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Golf for Kids' Sake event to benefit Big Brothers/Big Sisters adult mentor program

Local golfers will tee off for the children Aug. 17 at the Big Brothers/Big Sisters 1998 Golf for Kids' Sake event. The annual game provides golfers with fun and Big Brothers/Big Sisters with funding to continue its work providing adult mentors for disadvantaged children. This year National Merit Services and Enron Corporation are sponsoring the event. Participation costs $155, which includes greens fees, use of a golf cart, a box lunch while on the green, tee prizes and a post-game barbecue. There will be a silent auction during the barbecue, the proceeds from which will also benefit Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., and tee-off is at noon at the Villages Golf Course and Country Club. For more information, call Leda Muller at 244-1917.

--John Pancharian

KTEH seeking donations of artwork for eighth annual on-air auction

Public television station KTEH-Channel 54 is seeking donations of art for its Eighth Annual KTEH On-Air Art Auction in November. Artists may donate their own work, collectors may donate any of their pieces and individuals may donate that special knickknack from their home or office until Oct. 28.

KTEH is looking for watercolor and oil paintings, animation cells, mixed-media pieces, cartoon art, photographs, sculpture, drawings, jewelry and crafts. Contributors who make donations by Aug. 26 may have them considered for the preview judging event at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara prior to the auction. The auction will take place Nov. 5-8, with all proceeds benefiting programming at KTEH. Drop off donations to KTEH at 1585 Schallenberger Road, San Jose, or call 795-5402 for other drop-off locations.

--John Pancharian

The San Jose Museum of Art needs docents to help kids begin to appreciate the arts

The San Jose Museum of Art is accepting applications for motivated, active docents to help local schoolchildren learn the difference between a Monet and a Mondrian.

Past volunteers in the museum's "Let's Look at Art" outreach program have given classroom presentations to more than 15,000 local students in grades K-12, with the goal of encouraging children to actively learn about art. Organizers believe a lifetime of art appreciation begins with children who gain their first exposure when they are at their most creative, inquisitive and receptive ages.

The program is offered free of charge by the museum and reached almost 700 classrooms during the 1997-1998 school year in public and private schools all over Santa Clara County. Many teachers find the program useful because of reduced or eliminated school budgets for arts education.

Volunteers must be able to give at least 25 hours per school year and encourages bilingual docents; a background in art history is not required. Training sessions for new docents on how to give interactive classroom demonstrations begin Sept. 14. For more information, call Val DeLang at the San Jose Museum of Art at 291-5373.

--John Pancharian

Special Olympics needs fall volunteer trainers for cycling, ice skating, soccer and running

The Santa Clara County office of the Special Olympics is recruiting volunteer trainers for fall sports. Anyone who wishes to train eager athletes in cycling, soccer, long-distance running or ice skating this winter should call 267-2734. There will be a new-volunteer orientation on Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Special Olympics office at 5730 Chambertin Drive in San Jose.

--John Pancharian

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