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Around The Glen
Council approves WGBPA budget
The city council last week approved a $200,000-plus budget for the Willow Glen Business and Professional Association for the 2001-02 fiscal year.
The association oversees the use of money for the Willow Glen Business Improvement District, which includes businesses along Lincoln Avenue from Minnesota to Coe avenues. The district's businesses contribute to $70,000 of the budget, according to a staff report. Other revenue comes from associate memberships--businesses that participate in the association but are not located on Lincoln Avenue.
The Dancing on the Avenue and Founders Day street festivals will contribute more than $140,000, and advertising revenue will contribute more than $8,000 to next year's budget, the report projected. It also estimated a budget surplus from the 2000-01 fiscal year of about $15,000.
--Kate Carter
County launches energy website
County officials launched a new energy information website June 6 to provide county residents with information about conserving energy and programs that could help them weather the energy crisis.
The website is a response by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and its emergency energy task force to its low-income, elderly and disabled populations who have special needs when energy resources are scarce and energy costs are high. The site includes energy-saving tips, information about financial assistance and links to other energy and governmental organizations and will be updated as needed.
The website is at www.santaclaracounty.org/energy and can be accessed from the county's homepage by clicking on the "Power at your fingertips" icon.
--Kate Carter
MS Society Bike Tour to get donations
The Silicon Valley chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is coordinating the 14th annual Back to the Beach Bike Tour, June 23. Participants can choose between biking 25, 50 or 100 miles in areas near Seacliff Beach, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Elkhorn Slough Reserve and Gizdich Ranch. Breakfast, rest stops and a finish-line barbecue celebration will be provided by the society.
Cyclists will collect pledges in return for completing their chosen courses, with all donations going to funding of research projects.
For more information, call 408.988.7557 or visit www.nationalmssociety.org or call 1.800.FIGHT.MS.
--Erin Mayes
Summer reading program starts
The San Jose Public Library is kicking off its annual summer reading program this weekend with changes that will permit youth and their parents to participate as little or as much as they want.
The Summer Reading Celebration 2001: A Library Odyssey runs June 16-July 28. The library will give out prizes--purchased through proceeds from the Friends of the Library--to young readers, spokeswoman Lorraine Oback said.
Prizes are earned not by reaching a set goal as in years past, but by earning points for each book read that can be exchanged for different sized prizes at any point, she said. Children earn points by reading or being read to, and parents and older children can earn points by reading to others, she said.
Two performers--ZunZun and Rainbow the Clown--will be visiting the branch libraries. The Willow Glen branch plans to host four additional events. For more information about the program call 408.277.4874 or visit www.sjpl.lib.ca.us. For more information about events at the Willow Glen branch library call 408.998.2053.
--Kate Carter
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