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Community Calendar   Tuesday May 13, 2008

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Arroyo Grande: The Arroyo Grande Library offers children storytimes on Wednesday and Thursday mornings at 10:30 am. Each session has a theme. Tomorrow you and your children can enjoy tales about Cats, on Thursday the theme is “Running” next week the stories are about wind and wheels, the last week of May they are about bugs and dinner.  Storytime begins at 10:30 on Wednesday and Thursday mornings at the Arroyo Grande Library, located at 800 W. Branch St. in Arroyo Grande. For more information 473-7161.

Buellton: The North County Mayors’ Ball is Saturday, May 17, at the Santa Ynez Marriott Hotel in Buellton.  This is the second time for this fund-raiser, called “A Plain & Fancy Affair,” which honors the five mayors of North S. Barbara County communities: along with the north county Supervisors attending as special guests. Festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. with a VIP Reception, with the mayors and supervisors. After dinner there’s dancing under the tent until 10 p.m.  Individual tickets are $100.  More information regarding tickets, sponsorships, and donations is available by contacting Raynette Cornejo, Resource Dev. Officer, raynette@uwcentralcoast.org, or 922-0329.

Santa Maria: This Sunday from 10am to 4 pm is Kids Day In the Park in Santa Maria. The North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center holds the 23rd Annual Kid’s Day In The Park on Sunday, May 18th, at Waller Park in Santa Maria. Kid’s Day is filled with carnival games, prizes, live entertainment, a petting zoo, fire and rescue teams, and other non-profit centers in the community with information for to share with you. This Sunday from 10am to 4 pm there’s great food and fun for the whole family at Waller Park for the 23rd Annual Kid’s Day in the Park.

Arroyo Grande: This Sunday in Arroyo Grande is the Geranium Show & Sale from 11:00 until 3:00 pm at the Women’s Community Center.  The Central Coast Geranium Society presents the 2008 Show & Sale, offering free admission to everyone and a chance to see an excellent selection of geraniums from which you can choose to add to your own garden. Proceeds from the sale benefit the SLO Botanic Garden. This Sunday beginning at 11am enjoy the Annual Geranium Sale & Show at 211 Vernon Avenue in the community center in Arroyo Grande.

SLO: This summer the Day of Creative Women is held in the Mission Plaza in downtown San Luis Obispo on Saturday, August 9th. The Women’s Community Center of San Luis Obispo County invites all creative women to participate in the 34th annual Day with Creative Women. This event draws over 2500 people from all around the Central Coast and beyond, and features more than 80 vendors displaying their own creative arts.   If you create art or handcrafted items, you are invited to display and sell your works. Entertainers of all types are welcome to perform throughout the day. Non-profit organizations are invited to provide the community with information about services. Business women are encouraged to submit applications for a booth to market your creative skills. You only need to submit a short essay (no more than one page) describing how your business is creative and how it benefits women. Space is limited, for information or booth space reservations, the Women’s Community Center at 805.544-9313 or download the vendor application form from www.wccslo.org.

S. Barbara: Plan ahead for the ever-popular annual contra dance event in Santa Barbara: The Harvest Moon Weekend Contra Dancing September 26-28 at the Carrillo Ballroom. The Celebration in Santa Barbara features 2 bands: Airdance, a highly skilled, fun-loving band featuring acclaimed fiddler, Rodney Miller, Owen Morrison, guitar/mandolin; Daniel Steinberg, keyboard/flute. The second group of performers is “Lift Ticket,” one of the best contra dance bands in the country. Lift Ticket is not only adept at traditional styles; they are high-spirited, infusing their sound with jazz and Celtic fiddle, funk and swing piano, and French Canadian and Irish mandolin. Cis Hinkle is the caller –she’s in from Atlanta, GA offering her clear instruction, enthusiastic calling and perfect selection of challenging contras to energize the room and heat up the dance floor. The Harvest Moon Weekend Contra Dance is September 26th through the 28th in Santa Barbara. For more information, harvestmoon@sbcds.org  or Kelli Butler at 805.649.5189.

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Community Calendar   Tuesday May 6, 2008

Funds for the Community Calendar are provided in part by the Radovich Mediation Group, helping businesses and people solve problems through mediation. A new way to avoid the expense of litigation, Radovich Mediation Group on the web at www.radovich.com.

S. Barbara: Now through May 18th the student exhibition juried art show continues at Santa Barbara City College. This annual show offers an array of styles, media, scale, and content.  The Gallery is located in the Humanities Building, East Campus and the hours are Monday – Thursday 10am – 7pm and Friday – Saturday  10am – 4pm. For more information: (805) 965-0581 x3484

This week is National Nurses Week and National Hospital and Healthcare Week (May 6-17), This is a great time to recognize the men and women who work hard every day to provide high quality, compassionate care for patients and their families. If you or a loved one have received nursing and hospital care that made a difference in recent months, why not take a moment and write a note of appreciation or offer some of your own time as a volunteer or make a donation to a hospital program that you appreciate. Anything that you can do during the National Nurses Week and National Hospital and Healthcare Week will be appreciated.

SLO: This Friday night, May 9 the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony presents the Season Finale at 7:00 PM in the Christopher Cohan Center on the Cal Poly Campus. Over 125 young and talented musicians from all over the county take the stage, featuring the four ensembles which make up the Youth Symphony – Preparatory Strings, Symphonic Winds, Academy String Orchestra and Concert Orchestra – along with members of the Cal Poly Symphony who will combine with the Concert Orchestra under the baton of conductor David Arrivée.  The program is full and impressive, this Friday night at 7. For tickets, San Luis Obispo Symphony, 805-543-3533, staff@slosymphony.com.

SLO: This Saturday is a Trail Work Day at Cerro San Luis from 9:00 AM until 12 noon. Bring along your favorite work gloves, wear long pants and sturdy shoes, and enjoy the water and snacks that are provided. The Cerro San Luis Natural Reserve trailhead is just off of Hwy 101 at the southbound entrance from Marsh Street. For details, the phone number is 781-7302, or you can email info@ecoslo.org for this Saturday’s trail work day to keep our beautiful hiking trails in good condition for everyone.  http://www.slocity.org/parksandrecreation.

Saturday: This weekend on the central coast, award-winning singer-songwriter Eric Taylor performs two concerts in San Luis Obispo County, one radio interview and one concert in Big Sur—in the course of three days. On Friday night at the Coalesce Bookstore in Morro Bay Taylor fills the Coalesce Bookstore chapel with his clever lyrics, exceptional guitar work and dark voice, beginning at 7 pm, Saturday night he plays at the SLO Art Center in downtown San Luis Obispo at 7 pm and Sunday afternoon he performs at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur at 3 in the afternoon – one of my favorite places to enjoy the intimate Miller Library lawn under the redwood trees just across the road from the pacific ocean with an exceptional writer...You can find out more about Taylor’s SLO County concerts at www.slofolks.org, his Henry Miller Library tickets are available by calling 831-667-2574 and Eric Taylor performs live on The Minstrel Song show here on KCBX this Saturday afternoon at 3 pm.

Santa Maria: Every year on the central coast, the Japanese Obon Festival is celebrated with the culture, food, arts and traditions of Japan. Central to the Obon Festival is the Bon Odori, a traditional dance done specifically for the festival. It’s a slow, methodical dance when participants wear colorful kimonos, yutaka or happi coats and perform coordinated steps and arm movements to the calculated beat of the taiko drums. To participate in the Bon Odori, organizers of the festival are offering dance lessons for six weeks preceding the festival.  The classes begin on Thursday, June 12th in Santa Maria at the Veteran’s Memorial Cultural Center, 313 W. Tunnel Street.  The classes are held from 6:30pm to 8:00pm on Thursday nights from June 12th through July 17th – with one exception – Wednesday July 9th (instead of the 10th.)   Both the festival and the dance classes are free and open to the public. If you have them, bring your fan, towel and kachi kachi.  If you don’t, there are extras to share.   For more information 937-7026, 714-6410 or 934-1797.

Funds for the Community Calendar are provided in part by Essential Bookkeeping Services, specializing in non-profit bookkeeping assignments, fully qualified to set up and manage your donor data base. More info at 709-4242.