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🌱 Levar Burton Comes To Redwood City + Elizabeth Holmes House Sells
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Good morning, neighbors! It's me again, Michael Wittner, your host of the Redwood City-Woodside Daily.
First, today's weather:
Mostly cloudy, a little rain. High: 62 Low: 50.
Here are the top stories today in Redwood City-Woodside:
- Levar Burton Coming To Redwood City For Housing Nonprofit Fundraiser (Patch)
- Elizabeth Holmes, Sunny Balwani's Atherton Mansion Sells for Nearly $16 Million (The Mercury News)
- SFO On Track To Become Zero-Waste Airport, Seeks To Divert 80% Of Trash By Next Year (Patch)
- SFO On Track To Become Zero-Waste Airport, Seeks To Divert 80% Of Trash By Next Year (Patch)
- SFO gets new transcon nonstop from low-cost carrier - San Francisco Business Times (The Business Journals)
- Peninsula Open Space Trust keeps 80000+ acres of local landscape green (The Almanac Online)
- CSA hosts Empty Bowls fundraiser Sunday | Community (Los Altos Town Crier)
- San Mateo County Supervisors back bill to reduce tuition at local community colleges (The Almanac Online)
- Seussical the Musical at Hillview Middle School April 21-23 (InMenlo)
- A rare opportunity for the Wright home | News (The Almanac Online)
Today in Redwood City-Woodside:
- Tip-A-Cop For Special Olympics 2022: Buck's Restaurant, Woodside (8:00 AM)
- Virtual Celebration of Makerspace Opening (5:00 PM)
- Family Storytime - Woodside Library (10:30 AM)
From my notebook:
- County of San Mateo - Government: "Using water and not fire retardants, County Airports staff and Oakland International Airport (OAK) firefighters will participate in live-fire training at the Half Moon Bay Airport on April 21-25." (Facebook)
- County of San Mateo - Government: "As part of the County's recovery efforts, Choose Local app users are rewarded with SMC Points for supporting local and independent businesses in San Mateo County recovering from pandemic impacts." (Facebook)
- Redwood City Public Library: "The Peninsula Libraries Comic Arts Fest (#PLCAF!) begins this weekend! And this Saturday, April 23 at 2pm, authors and artists Mike Curato (Flamer), Julia Kaye (My Life in Transition), and Shannon Watters (Lumberjanes) will be in convers..." (Facebook)
- Redwood City Police Activities League (PAL): "In collaboration with amazing partners @rwctogether and @bgcp we were able to bring in a cohort of young students from our NFO community to tell their stories and talk about what matters most to them. Special shout out to our amazing ins..." (Facebook)
- Woodside High School: "Come down to the quad on April 21st @ lunch to watch some amazing music performances! 🎶" (Facebook)
- Project READ-Redwood City: "If you missed our Literacy Bag Live tonight, check it out here!" (Facebook)
- Port of Redwood City: "Spring into warmer weather and beautiful sunset evenings at the Port. You'll be welcomed by a variety of public amenities to enjoy boating, fishing, picnicking and more!" (Facebook)
- Woodside High School: "Here are some super important details about Prom!! Cant wait to see all the juniors and seniors there!" (Facebook)
- Woodside High School: "Make sure to dress up for the Prom Spirit day tomorrow! Summer vs Winter! Seniors are Summer and Juniors are winter! ☀️👙☃️❄️" (Facebook)
- Sequoia YMCA: "Come join the party! If you're a current Y member, you can stream hundreds of online exercise classes on Y360 as part of your membership. Better yet, if you join a live Y360 class today (April 20th) you can be entered into a drawing to w..." (Facebook)
- Nextdoor Neighbor, Stafford Park: "Ask questions of the two candidates for San Mateo County sheriff. - Doors open at 6:15pm. Also live streaming: " (Nextdoor)
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Events:
- Virtual Celebration of Makerspace Opening (April 21)
- Peaceful Vigil/demonstration & short march: Global Mobilization to STOP Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale (April 22)
- Silent vigil for Earth Day, noon-1 Remember Rachel Carson's Silent Spring? (April 22)
- Comedy Night in Belmont, CA (April 22)
- Nile's Wildflower, Art and Garden Show (April 24)
- Taxes in Retirement Webinar (April 25)
- National Hug A Plumber Day (April 25)
- [Free Workshop] The Very Best Tax Planning Opportunities in 2022 (April 28)
- Social Security Webinar (May 2)
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— Michael Wittner
About me: I am excited to be returning to Patch as a Roving Editor, a job that will allow me to find out what's going on in communities all over the country. I worked as a Patch Field Editor from April 2020 to June 2021, covering Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, and Northridge-Chatsworth. Before then I was the Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper covering the Jewish community north of Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small, seaside town north of Boston, and graduated from Bard College in New York, and then got my masters in teaching from New York University. Feel free to send any story ideas to michael.wittner@patch.com.
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