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Coordinators needed for Special Olympics awards ceremonies

Now in its 30th year of its training and competition programs, the Santa Clara County Special Olympics needs an individual or small group interested in helping coordinate awards at its competitions. Practice for long-distance running, soccer and power lifting are in progress. Ice skating will start at the end of October.

Those interested in being an awards coordinator should attend a volunteer orientation on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Special Olympics office, 5730 Chambertin Drive. For details and directions to the meeting, call 267-2734.

--Sharon Parks

District builds a storage unit near WG Middle School

Just south of Willow Glen Middle School is the site of a new storage facility for the San Jose Unified School District.

Construction of the facility began with demolition work in late August. The district hopes to have construction finished by mid-November, said Rod Sprecher, the SJUSD's director of general services.

The facility will be used to house student records and distribute textbooks to schools in the district. Mail will also be dispersed from the facility.

While the construction work has caused the middle school to modify traffic flow along the south portion of the school, principal Lois Allen does not envision increased traffic flow when the storage facility is completed. "The storage facility will have an adequate access going in and out," she said.

When the unit is completed, district trucks will visit the facility two or three times a day, Sprecher said. Large delivery trucks will go to the district's facility on Unified Way.

The district is moving materials from its storage facility on Stockton Avenue for asset management. "We want to lease that facility [on Stockton Avenue] out because it's underutilized, and it's a kind of space that somebody can use. The district can use the revenue," said district spokes-woman Maureen Munroe.

The new storage facility also has the advantage of being centrally located within the district, Munroe said, while the Stockton Avenue location is in the northern part of the district.

--Michelle Ku

Gervais Restaurant hosts benefit for day-care center

Gervais Restaurant Français will host the 10th Annual "Walk on the Wild Side," a dinner and prize drawing benefiting the San Juan Bautista Child Development Center, on Oct. 25.

The dinner menu will feature wild game and fine wines at $150 per person. Reservations are being accepted until Oct. 15.

All proceeds will go to benefit the San Juan Bautista Child Development Center, a day-care facility that emphasizes subsidized child care for needy families in San Jose and adjacent communities.

The restaurant is located at 1798 Park Ave. For further information, call Louis Darosa at 275-8631.

--Sharon Parks

Local Scouts earn their Eagle wings

Willow Glen residents Matt Scheitrum and B.J. Brust of Boy Scout Troop 260 were awarded the rank of Eagle Scout on Sept. 14 at Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Meridian Avenue.

Both Scheitrum, 17, and Brust, 18, have been involved in Scouting since first grade. Brust graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in June and began college at UC-Davis this fall. For his Eagle Scout project, Brust designed, built and stocked an emergency-preparedness storage facility for St. Christopher School.

Scheitrum is a senior at Bellarmine. His Eagle Scout project involved designing a wheelchair-accessible garden for clients at Services for Brain Injury.

--Sharon Parks

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