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Local Notebook
River Park offers training program
The Guadalupe River Park and Gardens is offering a training program for people interested in giving tours of the San Jose park and its gardens.
Volunteers can receive training as either a Garden Docent or a River Docent and learn background information and tour techniques to help the public better appreciate the Guadalupe River and its nearby public gardens.
The park is holding an informational meeting on the program Oct. 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Guadalupe Garden Center, 715 Spring St. The garden docent training will consist of about a dozen classes and begins Oct. 23. The river docent training will begin in January. For more information and to RSVP to the meeting, contact Kary Wilson, 408.298.7657 or kary@grpg.org, or visit www.grpg.org.
Group holds meeting on healing cancer
A meeting of the Natural Medicine and Cancer Victors-in-Process will host a guest speaker, nurse and hypnotherapist Susan Bishop, on Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 1980 Hamilton Ave.
Bishop's topic will be Mind and the Healing of Cancer and will address how alternative medicine and mind conditioning can help heal cancer.
The talk is free. For more information call 408.448.4094.
Hospital to host benefit boutique
The San Jose Auxiliary to the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital is hosting the 29th Annual Pumpkin Patch Boutique on Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 1980 Hamilton Ave.
Donated gifts, crafts, baked goods, plants and other items will be available for purchase, with proceeds benefiting the hospital's patients and their families. Participants can also purchase tickets to a drawing for a week at Lake Tahoe, a shopping spree in Willow Glen and other prizes. The hospital's touring Health Van, another beneficiary of the event, will also be at the site from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Admission is $2, and lunch, served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., is $7.
Hillel of Silicon Valley needs donations
The Hillel of Silicon Valley needs donated items for a fundraising auction, part of its Oct. 13 30th anniversary celebration.
The nonprofit organization provides programming to thousands of Jewish students at San Jose State University, Santa Clara University and local community colleges.
Suggested donations to the auction at the "Hillel Goes Hollywood" gala include hotel and restaurant certificates, sporting and event tickets, private dinners and others. All donations are tax-deductible, and donors will be included in a tribute book and a monthly Jewish publication.
For information call 408.286.6669, ext. 10.
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