News Briefs
Chamber chooses executive board
The Saratoga Chamber of Commerce has announced its 2001 executive board of directors. Dave Hernandez, of Los Gatos Auto Service is the president, Jean Funari of Luxury Travel is the first vice president and Judy Coulter of Mail Boxes, Etc. is the second vice president. Monica Bailey, CPA, is the treasurer.
Group seeks gifts for sleeping bags
The Santa Clara County branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Society hopes to meet the needs of those who can't buy their own warm beds, by providing 1,000 sleeping bags to homeless or transitional people and families.
Michael Fallon, director of services for the local nonprofit, said a donation of $14.35 would enable the organization to buy a sleeping bag for an individual who really needs it.
"This is a real high-need area that people have been responsive to," Fallon said.
The society will distribute the sleeping bags through their three thrift stores and 30 emergency service locations throughout the county, Fallon said. He said they will also give bags to families at the Ochoa Migrant Camp in San Martin and for distribution by 10 to 12 other local nonprofit agencies.
Once they've met the need for bags, additional money will be used to provide bus passes to homeless people, he said.
To donate a sleeping bag, send a check for $14.35 payable to SVdP to 2040 S. Seventh Street, San Jose, CA 95112 and include "sleeping bag(s) for the homeless" in the memo.
Supervisors approve health care for kids
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted on Dec. 5, to use $3 million of its tobacco settlement money to help provide health coverage to the county's uninsured children.
Healthy Kids is the first program in the nation to use tobacco money on health insurance for children in low-income households, said Matt Schenone, spokesman for the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, the overall health agency for the county. The program is one of three programs in the county that can provide coverage to its estimated 70,000 children who need it, he said.
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