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Register now for recreational dance

The Senior Program of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Department of Community Education and Recreation is now accepting registration for two very different dance classes. Country & Western Line Dancing: Beginning Basics runs weekly from Jan. 20 through March 9 for seniors and pre-seniors with little or no experience. The Beginning I class, for more advanced boot-scooters, runs on the same schedule but at different times. The instructor is Joanne Arrouzet of South Bay Country Dancers. Fee is $20.

Tai Ji Dance: An Artful Blending of East and West runs weekly from Jan. 22 through March 26 and is open to adults of all ages. Instructor John Wells teaches students how to use warm-up and rhythmic movements to create lightness and freedom in the body while incorporating the graceful steps of Tai Ji. Fee is $48.

For information on these or other classes, call 354-8700.

Correspondent speaks in series

The first 1998 program in the South Bay Institute for Jewish Living and Learning's Distinguished Lecture Series takes place Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth David, located at 19700 Prospect Road. The Speaker is Dan Raviv, a CBS news correspondent and bestselling author. His topic is "Dispatches from the Battle Front for Jewish Survival."

Raviv is an authority on worldwide espionage and foreign affairs as well as a field correspondent. His latest book, Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance, explains why and how the two states have been brought together by history, politics, religion, sentiment and strategy. For information and ticket prices, call 358-3636.

Montalvo contest winners honored

Villa Montalvo hosts its 1997 Biennial Poetry Competition awards ceremony and readings from the award-winning poets from 2 to 4 p.m. on Jan. 18 in the Carriage House Theatre. From more than 233 applicants, Judge Jewelle Gomez--a poet, author and critical essayist--selected the first-, second- and third-place winners: respectively, Christina K. Hutchins of Albany, Melissa S. Stein of San Francisco and Elizabeth Rosner of Berkeley. There were also eight honorable mentions.

A reception follows. Call 961-5818 for information.

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