The Coastside Land Trust is hosting an opening reception for the California Agriculture Art Show on Friday, Aug. 15. The event is 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CLT’s gallery at 788 Main St., Half Moon Bay.
The CLT is also hosting its second Purissima Old Town Site habitat restoration workday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23. The CLT was awarded the property just south of Half Moon Bay in January 2013 by the California Coastal Conservancy. The CLT is seeking volunteers to help clear brush and restore the historic property to a publicly usable natural resource. For more information visit coastsidelandtrust.org.
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Where bikers and backpackers collide: Members of the Golden Gate Harley Owners Group will deliver backpacks and school supplies for more than 250 children at the San Mateo Medical Center Saturday morning. The drop off is the fifth annual and provides backpacks for students kindergarten through 12th- grade with index cards, calculators, pens, pencils, erasers, glue sticks, dividers, notebooks and binders.
The Harley group will make a return trip to the county hospital in December for its 25th annual holiday toy run.
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Congrats to Sequoia Hospital. Bay Area Parent Magazine just named the Redwood City hospital its 2014 Best Hospital and Best Birth Center. The awards are based on votes of approximately 15,000 readers.
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Hillsborough’s Allison Taylor made a visit to Ghana on July 21 to donate more than 5,600 books to students in Action Child Mobilization — Ghana. Fifteen schools in Africa received the books through Taylor’s Book Buddies program.
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The Burlingame Parks and Recreation Foundation recently received a donation from the Burlingame Mothers’ Club that enabled it to purchase a large movie screen for its Movies in the Park series. The foundation’s first event is Friday and the following dates are Aug. 22 and Sept. 5.
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The Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival is launching its ninth annual Logo Design Contest for the 2015 festival.
The winning entry will receive $1,000 as well as the honor of having their design featured as the centerpiece on all promotional material for the prestigious festival held every October in the World Pumpkin Capital of Half Moon Bay.
Submission deadline is Sept. 1. Contest details, guidelines and entry forms are available online at http://www.hmbartpumpkin.com.
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The Puente Summer Youth Employment group of teens — many who are children of farmworkers and have never left the Pescadero area — traveled to Sacramento Thursday for a tour of the Capitol and a visit to a floor session, meeting with local legislators and learning how to apply for the Legislative Fellowship Program. Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, organized the day for the teens. Puente Sure de la Costa is a nonprofit serving Pescadero, La Honda and Loma Mar with food,clothing, health care and educational opportunities.
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