis Club, has been managing the Little League Snack Shack in recent months and has made $1,500 for Kiwanian causes, chief among them being scholarships. Key Club President is Daniel Hsiao, who recently received a $1,000 college scholarship.
OPEN SPACE: A plethora of scenic hikes sponsored by Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District awaits in the next weeks. On July 14, Saratogan Bernie Larkin and Baohsun Yang will lead a shady, creekside walk along Stevens Creek Nature Trail from 10 a.m. to noon.
On July 15, the hike there is along the old Saratoga toll road down Highway 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On July 18, Saratogan Harry Cornbleet and Alex Maksymowicz lead hikers on the trail of aromatic plants and explain how Native Americans used these plants and their importance to other cultures. This is at Skyline Ridge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The district's number is (650) 691-1200.
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