Monster Bash Raises Money for Fourth of July Events
Morgan Hill – This Saturday, Morgan Hill Independence Day, Inc., gives residents a chance to get tricked out in their best Halloween finery and have grownup fun at its annual “Monster Bash.” It’s fun for a good cause, with proceeds going to help fund the Fourth of July events.
“Monster Bash” will be held 6:30-11pm at the Holiday Inn Express, 17035 Condit Road. Tickets are $30 per person, $50 per couple, with the hotel offering a special $99 room rate for party guest. Tickets include a sit-down dinner with wine, dancing to music by “The Usual Suspects,” games and a costume party. A no-host beer and wine bar is available after dinner. Child care is offered for kids ages 3-11, as long as they are “potty trained,” with pizza, movies, games and crafts for $20 per child.
Reservations are required for the party and for child care. Call Rich and Sue Gamboa at (408) 848-0426 or e-mail ri********@*****on.net by Oct. 17. For special room rate at the Holiday Inn Express, call 408.776.7676.
Sponsors of the event include Alaskan Brewing Co., Carden Academy, Guglielmo Winery and Holiday Inn Express.
Chamber Announces 2007 Golden Apple Awards
Morgan Hill – Angel Star, Inc., Cal Color Growers and IBM will be recognized next week with the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce’s 2007 Golden Apple awards.
The three businesses are being recognized for their “above and beyond the call” commitment and support of education.
The businesses will receive the awards 5:30-6:30pm, Wednesday, at BookSmart. The public is invited to attend the award ceremony.
This will be the second annual Golden Apple awards presentations.
Angel Star, Inc. has donated countless volunteer hours, provided $3,000 of in-kind donations of wine glasses that had the logo for Learning & Loving Education Center on them, gift bags, stickers and three garden angels. “Nora Monaco offered to prepare gift bag materials and glasses labels for our first annual Wine Tour on April 21, 2007. She donated all the materials for the over 200 guests. She also donated three huge garden angels for our silent auction,” said Sister Pat Davis of the Learning & Loving Education Center, who nominated Angel Star, Inc.
Cal Color Growers have provided 15 years of flower donations to elementary, middle, high and community adult schools. Pat Blanar, director of curriculum and assessment for the Morgan Hill Unified School District, said in her nomination, “I became principal of Burnett Elementary School in the fall of 1993. The school had just recently been remodeled and a new sign had been installed in the front of the school. Within a week I received a visit from Michele Vincent offering bedding flowers for around the school sign and throughout the entire school. Thus began a relationship that still thrives today.”
Over the past 15 years Dave and Michele Vincent, owners of Cal Color Growers, have donated tens of thousands of bedding plants, color bowls of flowers and poinsettias throughout the Morgan Hill Unified School District at elementary, middle, and high schools, the community adult schools, and the district office. The donations have been used to provide additional landscaping at school sites, as decorations for graduations, as fundraisers for school clubs, and to honor teachers, classified employees, administrators, and school board members for their service to the students of our community.
“Whenever someone is in need, and I give Dave and Michele a call, the answer is always the same, ‘It’s our pleasure.’ It has been my pleasure to know this wonderful couple and feel the warmth of their friendship to our students, teachers, staff, and administrators. Dave & Michele Vincent have truly spread beauty and joy throughout the Morgan Hill Unified School District,” Blanar said.
Nominator Joyce Wong wrote about IBM: “IBM has provide countless volunteer hours. Don Smith, an alumnus of Live Oak High School, is the IBM mentor coordinator working with the Live Oak High School Computer/Business Academy. He gets IBM employees to be mentors to the juniors in the Academy Program (about 50 students), comes to a kickoff meeting at Live Oak with many IBM mentors to meet the students, and then oversees Mentorplace. This is the IBM Web site that the students and mentors access to communicate with each other weekly. At the kickoff meeting and at the end of the year meeting, he brings pizza and dessert for the students. He is such an asset to the Computer/Business Academy by matching the IBM employees with the juniors so that they may have another role model besides their parents and teachers.”
