The Marshall Lane Elementary School Parent­Teacher Association has its second annual flea market on May 23 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school, 14114 Marilyn Lane, off Quito and Pollard roads.

The flea market will feature baby and children's items and toys, sporting goods, household items, clothing, tools, electronics, jewelry, collectibles, music and books along with a bake sale for customers. Proceeds will help continue the school's educational programs which have been impacted by the state such as literacy, physical education, music and fine art. For more information, contact Lisa Schlageter at 408.364.1977.

Fundraiser supports
the Davey family

Fundraisers to support Kathleen Davey and her family are taking place at various restaurants in the community. Kathleen is the 37-year-old mother of two who has been in a coma since Jan. 24, and the wife of Saratoga High School basketball coach Mike Davey.

Baja Fresh in Cupertino, 20735 Stevens Creek Blvd., will donate 15 percent of proceeds to the cause from noon to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through June 13. Call 408.257.6141 for details.

Chevy's Fresh Mex restaurant will also participate all day on Mondays at its Westgate Mall location. And Fresh Choice, also in Westgate Mall, will donate 20 percent of proceeds to the Davey family from 4 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, except May 20, until the end of the school year with the presentation of related fliers. For more information, call Fresh Choice at 408.866.1491.

Kiwanis awards
scholarships

Ten seniors from Los Gatos, Saratoga and Nova high schools will receive $1,000 each, for the exemplary turnaround of their lives and academic performance, from the Kiwanis Club of Los Gatos. These are students that for various reasons were not great scholars in their early high school years but have reformed their lives to become excellent academic students, according to Kiwanis member Don Wolf.

These students don't qualify for regular academic scholarships because of their early poor grades, Wolf said, so the scholarships are especially important to the students who now want to attend college and have demonstrated improvement as upperclassmen.

The Turnaround Scholarship awards will be distributed May 20 at 11:30 a.m. during a luncheon ceremony at the Los Gatos Lodge. The recipients and their families will be present to receive the scholarships and accolades from their academic advisors. The master of ceremonies will be Los Gatos City Councilman Mike Wasserman, a Kiwanis member. This year's leaders in the Turnaround Scholarship planning and funding include Trudy McCulloch, a Kiwanis member and principal of Los Gatos High School, as well as Robert Jones, a Kiwanis member and retired IBM engineer.

These Kiwanis Club scholarships are in addition to the eight $1,000 academic scholarships distributed to seniors at the same local high schools, making this year's commitment from the club a total of $18,000.

Financing for Kiwanis scholarships comes from many fundraising events, especially geared to raise money for youth. Wolf said the most visible of these is the Los Gatos Fiesta de Artes, sponsored by Kiwanis. This festival attracts top artists from far and wide to display and sell their art. Attendees will have the chance to enjoy the art and outdoor entertainment. The event will be on Aug. 14­15 at the Civic Center in Los Gatos.

West Valley architecture
instructor retires

The West Valley-Mission Community College District board of trustees acknowledged the academic retirement of Michael Lorimer, an architecture instructor who worked at West Valley College for 16 years, at a May 20 board meeting.