The Saratoga Union School District will be holding open community forums for input on the selection of a new superintendent. Individual and small-group appointments will be held on Dec. 11 from 1 to 5:45 p.m. at the district office conference room. The appointments will allow one to three people to meet privately and provide suggestions to Dr. Del Alberti, who has been selected as the search advisor. From 7 to 9 p.m., an open forum will be held at the Foothill Elementary School library.

Individual and small group appointments will also be held with Dr. Del Alberti on Dec. 12 from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Argonaut Elementary conference room.


Boosters need bucks for trip

The Saratoga Music Boosters, in promoting Saratoga High School orchestra and band members, will be performing on Dec. 14 at the farmer's market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at Gene's Fine Foods from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Notecards by artist Nina Bonos and CDs by Jennifer Small Steinberg will be on sale.

The purpose of the event is to raise money for nearly 100 students that will be performing and attending the Vienna International Youth and Music Festival in June 2003.


Linden Tree will support school

Judith Barnes of Christa McAuliffe School will be presenting a selection of books for kindergarten through eighth-grade students at Linden Tree Children's Records and Books on Dec. 12 beginning at 7 p.m. This event is a fundraiser for Barnes' seventh- and eighth-grade class trip to the Rocky Mountains. The Linden Tree will donate 10 percent of sales made between Dec. 12 and 19 to the field trip. The Linden Tree is located at 170 State St. in Los Altos.


Carpenter-Lucas an award winner

Saratoga resident Alison Carpenter-Lucas has been honored as a distinguished alumnus of Centenary College.

Carpenter-Lucas is an ordained Episcopal deacon and curriculum writer for the American Indian Alliance. She teaches religious studies at St. Andrew's School.